Liberal Bait and Switch
by Cam CannonI got a question about these embryos we’re going to destroy in the name of science. Are they white, or black? Hey, it don’t matter to me; they all look the same. But I really don’t want to get into hot water later. What kind of hot water? Well, the kind William Bennett found himself eyeball deep in when he said if “…[Y]ou wanted to reduce crime, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.”
Outrage, hysteria, fire and brimstone followed, most of it from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, who demanded an apology. Never mind the fact that Bennett had clarified, “That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do,” this was a situation that, like slavery, apparently, could only be rectified with an apology. What good would an apology do, anyway? He still said it. It’s not like court, where it can be stricken from the record. And would it really satisfy Reid and Pelosi? Of course not, they just wanted to see a talk radio host begging forgiveness.
Liberals like to support things, like abortion, and do a quick about-face when the things they support are presented in an unfavorable light. Now, all of the sudden, Reid and Pelosi care if aborted babies are black or white? A hypothetical from a talk radio host is treated with more disdain than, oh, I don’t know, yanking a baby feet first from the uterus and stabbing its head with scissors. They argue that Partial Birth Abortion is rare, but rarer still is the practice of mass-abortion on the basis of race, so what got them so irate? Bennett is against abortion, and was speaking hypothetically. They’re for it! They want the government to fund it! It’s like in “Falling Down,” when Michael Douglas says, “I’m the bad guy?” Bennett presented a hypothesis, shot it full of holes – holes that Reid and Pelosi roundly dismiss when they’re not presented in the context of race. To quote William “D-Fens” Foster, “How did that happen?” In this case, it was the liberal-pet-issue-bait-and-switch.
Take affirmative action. I know it’s more complicated than black and white, but again, it’s an issue that liberals are largely for, and conservatives are largely against. But just suggest, I dare you, make even the slightest hint that oh, say, Michelle Obama got into Princeton and subsequently landed a job at a prestigious law firm, all because of affirmative action. Wait. Before you say it, you better pull a Kate Winslet: practice a speech in front of the mirror. Grovel. Plead. Offer to take sensitivity training. Actually, I believe Michelle is a smart woman who has achieved everything on her own merits. She navigated her way through a racist system, earned her way, and deserves everything she got as a result. But other minorities need the help of affirmative action and other programs, because they’re not on a level playing field? This is the elitism of the Democratic Party. They achieve without the programs that they support, because they’re special.
Look at Michael Moore (sorry, easy target), who claims in his book “Dude, Where’s My Country,” that the American people need to let go of the rags to riches Horatio Alger myth. Get that? The college dropout who scraped together money to make several entertaining fantasy films and now lives in the lap of luxury polishing his Oscar is telling you, America, that there’s no American Dream, when in fact, he is the living, breathing, eating, and eating, and eating embodiment of said Dream! He made it. Because. He’s special.
This is why they trumpet public education and send their kids to private school. They’re special. In fact, instead of crying sexism at suggestions that, say, Katie Couric needed affirmative action to achieve her post, liberals should respond much differently. “Yeah,” they should say, “Katie Couric did make it because of affirmative action, and it proves that the system works.” Maybe Katie Couric isn’t a good example, but how refreshing would it be if Democrats weren’t embarrassed about giving such paltry sums to charity? What if Al Gore had said, “True, I didn’t. It’s because I think the gov’ment’s supposed to take care of people.” Do you know how sweet that’d be? Sweet as ten gay ninjas on a sugar high.
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"It’s not like court, where it can be stricken from the record."
And he isn't a liberal named Barack Obama, who has immunity from all of the foibles of life, and has his cronies striking everything from the record. When you are the Messiah, you don't have to account for your mistakes.
"this was a situation that, like slavery, apparently, could only be rectified with an apology."
Actually, Mr. Bennett can get ahold of Rev. Jessie or Rev. Al and find out what the going rate for a racially insensitive remark is. I'm sure they'd be happy to type him up a quote. To a Lib, there is no social injustice or ill in society that can't be resolved with the application of funds.
In total agreement with your article. Except that I think you were far too generous toward Michelle Obama. Her Princeton thesis was sixth-grade level, and leads to the conclusion that her entry into a top-tier university wasn't based on her command of the English language, logic or simple writing skills. More like political correctness and grade inflation. Was affirmative action far behind? I give her paper an A+ for Ethnic Studies propaganda. I give it a D- for grammar, construction, logic and presentation of facts to support her thesis. And were her legal skills and administrative acumen so great that her hospital job was suddenly worth $300,000 a year whereas it was previously only a $50,000 a year job?
I can't believe that you didn't put Bennett's comment into the context in which it was given. Bennett was refuting a statement (I forget now what it was) made by another on air guest. He used his comment as an analogy of equal preposterousness, by saying, well, that's like saying that if you want to lower the crime rate, abort all the black babies in America." You do him a disservice by by not placing that quote in it's rightful context.
Wow, so true. So true. I love original thinking and this is original and something I wish I had thought of.
No doubt. Money is always the reason something is broke, according to liberals. Money. Always. Money.
Yeah, I could have done a better job of setting the stage.
