Fear of Fox
political correctness, bigotry, politics, racism, liberalism, hypocrisy
April 12, 2007, by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
We all have our favorite sages. Official Washington has Don Imus. Or at least that surly vulgarian was the commentariat's favorite sage until those two gifted hucksters, Sharpton & Jackson, saw in Imus's bleak humor another opportunity to engaud their resumes. Now he is a whimpering bundle of apologies, his First Amendment rights having been jettisoned almost instantaneously along with his he-man demeanor.
My favorite sage is the economist and columnist, Thomas Sowell. One of his most recent insights goes like this: the liberals' favorite argument is that there is no argument --nothing uttered in opposition to liberal beliefs exists, at least nothing worthy of their intellectual engagement. Thus a la Al Gore they proceed to reiterate their point of view boldly, heroically, and with the insistence that no other point of view is worthy of notice.