‘Mile High’ Hypocrisy
Gabriel Garnica, Esq.
I was amused to learn that Denver officials have hatched an interesting plan to "escort" that city's homeless population away from the site of its Democrat Convention next month. The area around the convention center just happens to be home to many of that city's approximately 5,000 vagrants, and the city just happens to be planning a free-for-all pass blitz to encourage these people to visit movie houses, the Denver Zoo, museums and just about every venue away from the center itself. All the events will be free, funded by Denver Road Home, a branch of the mayor's office combating homelessness using United Way money.
Considering how loud and often liberals tell us of their compassion for the less fortunate, this plan is about as hilarious as it gets.
Out of Site, Out of Mind
We have all heard the phrase, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind." Apparently, there is a newly-coined their version: "Out of Site, Out of Mind," as in getting vagrants out of the site of the convention so as to keep the minds of convention goers on other things.
In what is obviously a move to "clean up" the area around the convention site, city officials will be handing out free tickets and free transportation like hot cakes in order to get Denver's homeless population to disappear while the convention is in session. Various homeless-rights advocates were angered by the move, citing it as just another way to get the homeless out of the way. Not coincidentally, Denver's homeless will also be "escorted" to shelters normally reserved for winter stays.
Usual Spin and Grin
B.J. Iacino, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, contends that the move is motivated by a desire to protect the homeless from the crowding, demonstrators and heightened security in the area. "We are keen advocates of the homeless and want to protect their rights and give them options," she said. Iacino and others contend that homeless people will be traumatized by the crowds, helicopters and such which will descend on the convention area.
As usual, liberals do something which contradicts their claims of compassion, which reveals exactly how they often speak out of both sides of their mouths. As usual, they serve us this concoction of fertilizer with a side dish of hypocrisy and a dash of self-serving delusions of nobility.
It is bad enough that they bang us over the head on a daily basis about how they are so much more in tune with and sensitive to the plight of the unfortunates in our society. It is annoying enough that they look down their noses at us while tapping us on the head with patronizing pity that we are not as bright, educated and cultured as they are. It is outrageous enough that they pretend to have all the answers to the problems of the universe while pointing fingers at us for being so stupid as to not see the solutions they claim so obvious to them. They speak of long-term solutions, genuine concern for the unfortunate and the kind of humanity and heart that they claim conservatives have never possessed.
Hypocrisy 24-7
Writing daily from the Republican Convention in New York four years ago, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore bashed the leadership of the Republican Party as delusional fools who knew full well that their party was far more enlightened and liberal than they admitted. He wrote that the Republican leadership knew that America is filled with Republicans in Name Only and that most Americans were far more liberal than the Republican delegates gathered in New York.
Running down a list of liberal issues, Moore argued that most people who call themselves conservatives actually fall more along liberal lines than so-called conservative ones.
Sarcastically praising conservatives, Moore contended that the reason that they were "in charge" of almost everything is that they never back down, and "are up before dawn figuring out which minority group shouldn't be allowed to marry today." Given what is going to happen in Denver, I guess Democrats are up before dawn figuring out how they can pretend to care about another group they pull out of mothballs only when convenience dictates.
Mocking conservative politicians' efforts to represent most Americans in general and at the convention, Moore contended that they "know that the only way to hold onto power is to pass themselves off as, well, as most Americans. It's a good show." Given what is going to come down in Denver in a month, I guess that liberals know that the only way to pretend that they should have any power at all is to pretend that, well, they have any clue at all how to eliminate the social ills they just sweep under the rug when convenience dictates. It's a good-old fashioned Hollywood fantasy camp.
Laughing at conservatives' resolve to defend America and never back down to her foes, Moore argued that, "Our side is full of wimps who'd rather compromise than fight. Not you guys."
Given what is on the menu in Denver, I guess that liberals do not like to fight homelessness as much as compromise by pretending to do something about it while they hide the problem under the bed. I do agree with Moore on one thing; Liberalism is definitely about compromising on such things as social ills and a nation's collective morality.
Conclusion
The bottom line of Michael Moore's blistering criticisms of conservatives four years ago was that it was a classic representation of how conservatives were all about pretending and how their self-portrait was full of holes, hypocrisy and spin.
That's funny, because when I look at Denver's rush to sweep the homeless under the rug while the so-called champions of the unfortunate, the voiceless, the powerless, the poor, the ill and the weak pat themselves on the back on national television, I get the same feeling about liberals.
There is a reason why most of Hollywood and the world of entertainment are liberal. There is a reason why most of the media is biased toward liberal causes and spin. There is a reason why the homeless that liberals pretend to care about are being given free bus tokens and passes to everything in sight so they will stay away from the party. If there is one word that epitomizes what liberals are about, it is "pretend."
That is why the choice of Denver is so appropriate. Next month, for one week, the Mile High City will host mile high hypocrisy.
