The hypocrisy of the leftist media is on full display in its treatment of Pastor Rafael Cruz, father of Sen. Ted Cruz. Pastor Cruz’s conservative Christian views are characterized as “extreme,” his public statements “inflammatory,” his influence on his son crucial. But Obama’s socialist father—who proved so politically radical that the Kenyan government eventually relieved him of his advisory role—was largely whitewashed by a biased media intent on escorting their candidate into office.

Monday, Investor’s Business Daily published an article that highlighted the glaring contrasts between recent attacks on Cruz’s father led by major media sources, including CNN, the Huffington Post, and Mother Jones. The news outlets have portrayed Cuban-immigrant Pastor Cruz as a “scary” fundamentalist who indoctrinated his son in extremist conservative economics and a “Dominionist” perspective of Christians’ political destiny. From Mother Jones:

He was preaching a particular form of evangelical Christianity known as Dominionism (a.k.a. Christian Reconstructionism) that holds that these "anointed" Christians are destined to take over the government and create in practice, if not in official terms, a theocracy. Rafael Cruz also endorsed the evangelical belief known as the "end-time transfer of wealth"—that is, as a prelude to the second coming of Christ, God will seize the wealth of the wicked and redistribute it to believers.

Where was this drive to delve into religious beliefs in the vetting of candidate Obama’s theology, particularly his direct links to Marxism-based Black Liberation Theology? But more to the point, why was Obama’s radical socialist father treated so differently? Investor’s provides some highlights of Obama Sr.’s political career:

In 1965, the elder Obama, a state economist, wrote an eight-page critique of Kenya's post-colonial government. In "Problems Facing Our Socialism," he called for Soviet-style reforms such as expropriation of land and punitive taxes to redistribute wealth on a massive scale.

Obama Sr. urged the pro-Western regime that employed him to abandon soft socialism and implement full-bore communism. He was eventually booted from his bureaucratic post for being too radical.

Obama Sr.'s extremist ideas never received mainstream coverage. The networks reported not a word of his 1965 paper during the 2008 campaign.

And why was Obama Sr. largely ignored by the media, while Pastor Cruz is increasingly scrutinized? Mother Jones partially responded to the charge of “attacking the son through the father” in their initial Pastor Cruz hit piece:

Comments uttered by a politician's parent may have little relevance in assessing an elected official. But it's appropriate to take Rafael Cruz into account when evaluating his son the senator. Ted Cruz, the tea party champion who almost single-handedly spurred the recent government shutdown, has often deployed his father as a political asset. He routinely cites his Cuban-born father, who emigrated from the island nation in 1957, when he discusses immigration and justifies his opposition to the bipartisan reform bill that passed in the Senate. (Ted Cruz hails his father as a symbol of the "American dream" who came to the United States legally—though Rafael Cruz began his career in the oil industry in Canada, where Ted was born.) Moreover, Ted Cruz campaigns with his father; he had him in tow on a recent trip to Iowa (where the evangelical vote is crucial in GOP presidential primaries).

Apart from being jam-packed with digs—including references to Cruz’s shutdown crusade, his rejection of a “bipartisan” immigration bill, and a not-so-subtle nod to the Cruz Birther question—this passage betrays the Left’s inconsistency in logic. If Mother Jones’ arguments are sound, then they should have been applied to Barack Obama, Sr., to whom Obama’s Dreams from My Father is dedicated and whom candidate Obama routinely referenced in his campaigning in an almost identical manner as Cruz.

But of course the logic applied to the Right will never be applied to the Left because the argument is ultimately not about logic—it’s about destroying one’s enemies.