Double Troubling Inconsistencies

By William L. Garvin

This world is teeming with blatant double standards and glaring inconsistencies yet many in the general population are only selectively outraged.  The first examples must be an anathema to the veterans of the UC Berkeley Free Speech movement in the sixties.  It would be appalling for them to see swastikas painted on a Jewish fraternity at a sister campus.  It would be incomprehensible for them to hear Jewish students shouted down with cries of “allahu Akbar” as they attempted to speak against a resolution to divest all campus investments in Israel.  Their puzzlement would be compounded by another campus voting to remove all United States flags because they might be “offensive” to some.  They would also equally abhor and vigorously debate the foolish frat boy rap of the Oklahoma University fraternity.  Somewhere along the line, “freedom” and “responsibility” have been irrevocably rendered asunder.  Having the right to do it doesn’t always equate to it being the right thing to do.  Burning flags, misogynistic rap lyrics, and profane and offensive “art” abound in these times.

An offshoot of this theme is the irresponsible promulgation of the “hands up, don’t shoot” mythology.  Where are the apologies now that even activist Attorney General had to totally exonerate Officer Darren Wilson in the Ferguson shooting?  Let’s hear the NBA and NFL players apologize for helping ruin the life of Officer Wilson.  Let’s hear an apology from Hakeem Jeffries, Sheila Jackson Lee, Al Green, and Yvette Clarke, all Democrat members of the Congressional Black Caucus, for “acting stupidly” by holding their hands up on the House floor.  Let’s hear President Obama apologize for listening to the foolish race-baiting polemics of Al Sharpton.  Let’s hear the media apologize for perpetuating the “gentle giant” fraud and doctoring tapes and using prepubescent cherubic photographs of Trayvon Martin all the while giving comparatively scant attention to the assassination of two New York officers, to the shooting of two officers in Ferguson, to black on black crime, and horror of horrors, black on white crime.

Then there’s the “smartest woman in the world” attempting to gender morph from the perpetually dissatisfied Madame Bovary into President Ovary.  Even though she brags about having an iPhone, a Blackberry, a mini and an iPad, apparently she couldn’t figure out how to have two email addresses on a single device or use two devices.  Also, how does her State Department generate a billion emails but preserve only 61,000?  This makes the eighteen and a half missing minutes on the Nixon tapes look like a warm-up act.  If all those deleted emails had to do with yoga poses, prom dresses, funeral and wedding plans, there were far too many government employees doing personal business on official time.  Maybe if they had actually been doing their jobs, four Americans would be alive in Benghazi today!

Nonetheless, the Dems will rally around Hillary if no other reason than they don’t have anybody else.  They will continue to characterize her as a champion of women although even her most ardent supporters are hard pressed to list any concrete accomplishments (other than miraculously making a small fortune in cattle futures).  Given the sorry state of affairs in international relations, her only successful operation was the “nuts and sluts” character assassinations to cover up her husband’s bimbo eruptions.  (By the way, why are multiple complaints against Bill Cosby indicative of his guilt but multiple complaints against Bill Clinton so easily dismissed?)  And if a Republican candidate ever paid his or her female staffers at a lower rate compared to male staffers just as Hillary does, they would be pilloried.  That’s as bad as Clint Eastwood using non-union crews…oh wait—that was Michael Moore!

Speaking of acting, look at all the faux outrage Democrats exhibited regarding the speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.  Nancy Pelosi said she was “nearly moved to tears” by his presentation which she deemed insulting to her president.  Her childish pantomimes of displeasure (until she and the Black Caucus stormed out) was the epitome of disrespect to what she once called “our staunchest ally.”  With friends like that….  She and John Kerry continued their manufactured outrage by castigating a letter that 47 senators sent to Iran.  She had no such qualms about personally visiting Bashar al-Assad in Syria against President Bush’s wishes but of course, that was then and this is now.

Thanks to a lack of principles and utter disregard for the truth, inconsistency and double standards are the mother’s milk of today’s politics.  For those who continue to foolishly foment racial discord, division and discontent, here’s your new slogan:  “Bloody hands up; don’t drip!”