{"id":108614,"date":"2016-10-11T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108614"},"modified":"2016-10-11T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:00:38","slug":"trumps-comments-the-latest-left-wing-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=108614","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Comments: The Latest Left-Wing Hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Regarding Donald Trump\u2019s private sexual comments: We are living through a national hysteria.
\nTo 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…<\/p>\n

The latest is the tsunami of horror in reaction to Donald Trump\u2019s gross and juvenile comments made in private 11 years ago.
\nThe 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.
\nThis 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\u2019s failed 1974 congressional campaign, a \u201cf\u2014ing Jew bastard.\u201d
\nEven the left-wing newspaper, the Guardian, reported that three people \u2014 two witnesses and Fray \u2014 confirmed the report.
\nNevertheless, I wrote in the Journal, \u201cI wish to defend Mrs. Clinton. I do so as a practicing Jew and a Republican. \u2026 We must cease this moral idiocy of judging people by stray private comments.\u201d
\nI gave two more examples:
\nOne was Harry Truman, who often used the word \u201ckike\u201d when referring to Jews. Yet, he was the Jews\u2019 greatest friend when he changed Jewish history by resisting powerful State Department opposition and recognized the State of Israel.
\nThe 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\u2019s life with his quick airlift of military supplies during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
\nAs I concluded:
\n\u201cIt is highly misleading to probe private comments for evidence of anti-Semitism, racism, bigotry and sexism.\u201d
\nIn addition to not taking all private comments seriously, Republicans, conservatives and independents need to ask themselves if what Trump said \u2014 not did, but said \u2014 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.
\nThey also need to ask themselves if it is worth giving the left the White House over such trivia.
\nIf 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?
\nHow can anyone answer in the affirmative?
\nThe answer is the left-wing hysteria got to them.
\nOn 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 \u201copen borders.\u201d
\nOpen borders mean the end of the United States as we know it.
\nThat, my fellow Americans, is worth getting hysterical about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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