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New Year's Resolutions
· Saturday, January 2, 2010
This is the time of year when most people are busy resolving to do better in the future. Some people vow to go on diets or exercise more, some promise to give up smoking or booze. But, year in and year out, I vow to cut liberals more slack and give them the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, just as with other people’s good intentions, my own rarely last until nightfall. The difference is that the reason mine die on the vine, as it were, has nothing to do with my own lack of character, but everything to do with the failings of liberals.
For one thing, liberals are hypocritical. They have agendas when they’d be better off having principles. They praise whistleblowers and investigative reporters, but only when Republicans, conservatives and/or the U.S. military suffer the consequences. So it was that they lionized Daniel Ellsberg for turning the Pentagon Papers over to the NY Times and heralded Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward for their Watergate expose, but demanded that James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles be prosecuted for their ACORN videos and wanted the computer hackers who uncovered the East Anglia emails, the ones proving global warming to be a major hoax, to be tarred and feathered.
I even remember when Time magazine put a group of highly publicized corporate whistleblowers on their cover, hailing their courage and patriotism. Long before Time Magazine decided its cover boy would be Ben Bernanke, I was willing to wager that O’Keefe and Giles wouldn’t be Time’s 2009’s People of the Year.
When George W. Bush convinced a mere 42 countries to join us in the invasion of Iraq, liberals insisted he had gone off half-cocked. However, when Obama couldn’t convince any country to take the Guantanamo prisoners off our hands and could only get 40 nations to commit to joining us in Afghanistan, those on the left insisted he was a master of diplomacy.
The liberals keep telling us that, thanks to Obama’s policy of speaking endlessly and carrying a very small stick, America has gained renewed respect around the world. But, as usual, they don’t specify which countries respect us more these days now that they have good reason to fear us less. We know pretty darn well they’re not referring to Russia, Iran, Somalia, North Korea, Syria or China. They’re not even able to point to such erstwhile allies as Poland, Israel and the Czech Republic, all of whom are staggering around these days with American-made switchblades in their back.
Liberals, as well as a great many conservatives, were upset with George W. Bush for his massive spending. But these days, when Obama is quadrupling the deficit, the Left is cheering him on. Can you imagine what liberals would be saying if a Republican president announced something as nutty as Obama’s promise to spend his way to solvency?
For that matter, what would a typical liberal say if, after he broke the news that they were on the brink of bankruptcy, his wife’s response was to head out the front door, and when he asked her where she was going, she replied, “I’ll be back in a minute, honey, I’m just running out to pick up a few things at Tiffany’s”? Is there a jury in America that would find him guilty if he busted a chair over her head? But when it’s Obama going out the door to drop a few trillion on cap and trade and Obamacare, the liberals just shake their heads like besotted newlyweds and say, “Isn’t he just cute as a button?”
The worst thing about liberalism isn’t even the lying and the double standards, but the fact that it’s contagious. For example, not too long ago, I heard Bill O’Reilly state that it was good for America that Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. He said with a reasonably straight face that he liked the fact that the world saw us as a peaceful nation. I thought I could avoid such idiocy by avoiding MSNBC. I was wrong. Instead, I thought my head would explode.
Barack Obama got the Prize for the very same reason that Jimmy Carter got it. They got it because they weren’t George W. Bush. The wooly-headed leftists in Norway keep making stupid decisions, handing out these medallions to the likes of Le Duc Tho, Kofi Anan, Desmond Tutu and Yasser Arafat, and clucks like Carter and Obama keep jetting over to Oslo to be clucked over.
If I were President Prelutsky and they tried to demean my reputation that way, I would not only reject the award, I would point out that the U.S. military has done more for the cause of world peace than all the diplomats and pacifists put together. Then I’d have someone teach me a little Norwegian so that I could tell them in their own language where they could put their damn Peace Prize.
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g.wegmann
Great commentary Burt! The Liberal knows no bounds to hypocracy, lying and character assasination. And they are presently following the LIC, Obama!
Posted January 2, 2010 at 1:11:04 AM
ILEANA
Telling a lie with a straight face and back-stabbing politeness is a daily sport in the U.S. under the guise of political correctness and euphemisms. Nobody tells the truth anymore because they: 1)lose their jobs, or 2)commit political or professional suicide as overseen by the PC ever-vigilant communist media police.
Many trade shamelessly truth and honor for a piece of the American dream pie. That's what happens when we stray from our faith that founded this once great nation,truth and honor become victims. If we don't have faith, truth and honor, we have NOTHING.
