Libs’ Double Standard: Limbaugh Says Rick Santorum Will Have to Answer on Satan Comments, but Reminds Us Democrats Thought It Was Hilarious When Hugo Chavez Called Bush “The Devil” (transcript)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 21, 2012
Liberals' double standard: Using terms like 'devil' or 'Satan' is permissable when you're a tyrannical despot like Hugo Chavez, but not if you're a Christian conservative running for president like Rick Santorum
The Double Standard in the Double Dippy World of Liberals:
It’s perfectly OK — in fact, it’s considered permissible and hilarious to liberals — that a tyrannical, anti-Semitic dictator like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez can call George W. Bush a devil, that he can “smell sulphur.” It is also a non-issue for liberals’ community-organizer rock star, the late Saul Alinsky, to dedicate his infamous Rules for Radicals to good ol’ Lucifer.
We all know by now that it’s not permitted, however, per liberals’ double standard, for Rick Santorum to use Satan’s name when describing the decline of America during his 2008 speech at Ave Maria University, a Catholic university in Florida. If he does, he is labeled a religious zealot loon who must be swiftly and viciously mocked, maligned, and discredited.
When it comes to conservatives, Republicans, and/or Christians, progressives will keep angrily throwing the pasta at the wall until something sticks.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh nails it on the hypocrisy of leftists in this transcript from yesterday’s radio broadcast.
Santorum Will Have to Answer on Satan
EIB Network – Rush Limbaugh Show
Broadcast February 21, 2012
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I mentioned earlier in the program that Santorum, people have dug deep and they found a speech that he gave back in 2008 in Ave Maria, Florida, at Ave Maria University. Drudge has this plastered up. The Democrats have found it. It’s all over the place. Think Progress and whatever leftist think tanks have dug this up, and it’s part of the predictable attempt to impugn Santorum as an absolute religious nut and wacko. But he did say these things and he’ll to have an answer for these things when queried. Let’s play these sound bites. We have three of them. This is where Santorum has said that Satan as set his sights on America. Again, this is at Ave Maria University, August of 2008, in Ave Maria, Florida.
SANTORUM: The Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies, Satan, would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country — the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age? There is no one else to go after other than the United States, and that’s been the case for now almost 200 years, once America’s preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.
RUSH: Okay, so he said it. Can we take you back to the United Nations? What was it, 2000… I don’t know, three or four or five or six. Hugo Chavez shows up, he speaks either the afternoon Bush spoke earlier or the next day, but he gets to the microphone at the United Nations and the General Assembly and starts sniffing around. (Sniffing) He says, “I can still smell the sulfur. The Devil was here,” and he had accused Bush of being the Devil. And the assembled monsters that look like they’re out of Star Wars bar scene that made up the UN General Assembly all started laughing.
So we’re back to the double standard. Hugo Chavez can show up and call George W. Bush Satan. “Hey, hey! You know what, that’s right! That’s great. Let’s laugh about it. Let’s applaud it.” Santorum gives a speech in Ave Maria, Florida, back in 2008. “Oh, my God, we’re dealing with a nutcase! Oh, wow, what a fanatic weirdo. What are we gonna get next, an exorcism?” So the double standard does exist. Here’s more from the same speech from Santorum.
SANTORUM: Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of these strong plants that have so deeply rooted in American tradition. He was successful. The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first successful was in academia. He understood pride of “smart” people. He attacked them at their weakest, that they were in fact smarter than everybody else and could come up with something new and different, pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth, play with it, “because we’re smart;” and so academia a long time ago fell.
RUSH: Satan conquered academia: Rick Santorum, August 29, 2008. And it was in 2006, September 20th, to be exact, where Hugo Chavez strode confidently to the microphones of the UN and was sniffing around and said, “The Devil came here yesterday. It still smells of sulfur today.” And let’s not forget, ladies and gentlemen, Saul Alinsky, who’s the primary mentor of “Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm, mmm, mmm!” Saul Alinsky, the author of the book Rules for Radicals — a book about which Hillary Clinton wrote her masters or doctoral thesis, whatever it was, when she was at Wellesley. Saul Alinsky, who Obama has studied and implements to this day and whose tactics he taught while ostensibly teaching law at the University of Chicago.
Saul Alinsky dedicated his book that all these leftists love to Lucifer, the Devil! Here’s Alinsky’s dedication: “Lest we forget, at least an over the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical from all our legends, mythology and history — and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins or which is which? The first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom: Lucifer.” Saul Alinsky made that dedication in his book Rules for Radicals. So Santorum is just joining the crowd here in discussing this. Here is the final sound bite.
SANTORUM: The next was the church. Now, you say, “Well, wait. The Catholic Church?” No. We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic, but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic. Sure, the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country, and the Protestant ethic. Mainstream, mainline Protestantism. And of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country, and it is a shambles.
RUSH: That’s Rick Santorum August 29, 2008. That stuff is out there. It’s headlined on Drudge and the left has it, and Santorum will have to deal with it. He’ll have to answer it. I don’t know. It’s just not the kind of stuff you hear a presidential candidate talk about. It’s not ordinary in that sense. [Show's producer Bo] Snerdley says, “Yeah, yeah, it’s kind of refreshing.” Snerdley likes devil stuff. I mean, he watches movies about it. He has The Exorcist on a loop at home and it helps with his sciatic pain.
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For those who are not familiar with the 12 rules for radicals outlined in Alinsky’s book, here they are:
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from two main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Rules Number 5 and 12 are especially popular with the liberal mainstream media these days — but they’re used only against conservatives, rarely if ever against other liberals.
Just ask Sarah Palin — even the DNC encouraged attacks against her. Or ask George W. Bush. Or Ronald Reagan. Or Herman Cain. Or Michele Bachmann. Or Newt Gingrich. Or Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu. Or Rush Limbaugh.
Or Rick Santorum.
Great post at The Camp of the Saints — pop over and read Has The Palinization Of Santorum Begun?
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The nonsense and double standards of Democrats/liberals is laughable and ridiculous. I know of several people who have left the Democrat party because they have become too radical, too socialist. One friend said by today’s standards, JFK would be a moderate Republican.
The Democrats are turning off many Americans for their bullying and hateful rhetoric against conservatives, who are in the majority in America. Leftwing media like MSNBC & NYT lean so far to the left and kiss up to Obama so much, no wonder theyre viewership and readership is dropping. No balance so no trust in the mainstream media.