What is the significance of the storm over Agnew? Quite simply that he has broken the rules of the game as laid down by the symbiotic cartel of old liberalism, New Left, and the communications media. These rules provide that criticism from the Right is only permissible if stated within the categories with which liberalism obfuscates the shape of reality, while political obscenities of sans-culotte students or black revolutionaries are to be smiled upon or explained away.
The Vice President’s sin is that, again and again, beginning with his address at the time of the Baltimore riots and continuing through his recent analysis of TV news and comment, he has clearly and simply called things what they are. He has refused to enter the jungle of liberal semantics that obscure and distort straightforward issues; and he has stated those issues in terms of the traditional constitutional doctrine essential to the survival of a free society.
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