The Phony LeftDavid Gelernter
tackles that subject today:
But our public life is so deeply phony that, although a few stalwarts defended [Bill Bennett], no one pointed out the gross hypocrisy of his accusers. (No one I've heard, anyway.) Those accusers knew perfectly well that he was not promoting a racist view of American life, he was denouncing a racist view — loudly and clearly, without a shadow of ambiguity.
What part of "impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible" did they not understand?There seems to be a desire to play "gotcha" even when they haven't "got" anything. A couple of months ago,
I caught one of the larger blogs on the Left,
Crooks and Liars, Dowdifying a Michelle Malkin quote. They claimed an exchange had gone as follows:
Bill: I think Mrs. Sheehan bears some responsibility for this [publicity] and also for the responsibility for the other American families who lost sons and daughters in Iraq who feel this kind of behavior borders on treasonous.
Michelle: I can't imagine that Casey Sheehan would approve of such behavior.
In fact, O'Reilly had about 3 more paragraphs before Mrs Malkin responded, and there was a paragraph or two that she said, including a discussion of Michael Moore's support for the troops, which was the behavior that she was saying Casey Sheehan would not have approved.
The simple conclusion is that they don't care about telling the truth (perhaps the blog name "Crooks & Liars" should have been a clue). They just want to score some points.
