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Round Up the Usual Leftist Hypocrites
Larry Elder
June 29, 2000
Summer is here, and again we awaken to the
smell of magnolias, honeysuckle and hypocrisy.
Anti-gunner Rosie O'Donnell certainly deserves
whatever personal protection she deems
necessary. She fears for her child's safety and
thus hired a bodyguard to accompany him. But
isn't this a tad inconsistent? After all, O'Donnell
opposes permits to allow citizens to carry
concealed weapons, yet bodyguards carry guns.
But wait, says Rosie. Her bodyguard won't be
packing.
Case closed? Well, not quite. Most people cannot
afford bodyguards, armed or not. So the choices
O'Donnell leaves for others remain limited to two
- leave yourself unprotected, or get wealthy
enough to afford someone to stand around and
chase people away.
And then we have "Politically Incorrect" host Bill
Maher, whose anti-Second Amendment rantings
rival Rosie O'Donnell's. After a recent shooting,
Maher called the NRA "one step removed" from
the murder. But weeks later, Maher admitted that
the Los Angeles 1992 riot scared him, "I
remember getting a gun for that very reason ... "
But, understand, Maher didn't actually purchase
a gun, rather he obtained it "from a friend."
Of course there's the continuing bashing of John
Rocker. In the infamous "Sports Illustrated"
interview, Rocker said, "Imagine having to take
the (No.) 7 train to the ballpark, looking like
you're (riding through) Beirut next to some kid
with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS
right next to some dude who just got out of jail
for the fourth time right next to some
20-year-old mom with four kids."
In Tom Wolfe's brilliant novel "Bonfire of the
Vanities," he talks about the media's desire for
pursuing white male miscreants. Wolfe calls the
media obsession with beating up on whites the
search for the "great white defendant." This
remains America's safe target.
John Rocker possesses no National Organization
for Women, no National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, no
Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, no Gay
and Lesbian Rights Alliance. To paraphrase
former presidential candidate Bill Bradley, a guy
like Rocker benefits from "white male privilege."
Time to pay up, dude. So the media follows his
every move.
Rocker gets demoted to the minors! Rocker may
ride the 7-train when he next returns to New
York! Rocker gets a root canal! What fun!
But what about white rapper Marshall Mathers,
a.k.a. Eminem? As columnist Michelle Malkin
notes, Eminem's "poetry" reeks of misogyny,
profanity, and an obsession with sex and drugs.
Oh, yeah, and then there's the "song" about the
murder of the mother of Eminem's daughter. The
rapper, along with the daughter, then removes the
corpse from the trunk, and, together, they bury
the late mommy: "Here, you wanna help da-da
tie a rope around this rock?/We'll tie it to her
footsie then we'll roll her off the dock ... "
Another "song" features the enchanting line,
"Mother ... are you there? I love you/I never
meant to hit you over the head with that shovel."
Somehow the same crowd that wants Rocker
stoned seems oblivious to Eminem's frequent use
of terms like "bitch" and "f-- this."
About the rapper, New York Times cultural critic
Neil Strauss gushes, "(Eminem) is blessed with
the ability to make any two words with a letter in
common rhyme, filling his albums with a
logorrhea brimming with complex internal rhyme
schemes and rhythmic repetitions." Huh? Rocker
bad, Eminem good.
And finally there's Spike Lee. The director
blasted fellow director Quentin Tarantino for his
use of the "N" word. "I'm not against the word,"
said Lee, "and I use it, but not excessively. And
some people speak that way. But Quentin is
infatuated with that word." Lee noted that in a
recent movie, Tarantino used the word 38 times,
"I want Quentin to know that all
African-Americans do not think that word is
trendy or slick."
But, wasn't that The Director sitting next to
comedian Chris Rock at a recent NBA playoff
game? And isn't Chris Rock the comic who does
a whole routine about the use of the "N" word:
"There's like a civil war goin' on with black
people, and there's two sides: black people and
'n's.' The 'n's' have got to go. Can't go to a
movie the first week it come out. Why? 'Cause
'n's' are shootin' up the screen." But, look at it
this way, Rock kept it under a non-excessive 38
times.
And the moral to the story? Lesson No. 1, you
shouldn't carry a gun, unless you're scared and
concerned about self-defense. Then other people
shouldn't carry guns. Lesson No. 2, Rocker-type
bigotry, vulgarity and insensitivity are
unacceptable. Unless, of course, you are a rapper.
And lesson No. 3, the "N" word offends blacks
when heard in a movie by a white director, but
not when heard in a routine by a black comedian.
Any questions?
