every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly, that just as you do not pay a higher price for a rusty chunk of scrap than for a piece of shining metal, so you do not value a rotter above a hero—that your moral appraisal is the coin paying men for their virtues or vices,
Different source, much different time
Yet connected
We covered the recent release of images showing Joe Biden meeting with some of Hunter Biden's Chinese business associates, further exploding the categorical denial lies Biden and the White House shoveled at the public for years. In that post, we noted how some journalists seem to have been actively ignorant of some relevant related facts, due to what conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham describes as her "icky facts doctrine." In short, if the 'bad' or 'wrong' sorts of people uncover, or benefit from, certain facts, many partisans in the so-called news media simply ignore them, almost as a point of pride and principle:
Just sozeYaKnow what obvious lies you've swallowed..
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/12/30/must-see-cnn-exchange-abou...