IS THERE A LINK?

Anytime anything goes wrong, there's always someone who says there must be a “link” as to why that event happened. Conspiracy theorists abound in our country with most of the liberals thinking that every time something doesn't go their way, it must be a conspiracy and they look for a real “link” or an imagined made-up one.

Take the Tucson shooting for instance. According to a liberal, it wasn't a socially challenged loner, pot head, certified “nut-job” that did the shooting on his own, no, it was the angry, violent Tea Party and that vicious Sarah Palin with the help of incendiary talk show hosts that was partially the cause of that horrific event in front of the Safeway store in Arizona. As the facts of the situation have been unfolding and more and more information comes out, it seems that this mentally deranged guy had it in for Rep. Giffords since 2007 and that he had delusions and flights of fancy about many things which were made up in his warped mind. Without a scintilla of real evidence, the loony liberal politicians and pundits came out of the box, immediately after the shootings, and tried to ignite a conspiracy of conservatives, talk radio hosts, and right-wing politicians, like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, who they claimed turned this”passive nut-job” into an “active nut-job” by their “violent” rhetoric. How absurd that grown up people, who should know better, could think in those terms when actually most of the violent rhetoric was coming from the left side of the political spectrum, not the Tea Party or right-wingers.

Another area where people wholeheartedly said “there was a link”, was in what caused autism. It was widely reported that there was a definite “link” between vaccinations and the incidence of autism. Just recently, it was revealed that the major author of those findings of a link between autism and vaccinations, “cooked the books” and it resulted in faulty research and now his findings have been totally discredited. I guess the big losers here are the trial lawyers. It also shot down another conspiracy theory put out by the liberals to prove that there was collusion between the drug companies and the doctors. What is a liberal supposed to do when there is no “link”?

Finally, why do our students finish way down the list of countries of the world in test scores in math and science? The liberals and the education lobby keep claiming that they don't get enough money to be able to offer our students a better education. That's the “link” according to them, money. Little is said, that in the U.S., we spend more money, per capita, on education than any other country in the world and still we have terrible results. Why is that? Maybe it's our education establishment and the teachers unions that might be the “link” that has dropped us far down the list in performance ratings. The liberals and the teachers unions, who seem to be wedded at the hip politically, oppose most all calls for education reform and clamor for more and more money. It's like throwing money down a rat hole, and many in our country buy it and, therefore, nothing seems to improve for the better even by spending more money.

So, what can one gather from these examples of trying to “find a link”? Well, it seems that the people who seem to push the “political correctness” envelope, the left-leaning liberals, are the “missing link” behind these events. Do you agree?

Conservative commentary by Chuck Lehmann