Costco & Hobby Lobby: When the Double Standard is the standard

[CincyDem]

Over the past week, we've seen the Supremes take another step in validating corporate personhood...this time in the form of enabling the religious believes of owners trump the law.

Three cheers from the right on that one.

Yesterday we have a Costco decision to drop Dinesh D'Souza's most recent book from distribution.

The right's position - this is the most egregious first amendment violation ever and it's all because the CEO of Costco is an Obama supporter. How DARE he assert his political opinion in a way that limits D'Souza's right to get his message out. D'Souza's most recent FB post is essentially a "How dare they?" rant about how this could adversely impact his livelihood - and it's all because of politics. This is the common line from Rushbo to Drudge to Fox - an Obama supporter has quashed the free speech of a dissenter (while continuing to carry Hilllary's book), endangering America's access to the truth and putting the author's livelihood at risk.

Let's skip the fact that there's no right to have your free speech distributed. Let's skip the fact that D'Souza is an overpoliticized hack trying to legitimatize the "truth" of his single minded anti-Obama opinions by positioning his work as "scholarly". And let's skip the fact that businesses for time eternal have been making decisions about their merchandise - adding and dropping items as they see demand change.

Let's skip all that.

Where's the outrage for the cashier at the local Hobby Lobby now denied her access to the full range of appropriate, legal, and sometimes necessary health care? You think that inaccessibility impacts her livelihood?

As always, the double standard is the current that flows beneath the party line. The livelihood of a hack right wing writer challenged - bad. The livelihood (and health) of thousands of women nationwide put in peril - no problem.

You pick the topic, they'll find the double standard. IOKIYAR. Sheesh these guys are slimy.