Among the numerous distinctions between liberals and conservatives is that rightward Americans, by a wide margin in every metric, are decisively more contented in their lives than turbulence-drawn liberals.
Envy of those who have fared better, or been luckier, is as natural to mankind as freezing when you walk through a snowstorm in your favorite swimsuit – and far more widespread.
Which brings us to this morning’s latest loopy semi exercise in 100 percent emotional drive-by reasoning by Chuckie Blow of The New York Times.
Under the heading Don’t Get Mad, Get Even, Mr. Blow checked in.
In the wake of the humiliating outing of defanged Rolling Stone magazine’s faked rape story, a lighter-than-air liberal somewhere had to make the ragingly illogical observation that uh-huh, you betcha, yes, sir, the epidemic of rape poisons every significant college campus in the country.
Who needs data? We believe. What further proof is required.
It does not matter that a far-left girl journalist, on an ideological mission, made up a spectacular storyline about a rape by nonexistent frat boys that never happened. What matters is that her porn version of Alice in Wonder Bred stoked a national conversation about mean ol’ dudes preying upon vulnerable, unsophisticated virgins.
Another crucial distinction between liberals and conservatives is that libs are unembarrassable. Trapped in a fib, they just keep going.
I give you President Obama. Caught lying on numerous occasions, he plays the game of misdirection, responding to a different subject.
The exposed girl at Rolling Stone, Sabrina Erdely, never should be hired by even a small-town newspaper the rest of her days. Instead, she remains untouched on the Rolling Stone roster, a negative miracle that only could happen among fairy tale leftists.
Returning to the unembarrassable, Mr. Blow, undeterred by Rolling Stone’s landmark lie, asks:
“What happens when one particular case is shown to have flaws although the overall condition that it illustrates holds true.”
This, from a man committed to not learning his lesson.
In the Rolling Stone context, he mentions the thoroughly discredited nonsense about Ferguson and Hands Up.
Never happened, as all rational persons now know.
Don’t tell that to Chuckie Blow, though. He just keeps running – in the wrong direction.
Plainly no logician, when widespread stories fall apart, that should not distort what you believe, Mr. Blow concludes.
Says he, in reference to phony Ferguson and redfaced Rolling Stone: “In these cases, the error must be acknowledged and absorbed without distorting the mission.”
The mission transcends all.
There is no reliable data supporting a rape epidemic on campuses any more than there is a police war against unarmed blacks.
“But we believe, dude,” says a liberal friend. “That is what counts.”
