Well, just offhand, I’ve got one big difference.

It's apparently acceptable for the left to lie about the right.

Whether you’re talking about The NY Times , the Washington Post or, say, The Daily Kos, it’s considered acceptable to lie about the right.

As Charles Krauthammer famously said: “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”

Since the left thinks the right evil they tend to think it okay to use tactics that can be described as “evil” to fight them. If you’re up against people you compare to Nazis, it’s simple to tell yourself that lying to beat them isn’t too bad.

Since the right thinks they’re up against people that are too stupid to know what’s really going on, they feel compelled to try to explain themselves a little bit better.