[TheMercenary]

The difference in this case are the attacks on her family, her new baby, her 17 year old child. The attacks came mostly from left-wing-nut bloggers and then were subsequently picke up by the mainstream liberal press and tossed about as if they were true. When the right was making their attacks it was usually from single individuals like Rush, Hannity, or that digdong Coulter. And there it ended. They were cast off as extremists for their comments. Not in this case. In this case the press has run with the false stories as if they were true. That is the difference.