is there no end to liberal dishonesty and hypocracy?
Random events from the recent past:
1. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D.-RI) said Friday he sought treatment for an addiction to the painkiller OxyContin months before wrecking his car outside the U.S. Capitol last year. You may recall the events surrounding that car wreck. It's a miracle that nobody was hurt. Consequences: After spending a month at the Mayo Clinic, Kennedy pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of prescription drugs and was re-elected to a seventh term in Congress.
Compare to what happened to Rush Limbaugh. El Rushbo developed an addiction to prescription pain medication. He obtained some without a prescription. He never hurt anyone, he never endangered anyone, and he never damaged property. Yet he became the first person in the history of the state of Florida to be prosecuted so vigorously for that particular offense. The DA even sought to shred Limbaugh's doctor/patient confidentiality by going after Rush's medical records. I call this being prosecuted for the crime of being a conservative.
2. Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger walked into the National Archives and stole classified national security documents that could have proven embarrassing to Bill Clinton. He stuffed them in his socks, his pants and his underwear in order to smuggle them out, and then he destroyed them. Consequences: $50,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and he has to pay almost $7000 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation. Why didn't the judge just save everybody some time and throw Berger a party? Compare that to Scooter Libby. Thirty seconds after launching his investigation into the Valerie Plame case, federal inquisitor Patrick Fitzgerald found out that it was Richard Armitage that leaked Plame's name, and that no crime had been committed. Plame wasn't a covert agent. Instead of ending his investigation, Fitzgerald continued to interrogate and harass members of the Bush administration until Libby either lied or made a mistake in his recall of events, and then Fitzgerald prosecuted this "desparado" to the full extent of the law. Libby faces years in prison, guilty of the crime of being a Republican in the Bush administration.
3. Speaking of Richard Armitage, it has now been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was the person who "outed" Valerie Plame. Is he being investigated? Is he being harassed? Is he facing jail time? No! He's a liberal, so, by definition, it is impossible for him to be guilty of anything. Yet Scooter Libby is facing jail time for forgetting his minute-by-minute schedule for the last 5 years. And Valerie Plame just got done lying to Congress about her covert status. Where is her prosecution?
Liberal hypocracy and dishonesty just never ends, does it?
1. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D.-RI) said Friday he sought treatment for an addiction to the painkiller OxyContin months before wrecking his car outside the U.S. Capitol last year. You may recall the events surrounding that car wreck. It's a miracle that nobody was hurt. Consequences: After spending a month at the Mayo Clinic, Kennedy pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of prescription drugs and was re-elected to a seventh term in Congress.
Compare to what happened to Rush Limbaugh. El Rushbo developed an addiction to prescription pain medication. He obtained some without a prescription. He never hurt anyone, he never endangered anyone, and he never damaged property. Yet he became the first person in the history of the state of Florida to be prosecuted so vigorously for that particular offense. The DA even sought to shred Limbaugh's doctor/patient confidentiality by going after Rush's medical records. I call this being prosecuted for the crime of being a conservative.
2. Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger walked into the National Archives and stole classified national security documents that could have proven embarrassing to Bill Clinton. He stuffed them in his socks, his pants and his underwear in order to smuggle them out, and then he destroyed them. Consequences: $50,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and he has to pay almost $7000 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation. Why didn't the judge just save everybody some time and throw Berger a party? Compare that to Scooter Libby. Thirty seconds after launching his investigation into the Valerie Plame case, federal inquisitor Patrick Fitzgerald found out that it was Richard Armitage that leaked Plame's name, and that no crime had been committed. Plame wasn't a covert agent. Instead of ending his investigation, Fitzgerald continued to interrogate and harass members of the Bush administration until Libby either lied or made a mistake in his recall of events, and then Fitzgerald prosecuted this "desparado" to the full extent of the law. Libby faces years in prison, guilty of the crime of being a Republican in the Bush administration.
3. Speaking of Richard Armitage, it has now been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was the person who "outed" Valerie Plame. Is he being investigated? Is he being harassed? Is he facing jail time? No! He's a liberal, so, by definition, it is impossible for him to be guilty of anything. Yet Scooter Libby is facing jail time for forgetting his minute-by-minute schedule for the last 5 years. And Valerie Plame just got done lying to Congress about her covert status. Where is her prosecution?
Liberal hypocracy and dishonesty just never ends, does it?
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