Posted on 01/07/2012 9:19:08 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Edited on 01/07/2012 9:51:06 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A serious Steyn pens a must-read article. I knew about Colmes smarmy comment but not about Robinson’s “doubling-down.” Eugene and his loved ones better pray the karma god was not listening at the time, the cosmos has a strange way of balancing these things out.
An insightful comment.
It is akin to a similar -- and equally truthful -- observation about the left and race: Liberals love the black race, but are universally contempuous of the individual black.
Does anybody think that the average liberal personally admires and respects the Jesse Jacksons or Al Sharptons?
However, they clearly over-reached and if this kind of rubbish becomes the standard for the Obama campaign (always carefully executed by surrogates, never Obama or his associates) it will certainly cause a backlash. The left live in a world where dead babies are celebrated as a 'right' and cannot fathom why anyone would grieve over a newborn that did not survive when the same leftists push for 'partial birth abortion' laws to be repealed. Alan Colmes is a guttersnipe and is easily dismissed as such but he may have inadvertently shown America the depths the left will wallow in to win an election for a man who was not qualified to be president in 2008 and is far less so, in 2011. One hopes that Americans will be repulsed by this kind of indecent, scurrilous attack against a decent man, Rick Santorum.
“In 2008, the Left gleefully mocked Sarah Palins live baby. It was only a matter of time before they moved on to a dead one.”
Worth repeating-—how EVIL the MSM actually is.
Make no mistake, with Santorum as the nominee, it hits the left where they are the weakest, the white working class. They would prefer to wage their class warfare campaign against Mitt.
...and speaking of partial-birth abortion...
They hate Santorum for this, for his actions cause the demon-inspired slashes in their own souls (from the slaughter of their own children in the womb) to throb.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
It says about me that I would have missed another remarkable thread.
In case I was not clear, perhaps you can expand on the satisfaction you get, doing something of absolutely no value to anyone else. Self centered, are we? Makes you feel superior? What?
It’s not hypocritical; it’s entirely consistent with their beliefs. The Left truely believes that they are superior to conservatives, not only in their political views but as human beings, that conservatives are worthy only of contempt, mockery and derision. And so they act accordingly.
It probably never even occured to Eugene Robinson or Alan Colmes that they were way out of line, or that they were mocking and making fun of another human being’s tragedy. So what? They’re only conservatives, after all. It’s not like they’re on the same moral plane as us anyway.
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