Posted by
VBushmills on Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:57:20 AM
Richmond October 17, 2009
You don't really have to have been following the Rush Limbaugh-St Louis Rams-racism lies stories to know the final lesson learned here.
For reasons that may eventually prove to be more about dirty business dealings than political ideology, and for which Mr Limbaugh has plenty of money not doing anything this month that can make the malefactors on the other side, whose money is otherwise engaged, think twice about that sort of tactic again.
But as the various patent lies about racist comments attributed to Mr Limbaugh have been exposed, with some fanfare on Fox News (thanks), the tepidness of the half apologies by the so-called journalistic repeaters of those lies, reveals a lesson we all need to keep in mind.
It is this: Most members of the Left, The Other Side, The Enemy, however you want to call them, live in a separate reality. What they said about Rush Limbaugh wasn't a lie. It wasn't even a falsehood, or untruth. The reason it wasn't is not because the world has told them so, but because they cannot look themselves in the mirror and tell themselves so.
An honest liar, when caught, will swear under his breath, "Damn...got caught" and move on, taking whatever lesson (there are several, among which 'not doing it again' is but one) with him.
The delusional liar will never admit he was caught, but rather the forces of evil (as he sees us) simply outnumbered him on this occasion. He will take far fewer lessons with him.
The lesson learned is that this is not the sort of person, and there are millions of them now, just hatching in the 7th Grade alone, who will ever be talked out his "beliefs". At some point, we can all hope, that he/she will simply bury this part of his/her life in the deepest recesses of memory and attempt the fiction of carrying on the rest of his life as a normal person. We cannot save him. There will be no Come-to-America moment at the altar of humanity and humility. All we can do is detach him from the rest, and defeat him at every turn.
The good news is that most are lazy and will quit altogether after two-three consecutive whompings. The bad news is that those who don't, like Bill Ayers has proved, will be a pain in our side forever. So be vigilant. Just make sure it is they, not us, who are the guerrilas.
VB