Left Behind in Boston, Iggy Swings and Misses

As the only member 0f the morning show crew left behind in Boston (I can't imagine why the guys would not want to spend a week in Florida with him), Iggy remained relatively silent until he mouth farted up a nugget in a failed attempt to be funny. Dennis and Callahan interviewed Larry Lucchino, President and CEO of the Red Sox, and well-known uber-liberal. Larry and the boys mixed in their usual good-natured political sparring into the interview, and afterwards, Gerry mused how someone like Larry could be a liberal. He pointed out that Larry is hard working and very knowledgeable about business - and that’s when the piddling producer piped in with “he’s intelligent”, trying to infer that all liberals are intelligent, and anyone who disagress with them is not. Iggy, that was the verbal version of Julio Lugo trying to get around on a 95mph fastball.

Larry Lucchino is without doubt, a very intelligent man. He could not have succeeded in business the way he has were he not. It is his extreme liberalism in spite of this intelligence that puzzles clear thinking people, because any reasonable person knows that all liberal polices and beliefs are both morally and economically untenable. Liberals like Larry Lucchino are usually that way for several reasons, the most important of which is because he can afford it. Larry is a classic limousine liberal. No matter how much money government confiscates from them, limousine liberals either are born with, or have made and continue to make, enough money to be able to live a life sheltered from the very policies they fund and support.

There are other factord that can lead to the creation of limousine liberals. One is their having been raised in a cloistered environment where they are indoctrinated with liberal thought from the cradle, to the $10,000 a year preschool, though private prep-school, all the way through (often Ivy League) college. They may live for over twenty years without ever meeting someone with an opposing view. Another common factor is guilt; guilt over either having been born wealthy, or having been successful and thus become wealthy. This is especially prevalent among whites for some reason. Feeling guilty about their own bounty, they look for ways to “give back” to society, and settle on “spreading the wealth” around. This is all well and good if, like conservatives, they accomplished this by donating their own wealth to deserving charities. Instead, they take the approach that their guilt should be assuaged by the government confiscating and redistributing private wealth – and forcing others to endure it against their will.

Whatever the combination of factors that go into creating a limousine liberal, the result is the same. High taxes do not impede their ability to host charity cocktail parties to raise money for such deserving, upstanding citizens like Mumia Abu-Jamal. Forced busing that requires children to wake up at 5:00AM to able to take the one-hour bus ride to a school across town does not affect them because their own children are chauferred to private school. Gun laws that prevent people from defending themselves and their property do not impact them because they live in secured, gated communities, and they hire private security personnel. No matter how much of mess they make of society, they are able to live blissfully above the fray, all the while feeling good about themselves - and smugly reminding each other about it - because of all the wonderful, progressive causes they champion. Do you get it now Iggy? Here endeth the lesson.