Don't buy into liberal hype

John Withum
The Parthenon (Marshall U.)

(U-WIRE) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. ˜ C.S. Lewis once wrote, "A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional . . . values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."

I would say this is true for liberal thought in America, and it's gone unchecked long enough.

Democrat demagogues sit in their posh penthouse apartments, swank high-rise offices and drive their gas-guzzling Lincoln Navigators while condemning Republicans for doing the same.

Liberal pundits (read: Democrats) such as Michael Moore and Al Franken take shots at "conservative issues" (read: Republican issues) like Second Amendment rights and pro-life advocacy while holding gun control, pro-choice advocacy and environmentalism near and dear to their hearts.

One can't escape it in academia. The university, once held up as a place where free thinking and open conversation reigned, now seems to be a place where radical-left thought reigns supreme.

History departments across the globe are slowly being filled with revisionist historians who don't seek so much to provide an accurate picture of history as much as they seek to provide a history that matches the ideals of any particular agenda they should like.

Claims of "open-mindedness" drop with a dull thud because the people who make them are as close to being open-minded as they are to being a grilled cheese sandwich. Someone truly open-minded wouldn't have to claim his or her open-mindedness; it would be obvious by his or her conduct.

Where were all the people encouraging others to question the government when Clinton was in office? Why do the people pointing out the bias in Fox News have problems seeing the bias in MSNBC, CNN or any other major news network?

I'm not going to be so naive as to say there's not an equal amount of political propaganda being thrown around by Republican politicians and pundits, but come on, some stuff is just ridiculous. Why is it still being accepted?

It's still being accepted because no one has ever dared to stand otherwise. There is a cure for all this crap. It's called standing up for the truth. Many people still wrapped up in post-modern thinking will reply, "The truth as you see it or the truth as I see it?" This is dancing around the point ˜ either way indicates an underlying truth. To see it, we must first take off the leftist or rightist blinders to which we cling.

We have to stand up and stand beside the moral truth that has been known since time immemorial. There is a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. Anyone who says otherwise will, as Lewis points out, "go back on it a moment later." The only way to change things is to go back to that. And we won't go back to it until we stop buying into the hype.

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