Teflon Liberals

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American Thinker:

It will come as news to no one that conservatism often has a difficult time getting the word out. This doesn't simply refer to questions of policy or issues of the moment, but also to liberal scandals, improprieties, and missteps, stories that you'd think would tell themselves with little in the way of effort. While a conservative needs only to misspeak about a small town to have the heavens rent in twain, liberals can loot every orphanage and convent in the country without anybody taking notice (I'm told that this actually occurred on several occasions), conservatives above all.

Much of this material does not need digging up; the information is in plain sight, requiring little in the way of research or investigation. But for reasons that I for one don't understand, it's often overlooked, if not actually swept aside or covered up, by the very people you'd expect to make it their business to reveal it. As a result, American liberals have consistently gotten away with things, to the point where they now take it as an ordinary condition of business. It's a shock to them when it happens any other way. (See Rangel, Charlie.)

Consider the involvement of George Soros in the Holocaust. That story was far from unknown -- it was first revealed on 60 Minutes in the early 90s. It provided real insight into the character and motivations of one of the more enigmatic and influential figures on the left. And yet Soros was allowed to carry on his various political machinations for nearly twenty years without ever being challenged over it. If you'd asked most active conservatives, they'd have had no idea any such thing had ever occurred until Glenn Beck revealed it on his Fox News program.