Posted on 12/31/2014 7:50:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Many conservatives finished the year angry about the same thing they were angry about at the beginning of the year: liberal double standards.
As I write this, GOP House Whip Steve Scalise is in hot water over reports that he spoke to a group of racist poltroons in Louisiana 12 years ago. Whether it was an honest mistake, as Scalise plausibly claims, or a sign of something more nefarious, as his detractors hope, remains to be seen.
But one common response on social media is instructive. Countless conservatives want to know: Why the double standard? Barack Obama was friends with a domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers. His spiritual mentor was a vitriolic racist, Jeremiah Wright. One of his administration's closest advisers and allies is Al Sharpton, a man who has inspired enough racial violence to make a grand dragon's white sheets turn green with envy.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party venerated the late Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Klansmen himself. He was one of 19 senators (all Democrats) to sign the Southern Manifesto opposing integration. One of his co-signers was William Fulbright, Bill Clinton's mentor.
When Republicans are in power, "dissent is the highest form of patriotism." When Democrats are in power, dissent is the racist fuming of "angry white men."
Peaceful, law-abiding tea party groups who cleaned up after their protests -- and got legal permits for them -- were signs of nascent fascism lurking in the American soul. Violent, anarchic and illegal protests by Occupy Wall Street a few years ago or, more recently, in Ferguson, Missouri, were proof that a new idealistic generation was renewing its commitment to idealism.
When rich conservatives give money to Republicans, it is a sign that the whole system has been corrupted by fat cats. When it is revealed that liberal billionaires and left-wing super PACs outspent conservative groups in 2014: crickets.
When Republicans invoke God or religious faith as an inspiration for their political views, it's threatening and creepy. When Democrats do it, it's a sign they believe in social justice.
One can do this all day long. But while examples are easy, explanations are hard.
I don't know who first said, "Behind every apparent double standard lies an unconfessed single standard" (and as far as I can tell, neither does the Internet), but whoever did was onto something.
What looks like inexplicably staggering hypocrisy from the conservative perspective is actually remarkably consistent from the liberal perspective.
Well, "perspective" is probably the wrong word because it implies a conscious, deliberate, philosophical point of view. What is really at work is better understood as bias, even bigotry.
If you work from the dogmatic assumption that liberalism is morally infallible and that liberals are, by definition, pitted against sinister and -- more importantly -- powerful forces, then it's easy to explain away what seem like double standards. Any lapse, error or transgression by conservatives is evidence of their real nature, while similar lapses, errors and transgressions by liberals are trivial when balanced against the fact that their hearts are in the right place.
Despite controlling the commanding heights of the culture -- journalism, Hollywood, the arts, academia and vast swaths of the corporate America they denounce -- liberals have convinced themselves they are pitted against deeply entrenched powerful forces and that being a liberal is somehow brave. Obama, the twice-elected president of the United States, to this day speaks as if he's some kind of underdog.
Frank Rich, the former New York Times columnist and theater critic, recently interviewed Chris Rock for New York Magazine. He wanted to know why right-leaning comedian Dennis Miller isn't as funny (at least according to Rich) as Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show." He asked Rock, "Do you think that identifying with those in power is an impediment to laughter?"
It was a hilarious and revealing moment. Stewart -- who recently had to turn down a pleading request from NBC to take over "Meet the Press" -- has long identified with liberals in power. Moreover, he's easily one of America's most powerful liberals, routinely creating and enforcing liberal conventional wisdom (much as Rich had done from his perch at the Times). Miller, meanwhile, has nowhere near the same cultural clout precisely because he doesn't affirm the single standard at the heart of liberalism: "We're the good guys."
Here is NPR on how awful 2013 was for Obama:
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/19/255559698/president-obamas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year
But when I search “obama” coupled with words like terrible, horrible no good, I get a LOT of recent articles:
It only gets worse. Hence my tag line.
Great tagline
Most likely
Scalise must know there's no appeasing the Men Seeking Men media so laying low or "taking the high road" is not going to save his bacon so he might as well go out with a bang.
You never know. It just might work.
Yeah, yeah. I know that as he soon as he comes to his own defense, the media narrative will change to that of an "angry Republican lashing out at his critics" or some damn thing.
So what. Lash away. This may be the only opportunity some people will get to ever hear about the 'RAT connections to real racists.
Gee, now where have I heard that before?
One mistake we need to keep from making is thinking that the left will be shamed when their hypocrisy and double standards are pointed out.
THEY know that “the issue isn’t the issue”.
We keep thinking they’re honestly wrong on “the issue” and that pointing it out will change their position on “the issue”.
They know that “the issue” is just a way to advance their agenda.
“But while examples are easy, explanations are hard.”
How about, Liberals are lying, cheating conmen who will do anything to acquire illicit power.
Works for me,
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1. True. I never forget it.
I also know that hypocrisy isn't the purview of the Left. Hypocrisy runs throughout ALL human nature.
2. "Issue"? There are no "issues" about God's Plan for us nor is there one about sin. We ALL have consciences and know right from wrong. We ALL know what to think, say and do.
3. Advancing "issues" of SIN is Satan's bailiwick and he tries to attack ALL humans, Left, Conservatives, Christians, Muslims, EVERY soul created by our good Lord.
If we are EVER in doubt as to what is right and wrong, we need only ask a person of the cloth for clarification.
I used to ask. I don't have to anymore. My thinking is clear as a bell, mostly.
“their agenda” in my post could be further qualified as
“their ANTI-CHRISTIAN agenda”.
That’s indeed what it’s all about.
The Left (there are no more "liberals") has a single standard which it applies in all cases without exception. In fact, their fidelity to their standard is remarkable.
If it is good for the Revolution and hurts America, they are for it. If it is bad for the Revolution, and helps or protects America, they're against it.
Liberalism is not so much a mental as a severe charactes disorder. For example;taking money from party “A” who worked for it and giving it to an idle individual. Favoring the criminal class. Favoring mental defectives over the intellectually gifted. Favoring certain politically connected individuals with taxpayer funds over the good of all. Allowing the intellectually defective into colleges and universities over those with a demonstrated ability to profit from such instruction. The list goes on and on. Liberalism as practiced today is criminal and should be suppressed.
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Christians have been living and working in Saudi Arabia since the 1920's. They asked for and got priests, ministers and vicars for those Christians working there.
Mind you, OFFICIALLY those men of the cloth are forbidden but the Saudis called them "special teachers" and they were allowed in.
I started going to DAILY MASS during my work day because my MUSLIM BOSS told me that "God was number one. There is always time for God. CloudMountain can go to pray whenever she wants."
Jesus is called "Issa" in Arabic and He is highly respected by most Muslims. We even have a congressman named Darrell Issa...Darrell Jesus.
Those who hate Jesus are NOT in the KSA.
https://www.google.com/#q=darrell%20issa
Darrell Edward Issa is the Republican U.S. Representative for California's 49th congressional district, serving since 2001.
I would tell the liberals to FO...and if they are man enough to do something about it...to go ahead and try.
If the liberals try and do something, it will only help to force the last remaining white democrats in Louisiana into the Republican Party. I understand that white democrats in Louisiana will soon be put on the endangered species list.
Psst: I heard a rumor (confirmed) that Barack Obama is a Republican. Pass it on.
The left knows no shame
And yet the right is stupid enough to let the left get away with it continuously.
And liberals will ALWAYS blame others for the troubles in the world.
Conservatives tend to examine themselves first.
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