Base Discourse

There are a number of examples of the most base forms of discourse in the country lately. Rather than improving, it seems to be getting worse, as disgusting and demeaning language is used to destroy people who are guilty of nothing more than having a particular worldview.

The David Letterman "jokes" about Sarah Palin and her daughter illustrate this point. Calling Palin a "slutty flight attendant" is certainly disgusting and disrespectful, not only to her but to women in general. Then going after her daughter, regardless of which daughter he actually meant to insult, was out of bounds.

The best way to answer his semi-apology splitting hairs about which daughter he was trashing is this simple question: Dave, would you have ever in a thousand years considered telling the same or a similarly vile joke about Chelsea Clinton? Or the Obama daughters?

We all know the answer. Somehow in the leftwing mindset of which Dave is clearly a member, only members of your own ideology deserve respect. As the MSNBC pundits and Bill Maher are saying, Sarah and her daughters are "fair game". Sure, and just imagine Rush Limbaugh saying anything remotely similar about a prominent daughter of a Democrat politician. I wonder what the same folks on the Left would have to say about that. The answer's pretty obvious to anybody who would be honest.

Then there's the story about the Inspector General that got fired by Obama for doing his job. Apparently he uncovered corruption and misappropriation of funds in Sacramento. But the culprit was a good friend of the President. We couldn't have that, so he was unceremoniously fired without notice, which just happens to be against the law.

So how does the Obama team respond to questions about this firing? Well, the guy's an old geezer who is losing his mind. Rather than answering the question truthfully, they chose to add insult to injury by destroying the poor guy's reputation. Does this really happen in America?

Even the CBS Evening News anchor recently got in the act at a College Commencement, where she trashed Sarah Palin. This is what passes for the head of the objective journalism at a major network news organization? A rabid partisan basking in left-wing adoration by personally attacking a conservative politician is supposed to be credible the next day on the Evening News? And they wonder why nobody watches CBS News anymore?

My third example is a PBS special I happened upon recently about the murder of Dr. Tiller. The program made me physically nauseous, and so upset I turned off the television for the night. The entire "documentary" was designed as an undisguised propaganda piece to deliver a horrible message: Tiller and his colleagues are heroes and martyrs for the cause of women's health and even women's rights. Their services are necessary for women, as if somehow if Tiller and his ilk were not there for women, they might just die from some horrible disease (is a baby some sort of tumor now?). And those Anti-Abortion fanatics (no mention of Pro-Life allowed here) are all nothing but hypocrites and murderers who can't wait to shoot down all the doctors who so compassionately and bravely provide healing healthcare for women. The explicit message from this sickening propaganda piece was that all pro-life activists must be locked up. It added more fuel to my ongoing concern that I may yet become imprisoned, along with many like me, for simply refusing to abandon my faith and moral code.

What is it with everybody? When did it become OK to demean and spread evil lies and rumors and launch baseless investigations against people just because they happen to express a certain political point of view, mostly from a conservative perspective?

Who decided that the best way to make an argument was to destroy the credibility of the person making the opposing argument? How many times must we be subjected to the canard, "Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican party". He's no more the leader of that party than I am. It's as ridiculous as a Republican going in front of the press and proclaiming that Bill Maher or Keith Olbermann or Michael Moore is the leader of the Democrat party. I'm guessing there would be as many Democrats offended by that suggestion as most Republicans are by the Limbaugh stuff. It is as untrue as it is meaningless.

There is talk of a groundswell of backlash against the extremes of the leftist power base that's taken over our government and society. We can only hope that the movement succeeds in recruiting fresh talent for our elective offices and sweeps aside the totalitarian Left before they are able to harden the foundation of permanent iron-fisted rule.