Passion and Deferments

Michael Tomasky in the American Prospect asks why the media pays so much attention to what Kerry did or didn't do during Vietnam but ignores what The Cowards All Around the White House were doing or not doing then. Much has been said about flyboy dubya but what about Dick (I had other priorites) Cheney:

Dick Cheney is another who, on paper at least, supported the war. But we know Cheney's story: A series of deferments going back to 1963, when he was a student at Casper College in Wyoming. As Tim Noah reported in Slate, Cheney went on to marry -- as fate would have it, right after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, when it was clear that young single men would be called up in larger numbers than before. And then he went on to have a child, Elizabeth, born precisely nine months and two days after the Selective Service ended the proscription on the drafting of married but childless men. What a happily timed burst of passion he and Lynn were consumed by! So, while Kerry was plying the Mekong Delta, Cheney was safe and dry stateside, dropping out of Yale because his grades weren't sufficient to maintain the scholarship the school had offered him.

Read the whole thing. If the media was really balanced they would be talking about this too.