Liberal Epiphanies

Every once in awhile, the planets align in such a fashion that weird, unexplainable things happen in our cosmos.  More often than not, they're unexpected, so much so that one has to listen twice to make sure that what was heard was actually what was said.

A couple of months ago, the arch-Leftist Bill Maher had Kamau Bell, a member of the Forever Selma sect, on his show and had an exchange wherein he quoted something Michelle Obama said but attributed it to conservative Paul Ryan.  Mr. Bell immediately jumped on it, labeling it to have racial content, until Mr. Maher told him he intentionally misattributed it to Mr. Ryan to prove that not only do blacks discuss race differently with white folks, they will cry Race! when the truth of the matter spoken is something that they themselves acknowledge.

Here's the link to that exchange:  http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2014/03/30/bill-maher-quotes-infamous-racist-michelle-obama

I tried to find the Youtube video but it's been removed...suspiciously.

What prompted Mr. Maher to veer into a pseudo-defense of conservative principles?  Heaven only knows, but it's refreshing to see that not everything conservatives say is white noise to all liberals.  What's more, Mr. Maher deftly proved a point, that no matter how truthful a statement may be, if it comes from a conservative -- white or black, but white especially -- liberals and blacks will trample the statement as if it's heresy of the first order.

I doubt Mr. Maher is changing his colors, but that one detour into sanity was nice.

Meanwhile, the man out to sink the NRA, Michael Bloomberg, made a brave and very unexpected speech at Harvard's commencement.  To sum it up, Mr. Bloomberg basically called out colleges and universities for being bastions of intolerant liberalism equal to the worst scourges of McCarthyism.  Mr. Bloomberg can be viewed here:

That two otherwise liberal people can take these positions is as noteworthy as it is heartening.  Not every conservative, nor every conservative position, is so outlandish, racist, uncouth, misguided, sophistical, imaginative or unrealistic as liberals believe them to be.  As with fans of sports teams, every side has its knuckleheads, and conservatives aren't exempt.  But at the same time, much of what conservative thought espouses is not meant to subject people to another set of principles or goals.

At the same time, conservatives also need to recognize that there are elements with the liberal establishment who are able to discern truth from propaganda, good from evil, and honestly crave for many of the same things conservatives seek, with slightly different twists.  Not every liberal is the devil himself.

Sometimes, people just need to sit back and listen and stop yelling at each other long enough to hear what the other person is saying.

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