By Phaedra Dugan
President Obama on Saturday compared the human rights situation in Malaysia, a country with corrupt elections, no freedom of the press, limited freedom of religion, and a censored Internet, to that of the United States. Answering a reporter’s question about why he didn’t meet with the imprisoned opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, or talk about human rights while in Malaysia, President Obama said that Malaysia has “some work” to do on these issues, “just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues.” It was yet another slam on our own country from abroad and a misguided example of the moral equivalency that plagues the American left.
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