I’m surrounded by liberals. Their hatred of George Bush has rendered them irrational. That irrationality causes them to suppress their own survival instinct. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m running out of words to express my dismay.
But Thomas Sowell’s got plenty of words in “The Hyena Press”:
Since the whole purpose of terrorism is to maximize the pain from whatever acts they can get away with, the media are making themselves accomplices of our enemies. Yet, despite their zeal for blaming others, there is seldom a second thought in the media about their own irresponsibility, not even after Communist officials in Vietnam have publicly admitted that they were losing the war on the ground there but were depending on winning the war politically in the American media….
Yet the very same media can get very squeamish when anyone calls an evil empire an evil empire or an axis of evil an axis of evil. They were shocked when Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall and demanded that the Soviets tear it down — but they were there with their cameras when the wall was dismantled.
See? They live in a world unconnected to reality. In our PC culture, calling a thing by its name (evil) is somehow worse than the thing itself. Calling someone a traitor is worse than actually being a traitor. That’s too judgmental. Extreme liberalism is a cult of death, and they want to bring us all down with them.
In Part II of Sowell’s article, he writes:
With a guerrilla and terrorist war going on in Iraq, nuclear weapons being made in North Korea, and American troops deployed in countries around the world, do those who are calling for Secretary Rumsfeld’s head think that he should be trying to keep track of every sparrow’s fall down at the level of individual privates and non-coms in the army?
A colonel is lucky to know what all his second lieutenants are doing. A Secretary of Defense who knows what all the privates and non-coms are doing could only be grossly neglecting his job as Secretary of Defense. He wouldn’t have enough time left to learn how to find his way around the Pentagon.
The Bush-haters are convinced that the prison scandal could not have happened without orders from higher-ups. Here then is our third question: “What hard evidence do you have?” The fact that you are just dying to believe something is not hard evidence — except perhaps about your state of mind.
Brent Bozell adds more:
But there’s more to this double-standard story. While NBC aired 58 stories on U.S. prison abuse in the first few weeks of that story, NBC aired only five stories over 16 months on the discovery of Saddam’s mass graves. Abu Ghraib holds 1,500 prisoners, a fraction of whom were abused. Saddam’s graves held as many as 300,000 people, all of whom were murdered. How is Abu Ghraib 10 times more important than that?
Irrational, treasonous and death-inclined is no way to go through life, libs.
