Ruben Navarrette, Jr. in Tribune

Excellent piece on the oh-so-selective outrage of the Left.

Money quote:

Then there was the liberal syndicated cartoonist Jeff Danziger, who depicted Rice mammy-style, barefoot in a rocking chair holding a baby's bottle. She is cradling an aluminum tube--a reference to her comments leading up to the war in Iraq that high-strength aluminum tubes seized en route to Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs." In the cartoon, Rice says: "I don't know nuthin' about aluminum tubes."When that sort of garbage comes from the right, we call it racism.

What should we call it when it comes from the left?

Or, why don't we ever hear the Left critique its own obvious screw-ups? Liberal elites (speaking of pundits now) will rarely if ever never defend an issue on the principle - its always much more dependent on the greater political allegiences.

The Hollywood left would not speak out on Theo van Gogh, because it helps justify the harsh treatment of terrorism and thus in their eyes 'helps' Bush - nevermind the fact that one of their own was brutally and ritually murdered for criticizing Islamic violence.

The feminist left will not critique the blantant chauvenistic misogyny of BET or of Hip-Hop culture for fear of alienating a desperately needed constituency, nor will it admit a perfectly valid empowering feminism growing among the pro-life camp. Many feminists will not even admit that abortion is physically or psychologically traumatic at all.

And, of course is almost goes without saying that the left is condescending and fearful of any and all true religious beliefs. Religion is to be thwarted and silenced, never reasoned with or treated as a fair position. Religion is merely a symptom of poverty, poor education, and low mental ability.

And Democrats expect to win elections? At the moment, they are on the way of the Whigs.