Having read last week's opinion columns in the Express and in quite a lot of national media, I have come to some conclusions about how liberals think.
First, if they don't like what has happened, they ignore it. The New York Times and Washington Post just don't report it and Charles Gibson, ABC anchor, says he has never heard of it. What was this piece of news? At least three filmed interviews where ACORN representatives have given advice on tax evasion and how to bring 13-year-old girls into the country illegally for prostitution. But a Republican governor having an affair is front-page news for weeks.
Second, if they can't ignore it they will then attack anyone who disagrees with them in a personal way and attempt to make them look foolish rather than argue the facts of the case. They accuse the college students of entrapment for uncovering a national scandal that their own investigative reporters couldn't find.
One million people demonstrate at the Capitol and on the National Mall against higher taxes, the deficit and the health plan and they are called teabaggers (a reference to a sexual activity). This is rational discourse liberal style.
Third, if neither of these maneuvers works, they play the race card and accuse those who disagree of being racist. This last tactic has reached the absurd level of Newsweek, in its Sept. 14 cover story, saying white babies are essentially born racist. Only white babies? This blanket indictment is an attempt to preemptively marginalize every white person from discussing race. And yet they say we should have a dialogue about it.
This is the depth to which liberals are willing to go to discredit anyone who disagrees with their ideas and a perfect example of their method of arguing.
Mike Burke
Zinc Spur
