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But they did it to me.
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I have a bajillion stories that whenever I fill in for Russia, I can never get to all of them.
There are so many great stories.
But I want to string a slew of them together because there's an underlying current that I think is deeply related on all of these stories.
To start with, there's an AP story that federal agents in a sweep targeting the most dangerous criminal immigrants.
Get this, let me read these four words again.
Most dangerous criminal immigrants arrested fifteen people who have been allowed to remain in the United States under Barack Obama's executive action, intended to protect the children who came to the U.S. years ago with their parents.
Fourteen of the fifteen had been convicted of a crime.
In at least one case, the Obama administration renewed the protective status for a young immigrant after that person's conviction in a drug case.
One of the eligibility requirements for the program is that immigrants not have a criminal history.
The official spoke on a condition of anonymity.
Yes, the Obama administration is going to hunt down this person for pointing out that they're not following their own rules.
The Homeland Security Department, by the way, said eight other people arrested during the sweep had received protective status at one point, including three who had it revoked.
So we have in a nutshell.
The Obama administration has set forth rules they expect to be followed in immigration, and they're willing to not apply the rules.
Calling her a terrorist from decades ago who has turned to good works.
A judge sentenced a Chicago activist on Thursday to 18 months in prison for lying about her convictions for bombings in Israel when she sought U.S. citizenship.
Now this happened years ago in actually it happened in 2004.
She's 67 now.
She had been involved in bombings in Israel.
She is an Arab political activist.
You know, we like to say, we we like the platitude of saying we're a nation of laws, not men.
I'm been paying attention to a podcast called The History of Rome, a seminary professor of mine recommended, and it takes you basically from from day one when Aeneas fleets Troy all the way to the Barbarian Storming the Gate, uh a hundred and seventy some odd fifteen to twenty minute podcast.
They're fantastic.
Uh I love history, love Roman history.
Uh majored in that in college, that in political science.
Uh and you know people say, and I've joked about Octavius Obama, but I I really don't think we're at an imperial stage.
I don't think Obama's king.
I think he he pretends to be king.
I think the left humors him in that way.
We're we're not at a monarchy, we're not an imperium.
We are at a point in American history, though, and in history rhymes, I don't think it repeats itself.
Mark Twain is right.
Nothing is precise.
But I do think we have come to a point in our republic where cults of personality spring up in ways they didn't in the past.
We have become so far removed from the essentials of American history.
I mean, we are we're we're seventy-five years from D-Day.
D Day was cla as D Day was as far from this end of the Civil War as we were from D-Day, essentially.
And the Civil War itself was closer to the American Revolution.
And the American Revolution was within the grandfathers' generation of the men who fought the American Revolution was within their grandfather's time span from the glorious revolution in 1688 in Great Britain.
And the American Revolution was a revolution where the founders of this country believed they were British citizens entitled to the rights of the glorious revolution.
They weren't getting them, so they decided to rebel not to seek new things, but to seek and acquire the old things they thought they already had.
All of that is an abstract to us now.
And you when things become an abstract, I mean, the First Amendment, the second amendment, the Third Amendment, the Third Amendment that none of us worry about, the quartering or the housing of soldiers in your home.
It is an abstract to us.
None of us can in our lifetimes, the lifetimes of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, or even great great grandparents for the most part, can conceive of a time when the government can force you to house and care for a soldier.
The reason that was put into the Bill of Rights, the reason it's part of our constitutional framework is because it was very real to the founders of the country.
But now there's a great there is a great abstraction for our rights.
There is an abstraction to our values.
They are theoretical, they are academic, they are not real to us anymore.
And as a result, we can walk beyond the real and the physical and the reality of the rights to an abstraction, and from the abstraction we can go to a cult of personality where we are no longer really a nation of laws, we're a nation of men who claim that they will follow and honor the laws of the past, that they will apply the laws of the past without bias, but they do exert bias, and it's not Democrat and it's not Republican.
It is people in Washington, D.C., regardless of party who do it.
This is not a partisan point.
This is the reality of the way the world works.
There are cults of personality on both sides.
People are willing to give their guy a pass in a way they're not willing to give the other side a pass because it's the cult of personality.
It's it's the partisanship.
