Yes, I know.  Preaching to the choir, shouting in the wilderness, pointing it out redundantly.  Do most Americans note the hypocrisy?  Are they aware and just blow it off as the blatherings of nabobs?  Or does one of the Goebbels' principles actually work?  Repeat the lies often enough and most everyone will believe it.  Do Americans even care about it.  Certainly the ones who blog or comment on blogs, both left and right, do care.  How many of us are those?  They say in talk radio only a miniscule portion of listeners actually call the shows.  Is this same in the blogosphere?

Today we call out the two faced reaction (and lack of reaction) to what comments most polite or decent people wouldn't probably make in public.

First we have Ann Coulter's use of the term *faggot* which most people are too politically correct to speak or type, preferring "f**got" or "the other f word".  As if the term is equivelant of blasphemy or profanity.  It isn't.  Its use, just as racial epithets are common parlance terms that are insulting to those who choose to be insulted by them.  They cause no real harm and aren't viscerally offensive as blasphemy is to the religious or as sexual, or exrecratory profanities are to the normal decent folks.  They are socio-political terms used to manipulate the social and political words and actions of the ignorant.  A "faggot" is a bundle of wood or sticks or a flaming brand orginating from fire making and fire starting in its usage.  It is no more offensive (unless the hearer chooses to be offended) than is the adoption of the word *gay* (which means happy and/or lighthearted) to be used as a synonym for homosexual people.  As Coulter pointed out on Fox News, "faggot" is a common schoolyard insult which has no connotation as a specific reference to sexual preferences.  Surprise!  Just as is a saying such as "that is so gay" used commonly by youth today.  Only to those seeking to be offended and trying to manipulate public consciousness to accept their socio-political aims are such terms "vile" and "unacceptable" by homosexual political activists and politicians compelled to mouth political correctness at all times.

What is more blatant and, to me, astonishing is the inversely proportional lack of outrage or even comment when things are uttered by collectivist yappers that are directly insulting to individual people.  Coulter's use of "faggot" wasn't objected to as insulting John Edwards, it was her *daring* to use the word itself that was objected to.  Yet Joy Behar's glee over Dick Cheney's blood clot and Bill Maher's supposition that a lot less people would die should Cheney have been assassinated garnered no significant national outrage.  This has been pointed out by Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved and many on the right but hasn't seemed to impinge on the national consciousness much.  Again, do Americans pay attention to or even care about the discrepancy?  

Typical of the Orwellian left is to deny such a discrepancy exists by simply ignoring it in their media outlets.  Also, I believe, that they ignore it or don't perceive it at all due to their collectivist thinking and world view.  So is the hypocrisy planned and purposeful by socialist/leftist types or simply fundamental to their intellectual processes?

These types of things are indicative of the typical leftist collectivist pattern of activism and commentary.  Assign the very motivations and behaviors the left uses to their opponents.  Loudly, vociferously and continuously.  Talk about how and who conservatives "hate" and "attack" by and while using despicable hateful attacks themselves.  Again, loudly, vociferously and continuosly.  Its ok if blacks call each other "n*gger" (word disallowed by Townhall PCness and fear) but should be a crime in anyone unapproved does so.  Its ok if homosexuals and liberals call homosexuals "faggot" or "qu3er" (word disallowed by Townhall PCness and fear) but should be a crime and is "hate" if anyone unapproved does so.

The hypocrisy boils down to clear and plain *pot calling the kettle black" behavior then denying it while reasserting it as a factual reality over and over again.  Unfortunately, the kettle is brass while the pot *IS* black.

I agree with one of Medved's basic points in his observations on the Coulter brouhaha.  I try to practice it as well.  Most conservatives and libertarians I observe and read seem to as well.  Name calling is rude.  Calling a position "stupid" isn't name calling.  Calling a person "stupid" is.  I personally think it is improper, rude, inappropriate and ignorant to call someone "n*gger" (word disallowed by Townhall PCness and fear) or "faggot".  That is MY CHOICE of behavior though.  I also think it is wrong to censor people's speech no matter how rude or ignorant *I* consider it to be.  One of the reasons I can laugh so frequently at the collectivists is their incessant name calling based on nothing but ignorance and how they *wish* things to be.  Do your own survery of vitriol.  Visit the contributors here, both columnists and bloggers.  Then visit some of the *progressive* blogs pointed out by "The Rogue Jew".  He has good links to more examples too.  An interesting article points out a comparison of liberal versus conservative use of *profanity* in blog posts.

Spike Lee's (mediocre) Movie had a title that is sensible guidance.  Do the right thing.

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