Liberals will so often swear up and down that theyre moderates"; its why theyll say with a straight face that theres no bias in the mainstream media. For they truly are in the center of their own little world.
You might think that with all the recent focus on media bias in debate moderation Candy Crowley would have minded her ps and qs in last nights presidential debate. But clearly she doesnt even know the ABCs of her job.
Her most obvious transgression was chiming in and contradicting Mitt Romneys assertion that Barack Obama did not label the Benghazi attack an act of terror when he spoke in the Rose Garden on Sept. 12. Crowleys unwarranted meddling was significant. The apparent lies surrounding the Libya tragedy are a huge scandal for Obama and with the mainstream medias failure to aggressively cover the story the debate was a golden opportunity to get the truth out. Enter Crowleys Passion. She snuck into the ring without Obama even tagging her and hit Romney from behind with a chair while the ref Crowleys Brain was looking the other way. And as was established later she was wrong. It was as Thomas Sowell wrote recently a display of what Obama himself is guilty of: confident ignorance.
Also striking however is that most of the questions asked clearly played into the liberal agenda. This isnt surprising since they were chosen by Crowley herself. And we should ask: why was one liberal in a nation of 308 million people empowered to unilaterally choose the questions for a presidential debate? There couldnt have been a conservative choosing half of them? And how about perish the thought having a conservative as a debate moderator one of these days?
In fact it would have been laughable if not so tragic as Crowley was clearly out of her depth and ended up deep-sixing the truth. She chose a question about the male-female wage gap assuredly oblivious to the fact that women do not get paid less for the same work; they get paid less for lesser work. As Carrie Lukas points out here the wage gap is due to the sexes different lifestyle and career choices not discrimination. It isnt surprising that Crowley would advocate for the feminist agenda however since she no doubt owes her position to affirmative action.
Then there was the question about so-called assault weapons." Gun control hasnt been an issue since the 2000 campaign when Al Gores embrace of it likely cost him that very close election and the Democrats decided to find a new situational value. In Obamas case this manifested itself in the statement I believe in the Second Amendment" (cue the Joe Biden smile and head shake). Yes Im sure in the way the Devil believes in God. Anyway Crowley undoubtedly doesnt know that what have been labeled assault weapons" arent really assault weapons and regardless the Clinton-era ban didnt even outlaw those; rather it prohibited the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms that had a certain combination of relatively inconsequential features (I explain this here). So you were conned Candy.
Some will now say that Crowley was trying to con the audience but the truth with the left is that they deceived themselves long before deceiving others. A prerequisite for baying your own biases is knowing they exist and liberals dont. Being relativists their locus of values is not without but within; thus they quite naturally see themselves as defining reality. This leads to deification of the self to the viewing of oneself as the true center. It also doesnt help that media types live in a bubble of babble associating only with other liberals and imbibing nothing beyond The New York Times and her satellites. Hey thats the whole world isnt it?
This is why mind you liberals will so often swear up and down that theyre moderates"; its why theyll say with a straight face that theres no bias in the mainstream media. For they truly are in the center of their own little world.
Its a land of Lilliputians of small men small minds and small questions that will beget a small civilization.