{"id":2686,"date":"2011-07-06T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:04:44","slug":"liberal-minds-a-walking-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/liberal-minds-a-walking-contradiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Minds: A Walking Contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>worships President Franklin D Roosevelt, who carpet bombed German cities and executed an American-born spy captured on US soil after a secret military trial\u2014but screams that Bush was guilty of war crimes;<\/p>\n<p>is crazy about Michael Moore\u2014but against childhood obesity;<\/p>\n<p>tapes over a sign that said \u201cToo Many Jews At Harvard\u201d with a sign that said \u201cEthnic Quotas This Way\u201d;<\/p>\n<p>is enraged with Karl Rove for releasing the name of a CIA paper-pusher (which he didn\u2019t do)\u2014-but are excited with WikiLeaks putting thousands of classified national security documents on the Internet;<\/p>\n<p>categorically opposes the death penalty for convicted murderers\u2014but screams it\u2019s a \u2018constitutional right\u2019 to kill innocent, unborn babies;<\/p>\n<p>hysterically opposed taking out Saddam Hussein, a mass murderer who gassed his own people and presided over \u2018rape rooms\u2019\u2014but weepily demands we intervene in Rwanda and Lybia for humantarian reasons;<\/p>\n<p>claims to be pro-children\u2014but supports public schools and refuses to support charter schools;<\/p>\n<p>champions women and gay rights\u2014but ignores the brutal treatment of women and gays by Muslims;<\/p>\n<p>claims it was a vicious slander to be called a communist in the fifties\u2014-but didn\u2019t see anything wrong with actually being a communist in the fifties;<\/p>\n<p>advocates unfettered scientific research and debate\u2014but\u00a0 then, with no evidence, simply declares discussions about global warming closed;<\/p>\n<p>yelps for clean alternative energy\u2014bit violently opposes nuclear power;<\/p>\n<p>supports sustainable energy sources like offshore wind farms\u2014-unless the offshore wind farm obscures their view from Cape Cod;<\/p>\n<p>decries stereotyping\u2014but when a black conservative comes along, denounces that person as \u2018unqualified\u2019, \u2018stupid\u2019, a \u2018house nigga\u2019, an \u2018Uncle Tom\u2019 or \u2018window dressing\u2019;<\/p>\n<p>believes Tea Partiers are terrorists\u2014but Islamic Jihadists are victims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkstraight.tumblr.com\/post\/7244097495\/liberal-minds-a-walking-contradiction\">HT to TalkStraight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal\u2026. worships President Franklin D Roosevelt, who carpet bombed German cities and executed an American-born spy captured on US soil after a secret military trial\u2014but screams that Bush was guilty of war crimes; 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