And so terrorists and criminals, and illegal aliens who have broken laws and are, in the words of the associated press, dangerous criminal immigrants.
They're allowed to stay in the country and get waivers from the rules the president constructed himself because they fit his policy narrative.
They may break the law, but the law then will be chosen to not apply to them.
Hillary Clinton and her emails are a great example of that.
The law doesn't apply to Hillary Clinton because she's Hillary Clinton.
We are a nation of people, not laws.
We can get back to it, but it will take both sides working in harmony to do it.
We see all of these stories.
There's another story.
Aaron Schock.
Aaron Shock is the congressman from Illinois who used taxpayer funds to decorate his office like Downton Abbey.
There are new allegations that he has been putting a photographer, a full-time photographer on his payroll and flying the photographer with him on his trips to places without disclosing all of it.
The law doesn't apply to Aaron Schock.
He's going to reimburse money, he's going to hire lawyers, he's going to obfuscate.
This story from the Hill on Capitol Hill of the newspaper notes that I have said Shock should resign, and he should.
He he responds, however, I don't take my marching orders from Eric Erickson.
I take my marching orders from the 750,000 people in the 18th district who spoke rather loudly a few months ago before they knew you were breaking the law, before they knew you were obfuscating on campaign finance, before they knew how you were abusing taxpayer dollars, Aaron Shock, you should resign.
The Republicans and the Democrats alike have got to hold their own sides accountable.
If we want to be a nation of laws and not men, it is incumbent upon Republicans to hold their own side accountable, or the voters will eventually.
It is incumbent on Democrats to hold their own side accountable.
Too many times people want to turn a blind eye from what happens within their own party and say, Well, we can't do this because it'll help the other side.
Well, if you don't do something that undermines the greater cause of the American Republic, guys like Aaron Shock who prove themselves unfit to exercise the power of the springs because of the way they've handled taxpayer dollars on their own dealings because of the way they've handled donor dollars.
They don't need to be in Congress.
He is now required to repay taxpayers, and we're finding he is beholden to donors who've spent lavishly on him.
Why?
They didn't spend lavishly on Aaron Schock because they're his buddy.
They spent lavishly on him because they wanted their way.
And they knew they could get him as a vote.
He is cast as a reliable spokesman for the Republican leadership, and this is what he's done.
If we're not willing to hold our own side accountable, someone's going to, and we're not ultimately going to like the outcome.
When Republicans didn't hold their own side accountable in 2006, look what happened.
And then there's another story that I think is is completely related to all of these topics.
Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman, rah, he is endorsing the opponent of Rahm Emanuel.
Do you know why he's endorsing Rahm Emanuel's opponent?
He's doing it because Rahm Emanuel dared to decide that kids in Chicago deserved a good education.
Now I am not a Rama Manual apologist.
I'm not a Rama Manual supporter.
I'm not a Ram Emanuel friend.
I think it is Shaden Freud Alicious that the Democrats are engaged in a civil war in Illinois.
But let's be clear about why they're engaged in the Civil War in Chicago.
They are because Rahm Emanuel decided kids in Chicago should graduate knowing how to read and write and do basic math.
And the teachers' unions and the Democrats are upset, so they're gonna throw him under the bus for doing that, along with a series of other things, but that's the core of their argument.
Him wanting to make sure kids could read, write, and do math because he knows the cost to society if they don't.
He dared to take on Democratic constituents, and so Howard Dean and the Democrats are punishing him for trying to make sure kids get a good education.
That's what it's all about there.
We are a nation of men, not laws.
The Democrats have no intent on holding their own side and their own causes accountable.
Meanwhile, when conservatives, when Tea Party activists do it to our side, the people who like it that we're a nation of men now call us racists, bigots, homophobes, troglodytes.
Meanwhile, the conservatives continue to put points on the board for freedom and continue to advance smaller, more limited government.
We've been winning holding our side accountable.
Luckily, maybe the Democrats maybe they won't actually start holding their side accountable.
Eric Erickson in for Rush.
We'll be back.
I I have a disturbing case of media bias to bring to you.
This is uh I mean, wow.
Welcome back, by the way.
It's Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
This this is the way the story is reported.
An inmate in New York is accused of hiding oxycodone pills in his rectum and selling them to other inmates at his jail.
Hmm, tasty.
