It's about time for a memo like this: Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides "equally" accountable when the facts don't warrant that. I'm sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts to complain about our coverage. This is all part of their efforts to get away with as much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions. That's ABCNEWS' Political Director finally turning away from one of the sacred cows of the corporate media: wrongly portraying both sides as equally responsible for misrepresenting the truth. As Kevin Drum points out, even the supposed bastions of the "liberal media" have been clinging to that principle out of fear of being tarred as, well, bastions of the liberal media. What we end up with is what conservatives like to call "false moral equivalency." Let's hope we see more news networks turning away from it.