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What
were they thinking? Were they thinking at all? Where were
the parents? How did we get here? Dateline Chicago, the
suburban Glenbrook High School now infamous worldwide
for the incident of their senior girls "hazing a
group" of junior girls at a powderpuff football game.
Dateline New York, an upstate high-school baseball team
visiting the big city. One of the parents accompanying
the team decides to take 14 of the players to a strip
club. Dateline Los Angeles, the kid behind me in the seat
in first-class refuses to stop kicking my chair even after
I ask his mother to make him stop.
What's
the link?
Kids
out of control, and parents who are complicit in how and
why their kids behave the way they do. I brought this
up on my radio show this week, and you should see the
hate mail that came pouring in. I had the gall to say
something along the lines of, "Kids are out of control,
because their liberal parents never told them no!"
My phone lines lit up, the e-mail piled up, I think my
blog had a server attack – why was this so offensive?
Maybe
it was the fact that we had to listen to the droning voice
of Robert C. Byrd this week. His opining about why President
Bush landing on the carrier U.S.S. Lincoln was shameful
was some of the fall-down funniest moments I have seen
in the Senate in a long time. In fact, I say give him
his own TV show.
Maybe
it was the fact that one of the paragons of conservative
virtue was embarrassed badly this week, and liberals felt
the need to take aim at others besides Mr. Bennett.
Maybe
it was the fact that a group of liberals got together
in South Carolina last Saturday night and agreed that
the two biggest issues facing America were Soviet-style
health care and whether or not "gay" South Carolina
men should be able to give each other a poke with Mr.
Happy and not go to jail for it. (Heck if this was my
slate of candidates, I'd be pretty mad too.)
But
whatever the cause, liberals didn't like the fact that
I blame them for much of our youth's confusion and subsequent
atrocious behavior.
As
I told the story of my red-eye flight from Los Angeles
to Chicago and how I sorely needed the precious hours
of sleep on the plane, I was told by callers and e-mailers
alike that the reason the boy was kicking my chair –
even after I had glared at him, asked his mother and the
flight attendant to do something about it – was really
all my fault. That I had somehow instigated this little
cretin into bugging me.
I
really did myself in after that because I said something
to the effect, "Well, when a mother simply stares
at you as you ask her to control her little Damian of
a boy, is it any wonder that when kids are becoming seniors
you see them kicking the crud out of their classmates,
breaking bones, shattering skulls and causing hearing
loss?"
As
the callers called they continued to object to my over
simplifications and examples of out of control youth.
One lady actually asked me an intelligent question: Why?
Why did I associate the out-of-control behavior with liberals?
It was by far the most intelligent question asked that
day. The reason was simple.
Conservatives
hold convictions and values. They believe in them. They
teach them to their kids. They write books about teaching
them to their kids. They get involved in activist activities
like holding up signs at an intersection showing the truth
of what an abortion does to the unborn baby – and
in the process, they get spit upon. Conservative values
mean something, and thus why they suffer the maltreatment
– because in enduring, they persevere to the greater
good. Conservatives do believe not only in good vs. evil
and right vs. wrong, but in the varying degrees of each
as well.
Liberals
don't. Liberals believe in expediency – not process.
That's why someone should just be given a check from the
government instead of going out and earning their keep.
That's why people should be allowed to kill unborn children
– because that kid will end up getting in the way
of my life. That's why liberals – and apparently
in record numbers given the response at last week's presidential
debate – believe that you shouldn't make a difference
in saying whether or not it's good for a man and woman
to be married as opposed to a man and a man. (According
to John Edwards, by the way, this is the greatest issue
facing America – Frank and Johnny in the bedroom
– not terrorism or 9-11 or anything like that.)
"But
Kevin ..." I heard them say, "what about all
those conservative hypocrites like Newt, and Livingston
and now Bennett?"
But
here's the difference: When Newt and Livingston cheat
on their wives, fellow conservatives don't stand for it
– they resign. When liberals get serviced in the
Oval Office (by a girl only slightly older than their
daughter) while firing missiles at supposed terrorist
sites – their favorability ratings go up amongst
their core voters.
Adults
doing whatever they like in life – and saying "screw
you" to the rest of the world – produce children
who then ponder the definition of what "is"
is.
Adults
that teach their children the difference in good vs. evil,
and right vs. wrong, generally have kids who make choices
that reflect those values as well.
So
let Sen. Byrd babble on endlessly about what a shameful
spectacle it was for President Bush to land on the carrier
and thank the troops for their service. At the end of
the day, that proud military knows the difference in the
two men – and it is the conservative of the two that
they have the respect for.
But
then again, because liberals have no absolute value system,
they wouldn't know respect if it kicked them in the face
(though the kicking part they seem to have down).
Kevin McCullough is heard 3 to 5 p.m.,
Monday-Friday, on AM1160 in Chicago
and world-wide on WYLL. Kevin is a past recipient of the
Marconi and Tesla
broadcasting awards. He is an internationally syndicated
columnist, and
author of the upcoming book, "Men That Every Man
Should Be!"
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