Authority said correction officers at the Rockland County jail found about fifty pills after searching Brian Laura and his uh my goodness gracious.
Why media bias?
You know and I know he's a Democrat.
I'm just saying, oh come on.
You he's not that he's gonna be voting anymore, but if it was okay.
We're gonna move on now.
I just figured I would throw that story out there.
Enlighten your day.
Craig in Libertyville, Iowa.
How are you in the frozen north?
I'm good.
I'm bet I'm not as cold as you.
Oh no, we're in the 70s today.
What?
It's colder in Atlanta than it is there?
Yeah, it's it's a beautiful day here.
Oh, this is just a repressing.
Okay, Craig, what what's going on?
Well, I I'm just kind of disturbed about the fact that a U.S. soldier who had his baby wrapped in a flag was ridiculed by the liberals, and but they praised the fact that in Irvine, California at the university there they were voted to take down the American flag because it represented imperialism and things like that.
It just amazes me the where education is gone and um the truth of it of our history is just falling apart.
It all starts with like the books from Russell and Baugh, which I'm planning on getting a set for my daughter, and speaking the truth in our education system, and it just is outrageous that this is happening.
Yeah, okay.
For those who haven't heard the story, because I hadn't, um a a photographer, Vanessa Hicks.
Uh she's a Navy veteran, but she's facing a backlash because she took a photograph of a baby wrapped in an American flag.
And it's a soldier from the U.S. Navy holding the flag like a hammock with the baby in it, and people are upset, claiming that it's disrespectful, rude, tacky, disgusting, against the U.S. flag code.
It's a gorgeous picture, actually.
I'm looking at the picture right now.
Beautiful, touching picture.
Yes, it is.
The baby is asleep, a newborn in the swaddling cloth that you get in the hospital in in the American flag.
You know, we live in a society where people are just outraged about the most ridiculous things.
Everything is political, where you go eat, what you eat, what movies you see, what TV shows you watch, i you it's got to be political and and you've got to be on your side.
I think it's a it's a beautiful picture, and I think it's very respectful of the flag, the symbolism of it.
Here's a Navy soldier holding up a flag that's uh a baby is is wrapped in.
Meanwhile, speaking of disrespecting the flag, this story you're getting to, Craig, in Irvine, California, the student government in Irvine, California, yes, I know many of you people stopped when I said California.
The University of California voted to ban all flags, including the American one, from their student government office, because they decided it was a solution to a battle over free speech that began when someone tacked a U.S. flag to the wall in January.
You know, I remember a day and age, and I'm only 39, but I remember a day at age where people actually prioritized things and realized some things are important and some things aren't, and that there were some things that you should get worked up about, and the American flag was not one of them unless people were burning it.
I I don't know students in in California, I I guess that they they feel like they can be outraged about all sorts of stuff.
Now the outrage here, so that you need to understand, the outrage is that the student council wanted to ban all flags because the U.S. flag could be viewed as hate speech, because some considered a symbol of colonialism and imperialism.
The executive cabinet vetoed the legislation, but it was two days late.
There were protests on campus.
But there are students on this campus who hate the American flag.
Why don't they go to a new country?
I mean, if if you hate the American flag, if you hate what it symbolizes, it symbolizes a country that is the last best hope for mankind.
It symbolizes the height of man's ability to organize himself in a democratic republic where the people are in charge.
If you hate that, go to a third world regime, go to Krapalakistan, go to Cuba, go to North Korea, go to Venezuela, go to China, and see if you have it better there.
See if you have it better in one of these totalitarian regimes.
If you hate the American flag, leave.
No one's making you stay.
The only reason you're staying is because you know in this country you can complain about it in a way you couldn't if you went to one of those other countries.
I I have no time for these silly little people and their silly little causes, and their silly little aggravations.
You know, there is a world out there that a lot of people in the media and the Democratic Party and the left they don't understand.
It's a world where there's a mom and a dad and their kids, and the dad and the mom, they get up, they go to work, they get the kids to school, they come home, they talk about their day, they decide what they're gonna have for supper, they watch something on TV, they do homework with the kids, they go to bed and they do it all over again the next day.
And they don't find time to get offended by the American flag.
They don't find time to get offended by the crazy little stuff, but they see subtly that the world is turning against them.
