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[The royalty of double standards
By R. CORT KIRKWOOD
Ottawa Sun
June 25, 2000
The liberals have no shame. Their collectivist programs fail but they march ahead with more of the same. Their leaders biff the help but they think nothing of it. Their heroes reek of hypocrisy, but olfactory bulbs trained to detect the slightest whiff of racism or "hate" suddenly malfunction.
What makes it all possible is the liberal double standard, which permits them to judge everyone and everything else by one set of rules while judging themselves by another.
Thus does the Washington Post report that when the Man Who Invented the Internet "lost" a year's worth of e-mail crucial to the probe of his shady campaign activities, well, it might not have been "lost" at all. Once again, Gore and his team of prevaricators have been caught in a fib.
Gore's "top information expert," the paper reports, told White House computer experts in 1993 to "get lost" when the latter offered to back up records as required by law and that might be needed for future legal proceedings.
According to an affidavit from computer specialist Howard Sparks, which was filed in federal court as part of yet another suit filed against the Clinton administration, Michael Gill, the aide in question, said the vice president's office "would take care of its own records." It certainly did, in much the same way the Nixon White House "took care" of its own tapes.
Gore's tapes are missing, if you believe Sparks' affidavit, because of Gill, also known as the "Mad Deletor." The nickname "referred to his propensity to delete electronic records as a method of dealing with computer-related problems."
Unsurprisingly, Team Gore offers the following alibi with a straight face: We have all the back-up tapes, it says, "with the exception of one year due to a technical problem."
Nixon had all this tapes, except for those few crucial minutes missing due to a "technical problem."
This is just one of Gore's many "ethical lapses," so one must ask why liberal guardians of the public weal haven't raised the alarm that mischief is afoot. Don't bad things happen to politicians who lose records and lie about it?
Not if the politicians are liberal, as we know from Clinton's escape from the political noose.
A rather more amusing example is Rosie O'Donnell, corpulent queen of the gun control movement. Having spent the better part of the last year railing against gun owners and for gun control, we recently learned Cracklin' Rosie has one small exception to her rule: Herself.
That's right, a family bodyguard applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. O'Donnell was quick to explain she had to protect her family and that she is not a hypocrite because she does not permit guns in the house.
Well, some of us can't afford bodyguards, and so to use a gun for protection must keep one in the house.
But that simple truth is lost on the "Queen of Nice." So there it is again: One set of rules for them; another set for us. They would take our guns away, but keep them for themselves.
They force us to keep detailed records to pay taxes, guard the environment, invent new drugs and ship freight, but don't keep records to document their activities as elected officials.
Another example? Having fouled up the public schools with nostrums from the school of liberal thinkology, the Gores, Clintons and Kennedys send their own little ones to expensive private academies.
The rest of us must happily accept the inferior education they offer; they choose a better education for their own.
As long as the liberals rule, the double standard will apply. It's almost tempting to consider joining the other side to reap the benefit of living by one standard and judging others by another.
But some of us can still feel shame.
Kirkwood writes on U.S. affairs for the Sun. Letters to the editor should be sent to oped@sunpub.com.
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