Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Double Standards

Republican Senator John McCain goes to The New School and delivers a commencement speech that is pro-war, and gets booed by the graduates. Conservatives call this evidence of the hate-filled left because of the graduates' brash impoliteness to a war hero.

Democrat Representative Lacy Clay goes to The University of Missouri and delivers a commencement speech that is anti-war, and gets booed by the graduates. Conservatives call this evidence of the hate-filled left because of Lacy Clay's brash impoliteness in making all the graduates angry.

Glen Greenwald:
So, to re-cap the rules: (1) When a pro-war politician gives a pro-war speech as part of a graduation ceremony, and students in the audience heckle and boo him, that shows how Deranged the Angry Left is -- because they heckled a pro-war speech. (2) When an anti-war politician gives an anti-war speech as part of a graduation ceremony, and students in the audience heckle, walk out and even riot, that also shows how Angry the Left is -- because they "provoked a near riot" by pro-war students.

(Thanks to Glen Greenwald for doing all the footwork on this post... I merely copied all his links and parroted his sentiment.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Glen Greenwald the Second Amendment Civil Rights advocate?

Jil Wrinkle said...

He's a liberal, and that usually means anti-gun rights, but not always. So I'm guessing no.