Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:14:04 AM
Imagine the media firestorm that would come were a conservative writing for, say, the Weekly Standard or National Review to pen this bit of irrationality:
"Say what you will about the looming
catastrophe facing the world as the pace of global heating and polar
melting accelerates. There is a silver lining.
...
"[W]hat we see is that huge swaths of [liberal] America are set to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles.
...
"There is a poetic justice to this of course.
...
"The important thing is that we, on the higher ground both actually and
figuratively, need to remember that, when they begin their historic
migration from their doomed regions, we not give them the keys to the
city. They certainly should be offered assistance in their time of
need, but we need to keep a firm grip on our political systems, making
sure that these guilty throngs who allowed the world to go to hell are
gerrymandered into political impotence in their new homes."
But this wasn't penned by conservative. It was authored by
David Lindorff, "an award-winning journalist [and] former New York Times contributor", for the Baltimore Chronicle. Global warming will be great, according to Mr. Lindorff, because it will allow Liberals to make Conservatives second class citizens in America. I thought the Left was all about tolerance and compassion.
Thanks to
Roger Kimball for pointing out this bit of Liberal lunacy.