The Lies of the Left

Recently, a late night talk show host made a disgusting joke about the daughter of Alaska's popular governor, Sarah Palin.  Other than media dominated by conservative voices, such as talk radio and new media such as blogs, there was little outcry about this.  Considering what happened to Don Imus when he made a stupid comment about a women's basketball team comprised largely of black women, the hypocrisy of the situation is nothing short of astounding.  Had the joke been about a prominent liberal or had the joke been made by a known conservative, the comedian would have been fired, like Imus, almost immediately.

The Left, though, is well known for these attempts to pass themselves off as something they are not.  In a recent column, columnist John Hawkins discusses what he perceives to be the five biggest falsehoods the Left has built up around itself.  He is right on and provides rock-solid examples.  As if they were collaborating as they wrote their weekly pieces, columnist Phyllis Schlafly wrote in her column about the lies of feminism.  Some University of Pennsylvania professors recently published an article in the American Economic Journal, a respected scholarly journal, that discusses how the relative happiness levels of women have gone down since the 1970s, which is when the feminist movement really took off in the U.S.  Schlafly does a brilliant job of explaining why that is not surprising to anyone who understands that men and women are different, have different roles, and are fulfilled helping each other reach their full potential.

The Left claims to champion women, but it seems that is the case only if the woman in question is a liberal, because conservative women are nothing more than "slutty flight attendant[s]."  Unlike that raunchy low, it's the very potential that we all inherently have because we are children of God that makes the so-called joke Letterman told even more disgusting and even more hypocritical and even more exposing to the lies of the Left.