Bear catches goose complaining about gander's sauce

The Kerry camp has been straining hard to find evidence to support their claims that the Bush campaign is secretly directing the SwiftVets.  Today they pointed to the fact that the SwiftVets consulted a respected lawyer with expertise on the campaign finance laws, including section 527, who's also given legal advice at other times to Republicans.

Blogger N.Z. Bear aptly absolutely skewers the incredible hypocrisy of this charge — with ample names, dates, details, and links showing that the Dems have already done exactly that which they today blamed the Bush campaign for doing — after which he delivers this observation:

At this point, the Kerry campaign's belief that they can hold their opponents to one set of standards while blissfully ignoring the fact that their own partisans trample upon those same standards has passed being stupid, and is now becoming downright insulting. Did they really think that nobody would bother to check if the Democrats were similarly sharing lawyers with 527's?

That kind of carelessness might have cut it a few years ago, when somnolent Big Media hacks were satisfied to define reporting as getting quotes from both party's spokesmen. But times have changed, friends: there isn't just one new sheriff in town, there's thousands of us. We will fact-check your ass, and we will do it thoroughly and properly, with links and primary sources that let our readers decide where the truth lies. So straighten up and fly right, because we are watching — and we do this crap for fun.

As a lawyer, I've had many clients seek my legal advice.  The notion that I'm some sort of causal link to demonstrate connections between all the various clients who've sought my advice is simply silly — as is the rest of the Kerry campaign's FEC complaint.