The Mirror Society

July 12, 2019 By Pennel Bird @ American Thinker

 

What if our most lamentable actions, and our most glaring hypocrisies, were reflected back to us in a way impossible to un-see? Would we grow by that? Would we learn the error of our ways? Or is it possible to be so convinced of one's own virtue that his most loathsome trespasses become evidence of surpassing goodness in his mind — and in his tribe?................

All this excuse-making for bad behavior causes one to wonder how the media, the celebrity Twitter twits, and our progressive politicians might react were the shoe on the other foot.

The idea begs for a few pointed "what ifs."

What if a liberal journalist covering a woman's attempt to enter an abortion facility, for example, were attacked and hospitalized by a masked mob — and Fox News's Tucker Carlson compared the attackers to the freedom riders of the civil rights movement? Would the media be so muted or disinterested?

What if recently demonetized online conservative comedian Steven Crowder called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "feckless c---," just as Samantha Bee derided Ivanka Trump in 2017 on her cable show?

What if Fox News's Kennedy was photographed holding up a likeness of Obama's bloody and decapitated head, just as Kathy Griffin was pictured with Trump's?

What if every time Jon Voigt stepped up to a microphone, he railed about wanting to punch Obama in the face, in the same way Robert De Niro threatens the president?........To Read More….