Jeannie DeAngelis’s May 4, 2022 commentary titled, Obama’s Fundamental Manipulation of Free Speech, at American Thinker (https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/obamas_fundamental_manipulation_of_free_speech.html) is my springboard for this post.

I find it fascinating, in an almost ghoulish way, just how successful Barack Hussein Obama (mmm, mmm, MMM!) seems to be in seducing so many individuals with his craftily craven, decidedly duplicitous, but brazenly mendacious lies.  And I mean “seduce” in the sense that so many people of the Left-leaning persuasion will simply swoon in his presence and as he speaks.  So much so that a sitting (wandering?) President will be utterly ignored in the White House itself!

Because of BHO’s brazen mendacity, I think his April 21, 2022 speech at Standford could have been titled, “The Audacity of GALL.”  For it must take a special type of self-absorbed hubris, a uniquely towering level of duplicity, and a thoroughly corrupted world view to assert–with true passion and apparent sincerity–that the way to protect free speech is to regulate it.

Neat trick, isn’t it?  If you deem every opinion which differs from yours as “hate speech”; if you characterize every point of view which doesn’t stand in lock-step conformity to Leftist ideology as “disinformation”; if you say that anyone who dares dispute the wholesomeness of Big Tech and/or Big Government–or who dares opine that the actions and behaviors of members of the Deep State are those of a tyrant–is an “insurrectionist”:  then you have an easy job, don’t you?  An easy job of defaming, dismissing, and disparaging each and every idea, notion, suggestion, thought, or word that violates Leftists’ tender sensitivities.  Saves time and effort if you don’t have to debate in the arena of ideas, doesn’t it?

After all, you don’t give vermin a voice, do you?  Heavens no!  You dispatch vermin.  All for the greater good, of course.

What do you think?