Conservatives, especially conservative media (looking at you, Fox News), have a habit of elevating liberals to a status of wisdom because they, on occasion, say things that are true. It’s stupid and self-destructive. Yes, a stopped clock is right twice a day, but it’s wrong for the other 1,438 minutes. If you focus only on when it is right, you miss the big picture.

When conservatives rally around some leftist saying something sane, or even semi-sane (let’s be honest, we can’t set the bar that high for them), the media tends to white wash all the other things they’ve said, absolutely crazy things. It sets people up to look like fools, at best, or get conned, at worst, by those leftists. 

Lenard Larry McKelvey, better known as Charlamagne tha God, is routinely featured in conservative media because he will, from time to time, say something not absolutely stupid or racist or progressive (but I repeat myself). Why? He gets ink in conservative outlets and time on television when he is not, and never will be, on our side when it matters. 

Acknowledging the fact that the sun rises in the east does not make someone a truth-teller, it means they’re smart enough to recognize that either that particular........

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