That what was up is now down, what was right is now wrong, what was wrong is now right.
And I suspect we're going to be hearing from more and more of them as this goes on in cultural suicide land.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erikson here, the last half hour on this open line Friday, 800 28282, in the true spirit of an open line Friday, wherein the caller makes the host look somewhat good, hopefully.
Julia in Big Fort Montana, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank thank you for uh taking my call.
Sure, Julia.
I I I know what you're going to raise and I have been researching furiously in anticipation of your phone call.
Okay.
Thank you.
Sure.
Um I want to talk about uh the state of Montana trying to take our water rights away from us and giving them to the Indians.
Yes, so go on and expla explain this to the listeners of what's happening.
Well, in Montana, we have a uh reservation.
Well, we have lots of reservations, but the CSKT Indians uh with the state of Montana has has uh given or trying to give the Indians the the water rights to uh the western uh northwestern Montana and it's gone through the state Senate and it's gonna be on the House in a few weeks,
and uh they're gonna they have uh waivers and immunity clauses in there and they say that the Indians have time and memorial on our water rights.
When we bought our property, we put a well on and we we pay for our permit and it goes to the DNRC, then Department of Natural Resources, and uh the state says that the Indians own all of the water that's in the northwestern Montana.
Yeah, so you know, Julia, I've I was looking all through the commercial break about this, and I found several press reports.
And the problem goes back to eighteen fifty-five and the Hellgate Treaty, uh also called the Stevens Treaty.
Yes.
And it's been upheld by the Supreme Court several times.
And basically what it says, the Stevens Treaty, when the d territory of of Montana was included in the territory of Washington, the Stevens Treaty granted uh American Indian tribes off reservation aboriginal water rights.
But this Hellgate Treaty does not say that.
It says that they they can fish and they can hunt in their usual places in common with the citizens of Montana.
Yeah, usual and accustomed places on streams running through or bordering the reservations.
And the Supreme Court has upheld that language in the past, according to all the press reports I've I've seen.
And the reason that the Montana State Legislature is is worried, and although it truth be told, a number of members of the legislature feel like they're being rushed to do this, the legislation is more than a thousand pages and they waited until the last minute to give it to 'em.
It's like the Obamacare.
Uh let's let's uh uh ratify it and then see what's in it.
But it does a whole bunch of different things.
It gives the right of the Indians to go over our property and go fishing if we have a lake or a stream in on our property.
That is as far as I'm concerned, giving our our private property rights to the Indians.
What the legislation that the bill there is called SB 262, the water rights compact bill.
And I'm reading here from now from a press report from the Yellowstone newspapers.
Okay, the bill, if passed, would settle two decades of water rights negotiations between the state of Montana, the federal government, and the CSKT tribes of the Flathead Reservation.
And it will be able to uh give them the uh right to lease out our water.
Well, here Let me read you this paragraph so people understand what what's at stake here.
If the bill does not pass, the tribes will have the option to file for water rights with the Montana Water Court.
The complication, however, is that the tribes have the right to file for in stream water rights, which protect fishing habitat anywhere across Montana, they may have originally hunted or fished since time and memorial.
If the bill passes, they give up their water rights east of the Continental Divide.
If time immemorial is...
What happens to our Constitution, our U.S. Constitution, and the state of Montana...
It states that the state owns the water.
See, the you know, let me let me jump a uh aside to to a tangential issue, Julia, and that is that we've got uh native American and American Indian tr treaties across the nation, and I don't know that we've ever really come to peace with our relation with American Indians or are they citizens?
Do we still need reservations, what have you, in this particular situation, uh whether you or I like it, way back in the eighteen hundreds in eighteen fifty-five, they negotiated the Stevens Treaty, and the Stevens Treaty gave them off reservation aboriginal water rights to anywhere in Montana that they could claim that they might have hunted.
And they can fairly well claim this particular tribe that they hunted anywhere in Montana.
The problem is, given Supreme Court precedent, that if this legislation does not go through, then the tribes will be able to say that they should have access to all in stream waters in Montana, anywhere in the state.
If the legislation does pass, they will maintain that claim because it's in a treaty from the eighteen fifties that Congress ratified and the Supreme Court in the past century has upheld, but they will give up all of their rights on the east side of the Continental Divide, which is the larger territory in Montana to worry about it.
