The double standard that is liberalism apparently knows no bounds, for now liberal pundits are effectively calling prominent conservatives criminals because of their disagreement with the policies of the Barack Obama administration.<\/p>\n
On NBC\u2019s The Chris Matthews Show<\/em> on April 18, Time<\/em> columnist Joe Klein all but accused former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Fox News\u2019<\/em> Glenn Beck of sedition.<\/p>\n \u201cI did a little bit of research just before this show\u2014it\u2019s on the napkin here. I looked up the definition of sedition which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of the state. And a lot of these statements, especially the ones coming from people like Glenn Beck and to a certain extent Sarah Palin, rub right up close to being seditious.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Klein, the legal definition of sedition is \u201ca revolt or an incitement to revolt against established authority.\u201d<\/p>\n John Heilemann one-upped Klein, invoking the name of Rush Limbaugh as someone else who is seditious, because he calls the Obama administration the Obama regime.<\/p>\n So that\u2019s where we are now in the political discourse?<\/p>\n Prior to and during the Revolutionary War, many of our Founding Fathers spoke and wrote privately and publicly about the tyranny of the British government. Today, we consider them heroes. To the British they were seditious.<\/p>\n In the 1960s blacks and some whites marched and held peaceful demonstrations\u2014despite violent efforts to silence them\u2014in order to secure equal rights for the black race. Today we consider them heroes. To many, they were seditious.<\/p>\n In the 1970s a group of radical students with communist ideologies bombed 25 sites in the United States\u2014including the Pentagon\u2014and murdered two New York police officers and Brinks truck driver in a botched robbery attempt. They were called The Weather Underground, and their manifesto said, \u201cOur aim is to disrupt the empire\u2026 to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks.\u201d<\/p>\n Was that sedition?<\/p>\n One of the members of that group is William Ayers. He\u2019s an Obama mentor and in all likelihood the ghost author of Obama\u2019s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance<\/em>.<\/p>\n During the administration of George W. Bush, liberal activists protested Bush\u2019s every move. A play was even written and performed which celebrated Bush\u2019s assassination. Sedition? None of the liberal media thought so.<\/p>\n But speak out against the Marxist redistributionist policies of the Obama administration and call it a regime\u2014as liberal pundits did to Bush during his administration\u2014and you are somehow being seditious.<\/p>\n Thomas Jefferson once said, \u201cI tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.\u201d<\/p>\n Liberals apparently can\u2019t do that. Of course the reason and wisdom of Jefferson and the rest of Founders is as foreign to today\u2019s liberals as the reasoning behind Mao Zedong\u2019s murderous policies is to conservatives.<\/p>\n Perhaps that\u2019s why political discourse has taken such an ugly turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The double standard that is liberalism apparently knows no bounds, for now liberal pundits are effectively calling prominent conservatives criminals because of their disagreement with the policies of the Barack Obama administration. On NBC\u2019s The Chris Matthews Show on April 18, Time columnist Joe Klein all but accused former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Fox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}