Guest Post by Stilton Jarlsberg
Liberals are in a celebratory mood following last week’s appearance of Hillary Clinton before a special committee investigating the details of American deaths in Benghazi. Hillary is being declared “the winner” of the marathon session, not because she isn’t responsible for gross negligence, professional incompetence, and quite likely criminal actions – but because she’s going to get away with it.
In Liberal-land, there is no crime unless you’re caught and convicted. This is true whether you’re the IRS’s Lois Lerner (who has officially been let off the hook for obstructing the first amendment rights of conservatives, conspiracy, and destruction of evidence), infamous “Fast and Furious” gun-runner Eric Holder, or the ghoulish officials from Planned Parenthood who were caught negotiating the price (and enjoying the texture) of fetal organs on video.
Evidence doesn’t matter on the Left – only “getting away with it.” Snarky liberal columnist Maureen Dowd took to the New York Times to declare Trey Gowdy’s select committee a “Salem witch trial,” staffed by a “blithering band of tea-partiers” who “crawled out of the ooze into a sea of cameras.” And Hillary’s unflustered performance put her on “the HOV lane of a superhighway to the presidency.” I think we can assume “fair and balanced” isn’t embossed on Dowd’s business cards.