Durbin Lies —
Moral Relativism & The Left — Gary Bauer
Traditional morality teaches that lying, cheating and stealing are wrong. But the philosophical left argues that morality is in the eye of the beholder. If you’re serving the left’s greater cause, the ends justify the means. Lying can be okay in order to stop “Neanderthal” conservatives.
Over the years, the left has engaged in lying more and more frequently as a political tactic. When thousands of people came to Washington in March 2010 to rally against Obamacare, liberal members of Congress intentionally walked through the middle of that rally rather than use the vast complex of trams and tunnels that run underneath Capitol Hill, which allow members of Congress to avoid the “smelly tourists.”
As they walked through the crowd, some members of the Congressional Black Caucus claimed they were spat on. In this age of instant cell phone videos, no evidence was ever produced to support that outrageous charge. Yet that incident has been repeatedly cited as evidence of the rampant racism within the Tea Party movement.
I have experienced the same tactics. During a recent speech, I said that the nihilistic left wants to kill Judeo-Christian civilization. A leftwing blogger funded by George Soros and assigned to monitor my speech wrote, “Bauer just said liberals want to kill Christians.” That lie is now in the blogosphere and will be repeated over and over again. People who come across it will assume I am an extremist for saying something I never said.
Here’s the latest example. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Senate’s second-highest-ranking Democrat, who infamously compared our guards at Gitmo to Nazis, posted this on his Facebook page over the weekend:
• “Many Republicans searching for something to say in defense of the disastrous shutdown strategy will say President Obama just doesn’t try hard enough to communicate with Republicans. But in a ‘negotiation’ meeting with the president, one GOP House Leader told the president: ‘I cannot even stand to look at you.’ What are the chances of an honest conversation with someone who has just said something so disrespectful?”
The public is being told over and over again that House Republicans are dominated by the Tea Party movement, which is dominated by racists. Now Durbin claims that one GOP House leader is so racist he can’t even stand to look at Obama.
Desperate for a top GOP scalp, the White House press corps pummeled Press Secretary Jay Carney yesterday demanding to know who the offending congressman was. Alas, Carney had to disappoint them. He told the muckrakers that the incident never happened.
Nevertheless, Durbin is sticking by that lie and the post has not been removed from his Facebook page.
The Huffington Post said the story came from Harry Reid, who said he got it from a White House aide. You’ll recall that Harry Reid repeatedly claimed last year that “an extremely credible source” told him that Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes for ten years. That also turned out be false.
And that’s all you need to know about the state of political discourse in Obama’s Washington.
This item by Gary Bauer of Campaign for Working Families is posted in its entirety with permission. Bauer’s entire End of Day Report is available here, free by e-mail subscription.
