The Dodecahedron of Decency and the Wrong Champions

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This cartoon by Stilton Jarlsburg from the Travon Martin verdict last year is at once both sad and amusing. The amusing part is the exposure of the meaninglessness of President Obama’s “circle of compassion” speech (and Jarlsburg goes after the “trapezoid of meaningless rhetoric” and “the dodecahedron of decency.” But the sad part, of course, is

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[ford_prefect42]

I am kinda torn.

On the one hand, it seems like the left almost *has* to be choosing their examples so horribly as a deliberate gas-lighting campaign. "Swift-boating" being re-branded as lying, when it was a literal recounting of people in the field at the time. "Willie Horton" being referenced as a manufactured issue when he actually killed people while out on a weekend pass, Zimmerman being held up as a racist white guy, etcetera, etcetera. If they can make people believe the BIG lie, then maybe it'll be easier to make them believe the little ones.

But that involves a conspiracy. Leading to the other possibility.

That they have *nothing*. That in all the universe, there isn't *one* legitimate example that they can use for *any* of their points. That beggars imagination a little too, because one would think that in a nation of 300 million, they would be able to find *one* sickly kid!

So I am confused. How can it be that *every* time they hold up an example, it turns out to be so poorly suited to their cause?

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Well, it probably isn't "every" time, as the occasions in which they point to a real case that is not tainted don't tend to come to our attention.

But there are so many that do that a clear pattern has been established. From Howard Dean's "sick child" flyer using a "sick kid" stock photo, to Pelosi's and DNC's "gotta help our troops" images using pictures of Canadian troops, to Democrat news anchors and political figures not knowing how to pronounce "semper fi" and "corpsman," the evidence is that these elites don't care that much about the issues and are not conversant with reality.

A pity, really. How many times should it take before a "let's double check this" approach becomes prudent?

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

[harvey_rrit]

I can address one issue, at least: Hatrack Obama came out in favor of the attacker because it seemed like something that someone who really was black would do.

[deckardcanine]

Minor correction: Good Night, and Good Luck. came out in 2005. (That punctuation was no accident on my part; it's in the official title.)

A decade ago, I saw an informal online poll of which people Democrats and Republicans picked as the worst in U.S. history. It was an odd list for including both politicians and people who are widely known only because of their crimes. The Democrats put Joe McCarthy at #1. The Republicans put Julius and Ethel Rosenberg together at #1.

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McCarthy was the face (in the Senate, of course) of the movement to expose the hundreds (thousands, by some estimates) of communists in US government ranks. He had nothing to do with the House Un-American Activities group. And his assistant - the one who actually gathered the evidence and put the cases together - doesn't seem to have picked up this "worst person" cachet; that was Robert F. Kennedy.

The "have you no sense of decency" stunt by Welch should not have worked; he had just admitted that the man in question belonged to the communist National Lawyers Guild (listed at the time by the US Attorney General as a "communist front organization"):Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
The theatrics worked, since the Left was hoping for anything to deflect, distract, and derail the process.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle