Some good points made about the Imus vs. Letterman comments. On Jun 26, 11:44 am, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > From: *Travis* > Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 > Subject: Liberals Don't Need No Stinking Principles! > > The Left has NEVER exhibited any ethics or principles...why expect them to > now? > > B > > http://townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2009/06/26/liberals_dont... > ! > > Liberals Don't Need No Stinking Principles! > Burt Prelutsky > Friday, June 26, 2009 > > I often find myself thinking that if liberals didn’t have double standards, > they wouldn’t have any standards at all. > > Consider the uproar from the left when Don Imus opened his silly yap about > the black women on the Rutgers basketball team. Now compare that to their > response when David Letterman made his smarmy cracks about Sarah Palin and > the governor’s 14-year-old daughter. The liberals immediately sprang to his > defense, pointing out that Letterman is nothing more than a TV personality > and is therefore free to make offensive jokes without fear of censure. So > what do they think Don Imus is? The Secretary of State? > > <http://magazine.townhall.com/beck> > > Or consider how choleric those on the left become any time that Dick Cheney > defends the former administration. Well, if Obama and his cronies didn’t > constantly attack Bush and Cheney and their policies, the chances are the > ex-vice president wouldn’t feel compelled to set the record straight. > Furthermore, Jimmy Carter never stopped bashing George Bush during the eight > years he was the president, and yet nobody on the left ever suggested he > shut up. On the contrary, he was hailed at the 2004 Democratic convention, > and even had the honor of being seated next to the patron saint of > left-wingers, Michael Moore. Speaking of Carter, how is it that he, who is > always volunteering to monitor elections anywhere on earth, including the > Westminster Dog Show, wasn’t in Iran, making sure that Ahmadinejad got 110% > of the vote? > > Liberals never got tired of telling us how much George Bush was despised by > those in other countries, although, for the record, I kept asking the loons > to name those countries, but could never prompt a response. I assume even > they were too embarrassed to mention Iran, North Korea, China, Yemen and > Russia. Instead, they kept insisting that America should be more like > Europe. Inasmuch as conservative politicians are winning elections in > England and all over the continent these days, the people finally waking up > to the unmitigated disaster socialism is, I could now join in the chorus. > But, of course, so far as leftists are concerned, I’d now be singing a solo. > > I have to wonder, though, how much non-Muslim nations trust our current > president. It’s one thing, after all, to travel to other countries and talk > a lot of diplomatic flapdoodle, but when Barack Obama takes every > opportunity to tell the world how awful we are -- or at least how awful we > were until he got elected -- it has to make people wonder if, like his > missus, he had never been proud of America prior to his canonization by the > media. > > It doesn’t make things a lot better when he makes obviously foolish remarks, > such as insisting that the U.S. is one of the largest Muslim nations, and > that Muslims played a major role in the creation of our republic. > > That one really had me reeling, so I went back to my trusty old history book > and looked it up and, sure enough, he was correct. Right there in black and > white, I discovered that among the most influential of the Founding Fathers > were Abdullah Washington, Mahmoud Adams and Osama bin Jefferson. > > One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or > else shut up. -- Arthur Koestler > > __,_._,___ > > -- > *~@):~{> > > -- > *~@):~{>
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