Oh, how do I count the ways....? -- Part 3

Kennedy Flip-Flops on Quizzing High Court Nominees
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer

Oh, how do I count the ways....? -- Part 2

Talk about tolerance and understanding.... The liberals know of neither.

Oh, how do I count the ways....?

To continue the tally of liberal/left-wing hypocrisy, here is another one.

"Light For All?" I Don't Think So

WBAL Radio

I should start a running tally of the number of ways the liberals commit hypocrisy and contradict themselves. To be realistic, though, I realize that this may very well be an impossible task.

Oh, how do I count the ways....?

Unocal backs sweetened $17 bln Chevron bid

Indeed good news to Americans!

Of Heroes and Hatred: There Is Good and Evil in This World

The Prophet Who Saw 'Rivers of Blood' Flow in London's Subways and Streets

PM Enoch Powell would have said, "'I told you so.'"

I like this gentleman. How could you not like a man named Enoch? ;-)

"The Stuff They Teach At USC: A Trojan Dean's View of Fascism"

From Hugh Hewitt's blog.

Earlier today I posted an excerpt from an article in the current issue of Los Angeles Weekly, "The New Blacklist," which deals in part with some Christians refusal to buy products from companies sponsoring gay-themed entertainment. The University of Southern California has an Annenberg School of Communications, the associate dean of which is Martin Kaplan, a way left talking head. Kaplan's appearance in the piece is this:

"Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center at the Annenberg School of Communication at USC, calls the new Christer offensive a drive toward 'theocratic oligopoly. The drumbeat of religious fascism has never been as troubling as it is now in this country,' adding that 'e-mails to the FCC are more worrisome to me than boycotts' in terms of their chilling effect ."
This inane and repulsive quote and the post in which was contained was erased during site maintenance today, but I don't want you to miss it. Or the best context for understanding Kaplan's smear as the latest manifestation of secular fundamentalism in the U.S., which would be last week's speech to the OCSE in Cordoba, Spain by Denver Archbishop Chaput, in which he said in part:


"An equally dangerous trend now dominates other OSCE states, where public expressions of religious faith often seem to be ridiculed as fundamentalism. In the name of respecting all religions, a new form of secular intolerance is sometimes imposed. Out of fear of religious fundamentalism, a new kind of secular fundamentalism may be coerced on public institutions and political discourse.
At the same time, various media in the OSCE area now often allow symbols of Christian identity, Christian believers and their faith to be publicly abused. Programs like "How to cook a crucifix" and sacramental confessions recorded without the confessor's knowledge are deeply contemptuous of Catholic believers. This is unworthy of Europe's moral dignity and religious heritage. Furthermore, it stands in stark contrast to OSCE commitments to promote religious freedom.
Europe has given the whole world the seeds of democracy. Today's growing anti-religious and often anti-Christian spirit undermines that witness."

Kaplan's attempt to gag and condemn a vast cross-section of Americans because he doesn't like their point of view and to try and do so by labeling them "fascists" is not only inane, but impossible to reconcile with the left's assault last campaign season on Sinclair Broadcasting's sponsors and with yesterday's announcement by the UFW of a renewed boycott against Gallo. Consumer boycotts seem to be fine in the eyes of the left, except when undertaken by religious believers, in which case they become tools of fascists.

No, it doesn't make any sense. We offered Kaplan a chance to come on the radio show today to discuss and explain his comments. He declined. The Ward Churchill of the West Coast isn't in a hurry to debate, just proclaim.

Our Wars Over the War

National Review

BBC edits out the word terrorist

This is not a time for political correctness for the Brits. BBC is committing a liberal hooey. Who do they think they're dealing with if not terrorists? These weren't mere thugs. They're evil people who are part of an organized group bent on the destruction of the UK and all of western civilization if they had their way. These people are declaring war against you. Wake up BBC! Stand up, fight, and stop making excuses. Imagine what your beloved country would be like if PM Churchill had said, "Please tone down your rhetoric against the Nazi. It sends the wrong message and isn't helping our cause." Here is a hint. You'd be speaking German and singing the Horst Wessel song. Hooey!

What Do the Terrorists Want from Us? Mass Suicide, Nothing Less

HUMAN EVENTS

Foreign Aid Is the Worst Thing We Could Do for Africa

This is about economic liberty.

Wolves in Berlin: Europe’s Demographic Crisis

BreakPoint

Don't play with fire or you'll get burned

Britain payed the price for its mockery of justice.

Pure and True Islam A Religion of Peace?

You Decide.

On Jailing Journalists: No Absolute Press Right to Protect Sources

HUMAN EVENTS

Political Correctness Eats Itself

Yet another example from a long list of liberal hypocrisy.

"Both groups [GLAAD and National Fair Housing Alliance] were allowed to pre-screen episodes before the series aired, and yet the TV writers, so eager to denounce 'censors' and their 'chilling effect' on 'artistic expression' before a TV show even airs, said nothing about these potential critics doing precisely that....

