Remember when Rush Limbaugh called 30 year old college student Sandra Fluke a slut and was attacked for it? And when the right called out Bill Maher for the same thing, it was dismissed by the left because Maher is “an entertainer?”
So along comes this other entertainer named Ted Nugent. An unapologetic conservative, Nugent was quoted as saying:
“Our government is wiping its @$$ with the Constitution!”
We’re Americans because we defied the king. We didn’t negotiate or compromise with the king. We defied the emperors. We are patriots. We are Braveheart.
We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. Any questions?
And the progressives went absolutely batty. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, perhaps the most obtuse partisan hack to ever lead the DNC, attacked without hesitation:
Romney surrogate Ted Nugent’s comments about Pres. Obama are vile & beyond the pale—and the Romney campaign should denounce them immediately.
Yep. Romney surrogate. And that makes Maher, a huge Obama donor, what, exactly? The party that defends one entertainer’s comments is upset with another entertainer’s comments. It almost gives the impression that progressives are accepting and tolerant of any nasty behavior on their own side, while being mercilessly hostile to those with whom they disagree, regardless of appearance. After all, to them conservatives Limbaugh and Nugent must be rebuked, advertisers attacked and statements denounced. Simultaneously, Maher is defended and progressive attacks on Ann Romney are excused. It is irreconcilable.
And just to add that Bizarro World touch, meanwhile, back at the White House, Jay Carney the President’s Press Secretary said
I think the president has said and I and others have said that, you know, we can’t be policing the statements of supporters across the board.
Jay, I don’t think the DNC got that message.
[Added:] The Secret Service will be meeting with Nugent tomorrow to investigate his comments. Do you see what happens when you are critical, comrade?