Gabriel Garnica, Esq.
I was amused to learn that Denver officials have hatched an interesting plan to "escort" that city's homeless population away from the site of its Democrat Convention next month. The area around the convention center just happens to be home to many of that city's approximately 5,000 vagrants, and the city just happens to be planning a free-for-all pass blitz to encourage these people to visit movie houses, the Denver Zoo, museums and just about every venue away from the center itself. All the events will be free, funded by Denver Road Home, a branch of the mayor's office combating homelessness using United Way money.
Considering how loud and often liberals tell us of their compassion for the less fortunate, this plan is about as hilarious as it gets.
Out of Site, Out of Mind
We have all heard the phrase, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind." Apparently, there is a newly-coined their version: "Out of Site, Out of Mind," as in getting vagrants out of the site of the convention so as to keep the minds of convention goers on other things.
In what is obviously a move to "clean up" the area around the convention site, city officials will be handing out free tickets and free transportation like hot cakes in order to get Denver's homeless population to disappear while the convention is in session. Various homeless-rights advocates were angered by the move, citing it as just another way to get the homeless out of the way. Not coincidentally, Denver's homeless will also be "escorted" to shelters normally reserved for winter stays.
Usual Spin and Grin
B.J. Iacino, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, contends that the move is motivated by a desire to protect the homeless from the crowding, demonstrators and heightened security in the area. "We are keen advocates of the homeless and want to protect their rights and give them options," she said. Iacino and others contend that homeless people will be traumatized by the crowds, helicopters and such which will descend on the convention area.
As usual, liberals do something which contradicts their claims of compassion, which reveals exactly how they often speak out of both sides of their mouths. As usual, they serve us this concoction of fertilizer with a side dish of hypocrisy and a dash of self-serving delusions of nobility.
It is bad enough that they bang us over the head on a daily basis about how they are so much more in tune with and sensitive to the plight of the unfortunates in our society. It is annoying enough that they look down their noses at us while tapping us on the head with patronizing pity that we are not as bright, educated and cultured as they are. It is outrageous enough that they pretend to have all the answers to the problems of the universe while pointing fingers at us for being so stupid as to not see the solutions they claim so obvious to them. They speak of long-term solutions, genuine concern for the unfortunate and the kind of humanity and heart that they claim conservatives have never possessed.
Hypocrisy 24-7
Writing daily from the Republican Convention in New York four years ago, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore bashed the leadership of the Republican Party as delusional fools who knew full well that their party was far more enlightened and liberal than they admitted. He wrote that the Republican leadership knew that America is filled with Republicans in Name Only and that most Americans were far more liberal than the Republican delegates gathered in New York.
Running down a list of liberal issues, Moore argued that most people who call themselves conservatives actually fall more along liberal lines than so-called conservative ones.
Sarcastically praising conservatives, Moore contended that the reason that they were "in charge" of almost everything is that they never back down, and "are up before dawn figuring out which minority group shouldn't be allowed to marry today." Given what is going to happen in Denver, I guess Democrats are up before dawn figuring out how they can pretend to care about another group they pull out of mothballs only when convenience dictates.
Mocking conservative politicians' efforts to represent most Americans in general and at the convention, Moore contended that they "know that the only way to hold onto power is to pass themselves off as, well, as most Americans. It's a good show." Given what is going to come down in Denver in a month, I guess that liberals know that the only way to pretend that they should have any power at all is to pretend that, well, they have any clue at all how to eliminate the social ills they just sweep under the rug when convenience dictates. It's a good-old fashioned Hollywood fantasy camp.
Laughing at conservatives' resolve to defend America and never back down to her foes, Moore argued that, "Our side is full of wimps who'd rather compromise than fight. Not you guys."
Given what is on the menu in Denver, I guess that liberals do not like to fight homelessness as much as compromise by pretending to do something about it while they hide the problem under the bed. I do agree with Moore on one thing; Liberalism is definitely about compromising on such things as social ills and a nation's collective morality.
Conclusion
The bottom line of Michael Moore's blistering criticisms of conservatives four years ago was that it was a classic representation of how conservatives were all about pretending and how their self-portrait was full of holes, hypocrisy and spin.
That's funny, because when I look at Denver's rush to sweep the homeless under the rug while the so-called champions of the unfortunate, the voiceless, the powerless, the poor, the ill and the weak pat themselves on the back on national television, I get the same feeling about liberals.
There is a reason why most of Hollywood and the world of entertainment are liberal. There is a reason why most of the media is biased toward liberal causes and spin. There is a reason why the homeless that liberals pretend to care about are being given free bus tokens and passes to everything in sight so they will stay away from the party. If there is one word that epitomizes what liberals are about, it is "pretend."
That is why the choice of Denver is so appropriate. Next month, for one week, the Mile High City will host mile high hypocrisy.