Posted on 10/11/2016 6:30:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Regarding Donald Trump's private sexual comments: We are living through a national hysteria.
To understand how and why, it is necessary to understand the indispensable role hysteria plays on the left. The left is always in major crisis mode. And, in nearly every case, the crisis is either wildly exaggerated or simply false.
For example:
--Few people deny that the earth is warming. To assert that is not hysteria. What is hysteria is the left's position that carbon emissions will destroy life on Earth.
--No one denies that there are racist cops. What is hysteria is the left's claim that innocent blacks are routinely shot to death by racist cops.
--The widespread protests against the name Washington "Redskins" were pure left-wing hysteria -- ended only by the revelation through polling that the vast majority of American Indians couldn't care less about the name.
The examples are endless: from the alleged epidemic of heterosexual AIDS in America and preschool molestation scares in the '80s to the wildly exaggerated dangers of secondhand smoke and the baseless fears about electronic cigarettes.
We are regularly forced to endure a new left-wing manufactured, media-supercharged hysteria.
The latest is the tsunami of horror in reaction to Donald Trump's gross and juvenile comments made in private 11 years ago.
The tsunami of condemnation of his remarks is quintessential left-wing hysteria. That more than a few Republicans and conservatives have joined in is a testament to the power of mass media and hysteria to influence normally sensible people.
This is hysteria first and foremost because the comments were made in private. I would say the same thing if crass comments made by Hillary Clinton in private conversation had been recorded. In fact, I did. In 2000, in a Wall Street Journal column, I defended Hillary Clinton against charges that she was an anti-Semite. That year it was reported that Clinton had called Paul Fray, the manager of her husband's failed 1974 congressional campaign, a "f---ing Jew bastard."
Even the left-wing newspaper, the Guardian, reported that three people -- two witnesses and Fray -- confirmed the report.
Nevertheless, I wrote in the Journal, "I wish to defend Mrs. Clinton. I do so as a practicing Jew and a Republican. ... We must cease this moral idiocy of judging people by stray private comments."
I gave two more examples:
One was Harry Truman, who often used the word "kike" when referring to Jews. Yet, he was the Jews' greatest friend when he changed Jewish history by resisting powerful State Department opposition and recognized the State of Israel.
The other was Richard Nixon, who made anti-Jewish remarks in private conversations in the Oval Office. These were revealed on tapes he himself made of his conversations, and he was accordingly widely labeled an anti-Semite. Yet, as president, Nixon appointed the first American Jewish secretary of state and, more importantly, literally saved Israel's life with his quick airlift of military supplies during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
As I concluded:
"It is highly misleading to probe private comments for evidence of anti-Semitism, racism, bigotry and sexism."
In addition to not taking all private comments seriously, Republicans, conservatives and independents need to ask themselves if what Trump said -- not did, but said -- in a private conversation is any way comparable to the truly awful things Hillary Clinton and her husband have done both to women and to the country.
They also need to ask themselves if it is worth giving the left the White House over such trivia.
If Hillary Clinton wins, will Republicans and conservatives who gave up on Trump because of this recording really think that it was worth: having a left-wing Supreme Court for the next 30 years; having left-wing judges completely dominate lower federal courts; radically curtailing religious liberty in America; having speech codes go from colleges to the society as a whole; massively increasing the size of the government and of the debt; bringing in tens of thousands of refugees from the Arab Middle East; and having open borders?
How can anyone answer in the affirmative?
The answer is the left-wing hysteria got to them.
On the same day the recording came out, so did leaked emails that revealed that Hillary Clinton told a Brazilian Bank in 2013 that she is for "open borders."
Open borders mean the end of the United States as we know it.
That, my fellow Americans, is worth getting hysterical about.
Get rid of your TV and stop listen to the hyperbole.
Mush better way to live.
How many of the “offended” read/watched _50_Shades_of_Grey_, enjoying the idea of a billionaire abusing & objecting a woman?
For months the leftist government-media complex has been looking for things to crucify Trump on. Finally, they found something.
The media covered hillary’s negatives very briefly. One day in the news, with assurances to the reader that hillary had done nothing wrong, then complete blackout.
With Trump, they don’t let up. Constant, day after day, never ending, 24/7.
F^ck the media.
Politics is about hypocrisy, more than anything else. Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. The “puritanical” media is heavily biased to the favor of the rapists and dares to even pile on by threatening those same powerless victims and victimizing them again. The media, as the once defender of the weak and powerless, are derelict in their duty, and instead of challenging the fascist, psychotic tendencies of meglo-maniacal politicians, they have chosen to become their propaganda organ. The Clintons are at the bottom of this inferno, of the destruction of our culture, of the unbinding of the tyrants, of the unraveling of the world - look to the explosion of terrorism, of nuclear threats, of butchering tyrants, of millions of refugees, of weapons of mass destruction, of millions of illegal aliens, of everyday crime, of the spread of heroin, of the destruction of our police, of the division of our races, of the corruption of the FBI, of the politicization of every government institution, of the falsification of vital intelligence, of the failure to protect our soldiers to serve political ends, of the selling of fetal body parts, of the constant lying and the posturing to gain political power, of personal failure and lack of direction of young people - this is where these two demonic twins live, they destroy everything they touch - they rape, they kill, they make war, they lie - they are a plague on America and the world. The Devil is unleashed.
And always, like clockwork, the weak kneed Republicans like McCain, Graham, and Ryan, cut and run from this hysteria, every time, they take the bait.
I DENY IT.
And so do TENS OF THOUSANDS of scientists in the field, who rest on scientific truth instead of fascist propaganda.
Hypocrisy is a commodity in DC.
Bought, sold and traded on K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue..................
That would go against the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics...............
Yep - the folks who have worked tirelessly to de-stigmatize and desensitize us to sexual perversion, including pedophilia are now trying to act outraged by a healthy male engaging in what he thought was a private session of locker room bullsh!++ing - priceless!
Oh, they "found" it long ago. They just held it back until they determined the maximum harm would be caused by the release.
Some days, a fella just wants a good panatela!
First of all, I don't listen to hyperbole, never have, never will.
Mush better way to live.
Mush as in thick porridge made with cornmeal boiled in water or milk?
Slow down, don't be in such a hurry. :)
Very well said, especially the last part.
Few people, my foot. It’s more like few people believe in global warming. Most people know better, and I am one of them.
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Actually yes, it is.
There is no proof the earth as a whole is warming. We had some years that were warmer following some years that were quite cold and now we are back to colder.
The earth is not warming.
Every time they try to trot out some data to prove the earth is warming it turns out to be either computer models (GIGO), badly gathered data (sensors in a parking lot when it used to be under shade) or a localized event that has nothing to do with the temperature (the ocean is not rising, the land is sinking).
I actually would like the earth to be warming, more land that can be cultivated and more free water to become rain is actually a good thing. We have yet to gain back the heat we lost during the little ice ages.
I fear that the earth is actually entering a cooling spell.
While nothing to get hysterical about it would have a major impact on life on earth and we would have to make some adjustments. Thankfully we have the science to do so.
Yeah. :)
Agreed. The hyperbole gets on this site and those with an agenda go into froths.But the fact remains the MSM create the ‘crisis’ and those with weak wills or agendas play it as significant. I think the percentage of those buying it has gone way down because of the alternative media.
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