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# Claim that liberals' viewpoints are being "censored", while actually they are the ones censoring their opponents.
 
# Claim that liberals' viewpoints are being "censored", while actually they are the ones censoring their opponents.
 
# Claim that switching from heterosexual to [[homosexual]] is "customary", but switching back is somehow "impossible".
 
# Claim that switching from heterosexual to [[homosexual]] is "customary", but switching back is somehow "impossible".
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# Insist that someone needs to experience something (e.g., drugs, pornography, gambling, etc.) before being able to criticizet,<ref>[http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1808 Bryn Mawr report on marijuana]. Many commentators said the reporter had no justification for his views since he had never tried marijuana. Examples of such liberal logic included: "There are pros and cons to everything under the sun. That dosen't (sic) mean that you shouldn't try it all...Besides marijuana is so much more beneficial then everyone realizes." which was smartly replied to by another commenter with: "Following your logic, obviously there are PROS to:
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# Insist that someone needs to experience something (e.g., drugs, pornography, gambling, etc.) before being able to criticize it,<ref>[http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1808 Bryn Mawr report on marijuana]. Many commentators said the reporter had no justification for his views since he had never tried marijuana. Examples of such liberal logic included: "There are pros and cons to everything under the sun. That dosen't (sic) mean that you shouldn't try it all...Besides marijuana is so much more beneficial then everyone realizes." which was smartly replied to by another commenter with: "Following your logic, obviously there are PROS to:
 
*jumping off the Empire State Building
 
*jumping off the Empire State Building
 
*anorexia
 
*anorexia
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# Claiming that getting rid of a sadistic dictator by going into [[Iraq]] was wrong but stepping into [[Sudan]] is not.
 
# Claiming that getting rid of a sadistic dictator by going into [[Iraq]] was wrong but stepping into [[Sudan]] is not.
 
# Believing/claiming that the [[United Nations]] is better suited to judge and direct a country's actions rather than the country itself.
 
# Believing/claiming that the [[United Nations]] is better suited to judge and direct a country's actions rather than the country itself.
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# It is a right to dissent against [[American]] policy but never to take a stand if that [[logic]] moves beyond dissent and becomes treason.
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# Stating that there is somehow a "God of the gaps," in order to justify atheism.
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# Stating "God of the gaps" to justify atheism.
   
# Claiming that the "wondrous, pristine national park of [[ANWR]] needs protection to keep its beauty!" (In reality, it is but a remote barren tundra that few visit.)<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/MaryFallin/2008/07/24/anwrs_place_in_our_energy_picture ANWR's Place In Our Energy Picture] Townhall.com, July 24, 2008</ref>
 
# Claiming that the "wondrous, pristine national park of [[ANWR]] needs protection to keep its beauty!" (In reality, it is but a remote barren tundra that few visit.)<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/MaryFallin/2008/07/24/anwrs_place_in_our_energy_picture ANWR's Place In Our Energy Picture] Townhall.com, July 24, 2008</ref>
 
# Claiming that it's not fair to the world that [[America]] keeps the thermostat at 72 degrees at all times.<ref>[http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13459 Freedom and the View From Obamaland] American Spectator, July 1, 2008</ref>
 
# Claiming that it's not fair to the world that [[America]] keeps the thermostat at 72 degrees at all times.<ref>[http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13459 Freedom and the View From Obamaland] American Spectator, July 1, 2008</ref>
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# Using a double-standard for racism and sexism when the target person is conservative.
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# Using a double standard for racism and sexism when the target person is conservative.
 
# Claiming that it is extremely offensive to call any culture primitive or barbaric, except when they are talking about the writers of the [[Bible]].
 
# Claiming that it is extremely offensive to call any culture primitive or barbaric, except when they are talking about the writers of the [[Bible]].
 
# Many liberals claim that even if Obama wasn't born in America then he should still be "president".
 
# Many liberals claim that even if Obama wasn't born in America then he should still be "president".
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# Claim that labeling Islamic terrorists as evil is "down to their opinion", while labeling Christianity as "evil" is "absolutely correct".
 
# Claim that labeling Islamic terrorists as evil is "down to their opinion", while labeling Christianity as "evil" is "absolutely correct".
 
# Claim that population control is needed to settle down the growing population worldwide, but in fact this is plain propaganda and twice the population of 6 billion can fit into Jacksonville, Florida as it contains over 25 billion square feet.
 
# Claim that population control is needed to settle down the growing population worldwide, but in fact this is plain propaganda and twice the population of 6 billion can fit into Jacksonville, Florida as it contains over 25 billion square feet.
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# Teenagers are too young to access guns so they can defend themselves but they're never too young to have an abortion.
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# Teenagers are too young to access guns so they can defend themselves, but they're never too young to have an abortion.
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# Hippies, unions and Occupy Wall Street, whose messages are intimidating and sometimes violent, are "heroes", but pro lifers are "dangerous extremists" (the latter idea is silly because only seven murders by pro lifers have been made in the years since Roe v. Wade). Most of these actions are opposed by pro lifers.
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# Hippies, unions and Occupy Wall Street, whose messages are intimidating and sometimes violent, are "heroes", but pro-lifers are "dangerous extremists" (the latter idea is silly because only seven murders by pro-lifers have been committed in the years since Roe v. Wade). Most of these actions are opposed by pro-lifers.
 
# Animals and trees are precious while the unborn are just "blobs of tissue."
 
# Animals and trees are precious while the unborn are just "blobs of tissue."
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# A conservative who opposes same-sex "marriage" is a "bigot", but a liberal believing in the same way (such as Hillary Clinton) is not.
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# A conservative who opposes same-sex "marriage" is a "bigot", but a liberal believing in the same way (Hillary Clinton previously did) is not.
 
# The Constitution explicitly guarantees the "right to abortion", but not a handgun.
 
# The Constitution explicitly guarantees the "right to abortion", but not a handgun.
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# There is subtle racism in campaign ads but nothing racist about affirmative action which puts blacks ahead of whites regardless of merit.
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# There is subtle racism in campaign ads, but nothing racist about affirmative action which puts blacks ahead of whites regardless of merit.
 
# Protesting against abortion is "extremism" but allowing hateful and bigoted messages at military funerals is "free speech."
 
# Protesting against abortion is "extremism" but allowing hateful and bigoted messages at military funerals is "free speech."
 
# [[Liberals]] in [[Congress]] refusing to compromise with [[conservatives]] is somehow "noble defense" of ideology, but making a stand on [[conservative principles]] is "obstructionism".
 
# [[Liberals]] in [[Congress]] refusing to compromise with [[conservatives]] is somehow "noble defense" of ideology, but making a stand on [[conservative principles]] is "obstructionism".
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