The Double Standard never goes away. m/r
This, from a Never-Trumper:
Labash: Conservatives Should Police Their Own
Ask Matt Labash, who grew up listening to James Dobson mixtapes.
Nov 30, 2017 |
By
Matt Labash
Who do you think would win in a fight between Roy Moore and the truth?
Brent,
Tuscaloosa
That’s a hard one. Though Roy Moore is now 70 years old, he used to train under a renowned kickboxing instructor in Texas, and if accounts hold true, he’s proven to be a formidable grappler, especially if you’re a teenage girl trying to wrestle your way out of his car.
The truth is quite a bit older than Moore, and has lately seemed the worse for wear. In days of yore, my money would be on the truth. It has a storied history. It has always been a bruiser, able to slap all comers in its dojo into submission holds. It used to have distinguished adherents like Thomas Jefferson (“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”) and Keats (“Beauty is truth, truth, beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”).
But these days, the smart money is on Moore. It’s getting harder for truth to find purchase, since we seem unable to even agree upon what it is any longer. Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said. So increasingly, the nation seems to be saying “to hell with them” when they don’t conform to our political worldview—politics now trumping morality or honesty more often than not. Facts have gone from being a loosely objective reality that reasonable people can generally settle on (even to further manipulate them for cynical or polemical ends), into a choose-your-own-adventure fantasy stroke book for the onanistically inclined.
On the left, that has looked an awful lot like Bill and Hillary Clinton, celebrated feminist heroes, even if one of those heroes (Bill), by most credible accounts, spent the ’70s thru the ‘90s propositioning, groping, and even allegedly raping his way through America’s women folk, plenty of whom were his political supporters.
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Who do you think would win in a fight between Roy Moore and the truth?
Brent,
Tuscaloosa
That’s a hard one. Though Roy Moore is now 70 years old, he used to train under a renowned kickboxing instructor in Texas, and if accounts hold true, he’s proven to be a formidable grappler, especially if you’re a teenage girl trying to wrestle your way out of his car.
The truth is quite a bit older than Moore, and has lately seemed the worse for wear. In days of yore, my money would be on the truth. It has a storied history. It has always been a bruiser, able to slap all comers in its dojo into submission holds. It used to have distinguished adherents like Thomas Jefferson (“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”) and Keats (“Beauty is truth, truth, beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”).
But these days, the smart money is on Moore. It’s getting harder for truth to find purchase, since we seem unable to even agree upon what it is any longer. Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said. So increasingly, the nation seems to be saying “to hell with them” when they don’t conform to our political worldview—politics now trumping morality or honesty more often than not. Facts have gone from being a loosely objective reality that reasonable people can generally settle on (even to further manipulate them for cynical or polemical ends), into a choose-your-own-adventure fantasy stroke book for the onanistically inclined.
On the left, that has looked an awful lot like Bill and Hillary Clinton, celebrated feminist heroes, even if one of those heroes (Bill), by most credible accounts, spent the ’70s thru the ‘90s propositioning, groping, and even allegedly raping his way through America’s women folk, plenty of whom were his political supporters.
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