I agree with Michael Gerson’s conclusion on the exploits of conservative activist James O’Keefe, whose most recent project involved NPR:
Abuses are employed as excuses for equal and opposite abuses. The result is more than a race to the murky journalistic bottom. It is the triumph of a thoroughly postmodern view of politics: Power means everything. Truth means little. Ethical standards are for the weak and compromised. Influence is gained, not by persuasion, but by deception and ruthlessness.
This escalation is really a descent.
Read the whole thing for more explanation and context.
Many evangelical Christians are conservative. But many conservatives have an end-justifies-the-means approach to truth, and Christians should not applaud this kind of behavior just because they like the results.
HT: @spulliam
