[From article]
What is the common denominator of the Obama administration’s serial scandals [. . .] In a word: the advancement of postmodern notions of justice at the expense of traditional truth.
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The true became the advocacy of fairness, while the real lie was the reactionary adherence to a set of oppressive norms. All this was faculty-lounge fluff, but soon it filtered out into the larger culture.
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In the postmodern world of the New York Times and Barack Obama, again, “truth” is a relative concept.
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If ACA navigators on occasion have urged poor applicants to fudge on their eligibility, what is the big deal?
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As Obama put it, “So the majority of folks will end up being better off, of course, because the website’s not workin’ right, they don’t necessarily know it.”
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When U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice lied five times on national television about the Benghazi deaths, followed by Hillary Clinton over the coffins of the dead men and yet again by Barack Obama at the United Nations, they were not really telling untruths.
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Right and wrong, like truth and lies, are calcified concepts in service to a rigged world of discrimination. [. . .] These are details that pale in comparison to the larger picture of social justice:
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Does anyone deny that James Rosen works for Fox News and that Fox News opposes social justice?
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If Obama wanted Guantanamo closed, then it is virtually closed.
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To obsessive-compulsive accountants, perhaps the Pigford agricultural payouts were fraudulent, but who can deny that many of the poor recipients might have wished to farm?
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The Left, which cares for humanity and strives for fairness and equality, has earned the moral right of exemption from one-dimensional truth. The Right, which focuses on the liberty of the selfish individual to do what he pleases against the collective interest, has not.
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If the laws that enhance privileges of race and class are “broken,” then that is to the good, given the greater issues of social justice at stake.
http://nationalreview.com/article/364250/obamas-noble-lies-victor-davis-hanson
Stop worrying whether the president’s statements conform to ossified standards of truth.
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