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Misunderestimated, stategery, nucular. Bush got pilloried for those malapropisms, and probably deservedly so.

But the great orator, his Holiness the Dali Obama, speaking at a prayer breakfast this morning three times prounounced the word “corpsman” with a hard “p.”  Nary a word from the left. Not a shred of national embarrassment. No diagnoses of dyslexia.

Now, I admit there are words I misprounounce. I have a particularly difficult time with the “h” sound in words like “houston” and “hue”, for example. I even suspect there are words that you mispronounce (”hy-eee-nuss” instead of “hay-nuss” for the word heinous, perhaps?).

But the point here is not that all of us sometimes make verbal faux pas, but rather that some of us get a pass and others don’t.

I admit that this is a relatively minor example of left-wing hypocrisy, but still it is illustrative of the larger dynamic: The left’s consistent attempts to use any means necessary to defame those with whom it disagrees.

Indeed, the modus operandi of left wing radicals (and, I would concede, ideologues and true believers of all stripes) is that the end always justifies the means.

So please, the next time you hear a liberal waxing indignant about something a conservative said or did, remember, it’s not about the word and the deed, but rather the political advantage that can be extracted from them. 

The clearest example I can give you of this phenomenon is when liberal feminists tried to destroy pro-life Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas for allegedly trying to seduce an employee of his own age and social status and, then, just seven years later gave pro-choice President Bill Clinton a pass for using his geometrical power advantage to actually seduce a twenty-three year old, wet- behind-the-ears, file clerk.

Politics ain’t bean bag.

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