In an October 5 Washington Times op-ed, Robert Knight wrote that “the left is shameless about sin and demands that others celebrate it and pay for its consequences.”

Further, Knight wildly inflated the size of the September 2009 tea party rally in Washington, D.C., suggesting that at least 1 million to 1.5 million people attended. As Media Matters has noted, the Washington, D.C., fire department estimated that about 70,000 attended.

From Knight's op-ed:

The pattern has unfolded for years: dirty leftist events and clean conservative events. It's the entitlement mentality versus personal responsibility, playing out on the grassy fields and public streets.

The Obama inauguration crowd on Jan. 20, 2009, for instance, celebrated hope and change by leaving mountains of trash. The Washington Post reported that the crowd of 1 million to 1.5 million generated so much trash that the “rubbish left behind was of historic proportions.”

Nine months later, at the Tea Party rally of Sept. 12, with at least as many people and perhaps more, the Mall was virtually free of litter. A lot of people were wearing pants with cuffs, apparently.

The good news is that it's getting harder for the left to cover up its dirty ways.

Not that the left has a monopoly on dirt. There also are folks on the right who think they're entitled to live by a different set of standards than the quaint morality of those they lionize as “the people.” The difference is that the left is shameless about sin and demands that others celebrate it and pay for its consequences.