Is Martin O'Malley my downstairs neighbor?

You want some political stereotypes? There's plenty in the articles about the O'Malley rumors:

Probe of rumors about possible "probing" sought

The philandering Democrat and the ruthless Republican. Isn't that a Brothers Grimm story?

While no version or variation of the truth would surprise me, the possible truth of the Erlich staff deliberately spreading rumors about a political enemy sickens me a lot more than a man having an affair, no matter how hot Catherine O'Malley is.

And while I know that all politicians of all parties are perfectly capable and willing to destroy their opponents with whatever lies they can get people to believe, it amazes me that conservatives in this country, after so many years of whining about the liberal media conspiracy/bias have decided to become exactly what they've decried for so many years. It's one thing to have an admitted bias, but the recent stories of "fair and balanced" reporters being paid by the Bush administration to back administration plans in editorials, or of commercials backing policies disguised as news features being shown on local news channels, or of the Drudge report or an Erlich aide attempting to take down Democrats by going for the most obvious sterotype available: the affair...it's all enough to prove that most human beings, when they most object to something, will fight it by doubling the sin instead of resisting it and fighting it.