On Criticizing A 12 Year Old Girl (Dennis Prager's Window Into The Contemporary Liberal Mind Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 08/10/04 | Dennis Prager

[goldstategop]

Should a child's political views be of interest to adults? The truth is obviously not since children don't have the life experience and maturity to evaluate important matters. One should have acquired beforehand the stature to make judgments about people. Ilana Wexler doesn't possess it and liberals' criticism of Dennis' dismissal of her credentials is a window into the contemporary liberal mind. Its a mind that refuses to make distinctions between the trivial and the important, between the profane and the sacred and what have you. I too, have little interest in the political views of children either and for what's it worth, I'm not a liberal given to foolish outbursts in defense of the indefensible.

[highlander_UW]

Actually, I differ with Praeger a bit on this point. I heard him discussing this issue on the radio and he equated the "right" to express her views with her "credibility". Those are 2 separate issues. She has a right of free speech, however, her ignorance and lack of perspective due to her immaturity provide absolutely no credibility. Instead, she was just parroting what her parents have spoken to her...which is evidence of their cowardice in using a 12 year old to say publicly what they and the rest of the democrats didn't have the courage to say.

[tbpiper]

window into the contemporary liberal mind

That the dems went ape over her speech indicates that the liberal mind is generally on the level of a 12 year old.

[Darkwolf377]

The liberals didn't like him insulting a 12-year-old because they all think the height of compassion is getting in touch with one's "inner child". They don't like him insulting that which they are trying to emulate.

Liberal Dems are all, IMO, kids who had miserable childhoods, and who spend their whole lives trying to relive that which they feel they were cheated out of the first time around. They think someone being "childlike" has reached some perfect spiritual state.

Grownups stand by their words; children think their word is fungible.

Grownups make hard decisions and know they cannot have all they would like, so they have to choose carefully; children want it all, without pain or effort, now.

Hmm, any wonder why they so love this, uh, childish view of what childhood is like (in their imaginations, conveniently ignoring the pain and tough times that are a part of any normal childhood)?

[JennysCool]

the Democrats hid behind a 12-year-old girl because they did not have the courage to attack Vice President Cheney themselves.

Exactly.

[goldstategop]

More to the point, when your opponents hide behind women and children, you know they don't have the courage to say what's really on their minds. Its a tactic that's always been reprehensible.

[GeronL]

Dennis Prager is great! I think he might be better than Hugh Hewitt, but I have yet to decide.

[MegaSilver]

having students rather than professors determine college curricula.

Given the quality of the curricula and teaching in a fair number of college classes, I can't see that that would really do too much harm.

[GeronL]

I think its because Democrats have the IQ of a 12-year old.

[flashbunny]

"I have found that my own kids, aged 5 and 6 now can make very profound statements and can be very wise."

Of course the things a 5 or 6 yearold say sound very profound and wise to a liberal. That's above their average intelligence.

"My 6 year old found waldo really fast. I look to him for foreign policy advice."

[Wolfhound777]

Prager is right. The girl was nothing but a product of leftist brainwashing, the same kind the NEA is doing in all our public shcools. The left is becoming a serious threat to the future of this country. Was there any truth to the part about CA lowering the voting age to 16 or 14? That is just asinine, really, really asinine.

[Vision Thing]

When this 12 year old chirping bird turns 30, she'll abandon her liberal mindset and grow up to be an intelligent, courageous Republican. She'll disavow what she said at DNC 2004 in Boston, and she'll look back humorously at how pathetic a loser Kerry was.

[Billthedrill]

I take a slightly harder attitude, myself. I really don't appreciate being lectured to by a stupid, 12-year-old rich kid who is given a million-dollar microphone and several million dollars of public time to spout her ridiculous platitudes as received truth, and my advice to the Wexler brat is "shut up, dear, it's time for the adults to speak now."

[Prime Choice]

The way I see it, the Leftists propped up this kid to speak about the VP. This means she's fair game, no matter what the Leftists say. If they don't like it, then they should stop sending children to do the work of adults.

Hmph. No wonder the Leftists love the Palestinian terrorists. They both send kids to do men's work.

[Dr.Deth]

Discipline your kids.

[Nateman]

Agree. It was a poor choice of words on Praeger's part instead of saying "right" it would have been more to the point to say instead "credibility".

[cinnathepoet]

Didn't the same Democrats BOO 12-year-old scouts at their last convention? And there was more than one of them.

[beckett]

I deliberately ignored the Dem convention so I hadn't known that a 12 year old preached to the congregation. That sounds about right. She was speaking to her peers.

[Euro-American Scum]

Was there any truth to the part about CA lowering the voting age to 16 or 14? That is just asinine, really, really asinine.

It's no joke.

California Voting Age Legislation

Life in Wonderland continues.

[LiberalBassTurds]

He was right on the first article, and right again on his follow-up.

LBT

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