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~USP
"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998
Round Up the Usual Leftist Hypocrites
Larry Elder
June 29, 2000
Summer is here, and again we awaken to the
smell of magnolias, honeysuckle and hypocrisy.
Anti-gunner Rosie O'Donnell certainly deserves
whatever personal protection she deems
necessary. She fears for her child's safety and
thus hired a bodyguard to accompany him. But
isn't this a tad inconsistent? After all, O'Donnell
opposes permits to allow citizens to carry
concealed weapons, yet bodyguards carry guns.
But wait, says Rosie. Her bodyguard won't be
packing.
Case closed? Well, not quite. Most people cannot
afford bodyguards, armed or not. So the choices
O'Donnell leaves for others remain limited to two
- leave yourself unprotected, or get wealthy
enough to afford someone to stand around and
chase people away.
And then we have "Politically Incorrect" host Bill
Maher, whose anti-Second Amendment rantings
rival Rosie O'Donnell's. After a recent shooting,
Maher called the NRA "one step removed" from
the murder. But weeks later, Maher admitted that
the Los Angeles 1992 riot scared him, "I
remember getting a gun for that very reason ... "
But, understand, Maher didn't actually purchase
a gun, rather he obtained it "from a friend."
Of course there's the continuing bashing of John
Rocker. In the infamous "Sports Illustrated"
interview, Rocker said, "Imagine having to take
the (No.) 7 train to the ballpark, looking like
you're (riding through) Beirut next to some kid
with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS
right next to some dude who just got out of jail
for the fourth time right next to some
20-year-old mom with four kids."
In Tom Wolfe's brilliant novel "Bonfire of the
Vanities," he talks about the media's desire for
pursuing white male miscreants. Wolfe calls the
media obsession with beating up on whites the
search for the "great white defendant." This
remains America's safe target.
John Rocker possesses no National Organization
for Women, no National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, no
Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, no Gay
and Lesbian Rights Alliance. To paraphrase
former presidential candidate Bill Bradley, a guy
like Rocker benefits from "white male privilege."
Time to pay up, dude. So the media follows his
every move.
Rocker gets demoted to the minors! Rocker may
ride the 7-train when he next returns to New
York! Rocker gets a root canal! What fun!
But what about white rapper Marshall Mathers,
a.k.a. Eminem? As columnist Michelle Malkin
notes, Eminem's "poetry" reeks of misogyny,
profanity, and an obsession with sex and drugs.
Oh, yeah, and then there's the "song" about the
murder of the mother of Eminem's daughter. The
rapper, along with the daughter, then removes the
corpse from the trunk, and, together, they bury
the late mommy: "Here, you wanna help da-da
tie a rope around this rock?/We'll tie it to her
footsie then we'll roll her off the dock ... "
Another "song" features the enchanting line,
"Mother ... are you there? I love you/I never
meant to hit you over the head with that shovel."
Somehow the same crowd that wants Rocker
stoned seems oblivious to Eminem's frequent use
of terms like "bitch" and "f-- this."
About the rapper, New York Times cultural critic
Neil Strauss gushes, "(Eminem) is blessed with
the ability to make any two words with a letter in
common rhyme, filling his albums with a
logorrhea brimming with complex internal rhyme
schemes and rhythmic repetitions." Huh? Rocker
bad, Eminem good.
And finally there's Spike Lee. The director
blasted fellow director Quentin Tarantino for his
use of the "N" word. "I'm not against the word,"
said Lee, "and I use it, but not excessively. And
some people speak that way. But Quentin is
infatuated with that word." Lee noted that in a
recent movie, Tarantino used the word 38 times,
"I want Quentin to know that all
African-Americans do not think that word is
trendy or slick."
But, wasn't that The Director sitting next to
comedian Chris Rock at a recent NBA playoff
game? And isn't Chris Rock the comic who does
a whole routine about the use of the "N" word:
"There's like a civil war goin' on with black
people, and there's two sides: black people and
'n's.' The 'n's' have got to go. Can't go to a
movie the first week it come out. Why? 'Cause
'n's' are shootin' up the screen." But, look at it
this way, Rock kept it under a non-excessive 38
times.
And the moral to the story? Lesson No. 1, you
shouldn't carry a gun, unless you're scared and
concerned about self-defense. Then other people
shouldn't carry guns. Lesson No. 2, Rocker-type
bigotry, vulgarity and insensitivity are
unacceptable. Unless, of course, you are a rapper.
And lesson No. 3, the "N" word offends blacks
when heard in a movie by a white director, but
not when heard in a routine by a black comedian.
Any questions?
------------------
~USP
"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998