Democrat's double standards on past comments: Media Matters edition

 Media Matters, led by Angelo Carusone, is calling for Tucker Carlson to be driven off the air based on things he said between 2006 and 2011.

Referring to a Bangladeshi man robbed by a gang of transvestites it was said:

“Did you notice the word attractive? What the f**k is that doing in there? Is the write[r] a tranny lover too? Or, perhaps he’s trying to justify how these trannies tricked this Bangladeshi in the first place? Look man, we don’t need to know whether or not they were attractive. The f***g guy was Bangladeshi,” “And while we’re out, what the hell was he doing with $7,300 worth of stuff. The guy’s Banladeshi! [sic]”

The police were also chided police for not advising the public to “stay away from tranny bars,…”

What's interesting is this is what Carusone wrote in November 2005 not anything that Carlson ever said.

The reality is that what is and isn't acceptable speech has changed over time and either we give everyone a pass for using terminology that was ok then but isn't now or we give no one a pass.

Back in the 2000s Joy Reid, still a prominent voice on CNN, wrote a number of "homophobic" posts where she accused people who weren't gay of being gay and then described why it's bad that they're gay.

Oddly, not, Media Matters has no problem with Joy Reid.

The reality is simple. The left today is mostly composed of fascist haters who have no moral standards and  who are bereft of any standards other than double standards.

I'm fine with giving Angelo and Joy a pass but not if they insist on holding conservatives to a higher standard than they hold themselves.