On the left they are nearly unanimous in their disapproval of Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally. Bill Press, for instance, decided that the Lincoln Memorial, being sacred ground and all, was no place to talk about God. Meanwhile back at Ground Zero, the site of those towers turned into rubble in the name of radical Islam, talking about and worshiping Allah is very much OK, and to object to it is very much bigoted. Richard Fernandez essay takes an analytical view of the situation.
Some things are never OK if you’re Glenn Beck. Some things are always OK if you’re the Imam Rauf. It’s just like certain programming languages, which have rules like: x or y if x is false, then y, else x. In this case ‘conservative’=false. Also, anyone who the Left doesn’t like =’conservative’. From this all else follows. This is especially important when it comes to identifying evil or potentially evil people.
The bar is set at whatever level progressives say the bar ought to be set depending upon who or what is measured. Progressives have their established order of precedence in these things.
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