American Liberalism and the Toleration of Intolerance

I do not care what your opinion is of Rush Limbaugh. I do not care what your opinion is about the National Football League or the St. Louis Rams. I do not care what your opinion is about "Rev" Al Sharpton or "Rev" Jesse Jackson. For the sake of this article, try as hard as you can to imagine that you are ignorant of all these characters. Imagine that you have only now heard their names.

Millionaire Rush Limbaugh wants to help purchase the St. Louis Rams, presumably because he's a football fan and that's just what millionaire's do. The National Football League informs the group Rush is a part of that this will not be a problem. The "Revs," being enemies of Limbaugh and out of work, protest but nobody gives a damn. Limbaugh gradually becomes closer to owning the Rams. The "Revs" turn to the only people who will take them seriously, the media. Collaborating with the "Revs," the media fabricates quotes, which make Limbaugh appear to be a racist. The NFL, thinking only of their pocketbook start to criticize Limbaugh for these quotes, which he never said. The media continues to report the Limbaugh quotes, without providing any evidence that these were his words. The "Revs" continue to whore themselves to the media, stirring up artificial emotions from black football players. Thinking only of their pocketbooks, Limbaugh's group removes him from their purchasing roster.

I dare anyone to show that this treatment of Limbaugh was justified. Slandering someones character, by means of fabricated evidence, is a violent act of aggression from one party towards another. For make believe clergymen and the American media to do this to a private citizen is a violation of ethics and morality.

If Sharpton and Jackson are going to continue identifying themselves as holders to the keys of the kingdom of heaven, we should be able to expect that they will not participate in the active violation of the eighth commandment (Lutheran version). We should be able to expect that they will serve a congregation and dispense God's grace to all people, not force themselves vainly into the spotlight to condemn someone they do not know by means of slander and deception. We should be able to expect that they will not be guilty of that which they preach against. But since they are no more servants of God than they are servants of themselves, it has become commonplace to see them leave their luxorious homes for the streets of Harlem in order to pad their wallets by tearing someone else down.

There is a belief that journalism in American media is dead, and with regard to this story I would have to agree. It is a terrifying reality that the media, which is supposed to help the common person understand the truth of current events, is now on record as having intentionally taking a quote that someone said Limbaugh said and not investigating the claim. Limbaugh now has his name tied to a quote supporting slavery, which he adamantly denies and there is (by the admission of CNN) no evidence whatsoever that the quote is from Limbaugh. Nevertheless, in their zeal to destroy Limbaugh they reported the quote as his.

For as long as I can remember, the American people have been lectured to by liberals about how they are the advocates for tolerance, and conservatives are those who advocate intolerance. But actions speak louder than words, and there is no doubt in my mind that the opposite is true. Those who seek to define all humanity by what group they belong to are liberals. It is liberal, collectivist thinking that continues the impoverishment of America's inner cities. It is liberalism that seeks to keep out of the American mainstream any dissenting view. In many colleges and universities, liberal faculty seek to eliminate any alternate form of expression that does not goose-step to left wing orthodoxy (if there can even be such a thing). The only thing liberals tolerate is intolerance.