Cindy Sheehan and Mel Gibson

An example of the Left's hypocrisy:

In 2004, Mel Gibson was pummeled by liberal critics and columnists alike for supposedly making an anti-Semitic film, The Passion of the Christ.

Maybe they were angered that Gibson was able to circumvent Hollywood and make the movie he wanted to make without them. He took a chance. He told the story of the last hours of the life of Jesus without the approval of Hollywood's liberal elite.

In spite of the Left's insistence that the film was anti-Semitic, millions didn't see it that way at all. The public embraced Gibson's movie, and it set box office records.

Nevertheless, Hollywood libs and liberal columnists such as Frank Rich rejected it as a depiction of Christ's passion that was grounded in Gibson's hostility toward Jews. Gibson was labeled a hate-monger.

You would think that the same elitists who found fault with Mel Gibson for his presumed anti-Semitism would condemn Cindy Sheehan for her repeated suggestions that U.S. support of Israel was directly related to her son's death and was the root cause of terrorism.

Where are all the columns by Leftist writers trashing Sheehan for her Israel bashing?

Hollywood and the liberal media conveniently ignore some of Cindy's best:

"We want our country back if we have to impeach George Bush down to the person who picks up the dog sh-t in Washington! Let George Bush send his two little party animals to die in Iraq. It’s OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons but we are waging nuclear war in Iraq, we have contaminated the entire country. It’s not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. Hypocrites! But Israel can occupy Palestine? Stop the slaughter!"

"Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel."

"You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you'll stop the terrorism."

Apparently, as long as one is politically liberal and pushes the far Left's radical agenda, like Sheehan, one receives a pass from the liberal elite when making anti-Semitic statements.

However, if one does not march in lock step with the extremists on the Left, like Mel Gibson, one is dubbed an anti-Semite for putting the story of Christ's death on film.

Go figure.

The Left's selective outrage really is laughable.

The liberals' only consistency is their lack of consistency.