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March 25, 2009
Exclusive: Napolitano and Obama Comments: Classic Examples of Liberal PC Hypocrisy
I have not conducted extensive research in this area, but I suspect that most people will tolerate hypocrisy to some degree as an unavoidable blemish of human nature. However, this tolerance for hypocrisy tends to evaporate greatly when said person or group literally contradicts itself on cue.
To PC
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s refusal to use the word “terrorist” in her first Congressional testimony as Homeland Security Secretary out of some pathetic effort to avoid a “politics of fear” is as lame a bow to liberal PC tripe as we have seen in a while. Pretending that “man-made disasters” is a suitable and effective substitute for “terrorism” only puts a cherry on this liberal drool.
Liberals preach incessantly about how this and that person or group will be offended by being lumped with or associated with terrorism, yet common sense dictates that law-abiding, sensible and rational citizens and residents should be more concerned with perpetuating the safety of their homeland than calming their own insecurities and sensibilities. This kind of personal sacrifice for the sake of national safety and good, of course, is a foreign language to liberals whose primary agenda and concern is their own safety and welfare.
Compounding this imbecilic justification with the pretense that “man-made disasters” is the informational and moral equivalent of “terrorism” leaves one wondering whether or not liberals like Napolitano really believe what they spew or simply think the rest of us are blubbering idiots appeased by the most diluted logic and rationales available. I did not know that terrorist threats on our country are the moral equivalent of pollution. The last time I checked, people pollute because their personal agenda outweighs their social agenda and their individual concerns do not include the world their children and ancestors will someday inhabit. While we cannot minimize the harm of pollution, liberals wave the environment as some kind of mystical cause they use to justify the most absurd of causes and beliefs.
It makes no rational sense to imply that terrorism is akin to throwing candy wrappers on the floor or dumping raw sewage in a river. While the latter two actions may pose a threat to our collective and individual health in years to come, the first action poses a direct and real threat to our national and societal existence as a nation now. To lump terrorism with pollution is to dilute its immediate significance and offend the victims of that terrorism. The widows and families of 9/11 were not victims of pollution on that day, but of vile, cowardly and evil acts of hatred, arrogance and intolerance. That any government official, much less one allegedly entrusted to lead the effort to defend our nation, should make such a substitution is the height of national absurdity and the depth of national shame in and of itself.
Not To PC
While his chosen representative on national security sinks in lame PC drivel, Barack Obama mocks that same PC mantra by offending the mentally and physically challenged with an insensitive remark about the Special Olympics while on Jay Leno’s show. After a flood of protests, Obama issued a lame apology flowing with his high regard for the Special Olympics and the mentally and physically challenged community. In typical fashion, both the media and even Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver focus more on the apology than the initial offensive remark. This is like receiving a medal for bravery for trying to put out a fire with a glass of water when one started the fire in the first place.
Imagine the uproar if President Bush or any conservative had made such a remark. Obama would have made a commercial surrounded by special needs children and the American flag. At the same time, Sarah Palin’s noble and sincere regard for these children is completely overwhelmed by a liberal media hell-bent on destroying her. Just when one believes one has seen how low this media can sink in partisan rubbish, it finds new depths to explore.
Conclusion
The duplicity of liberal PC passion has been chronicled for some time now, as have their double standards on virtually every issue. This hypocrisy speaks of shallow insincerity which pretends profound principles and noble causes. Truth be told, liberals embrace words as tools of their trade in either the pathetic illusion that words alone define truth or in the defiant arrogance that they are immune to the very sins they so passionately accuse others of perpetuating.
If Barack Obama sincerely cared about the physically and mentally challenged, he would never have made his imbecilic remark in the first place. His Leno remarks reveal his true beliefs and nature. His apology is merely another lame reaction to public outrage and only his fawning fans and adoring media are appeased by his weak apology. Anyone with any sense knows that these same remarks from any conservative would have triggered a media feeding frenzy. By now we all know enough to brace ourselves for four and possibly eight years of this despicable double standard.
Common sense dictates that burglars and bullies are the last ones offended by being called burglars and bullies. It follows that only those falsely accused of being burglars and bullies are thus offended. Using the terms burglars and bullies, however, should not be offensive to anyone absent such a direct false accusation. Thus, Janet Napolitano’s fear of offending anyone with the term terrorism is misguided and ignorant at best and dangerous to our nation at worst.
Liberals lately speaks of fear as if it were some virus that spreads hate and violence. In their paranoia to avoid fear, they actually perpetuate and distorts the fear they try to ignore by turning it from something natural and constructive into something morbid and dysfunctional. Fear can be a good thing when, inspired by common sense and rational thinking, it motivates us to defend and protect ourselves and that which we hold dear, such as this nation, our freedom and our children’s future. Fear becomes a morbid and dysfunctional thing, however when, inspired by hypocrisy and partisan rhetoric, it becomes a vile political tool designed to perpetuate a selfishness and selective outrage. This latter kind of fear is itself a cancer that can eat away at a nation’s resolve and contact with its best interests.
Past liberals like FDR, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter have demonstrated their party’s penchant for pretense and paralysis. In contrast, past conservatives like Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Regan have shown their party’s ability to overcome fear by turning it into the starting point of national defense and pride. The combined message of the Obama and Napolitano comments is that we must avoid fearing the violent (terrorists) while not being too concerned with offending the vulnerable ( physically and mentally challenged children).
Contrary to FDR’s famous phrase, perhaps what we most have to fear is becoming the sort of society that Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano’s foolish comments represent.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gabriel Garnica, Esq., is a college professor and licensed attorney whose regular commentary also appears on NewMediaJournal.us, Michnews and various Internet journals. Feedback: editorialdirector@familysecuritymatters.org.
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