Posted January 2, 2010 at 1:26:46 AM
Burt Prelutsky
Dear G. Wegmann: Thanks for the kind words. A great way to start off the new year. Now if we can only end it with the liberals getting their walking papers in November, 2010 could be a doozy of a year.
Regards, Burt
Posted January 2, 2010 at 2:46:53 AM
Brent Erickson
Hello Burt,
I was born in a Chicago suburb in 1950.
I see you were also born in Chicago.
I greatly appreciate your articles, your sense of humor and your intelligent and historical perspective.
And also your incisive and sharp wit.
And my New Year's Resolution is to read all of your articles and commentaries.
I hope you and your family have a wonderful year in 2010.
Best Wishes,
Brent Erickson
Posted January 2, 2010 at 10:22:27 AM
Jimmy D
Happy New Year Burt!
I make the same resolution, having a family full of "Libby Libs" (named after Mom, 88, and still a communist, well as she remembers, Bless her!)
The boil must swell before it bursts.
The greater the height of the hypocrisy, the deeper in the earth of reality they MIGHT be buried when finally they fall.
I was raised to be a pacifist leftist, went my folks one better by embacing violent revolution, and left College in '71 to join the Venceramos Brigade, an SDS spawned org that sent U.S. dilettante college leftists to Cuba to cut the sugar cane and learn revolution at the feet of the masters.
Thank God I broke with them before we left.
Mao and his Red Book were fine with me but I could not embrace the Beloved Leader, Kim Il Sung. Go figure.
I remain endlessly thankful for that point of departure.
Maybe the majority of the lunatics who dispise our GREAT COUNTRY, lack the inclination toward critical thinking (my father WAS a scientist), to ever take the plunge, but many will, and it will be important that they do.
God loves the truth and grieves that the many are so alone even in the crowds they seek for refuge.
We can't simply wait for the Great Light to fill the sky and obliterate the shadows in which lies hide.
We should also remember that great truth can touch men and change them forever, and join in the process of that hope actively.
Slap a liberal if you must, but slap him on the back if you can.
Marxists seek to "heighten the contradictions of Capitalism", at every opportunity (i.e., bring things to a point of crisis they can then "make use of").
The good news is that they cannot do this without heightening their own contradictions.
May their lies be GLARING in 2010 and may the USA prove to be the stone upon which they are finally broken.
Posted January 2, 2010 at 11:12:29 AM
Burt Prelutsky
Dear G. Wegmann and Jimmy D--Thank you. It's always good to be reminded that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, there are still a great many sensible and patriotic Americans around if you know where to look. Living in Los Angeles, as I do, makes the search increasingly difficult. Happy New Year.
Burt
Posted January 2, 2010 at 12:47:11 PM
Burt Prelutsky
Brent & Jimmy: Thanks for the kind words and generous thoughts. I wish you folks all the best in 2010 and I promise to continue holding the feet of the libs to the flames. Watch for my new book, "Liberals: America's Termites." It should be available later in January.
Best wishes, Burt
Posted January 2, 2010 at 8:37:03 PM
Richard Berry
Burt, I enjoy your commentary. How about doing one on The December 2009 BHO amendment to EO 12425? I've spent some time researching @ Google Executive Order 12425. The rest of the patriots might take the time to Google also. Just a heads up.
Thanks
Richard Berry
Posted January 2, 2010 at 8:51:31 PM
Dick Boas
Burt:
I am glad you have a new venue. I was very disapointed when Townhall dropped you. I really enjoy your commentary. This venue suits your principles
Dick Boas
Posted January 3, 2010 at 5:02:33 PM
Darren Baker
I enjoyed your article and the other articles I read on this site!
I am at a loss as to how the media play the folk of this nation and would like to see a fair and balanced critique of any government in power. It is, however, good to know that even though the media has an obvious left bias, that the Republicans still do well.
Posted January 3, 2010 at 11:42:49 PM
Burt Prelutsky
Darren--I suspect that the media has such a left-wing bias that most normal people have learned to discount everything that they churn out except for baseball scores. Unless you're an absolute dunderhead, having the MSM on your side these days is not much of a recommendation. Sort of like having Sean Penn going to bat for Saddam Hussein prior to the invasion of Iraq.
Regards, Burt
Posted January 4, 2010 at 1:03:50 AM
Abu Nudnik
Please refer to "liberals" in quotes from now on. There's nothing liberal about people opposed to free debate, who demonize their opponents and "have agendas instead of principles." They're socialists, if they must be called anything other than "liberals."
Right on with this: "I would point out that the U.S. military has done more for the cause of world peace than all the diplomats and pacifists put together."
Posted January 5, 2010 at 1:30:00 PM