The context was as follows: a caller wondered if the lost revenue from the abortions of the last 30 years would theoretically be enough to support social security.
I did not intend to slight Mr. Bennett.
spot on as usual, Lawhawk… her paper is didactic, poorly reasoned and written. Also too, the position at the hospital was ELIMINATED after she left- must have been really important, dontcha think?
Yep, I totally agree. But don't tell her that her work was didactic. That word is above her pay grade.
Has it not been conceded that MO did in fact receive A-Action points + a legacy bump (her brother) in order to qualify at Princeton? I was dumb-struck by the grammar in her paper.
Regardless, I think Barry Obama's status per affirmative action is more a sticky widget. If he, in fact, used Affirmative-Action priviledge to obtain entry to Columbia, entry to Harvard, and to be handed the editorship of HLR, isn't this an affirmation of the fundamental flaw in the entire concept? Obama was not an underprivilidged under-class victim of ingrained societal discrimination against the ancestors of slavery. He was a middle-class guy from a private school in Hawaii, whose father was not even American. If his skin color alone was the basis for awarding him affirmative action privilidges, then he is the poster-boy for ending race-based affirmative action.
Just once I wish one of those apologies would contain the F word, the Y word,and the N word, only. And in that order.
I'd comment, but it would be superfluous. So let me just say "amen."
LawHawk,
As a resident of the great, liberal, horribly corrupt State of Illinois, I can tell you directly how Michelle got a $300,000. gig. The soon to be messiah became a senator. Then he dumps lots of money into the hospital. That's the Chicago Way.
Welcome to Illinois, where the slime trail leads east to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember this joke. It came out a short while after John Kennedy was elected President. I laughed like hell, and I was a nascent liberal Democrat at the time and a mere slip of a child.
John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Mayor Daley were out on a walk together in the woods, when they all fell into a deep hole. But it was shallow enough that one of them could get out by standing on the shoulders of the other two. John says: "I should get out first. I'm President of the United States." Bobby says: "I should get out first. I'm the hope for the future." Mayor Daley says: "Let's put it to a vote." Mayor Daley won, 6 to 2.
I'm sorry, but did I miss the sarcasm when you wrote: "She navigated her way through a racist system" or am I on the wrong side of the looking glass again? Or is that part of the Winslet rehearsal and I just need to take my head out of my ass?
If I remember correctly, it was a caller who triggered the conversation, asking about social security being endangered by abortion (race wasn't included in the question, but it had been raised earlier by the book "Freakanomics.") Bennett responded by saying that this would be comparable to saying that the crime rate would go down by by aborting every black baby. But Bennett had preceded the whole conversation by saying that economic and statistical arguments shouldn't be used when discussing moral issues. He was trying to point out how horrific an argument would be if it started with "what if we aborted all black babies?" I didn't hear the broadcast, and I'm reconstructing this from my memory of contemporary news reports, so I could be completely wrong. If so, I apologize. But I do know that it produced massive faux outrage based on a media onslaught that took the remarks completely out of context.
Um… What?
ok- how about using a ball peen hammer to make the same point over and over? does that work?
Why do you suppose Planned Parenthood always puts up their clinics in predominantly black and minority neighborhoods. Find a copy of Margaret Sanger's "Pivot of Civilization" to get a glimpse liberal "compassion" towards those she termed "human weeds".
LawhawkSF – Your joke made me snorfle!
Stergeye,
Agreed. I read Pivot, and it reads like a horror novel. I actually had chillbumps on my arms through parts of it. The biggest problem I can see in this country is a lack of education. They type where you learn the score.
What do you expect when the libs are calling on (Taxpayer funded) "Grass-roots" organizations like La Raza and Acorn to to counter the tea parties and show America how great their socialist utopia dream really is. What is amazing is that such a large percentage of the nation seems to be buying into this garbage. The question now is can we defeat all these years of their socialist propaganda with facts and the truth. Unfortunately, I think most libs live too deep in their dream worlds to be bothered by anything so inconsequential as truth or facts though.
Racism lives … at least as long as it is there to drive home their socialist dreams. If there is any consolation at all to any of this, it is the fact that the very radicals who have always helped to put these people in power were historically always the first ones to the gulags and the wall once they obtained that power they sought. Somehow, that is not much consolation to me. I never thought I would say this, but I truI am truly grateful that I do not have kids.
If I remember correctly, it was a caller who triggered the conversation, asking about social security being endangered by abortion (race wasn't included in the question, but it had been raised earlier by the book "Freakanomics"). Bennett responded by saying that this would be comparable to saying that the crime rate would go down by by aborting every black baby. But Bennett had preceded the whole conversation by saying that economic and statistical arguments shouldn't be used when discussing moral issues. He was trying to point out how horrific an argument would be if it started with "what if we aborted all black babies?" I didn't hear the broadcast, and I'm reconstructing this from my memory of contemporary news reports, so I could be completely wrong. If so, I apologize. But I do know that it produced massive faux outrage based on a media onslaught that took the remarks completely out of context.
"Regardless, I think Barry Obama's status per affirmative action is more a sticky widget."
You might even say that the concept of affirmative action is how a young, under-qualified Obama became President.
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