John Edwards and the Truth Scandal

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Typical Chic Leftist

American Thinker columnist Bruce Walker writes a brilliant analysis of the hypocrisy of the Left. Here is an excerpt from the full article (definitely a worthy read):

The spectacle of yet another Leftist Democrat, John Edwards, looking the American people dead in the eye and lying to them is nothing new.  The news spinners of the mainstream media have tried to portray the Edwards Affair as a sex scandal.  It is not.  It is a truth scandal.  It is, in fact, part of a spiraling truth scandal that seems to have engulfed the Left.

While it is easy to compare Edwards’ infidelity to Clinton’s infidelity, unfaithfulness in marriage is not the problem.  Adultery is as old as the Decalogue.  God thought enough about the subject to include it in those commandments recognized by Jews and Christians alike.  Beyond that, Edwards’s lawyer wife, like Clinton’s lawyer wife, seems to have taken this breach of contract in stride.

 Adultery may be an old vice, but the terrible new vice of the Left is an indifference to truth which seems to fill every crevice of the Leftist brain.  When Al Gore gets up and says that global warning is accepted science, is he lying?  Who knows?  Gore has made such huge mistakes of fact over the last few decades that he might really believe that all scientists think that the planet is getting warmer.  But Gore obviously does not care too much whether global warming is true or not.  He never even pretends to listen to the other side.  In fact, he acts as if there was no “other side” at all.  Al Gore is grossly indifferent to truth.

When Howard Dean made a series of whopping mistakes four years ago – the “Soviet Union,” in Dean’s mind, was still around; presidents could “order” state legislatures to adopt Right to Work — and it did not matter much whether this was true.  John Kerry was just as indifferent to truth.  As a Catholic, Kerry followed “Pope Pius XXIII,” a nonexistent pope, and Kerry was sent to Vietnam by Nixon, although LBJ, not Nixon, was president at the time, and Kerry was in Cambodia over a Christmas in which he really wasn’t in Cambodia.  Dean and Kerry are not the sort of sleazy liars that Clinton and Edwards are, but Dean and Kerry are much more sophisticated liars:  Dean and Kerry lie about reality. 

 

 

The whole empire of the Left is pockmarked with  gross indifference to what is true and what is false, to what is history and what is myth, to what is real and to what is illusion.   When Barack Obama talks about fifty-seven states of the union, he does not really care how many states there are in our nation.  Facts like that don’t matter.  All that matters is what has been defined as the chic Leftism of today.