Kos complained today about manufacturing false equivalencies in the wake of the Giffords assassination attempt. Yes, depressing but nothing new actually in all these. It is just Spock with a beard doing his thing.
Here is the money quote:
The basic objective of all this, as I wrote way back when, is very simple:
The goal is to confront the public with two sides hurling identical charges at each other -- the better to convince them that it's just another partisan mudfight and who the hell knows . . . anyway.
In that sense, the "mirror image" technique is a like a bomber scattering chaff behind it to try to fool enemy radar or deflect a heat-seeking missile from the real target.