Moral yardsticks

In amazing feats of logical derring-do, Roger Simon goes from "those dead Lebanese children are just Hezbollah media props," to "the media refuses to lower the number of dead Lebanese children," to "relative to 9-11, not many Lebanese children are dead."

Didn't take long. That moral paragon Roger L. Simon immediately poked his head right through a hole in the boardwalk, ironic quotes dangling from his ear lobes:

"Another Israeli 'massacre' is being reported this morning, this time of 'farmers' on the Syrian border, according to Reuters. Will this be Qana II? The media sharks are undoubtedly circling. What we hear at first will not likely be accurate - the casualties in Qana have been officially reduced from a high of 57 to 28 to no great notice - but death in double digits is death in double digits. No matter too after several weeks of war that the number of 'civilian' dead on the Lebanese side is still only about a third of those who died on 9/11* - and those occurred in minutes and were deliberate and not collateral. This is supposedly brutal carnage committed by Israel, if we are to believe the press."

I'm at a loss, fortunately Wolcott's not.