It was great to see Al Sharpton on "Meet The Press" yesterday to lecture everybody about civility. Maybe I can do an entire post about how is civil disobedience caused the death of two young adults in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the early 90's. That incident on top of his criminal behavior during the Tawana Brawly fiasco should eliminate him from being involved in any civil discussion anywhere on this planet...but no...he has his own MSNBC show and gets to spew his nonsense every night. It was disappointing to see him on "Meet The Press" and go completely unchallenged about his past by any of the others on the panel. Peggy Noonan needed to step up in that spot, and failed.

The phony outrage the Left has shown regarding Rush's comments is transparently inconsistent given the misogynistic statements made in the recent past by Bill Maher (called Sarah Palin a "dumb twat" while a guest on his show said about Michelle Bachman .."I just hope that Marcus Bachman (Michelle's husband) fucks her angrily, because that's how I would."  Louis CK makes derogatory remarks about Sarah Palin, and even worse, Sarah Palin's child who has downs syndrome, and we NEVER HEAR A FUCKING PEEP!!!!  Let me be clear...I don't care what ANY of these people say about anybody. They are entertainers, and saying crude and rude shit gets ratings. Same with Rush....but if you are truly outraged by what Rush said, you HAVE to be outraged by these other comments....or you have to ignore it all. Can't have it both ways.

Of course all of this phony outrage obfuscates the fact that there are real issues that are NOT being discussed. Why would the left want to discuss a Country going broke, $5 gasoline, 9% unemployment, a War in Afghanistan that is still not going well, Iran's nuclear ambitions etc....?  Why discuss any of that when we can pretend to be offended by a stupid comment that Rush Limbaugh made last week?