Posted on 01/11/2011 4:36:29 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
NewsBusters has exhaustively documented the way in which the liberal media and Dem politicians have sought to exploit the Arizona shootings, seeking to pin blame on a range of Republicans and conservative media figures.
It was thus nothing short of surreal to listen to MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin this morning. Surveying the situation, Halperin praised the media and politicians for their reaction to the shooting . . . while condemning Fox News and conservative pundits for treating the tragedy like "war and fodder for content."
When Joe Scarborough rightly suggested that Halperin had it backwards, the Time man wouldn't back down. View video after the jump.
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“Liberals are missing several areas of their brain that in normal people function to establish any sense of right or wrong, truth or fiction.”
Bingo! I’m stunned at how reality is never allowed to intrude into the thought processes of libs, where every decision seems to be made solely upon how they “feel” or how things “should be”.
How magical, never having to confront inconvenient things like physics, scientific fact, or human nature.
Sometimes I really think that the only hope for our country is to be divided into two separate zones - reality and fantasy. And enforce strict border control between the two.
Oh wise and knowledgeable people, please defeat these people with words. I am failing. Please forgive me.
The same Mark Halperin whose father works for Soros? Yeah, he’s credible.
http://joytiz.com/2010/game-changing-soros-style/
I thought Levin was a smarter lawyer than that. Best of luck on that, Mark. You're making your living by giving your opinions in public, I think that's called a "public figure."
Next, conservatives will be blamed for not walking quietly and peaceably to the showers. Or, to a cross of their own.
All the stuff they used to use to “shut up” conservatives isn’t working! OH NOES!
Quick, play the race card again, HARDER! (what? even that one isn’t working?) AAAARGH!
Liberal ideology inherently dismisses the idea of an objective reality and objective right and wrong
in favor of what they “think” (feel) at the moment.
Obviously . . . but IMHO there is only one possible way to do it effectively, and that is not to restrict ourselves to "arguing with people who buy ink by the carload." No, the must be a major civil libel suit. Not a suit for a symbolic dollar, either - it must be a suit whichThe first question is, what is the defendant in such a suit? Certainly not "the media," nor even "big journalism," which are amorphous entities with apparently no head and no pocketbook. No, the defendant in the suit must be the Associated Press and its membership. That is a serious target (ahem). And one with the deep enough pockets to have skin in the game, and to be worth skining.
- is winnable, and
- alleges damages in the billions of dollars.
The Associated Press is the mechanism which created Big JournaIism, and Big Journalism is the "nonfiction" entity within "the media." The Associated Press spreads libel far and wide, injecting it into the nation's discourse while at one and the same time claiming "First Amendment freedom" as "the press," and laboring to deny that same freedom to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh et al. The Associated Press is like an ant colony or a bee hive - simultaneously a single entity endeavoring to exclude all competition from its market, and a swarm of "individuals" claiming the First Amendment rights of individuals.Big Journalism assays to exclude from "the press" anyone who criticizes any journalist. Big Journalism has been able to get "campaign finance reform" legislation through Congress when the people, if polls are to be believed, did not care about McCain-Feingold. McCain-Feingold is corrupt because it assigns to Big Journalism rights which it denies to the people, as if "the press" were co-extensive with the Associated Press. The fact that Big Journalism has succeeded in extracting unconstitutional benefits from Congress by the power of its flattery and derision marks it as the legitimate target for a RICO suit. Big Journalism demands that it be accorded rights in the name of "the people" while systematically exerting itself to stifle the voice of the individual person. Big Journalism demands respect as a sort of nobility, a class distinct from either the government or the people. Big Journalism is the enemy of liberty.
Big Journalism's claims of objectivity not only are not proof of its objectivity, they are evidence - in conjunction with the plentiful examples of self-dealing which are endemic to journalism - rather evidence of the very tendentiousness which they seek to deny. For if any tendentiousness at all can be demonstrated, a claim of objectivity is simply an amplification of that very bias. Journalism's bias is that it represents the public interest, whereas in fact it represents only the titillation of the interest of the public. And things which interest the public not only are not certain to be in the public interest, they are often inimical to it. Pornography is one example, and bad news in general is another. Although public knowledge of ill tidings can certainly be in the public interest, exclusive emphasis on the negative is a lack of perspective.
Skepticism is valuable, but cynicism is destructive of the public good. It would take objectivity to discern and act on that difference - but journalism's mission of promoting itself over those who take responsibility for results is inherently cynical. Big Journalism's slurs on Republicans and the middle class amount to promotion of the idea that advocates of constitutional ordered liberty are the primary danger to society - rather than the guarantors of its safety.
At some point, turning the other cheek becomes an act of cowardice. More than that, it is an affront to everything we stand for. As Jefferson said, “Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”
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You still have to defend yourself in court. You have to spend the money to do it. Scumbag tort lawyers do this to good companies every day.
The best one I’ve heard so far is that the Surgeon that wrote the paper alleging the MMR vaccine was causing autism in kids took 10,000 pounds from a tort lawyer in a pending civil suit in the UK.
The lancet sent the paper around to six other doctors, four of which rejected it outright saying it was worse than thin.
Lancet printed it anyway because it was ‘controversial’.
14 full-blown major studies later, MMR is finally shown NOT to cause autism in children. How many kids died from not receiving those vaccinations as a result of the scumbags involved (a doctor, a lawyer, and a rag peddler)? 1000’s.
Any of those guys going to see the inside of a criminal courtroom? Doubt it seriously.
Between the press, the tort lobby, and unions, we are on the brink of real economic doom.
That’s Mark Halperin? Is he out? He looks gay, and I don’t mean happy.
BTTT
3. Where are this guys parents?!?!?!?! Why didn’t they get him help? Why hasn’t anyone brought this up? Oh yeah, too busy pointing fingers.”
It is my opinion that the family got to the sheriff in each occasion where the kid was in trouble and convinced him to drop any investigation in the name of the dem party.
FNS just had a Doctor on air who said had the family gotten him to a shrink early on, he could have been treated with anti-psycotic meds and this would have been avoided.
I guess the parents were willing to trade the lives of a number of innocent people for the precious name of their killer kid!
I do not need to apologize for refusing to "turn the other cheek" for I'm fresh out of them to "turn," as you and the Left (Moderates included) have referred to me as "dangerous; extremist; hate-mongerer; bitter clinger;" and these are the decent ones that I can mention in public. Why, pray tell am I considered so bad - I'm pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-border security.
I was in step in the 50's, in fact, my views were on a par with Kennedy (Jack, that is), Harry Truman and perhaps even Franklin Roosevelt but that was your father's Democrat Party.
Today, my views label me as far right; religious right; and even "wing-nut," by the Left and even by some in my own party, who consider themselves as part of the mainstream (meaning pro-abortion; pro-gay marriage and ignoring illegal aliens and prefer the term "undocumented migrant" are mainstream.
Keep your name-calling and judgmentmentalism to yourself and your own friends and family - please!
Tomorrow Halperin will praise the Westboro “Baptist Church” for its wisdom in seeing the connection between the massacre of a 9 year old girl and God’s (Fred Phelps’s) anger over something or another (and need to make headlines). It’s equally rational.
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