The stack of notes before me detailing the pervasive hypocrisy of the Left is beginning to depress me. Not having the time or energy to produce a blog on every separate issue, I shall simply comment briefly on some recent examples of the brazen disrespect for the Truth typical of the religious Left.
In early April the revered “60 Minutes” attempted to destroy the reputation of the aggressively “conservative” Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, by claiming that he had awarded Publix the right to distribute the Covid vaccine within his state simply because that pharmaceutical chain had donated $100,000 to his election campaign. A video of DeSantis explaining himself was conveniently edited to make him appear guilty. But Jarrod Moskowitz, a former Democratic Senator and member of Florida’s Emergency Management Team, stated that no pressure had been put on that team to endorse Publix which had in fact been awarded the contract because it was the only pharmacy in the state with the capacity to do what needed to be done. Palm Beach mayor Dave Kerner, also a Democrat, glibly said the “60 Minutes” report was “intentionally false.”
Equally repugnant was a CNN telecast last September which edited a speech of lawyer Alan Dershowitz to make it seem he had given former president Trump “a license to commit crimes” if he thought they were in the best interest of the country. Dershowitz, a member of Trump’s impeachment defense team had said no such thing and was appalled that CNN had repeatedly aired the misleading report. When the network attempted to have his 300 million dollar defamation suit dismissed, a District Court judge ruled that its “abridgement” of his speech had in fact misrepresented his intentions.
In a recent video Larry Elder pointed out that of the 22 people arrested in N.Y. last year for unprovoked attacks on Asians, 20 were Black! Elder deals in Morality rather than Skin Color, utterly dismissing the insulting Leftist notion that Black people cannot be held accountable for their actions. It was with some disdain, therefore, that he cited a typically Woke professor from the University of Colorado, Boulder, who opined that Black attacks on innocent Asians were clearly the White Man’s fault! But inasmuch as the American Asian community, as already discussed, on average significantly outperforms both the White and Black communities, thereby impugning the very notion of Systemic White Racism, is it possible that the source of the anger stoking the fire of both Antifa and B.L.M. is little more than an ugly, unresolved envy?
Former ICE director Tom Homan says Democrat A.O.C. “is the least smart congress-woman in the history of Congress.” “Every time she opens her mouth on immigration, she’s wrong.” In March 172,000 illegals crossed the Southern U.S. border, a 71% increase over February. Almost 19,000 of them were unaccompanied children. What many have termed a humanitarian disaster is clearly underway. Yet when Kamala Harris, whom Biden entrusted with this immigration issue, was asked by NBC’s Lester Holt why she hadn’t been to the Mexican border to survey the situation, she answered flippantly that she hadn’t been to Europe either! Imagine the outrage had Trump made such a comment! In fairness to CNN, several of its reporters were critical of Harris, one of them characterizing her comment as “cringe worthy.”
In early May the Biden administration highlighted a photograph of an almost empty facility in Donna, Texas, which had been crammed well beyond capacity in March. The implication, of course, was that enormous progress had been made in finding homes for America’s newest residents. But Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas immediately responded as follows: All they’re doing is, they’re moving kids from the one tent to the other tent and saying ‘Oh, they’re not in Border Patrol custody anymore.’ This was a Democrat pointing out the crass hypocrisy of his own party!
My Canadian “liberal” friends are convinced Georgia’s attempt to tighten its voting laws represents a return to the days of Jim Crow. It is of course the narrative being stoked by the mainstream media. How shocking, then, that the compulsively “progressive” Washington Post published an article stating that “Election day hours were not changed” and that the proposed Law actually expands access to early voting. The Post facetiously credited Biden with Four Pinnochios for his attempt to demonize a piece of legislation whose major focus is the need for every citizen to present a valid piece of I.D. as he casts his vote. The options endorsed include social security numbers, drivers’ licenses, birth certificates, utility bills, etc. Polls show that 70% of Black Americans not only find such validation perfectly reasonable, but are insulted by the Left’s insinuation that they are too stupid to produce such. Ludicrously, M.L.B. moved its All Star Game from Atlanta to express its contempt for the legislation in question, though it demands those seeking to pick up tickets at its Will-Call Booths present photographic I.D. to verify their identity. To the geniuses of M.L.B., their Will-Call Booths are clearly more important than the integrity of their Democracy.
