|
|
|
|
|
Barbara Walters did a piece some time
ago on the death of so many male clothes designers
from AIDS. As everybody had long known, male designers
of female clothes were largely, if not all, homosexual.
It has been forgotten, by liberals and therefore
by respectable conservatives, that you were not
allowed to say that in the past.
AIDS made this fact too obvious to dismiss. So Barbara
Walters ended her program speculating about the
special brilliance of homosexual males that made
them natural geniuses in the field of clothing design.
Naturally, one wouldn't be allowed to say that the
reason gays control that field is because female
clothing design is absolutely a matter of personal
opinion, and therefore a perfect place for a single
group like gays to take over.
You're not allowed to say that, so naturally that
is exactly what I will point out here.
The "special talent" gay males have for
designing clothes is the same "special talent"
black men used to have for being railroad porters.
After all, they were all black, so it must be a
special talent, right?
Straight white males dominate the management of
most major firms. Can you imagine Barbara Walters
doing a piece on how straight white males have some
sort of "special talent" for high level
management?
|
|
|
|
The one good thing about liberals
is that they are not morons when it comes to argument.
If you watched conservatives only, you would think
everybody in American politics was retarded. For
weeks, every media outlet has been deploring the
awful Cubans in Miami for making the Gonzalez case
political. They condemned it, they urged us all
to stop being emotional.
Above all, they condemned the knee-jerk reaction
against Castro.
And the next time children get killed in school
by some nutcase, what will liberals say? They will
say, "This is just more proof that we must
carry out the liberal program of gun control."
No national conservative has ever repeatedly said,
as liberals do over Elian, "How dare you use
such a tragedy for your political purposes!"
No national conservative ever will.
It has been mentioned -- but very briefly -- that
in each case the liberal gun control policy would
have no effect whatever on the tragedy the liberals
are using at the time. When the black man used an
illegal automatic weapon in New York to slaughter
whites in what he declared was a hate crime, no
one argued that gun laws could have stopped that
hate crime. But liberals used it shamelessly, and
one of the white victims' wives got herself elected
to congress on a gun control platform.
When a six-year-old white girl was murdered by a
little black boy of the same age in a pure hate
crime, it was grounds for another liberal demand
for gun control laws. Those laws would not have
stopped there being an illegal weapon in the crack
house the boy lived in, but that made no difference
at all.
No conservative will ever get excited and furious
about the shameless leftist use of tragedy to push
their political program, though that program admittedly
has no relation to the tragedy.
Conservatives are pathetic, because liberals select
their leaders. Respectable conservatives can always
be counted on to miss the point.
|
|
|
|
I often express frustration in these pages
over the fact that conservatives simply never get their
arguments right. To some, this may sound pedantic, or
it may sound like I am simply a political expert who is
unduly concerned with details.
Wrong. What I am saying repeatedly here is that the whole
mental process of conservatives is off base. You simply
cannot deal with the real world unless you understand
what the real questions are. Conservatives get their arguments
wrong because they do not understand what the real questions
are.
Elian Gonzalez is a case in point. Conservatives talked
about everything but the real point. So, as usual, they
lost.
Conservatives argued that Castro has an oppressive regime.
They argued that America was a better place for a child
than Cuba. They argued that the dead mother had the rights
to the child, not the living father.
And, because they missed the whole point, they lost every
single argument. Certainly the United States is a better
place than Cuba for a child to grow up in. But if you
follow that argument, as liberals were quick to point
out, every child in every Caribbean country has a right
to be in the United States. Liberals naturally hit the
race card on that one, as they had every right to do.
Certainly Haiti is horrible place for its children. It
is also oppressive, despite or because of the huge sums
the United States spent to save it from dictatorship.
If a Cuban child has the right to get out of a bad place,
why not any black child, too?
And conservatives, true to their ever-losing strategy,
said exactly the wrong thing about the dead mother and
custody.
I think almost everybody is aware of the raw deal fathers
get in custody battles. I have seen practicing female
dope addicts get custody over clean and sober fathers.
Conservatives saw a mother who died getting her child
out of Cuba and, as always, they got precisely the wrong
message out of it. Instead of emphasizing the fact that
she died in an escape from a national prison, they talked
about how she died to give her child a better life.
As I pointed out last week, the
ONLY -- let me repeat that -- the ONLY valid argument
against Elian going back to Cuba is the nature of Cuba
as A NATIONAL PRISON.
It was never mentioned. It was never mentioned once. As
I pointed out last week, when a black congresswoman said
that Elian should go to his father now and make his decision
about where he wanted to live when he was thirteen or
so, the conservative on Crossfire just sat there, and
didn't say a word. But no other conservative made that
point, either.
If they had pressed this point, conservatives might have
gotten some sort of concessions about Elian having the
right to decide when he was older. Such a promise may
have been of little practical use, but it would have kept
the question open, and the emphasis right.
As it is, the question never came up. So now if he is
sent back Elian will be just one more trapped Cuban, and
no one will ever be able to protest that. That is because,
in order to get to the point, conservatives would have
to first screw their heads on right. That means getting
their argument right.
|
|
|
Home
| Current Articles | Article Archive | About
Bob Whitaker | Contact Bob | Links
| Privacy
Policy
|
|
|