Michelle Malkin on the duplicity of the MSM:
These physical attacks targeting conservatives on campus and in the public square are getting more frequent. (See Kristol, Coulter, Perle, Harris, and the conservative kid who got kicked by a left-wing nut professor, for starters.) The Left continues to snicker about it. The MSM makes light of it (CBS: 'A Dressing-Down For Pat Buchanan'; NPR: 'What's a little pie in the face?'). And for the most part, college administrators let the thugs get away with it.
Let me explain part of why I am a conservative: I believe that humans consist of one, single race; that humans were created in God's image; and that humans should be seen as individuals, not as a gender, ethnicity, age, religion, sexual preference, weight, philosophy, political view, or any other division, faction, or pigeonhole. Now, humans have not been perfect in this ideology; but it was the Republican Party - the party of Lincoln, formed on an anti-slavery platform - that led the charge to end slavery, pioneered women's suffrage rights, and led the Civil Rights movement.
Granted, the Democrat party stands behind Affirmative Action, reparations, and other liberal interests. However, in our current system, laws exist to protect against discrimination, and Affirmative Action acts only as legalized, reverse discrimination and is an insult to those who supposedly "benefit" from it.
I'm a pretty thick-skinned person, but I've even had to deal with liberal (in)tolerance. I even left a group Bible study because apparently my conservative views were the only ones not tolerated in such an ostensibly open-minded group. The last straw was being ostrasized for having the audacity to claim that the rebels who took school children hostage in Beslan, Russia last year were Muslim - when in fact, the Chechnans are Muslim, and the terrorists who carried out the attack included Arab Islamist fanatics.
As it stands right now, conservatives are winning the majority of political and social polemics of our day - but the fight has become one-sided. While conservatives debate the message, liberals by default resort to attacking the messenger. The level of political and social discourse has so degraded in our society that I truly cherish the few liberal friends with whom I can discuss issues on a purely ideological level. They are becoming all too rare, unfortunately.
