Rush Limbaugh says the darndest things

[A Theist]

Absolutey not. I'm not running cover for Limbaugh or anybody else.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren't consciously aware of what you're doing. This may be a subconscious rationalization.

Here are the steps if it helps you identify your own pattern:
1. Rush said something unacceptable.
2. You dug up something a liberal said
3. You equivocate the two.
4. "See, Rush was just being persecuted for being a conservative"
5. Rush is the victim. The shame belongs to the liberals, not him.

In fact, the whole purpose of the "both sides do it" canard is to run cover for conservative abuse in our political system.

The use of that term under any circumstance is uncalled for

And I agree.

...and just so you know, I see what you're trying to do too. You're in denial of the double standards and hypocrisy that exists on the left, when you're confronted with it, you deflect and distract to cover up the hypocrisy.

There is no double standard coming from the left.

I'm wondering if maybe the problem is you don't understand that personal defamation of character is worse than an attack on someone's politics, even if the same offensive word is used.

...or you're pretending not to understand something so basic.

It's all the same DP.

No, it's not.

Personal defamation is worse than an attack on someone's political activity, even if the same offensive word is used.

Apples to apples.

Apples to oranges.

...and I'll give you the same benefit of the doubt that you may not realize what you're doing.

Hopefully these steps will help you identify your own pattern of denial:
1. A conservative says something unacceptable. You're outraged.
2. You're confronted when someone on the left did the very thing you condemned the conservative for. You're shocked.
3. You're next reaction is a naive disbelief that the left could do such a thing.
4. You deny that hypocrisy exists on your side and then you try to cover it by creating some kind of justification for it.
5. Conservatives just like picking on liberals.

"In fact, the whole purpose of the "both sides do it" canard is to run cover for conservative abuse in our political system."....Continued denial that guilt is attributed to the left.

"There is no double standard coming from the left."....More denial. There is a double standard coming from the left.

"Apples to oranges.....Apples to apples.