I don’t see RedEye getting a lot better as long as Rachel’s a regular on it, I really don’t. I like the show concept in general, and there are a lot of good guests (for the record, there’s no such thing as too much Julia Allison), but like many people, I’d rather listen to Bill and most of the liberals than Rachel. Last night she sneered at the Duke lacrosse players for having the gall to want to clear their names, basically calling them privileged white boys and wusses for not wanting false rape accusations hanging over their heads forever. And then she asked how the U.S. could fight the War on Terror if we’re going to be such wimps about trivial little things like rape charges.

That was obnoxious enough, but consider those statements in light of the fact that roughly a week ago she went off on a guest who poked fun at Canada for banning the baseball pillowfight ad, and then asked how did they expect to fight the War on Terror if they can’t handle that. Sound familiar? But in that instance, Rachel practically screamed at the guy about how Canadians were dying in Afghanistan, and how dare he suggest that Canadians were wimps. So it was terrible when that guy did it jokingly, but apparently not so terrible when Rachel makes the exact same argument about the U.S. a week later.

That’s the kind of hypocrisy I’m used to seeing from liberals, not from conservatives, although I’ve given up on trying to figure out what kind of “conservative” Rachel is supposed to be. Hating the Clintons does not in and of itself make a person conservative, merely a good judge of character–it shouldn’t be a political issue, just something that all decent people can agree on. But Rachel lost me when she mocked the Second Amendment, and said that if someone attacks you, you’re going to call the police on your cell phone rather than try to shoot them yourself. Well, I’m a great supporter of law enforcement, but they can’t be everywhere at once. Rachel Marsden may trust her life to a cell phone, but I’d rather put my faith in something with a lot more stopping power. Which also happens to be my constitutional right, which is the kind of thing that real conservatives usually care about.

ReubenJCogburn on April 12, 2007 at 11:49 AM