Tuesday, April 29, 2008

More on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright,

Now the z-man blog is all about having a different angle and so it seems to me righties can criticize American society all they want, Malkin can bash our pornofied culture to her heart's content and yet her patriotism is never called into question, ditto Maggie Gallagher and our divorce culture, Laura Ingraham and our abortion culture and yet I agree much with what all three have to say on these matters. Lefties can't do this though over their pet issues like economic, social and racial injustice and so it seems to me the right to criticize your own country cuts one way which is not to say the Rev. Wright is not radical and bombastic but I'm just trying to make sense of our current political climate. Maybe it has to do more with the way we express ourselves, after all Laura has never called for the bombing of abortion clinics on her side of the aisle, and the Right generally being critical of conspiracy theories in general (so what Mad Scientist invented the AIDS virus pray tell?). But since we be on the subject of conspiracy theories why doesn't the Rev. Wright give a major speech on the origins of Planned Parenthood, the racism of its founder Margaret Sanger and why doesn't he see the abortion of black babies as a silent form of genocide? There's alot on the plate here so chow down!

5 comments:

  1. I'm not sure I agree with your basic premise, people like Laura Igrahm don't call for bombing abortion clinics, but pro-choicers ofter lump together all pro-lifers into one category of militant lifers. I mean weren't you accused of that at Hannityland, back when you couldn't defend yourself, Z?

    But you do make a great point that the squeaky wheel does seem to receive more criticism, and as Rush suggested maybe that is exactly the outcome they want, to validate their claims that we are out to "get them".

    No easy answers on how to fix these problems, imo.

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  2. I'm talking about the right to criticize aspects of your own country w/o having your patriotism called into question and I made the point that Laura has never called for violent means to address pro-life issues, using this as an example of righties more often speak in more temperate tones than some lefties and that's why the Rev. Wrights of the world get the most attention. I stand by my premise and when I brought this double standard up when I was still a member in good standing over at Hannityland conservative apatriot agreed with me. I still don't get why people like Sharpton and Jackson and Wright never discuss abortion and how it affects their own race.

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  3. You do make a good point about the race issue and abortion, especially in light of a recent story where an undercover woman asked Planned Parenthood if her donation could go to abortion black babies, and PP was more than happy to do so.

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  4. Never heard of that one but it doesn't surprise. You'd think people like the Rev. Wright would ask why they locate so many clinics in poor urban areas, it may be a conspiracy theory but it at least makes more sense than his theory about the Government inventing the AIDS virus, might have something with getting people off the welfare rolls since they've never been born. There seems to be a blind spot among the activists when it comes to the a-word.

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  5. Jesse Jackson used to be pro-life you know and then whatever happened, whatever happens usually does to formerly pro-life Dems.

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