Conservatives, especially conservative media (looking at you, Fox News), have a habit of elevating liberals to a status of wisdom because they, on occasion, say things that are true. It’s stupid and self-destructive. Yes, a stopped clock is right twice a day, but it’s wrong for the other 1,438 minutes. If you focus only on when it is right, you miss the big picture.
When conservatives rally around some leftist saying something sane, or even semi-sane (let’s be honest, we can’t set the bar that high for them), the media tends to white wash all the other things they’ve said, absolutely crazy things. It sets people up to look like fools, at best, or get conned, at worst, by those leftists.
Lenard Larry McKelvey, better known as Charlamagne tha God, is routinely featured in conservative media because he will, from time to time, say something not absolutely stupid or racist or progressive (but I repeat myself). Why? He gets ink in conservative outlets and time on television when he is not, and never will be, on our side when it matters.
Acknowledging the fact that the sun rises in the east does not make someone a truth-teller, it means they’re smart enough to recognize that either that particular lie isn’t worth telling or they know they won’t get away with that one. Some things are just so obviously true that only the extremely dumb or those speaking to them would dare deny them. That’s not praise-worthy, it’s self-preservation.
I teach my kids that you should thank someone for doing the right thing, but you shouldn’t praise them. It is literally what they should do, and they should be scorned or even shunned for doing something else.
So, when I turn on the TV and see James Carville on Fox because he’s encouraging Democrats to at least act sane on issues they’re losing 80 to 20, I have to wonder why? Why invite him on to give the impression that Democrats might be rational, or at least have rationality somewhere in them? They do not.
Men pretending to be women and hanging out in bathrooms or locker rooms or beating girls in sports and out of scholarships is a major losing issue for Democrats, so much so that they really do not want to talk about it. I don’t believe for a second most of them believe the crap they say, but they have to say it because they’re afraid of their fringe turning on them. Why give anyone like that cover by pointing out that a few of them, those not elected to anything, admit the insanity of what their party has embraced?
Let them twist in the wind.
None of these people are our friends, none will be there for the country when they’re needed, stop elevating them. Have them on to debate, to rip them apart and expose their hypocrisy and lies, not praise them for admitting something they know they can’t get away with lying about.
Bill Maher says things that are unquestioningly true and things conservatives have been saying for years. So what? That does not mean he’s on our side, because our side is defined by how you vote. You can agree with 90 percent of conservatism and still vote for Democrats, which means you are NOT on our side. That doesn’t mean I won’t be your friend, but it means I know you’re trying to row the boat in the opposite direction than I am. So, on politics, they aren’t on my team and I’m not about to fool myself, and hosts shouldn’t try to fool their audiences, into thinking they are or could be.
Carville is funny, or can be some times. But why would you cheer a coach for your opponent for trying to teach them how to beat you? Have them on to expose the insanity they share with their party, not the few points on which they are sane (or recognizing that they have to pretend to be).
Think of it as the Liz Cheney Rule. Left-wing media embraced her during the election because she was saying what they wanted to hear and thought it would make Republicans look bad. Notice how she’s disappeared since November? No “serious” chats with anyone on MSNBC because she’s a “useful idiot” who lost the “useful” part. When it comes to the other direction, the shows really are the idiots, useful or not, for not hammering the left relentlessly on everything. It’s what Democrats would do, return the favor.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