It's kind of a uh I mean six of one and half dozen of the other.
So yeah, it just it's it's not a good situation for the people of Montana, but it was a treaty negotiated before Montana was a state.
It's one of those great examples of the government doing things without forethought of what might come in the future.
Uh complicated, complicated mess.
Let's go to Skip in Steubenville, Ohio.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Yes, sir.
I was calling because I saw on TV there the Secret Service agent that uh run his car into the gate.
I heard that it was like one mile an hour, but I saw the news media was showing this.
They're showing the guy that run through over the gate, they're showing talking about the the little com remote control thing.
It felt like this guy, the Secret Service agent, was crashing the gate.
Here he said he was at a party, they said he was drunk, okay?
And uh okay, so all that and all the cover up.
But why make it be like that nobody's looking out to protect Obama?
Why make them why make me feel or the media that's looking at this, why portray it like this guy's not getting protected?
You know, I I didn't understand that at all.
They say that guy's one of the best Secret Service agents there are, and I just so there was a party for a retiring agent or something.
Some of them were able, and you know, there's the related story here, and this is another one of the reasons it's so bad now.
This is from the Hill.
Uh two Secret Service agents evolved in the alleged drunking driving incident disrupted a bomb investigation and may have actually driven over the suspicious package.
This is this is a scene from uh uh.
This is a scene from a Will Farrell movie.
They may have driven over the suspicious package in the well, because they were drunk.
Well, we know now it wasn't a bomb because it didn't blow up on them.
Their career may have bombed out now, but the rest of it.
No, I mean, this is something you're gonna see on adult swim one night, uh a sketch of these Secret Service agents.
When I grow up, I think I want to join the Secret Service, because it just sounds awesome.
I mean, d what they do outside the country and inside the country, here's the problem, Skip.
Take President Obama out of this.
This is this goes beyond being a a partisan point because they protect The president of the United States, whoever that president is, and now word is coming out that there may have been incidences in the Bush administration as well when all the terrorists wanted to kill him.
Uh something happened.
But there is a point here that some people will hear as partisan.
And I don't mean it to be, but it it's just the nature of the beast when you say things like this.
For some reason, this administration, in its management of the Secret Service, in its management of the executive department, has behaved like a frat house.
And I think the the level of unseriousness of the administration has has trickled down into all aspects of the executive branch, now down to the Secret Service, where we can behave in a cavalier manner because everybody else in the administration behaves in a cavalier manner.
And oh, by the way, the people who are appointed to oversee us, appointed by the Obama administration, behave in a cavalier way.
I also get the sense that some of these guys, they're they've just kind of thrown their hands up.
Not a good situation.
We as Americans should be concerned for the safety of our president, regardless of his party.
And it sounds like though, in the management of the Secret Service, this White House has chosen to just put in charge people who are part of the problem.
And I mean, it just is indicative of a larger level of all of the management problems that this administration seems to have.
Eric Erickson Infrarush Limbaugh, back in a minute with more of your calls.
I don't recall myself saying this, but people on Twitter tell me I said soldier instead of sailor when I referred to the Navy.
I'm sorry.
I don't know what came over me.
In any event, speaking of the Navy sailor holding the baby in the American flag for the picture, Amy in Pittsburgh.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
I'm good.
So what do you think about the picture?
I actually saw it a photographers amazing.
Um I think it's more of you look at it as a in a symbolistic way.
Yes.
It's like America holding a baby, like our future, and then even the soldiers protecting that.
I thought it was a a beautifully sentimental picture myself.
It is it's a for those of you who haven't seen it, you can Google it.
It's a sailor in uniform with an American flag, uh, arms out with the American flag almost like a hammock or a bassinet with a baby in swaddling cloth inside the flag.
It's very, very symbolic of of the of the meaning of what this country means and what sailors and soldiers mean to the defense of the country.
I can't believe people are outraged by it.
I was absolutely shocked if I saw the picture that people would even complain about it.
Although, you know, I gotta say, I am increasingly, and I don't know if you are, Amy, but I I am more and more increasingly surprised by what people tend to get outraged about.
I mean, things I look at and like, why are you mad about that?
I'm a nurse, so I see a lot of those things, and sometimes I just have to walk away and get myself a break because it's overwhelming what people get upset about.
