Brit and Juan

During the roundtable segment of this morning's FOX News Sunday, there was a textbook example illustrating that when it comes to the minds of liberals and conservatives, never the twain shall meet.

While discussing Bill Bennett's widely analyzed comments regarding abortion, crime, and black babies, Brit Hume and Juan Williams exemplified the parallel universes that the Right and the Left occupy.

Hume was trying his best to explain to Williams that Bennett CONDEMNED the morally reprehensible suggestion that aborting black babies would be a way to drive down crime rates.

Williams refused to accept that reality. He was stupidly stuck on a sentence uttered by Bennett while ignoring the full context of the statement. Instead, Williams preferred to lynch Bennett.

Hume pointed out that in our society deeming someone a racist is equivalent to using a lethal weapon.

He's right. Playing the race card is one of the most effective tactics of the Left.

There is overwhelming societal condemnation for racism. To assign the label of "racist" to an individual is certain to take a toll on how that person is perceived by others.

For Williams and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and on and on, to contort Bennett's comments in order to do damage to conservatives is despicable.

Bennett's career history reveals that he successfully has worked to improve the situation of minorities. To crucify him on the basis of false charges of racism is unconscionable.

Obviously, liberals are using the strategy of death by a thousand cuts to destroy support for conservatives in order to destroy support for the conservative agenda among the majority of Americans.

They can demonize conservatives till the cows come home. That won't change the fact that when it comes to casting votes, most Americans reject liberals.

I doubt that unjustly characterizing Bennett as a racist will cause conservative and independent Americans to shift to the Party of Farrakhan and Sheehan.

I predict a backlash.