In April LeBron James posted a picture on his Twitter account of the Columbus cop who shot 16 year old Black girl MaKhia Bryant, captioning the photo with the words “You’re next!” Bryant was killed during a brawl as she ran at an unarmed girl with a knife in her right hand. Video evidence clearly reveals her screaming “I’m gonna stab the fuck out of you, bitch!” But when Bellevue, Idaho police officer Nate Sylvester posted a video mocking the sheer stupidity of James’ take on the incident, the Democratic Mayor and City Council of that municipality soon had him fired. The sympathies of these geniuses were clearly with a psychopath intent on murder rather than with the White cop who had most likely saved the life of her intended victim. The disdain of the general public for simpletons such as LeBron James and the Democratic caretakers of Bellevue was glaringly evident in the Go Fund Me launched on behalf of officer Sylvester which very quickly exceeded $500,000.
It has been discovered that CNN’s Chris Cuomo privately advised his brother to discredit the accusations of sexual harassment recently leveled at him by simply denying them, one and all. Before the cameras, of course, he is a totally different person, indeed a fawning champion of everything “woke.” When his brother was criticized throughout 2020 for his handling of the Covid crisis, Chris not only defended him, but crowned him the best State Governor in the Nation. It has subsequently been discovered, of course, that Andrew lied about the number of deaths suffered in N.Y.’s old folks’ homes as a result of his Covid strategy. That CNN did not realize the brazen bias of one of its chief on-air personalities is beyond belief. That Chris insists he is committed to the facts and just the facts is beyond ridiculous. Challenging his viewers just a couple of days ago to cite examples of him violating the Truth for political purposes, he was inundated with over 2500 Tweets within a matter of hours. Chief among the accusations, the disgusting refusal of he or anyone else at CNN to investigate the flagrantly corrupt relationship between Vice President Biden and those foreign interests who funneled hundreds of thousand of dollars into the pockets of Hunter so as to gain access to his father. That their duplicity cost Trump the 2020 election is a matter of pride to Jeff Zucker and his CNN minions. This is not a mere conjecture but a proven fact, courtesy of Project Veritas.
While I could go on almost indefinitely with examples of Leftist hypocrisy, one more will have to do. As chronicled by Mark Levin in a recent telecast with Sen. Ron Johnson and “conservative” Julie Kelly, the Biden government is using every means at its disposal to hunt down even those only remotely involved in the Jan. 6 “insurrection.” While that noun is invariably preceded by the word “armed,” the only two thus far charged with illegal possession of a firearm never actually entered the Capitol! Swat teams having been dispatched across the country, approximately 500 have been arrested, many of them charged with no more than trespassing. Among those kept in custody for the more serious offense of wielding “deadly weapons,” many were carrying baseball bats, riot shields, fire extinguishers and cans of pepper spray. While rioters in Portland who have repeatedly tried to burn down that city’s Federal Court House have in many cases been released and had their records expunged, many charged for their involvement in Jan. 6 have been denied bail and held in solitary confinement. There are apparently American citizens still in prison simply for having sat defiantly on the steps of the Capitol! Most atrocious of all is that the Biden government has refused to reveal the identity of the individual responsible for what was the only real homicide of the day. Ashli Babbit, a young woman who had served in the military and clearly considered herself a patriot, was shot and killed as she foolishly sought to climb through a Capitol window. She was unarmed and a danger to no one. While I am certainly not passing judgement on the individual who ended her life, healthy, functioning Democracies submit such individuals to the Rule of Law. But not in today’s America, a Nation not unlike my own that has been so corrupted by a mindlessly sentimental, religious Ideology, that many of its citizens are perfectly willing to revile a police officer whose actions had most likely saved a life, while rabidly intent on hiding the identity of another who had perhaps needlessly ended one. And these simpletons sleep soundly, comfortable in the conviction that they are on the side of all that is true and noble!