Question Asked and Answered
“CBS Runs Segment Called ‘Let’s Give Up On The Constitution,’” Big Journalism reports today (warning, link goes to auto-play Charles Osgood video). They’re simply the latest branch of the Obama-media to drop the mask in recent years. “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution,” blared a headline in the New York Times on December 30th, atop a column written by Louis Seidman, the same man featured in CBS’s segment today, who professes to “teach” Constitutional Law at Georgetown University.
Ten days later, Time-Warner-CNN-HBO spokesman Morton Downey Morgan Jr. sneeringly described the Constitution as “your little book,” when handed a copy by guest Ben Shapiro.
Back in January of 2011, when the GOP took back control of the House, the New York Times ran an earlier assault on the Constitution, leading Power Line’s John Hinderaker to ask, “Are Liberals Coming Out of the Closet on the Constitution?”
That was around the same time the Washington’s Post’s Young Ezra Klein admitted on MSNBC that in his opinion, because the Constitution was written “more than 100 years ago,” it was all so confusing to understand.
On July 4th 2011, the cover of Time magazine featured a shredded Constitution and a headline that asked, “Does It Still Matter?”
Not to the Left, it doesn’t — and increasingly, they’re not at all afraid to admit it.
By the same reasoning…
Roe v Wade was so very long ago — forty years — a lifetime for some. We aren’t the same country we were then. We therefore shouldn’t be bound by its precepts, should we?
The Civil Rights Act was even further away in time. That, too, should therefore be discarded.
Even further away was the Nineteenth Admendment giving women the vote, and the Thirteenth abolishing chattel slavery. And so on.
Really, progressives? Is this really the game you want to play? Will Roper’s game of chopping down all the trees of laws to get at the Devil? You would be well to remember: the commissars come for your kind first.
This is actually a variation on the old “Cafeteria Catholics” line, except here, it’s “Cafeteria Constitutionalists”. Just pick and choose which amendments you like and claim the rest are outdated (including — as long as it looks like the Democrats will hold the White House — that 22nd Amendment from ye olden days of 1951).
I predicted in 2008 that Obama (through various supporters) would push to eliminate the constitutional amendment that limited presidents to two terms. I underestimated Obama: his minions are working to eliminate the entire Constitution.
Umm….Piers Morgan, not Morton Downey Morgan, Jr.
It’s a joke — much like Piers himself.