shh

Now that the Rathergate report is out, the conservative blogosphere is both triumphant and angered. Heads are rolling at CBS, but where's the beef? No finding of actual partisan bias? You gotta be kiddin' me.

But bias shows through omission, too. Some conservative bloggers are off the train entirely on an even more egregious scandal, the fact that tax dollars have funded illegal propaganda for the No Child Left Behind Act, courtesy of a $240,000 check to one Armstrong Williams. (Not to mention the previous Karen Ryan brouhaha.) Partisans influencing their own private news organization is one thing; a Pravda-esque propaganda scheme is quite another.

(Williams's defense: I was biased long before I was paid! Not so fast, says Michelle Malkin.)

LaShawn Barber is also following the story--and makes the same comparison.

Watch and learn, but don’t get angry and don’t defend Williams’s actions. Get righteously indignant. What he did was wrong, and he must pay the consequences. That’s the one thing we must be consistent about even if liberals won’t. I want this episode to be a lesson to all conservatives — bloggers, blog readers, writers, politicians — whoever you are.

I couldn't agree more. Bias cuts both ways--something liberals and conservatives, now, can agree on.