Some Christian conservatives complained as well, based on the promotional spots. The Family Research Council snuck into a few news stories, concerned with the Christian-bigot portrayals. But within a day of its expert Charmaine Yoest speaking to the Associated Press, ABC pulled the plug. (It should be noted that the FRC wasn't welcomed in by ABC to screen the episodes for any evidence of defamation of evangelicals.)

More irony, with a dollop of hypocrisy for good measure: The same newspapers that decry the dangerous tide of parental intolerance that might curb the 'creativity' of Hollywood had no problem dumping this show overboard. For example, New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley cheered: 'ABC was right to pull the show. There already is plenty of bigotry on reality television, let alone in real life.'"

"King David and the Edomites"

Talk about a support for the historical veracity of the Bible.

"America Needs Conservatives to Make Inroads into Pop Culture"

I wish I were there among the two thousand.

'Close Guantanamo'? -- Our Politics Fiddles While London Burns

WSJ OpinionJournal

Stupid, stupid, stupid

Has Italy not learned from Spain? It is retreating in the face of terror. Stick with the winning side, Bozo! It's too bad that the Pope who is enjoying an increase in political clout in Italy isn't supporting the war in Iraq. I hope he'll see the light soon. Interesting turning point is happening in Europe. Some good, some bad. This is one of the bad ones.

America IS winning in these absurd Kyoto Protocol dialogues

And the US will win again when Russia takes over the G8 presidency next year. All these clowns want to see is if the US would take the plunge before they'll act. They're only pressuring the US as a typical rah-rah bandwagon jumping rhetoric. Certainly, China, Mexico, Brazil, and India would not be able to survive the economic impact if they were to buy into the Kyoto Protocol. They don't have the slightest chance. So, all they can say is, "Yeah, you first." Good thing it isn't Pres. Clinton who is being pressured right now or else we'd be utterly screwed. Bush will not succumb to this half-baked strategy. He's too smart to know that it won't work and there are other ways that are more viable. We shall win again next year when Putin is putting on his rah-rah facade.

Mr. Putin, let's see you go first. We promise to follow if your half-baked Kyoto Protocol propaganda is making any significant environmental change and isn't killing your economy.

"Who Started the Supreme Court Circus?"

Yet more liberal political and MSM bias. The terms dirty rotten scoundrels and sore losers come to mind.

From Mark Steyn of SteynOnline...

... on the possible response of yesterday's terror attacks in London.

"The choice for the British people today is whether to be the Spaniards post-Madrid or the Australians post-Bali. Anyone who knows Britain knows the citizenry don't incline naturally to appeasement, but anyone who knows their political elites knows the same cannot be said quite so clearly for their governing class."

Let's hope the Brits will take the hardline approach of engaging the terrorists in war.

Excerpted From Hugh Hewitt's blog

By Tom Clarkson
Gulf Region Division
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

It is one of the nicest gestures I have ever observed. My Iraqi friends indicate that it has no name. But it is the traditional, Arabic, slight bow, accompanied by the hand being placed over the center of one’s chest, when greeting a friend. It, generally, is reserved for those one cares for and wishes to show themselves as “humbly appreciative for the honor of their familiarity.” It’s a greeting well worthy of consideration by others.

A peaceful, soft voiced and extremely intelligent Iraqi gentleman, with whom I have had the honor to become acquainted, recently shared several insightful thoughts with me. At the core of his comments was the Arabic saying, “People of Mecca know its mountains better than the others.” What that means, he explained, is that each of us knows what is best for ourselves significantly better than do others, no matter how well intentioned they may be. This is wise counsel – for people and countries alike.

When asked the nature of the insurgents and how they should best be handled, this same individual thought for some time and said, “Iraqis do not understand why those who are caught in murderous acts of insurgency and killing innocent civilians, are not being dealt with immediately and decisively. Such is the Islamic way. Allowing them, all too often, to escape justice or to get off lightly, though they have killed many, only emboldens them and makes a mockery of the legal process.” It seems that the Old Testament “eye for an eye” closely parallels Islamic thought regarding basic, simple justice.

Now based on forty-five days of observation here, I feel the necessity to assert some personal beliefs/concerns, as follows:

How easy it is for those comfortably ensconced in the security of their air conditioned living rooms, with TV controls upon their laps and a laugh track sit-com blaring before them, to haughtily proclaim, “Let the Iraqis do it for themselves. It’s their problem not ours.” If those who enjoy the fruits of freedom are not ready to help those who seek it, then who?

The many Iraqis who bravely are standing up for their beliefs face uncertainties unimagined by those snack munching, video playing multitudes back home who are several generations removed from our country’s own struggles to attain democracy.

Too often, too many of us give cursory indication of appreciation to phrases such as that one poignantly etched upon the Korean Monument on the Mall in Washington, D.C., “Freedom is not Free.” Here in Iraq, one is daily reminded, that this is much more than mere words.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing which for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his person safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

"McDermott makes list of author's 100 worst Americans"

Read the article first.

Aah, but I think he does know why. It is because Seattle is full of loons who are sick enough to elect McDermott to office. Of course, from McDermott's perspective, it is his genius and foresight that created the Starbucks empire in Seattle.

"Judges: The Law Is the Law"

An LA Times Op-Ed piece.