A rather colossal flip-flop courtesy of the GOP Noise Machine.

From Andrew Breitbart's site, Big Government, came this recent beauty about how online progressives at the Huffington Post and CNN were using mean, nasty analogies about how Obama should get tough politically and “break some kneecaps.” That was just too much for the literal-minded blogger to take:

CNN and Huffington Post would be well-advised to retract the calls to violence and issue apologies to Republicans before Obama supporters are incited by their violent rhetoric and start going gangsta and break kneecaps of Republicans.

If they won't do that of their own volition, then White House press secretary Robert Gibbs should shame them into doing so. Surely the Obama administration does not countenance violence against their domestic political opponents.

This is all very interesting, because the last time Gibbs, or anyone else at the White House, criticized the press by name (i.e. Fox News), the Noise Machine, along with some of its allies in the press, had a collective nervous breakdown, hysterically claiming it was practically un-American for the president, or anyone in his employment, to publicly state their opinion about the press.

Why? Because by simply expressing an opinion about the press (i.e. Fox News doesn't do news), the Obama White House was censoring journalists. They Obama White House was intimidating the press; trying to control it. In other words, the Obama White House was doing something very, very wrong.

But oops, now just a few months after those dark (albeit comical) cries of censorship, Breitbart's crew flip-flops and announces the Obama White House should shame the press and should denounce media outlets by name. In fact, if the White House doesn't call out journalists by name it will be proof that it's doing something very, very wrong.

Now that's a flip-flop worthy of Breitbart himself.

UPDATED: And FYI, in his post, the Big Government blogger lied when he tried to exscuse Glenn Beck's Hitler and Stalin rhetoric. So yeah, it's kind of hard to take seriously complaints about nasty rhetoric when you play dumb about Beck's chronic hate speech.