Here at Constitution Club we do our best to parade the endless hypocrisy of the Left out for everyone to see. If you remember back just a few short weeks ago that Gov. Palin and a variety of conservative talk show hosts, as well as the Tea Party, were directly and pointedly accused of a large variety of despicable acts. They were accused of using hateful and violent vitriol that created the climate of violence directly resulting in the attempted assassination of a sitting congressperson. And that wasn’t an accusation merely peddled by a few on the fringe but boldly and proudly shouted from the rooftops in a coordinated effort from progressives at opednews.com, huffintonpost.com, all over facebook, pandagon.net and the usual suspects at Code Pink and Moveon.org.

Following the initial onslaught, and the discovery that the perpetrator of said shooting was actually far more Left-wing than Right, the mantra for the need for a new cult of civility, brotherly love, and the “toning down of rhetoric” (meaning sit down and shut up if you don’t like Obama, big government, and political correctness) was soon the mating call of the Left and their allies in the media. But, as you’ll see here, much hypocritical garbage was as shallow as it was silly, and explicitly designed to merely mute the Right while emboldening the Left.

The Left and progressivism is an ideology dominated with an almost palpable hatred of many people and many things. It drives them, it fuels their fire, and is quite disturbing to see at times. They say they practice the politics of hope but as you can see, it is truly the politics of hate.

Can you imagine the media firestorm if similar racist things had been uttered at a Tea Party rally, even if just by a few? The non-stop outrage and media coverage would be incredible. Instead, we can hear the crickets chirping. What a mockery they make of objectivity and journalistic integrity.

“Everybody does it? Think it through and you will see that this is a stunning indictment of the American left. To begin with, it is not true that everybody does it. As we noted yesterday, the formerly mainstream media have spent the past two years trying to depict the Tea Party as precisely the sort of racist, hateful, violent political movement that Common Cause appears in the video to be. That media effort has failed, not for lack of will but for lack of evidence. If everybody did it, the Tea Party would do it, and if the Tea Party did it, you would have read about it in the New York Times.”

“So here we have a corporation that advertises itself as a ‘grassroots organization’ while exercising its First Amendment rights to advance the position that corporations do not have First Amendment rights, only individuals do. Some individuals, participating in the corporation’s ‘grassroots’ rally, exercise their First Amendment rights in ways that harm the corporation’s image. The corporation responds by exercising its First Amendment rights to denounce those individuals for having exercised their First Amendment rights. And it does in its capacity as a faceless corporation, by issuing a statement for which no individual–not even CEO Bob Edgar–takes responsibility.”

“For the sake of truth in advertising, Common Cause should change its name to Hypocrisy Hub.”

- James Taranto (Everybody does it? Really?)