Hypocrisy to most individuals is embarrassing and absurd; which, usually means people attempt to avoid placing themselves in a conundrum that would illustrate their hypcritical tendencies. Hypocrisy is usually indicative of someone who has no core through which their beliefs are filtered. There is no lighthouse guiding individuals with these predilections as their beliefs are but a tattered quilt that is loosely sewn together. The liberal left is this tattered quilt as their beliefs form some form of a twisted ideology to oppose modern conservatism. As there is not a cohesive set of beliefs through which those absorbed by this ideology follow, liberals find themselves sometimes in precarious situations as their hypocrisy is on blazon display.

But, sometimes this hypocrisy rises to the level of the reckless and dangerous. Liberals, and their progeny, the Democrats, have bantered about ‘Port-gate’ as if they have finally mastered national security. With an indignant air, liberals act as though they have had our best interests at heart. Though it seems liberals and Democrats have been in opposition to nearly every move the Bush Administration has made to solidify our domestic protection. It would be far easier to parse what issues and policies liberals have joined since their tirades and tantrums are always postured to be in the diametrically opposed position of the Bush Administration.

It is why stories such as these are reckless and dangerous. (from John Fund at OpinionJournal.com)

Are there no limits to how arrogant and out-of-touch America’s Ivy League schools can get? Last week it emerged that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former deputy foreign secretary of the Taliban, is now a student at Yale while at the same time the school continues to block ROTC training from its campus and argues for the right of its law school to exclude military recruiters. King George’s troops played the music to “The World Turned Upside Down” as they surrendered at Yorktown. Perhaps the Ivy League should adopt that tune as they surrender all vestiges of common sense.

Yale’s decision to admit Mr. Rahmatullah is particularly jarring given constant reminders of the Taliban’s crimes–both past and present. Last week, as President Bush visited democratic Afghanistan, its TV news aired fresh footage of beheaded bodies being paraded through a street. The men had been murdered because they opposed local Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists.

Last week I described Mr. Rahmatullah’s remarkable visit to The Wall Street Journal’s offices in the spring of 2001. .After a meeting in which he defended the Taliban’s treatment of women and said he hadn’t seen any evidence that their “guest” Osama bin Laden was a terrorist, I felt I had looked into the face of evil.

I walked Mr. Rahmatullah out. I will never forget how he stopped at a picture window and stared up at the World Trade Center, which terrorists had failed to destroy in 1993. When I finally pried him away, I couldn’t help but think, He must have been thinking about the one that got away.

You would think Yale would feel compelled to explain its decision to admit Mr. Rahmatullah. Instead, a cone of silence has descended over the university. Yale officials didn’t return my calls or those of other reporters for several days last week. Finally on Friday, spokesman Tom Conroy said the university would have no comment, citing privacy concerns that preclude it from discussing any individual student.

Almost no one will now defend Mr. Ramatullah’s presence as a special student, even though a week ago many had no such inhibitions in a splashy New York Times magazine piece, which broke the news that he had been at Yale for eight months. In that piece, Richard Shaw, Yale’s dean of undergraduate admissions before he took the same post at Stanford, explained that Yale had missed out on another foreign student of the same caliber as Mr. Rahmatullah but that “we lost him to Harvard,” and “I didn’t want that to happen again.”

Now Mr. Shaw isn’t returning phone calls, and much of the reaction from Yale to the outside world is downright hostile. One faculty member told me he wasn’t interested in questions about Mr. Rahmatullah and accused me of pursuing “another Journal attack on Yale’s lax liberal standards.” He then threatened to attack me in print as “slimy.”

At the same time, many Yale alumni and students tell me they are concerned that Yale refuses to explain why it honored Mr. Rahmatullah with a prize perch when countless well-qualified Americans–not to mention other Afghans–would jump at the chance but will never get it.

Hat Tip - Kim Priestap at Wizbang!