It really is.
I mean, you know, there are things in life that matter and things that don't, and people seem to get really upset about the things in life that they can't control and that don't matter.
And the ones that get the most upset are the ones that want everything their way.
Yes.
Yes, and and we call those people liberals.
It is, though, but you know, I've got conservatives, like I I watch certain TV shows, and one of my shows that I like to watch is is Archer.
It is a guilty pleasure cartoon on FX at night, and it is not for children.
Yes, it's not for children.
I've got friends, I can't believe you watch that.
It's it's it's condescending and it it's got bad language and it's not fun.
I'm like, it's hilarious.
It it genuinely is a hilarious TV show.
I don't care that it's a bunch of liberals who put that show together.
It makes me laugh.
That's what matters.
Yes, thank you very much for the phone call, Amy.
I and you know that is what matters.
The people there are too many people who just can't laugh about things anymore.
Like the The Angry Feminists, and they're upset that men open doors for women.
They they can't they can't be gracious.
If you can't be grush You know I watched the British House of Cards series, and it's one of my favorite miniseries, and I I just can't really get into I I watched the first season and I've watched most of the second season, and and I just I know what happens really ultimately from having watched the British one,
but I don't know that they've they've gotten to the point where i they it offends me to speaking of being offended about everything, the the irony of me now saying this, but you know, they've gone out of their way to be condescending to my side in in more and more episodes than I see.
And I don't mind when you take a dig at the tea party.
I don't mind when you take a dig at me.
I can laugh it off.
There are things I've done that are are I can laugh at.
But when the entire show sets up my side as being the bad guy, well, I I don't have to watch that, and it seems like more and more they are.
I I'm sure I'll get back into it.
Kevin Spacey's a fantastic actor, but I just there's I I the shows that I don't watch are the shows that I think they're they're violent and gory, or they're just they want to be offensive, and I I want to laugh, and I laugh at a show like Archer.
Um but I don't want to be offended or have my side be ridiculed the whole time.
If you like it, that's fine.
I'm not gonna tell you not to.
I'm not gonna be outraged that you like the show.
We can have different tastes in this country.
Unfortunately, there are too many people who have decided that we all have to have the exact same taste.
We have to be a homogenized cultural and everything.
And it's not just liberals, to be fair.
There are I've got some friends of mine on the right who are the same way that they cannot find humor and stuff anymore.
I'm sorry.
Like, you know, I I'm in seminary, I'm I'm an evangelical.
I I think there's going to be a final day.
And I just uh I'm much more focused on those things that matter than those things that won and along the way.
I just want to laugh at some stuff.
I'm willing to laugh at my own side.
I'm definitely willing to laugh at the other side, which is never willing to laugh at itself.
That's a big difference between conservatives and liberals.
We're willing to laugh at our side.
They are never ever, ever willing to laugh at their side.
That's not funny.
Yes, actually it is, comfortable shoed feminists.
We will be back.
Eric Eriksen here in for Rushland Ball.
All right.
I think I can work in Galen from Savannah, Georgia, where my great state.
Galen, how are you?
Doing good.
How are you, Eric?
I'm good.
We don't have a lot of time, so you gotta get to your point.
Okay.
Uh what I'm saying is whenever a conservative talks to or tries to debate a liberal, he needs a common household item to adequately and completely take care of the liberals' arguments.
And one item is a mirror.
Any time they accomplished accuses the conservative of hate or racism, you need to hold up the mirror and say, if you want to see someone who hates, just look in the mirror.
Actions speak louder than words.
And your actions toward Israel and Phoebe Netanyahu are absolutely anti-Semitic.
And the civil rights leaders from the 60s and 70s, virtually to a man and woman, said that anti-Semitism was the same as racism.
Galen, that is a great point.
I I gotta cut you off there because we're out of time here on the Rush Limbaugh show.
But yes, I hold up a mirror, show them their own hypocrisy.
Liberals re you know, though, liberals it it liberals can't be hypocritical, and you need to understand this.
To be hypocritical, you've got to have standards and values, and you've got to be striving to uphold those values and fall short of them.
Liberals don't do that, and they have no sense of history, so it's very hard to call them hypocrite when they stand for nothing and everything all at the same time.