{"id":28723,"date":"2011-01-17T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T00:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28723"},"modified":"2011-01-17T16:18:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T00:18:03","slug":"lying-about-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=28723","title":{"rendered":"Lying About The Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I do not recall any major American daily attacking another major American daily the way the Wall Street Journal<\/i> attacked the New York Times<\/i> last week under the heading \u201cThe New York Times<\/i> has crossed a moral line.\u201d I do not recall Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post<\/i> columnist Charles Krauthammer ever expressing contempt toward a colleague the way he did against New York Times<\/i> columnist Paul Krugman last week. Krauthammer ended his column \u201cMassacre, Followed by Libel<\/a>,\u201d with this sentence: \u201cThe origins of Loughner\u2019s delusions are clear: mental illness. What are the origins of Krugman\u2019s?\u201d <\/p>\n

\tPeople are awakening to the crucial fact of left-wing success: The only way the Left can succeed in America is by libeling the Right. Only 20 percent of Americans label themselves liberal, let alone leftist. How, then, do leftists get elected? And why don\u2019t more Americans call themselves conservative, when, in fact, so many share conservatives\u2019 values?<\/p>\n

\tThe answer to both questions is that, through its dominance of the news media, entertainment media, and educational institutions, the Left has been able to successfully demonize the Right for at least half a century.<\/p>\n

\tThe Left rarely convinces Americans to adopt its views. What it does is create a fear of the Right that influences many Americans to align themselves with the Left.<\/p>\n

\tFor example, most Americans want to retain the man-woman definition of marriage. Even most voters in liberal Californians want to. The Left has not been able to convince even Californians to redefine marriage to include members of the same sex. So what the Left did was to declare as \u201chaters\u201d all those who wanted California to retain the definition of marriage as uniting a man and a woman. Prop 8 became \u201cProp Hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBut the Left\u2019s modus operandi<\/i> was never as apparent as it was this past week when it took a tragic mass killing of innocents by a violent, mentally ill individual and transformed it \u2014 within hours \u2014 into an attack on the decency of the Right \u2014 specifically Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, FoxNews, and talk radio.<\/p>\n

\tThe same Left, led by the New York Times<\/i>, that warned against making any quick assumptions that Islam had played any role in Maj. Nidal Hassan\u2019s murder of 13 people and wounding of 30 others at Fort Hood, immediately declared that the Arizona murders were largely a result of a \u201cclimate of hate\u201d induced by Sarah Palin and other conservatives.<\/p>\n

\tIt wasn\u2019t true. They knew it wasn\u2019t true. And, yes, it was a libel.<\/p>\n

\tBut when you control all the major news media, Hollywood, much of rest of the culture, and most of the high schools and colleges, how are most people supposed to realize that?<\/p>\n

\tWhat makes last week different is this: The Left, for the first time, does not have the same monopoly over mass information and the Republican Party is no longer emasculated. There is talk radio, there is the internet, there is FoxNews, and there is a vigorous, conservative Republican Party. So, when the Left unleashed its libel against the Right, claiming that it was responsible for a \u201cclimate of hate\u201d that produced Jared Loughner, to its shock, America did not lie down and believe it. Many millions did, as usual. But for those with eyes to see, it was a false accusation, and for many, for the first time, it provided a clear view into how the Left operates.<\/p>\n

\tAs it becomes ever more obvious that Loughner\u2019s crimes had nothing \u2014 absolutely nothing \u2014 to do with conservatives, the Left will do three things: change the subject by criticizing Sarah Palin\u2019s use of the term \u201cblood libel\u201d (a term whose use by Palin was honorably defended by Prof. Alan Dershowitz, a prominent Jewish liberal); deny it ever really blamed the Right for the Loughner\u2019s crimes (hoping, with good reason, that Americans have a short memory); and continue to blame the Right for creating the \u201cclimate of hate\u201d that the Left itself has created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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