Mark Steyn: Iraqi spy case shows media at it again

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 14 March 2004 | Mark Steyn

[petercooper]

The Dems think 9/11 is like the 1998 ice storm or a Florida hurricane -- just one of those things.

Steyn is great!

[wunderkind54]

To SpineyNorman and Skypilot:

Why the incredulity concerning the liberal press??

You know they are spin machines, yet you continue reading their garbage.

I've come to view most newspapers as National Enquirer wannabees suitable for my amusement, not intellectual content. I'm getting better daily at using the grey matter between my ears as a filter.

[Trust but Verify]

Our newspaper (The Milwaukee Urinal) ran the headline, "Bush Aides' Kin Arrested on Spy Charge". You can't make this stuff up. It only mentions in passing that she worked for Democrats in Congress throughout the 90's, but never names them.

[SierraWasp]

Thanks for posting this!

Having been first to bring this AP story from an obscure list of bulletins on a financial website to FR last week, click to peek it's gratifying to find Mark Steyn writing about it already.

I had taken a self-imposed week-long vacation from my FR posting addiction, but this story broke that.

Almost nothing brings me as much pure displeasure as either Journalistic or Judicial activism... especially by leftists in either venue!!!

[Lurker]

I can't even name one of my second cousins.

L

[Lando Lincoln]

G'mornin' FRiend! I was gone for almost two weeks awhile back. But, here I am!

Lando

[mtbopfuyn]

That's the reason I refuse to watch FNC on the weekends. All three of the non-friends are total idiots.

Kudos to Steyn!

[Calvin Locke]

Even FOX News,...

Watched a bit Saturday. Forgot the anchor, but he did say "...spy...Card...four Democrats...journalist...and worked for Fox News...."

[You Dirty Rats]

Foxnews.com had the same headline as everyone else.

This second-cousin thing is beyond laughable. You can legally MARRY your second cousin; that's how remote they are!

[Thom Pain]

"If this doesn't clearly demonstrate the liberal bias of the "mainstream" press, I cannot imagine what would."

They know full well that they are fatally biased. It just suits their (dishonest) purpose to ignore it.

[arasina]

But one reason why John Kerry calculates he can get away with damning the Bush administration as ''crooks'' and ''liars'' is because he figures he can count on the mainstream media doing what the Post-Intelligencer did -- instinctively framing every issue in anti-Bush terms, no matter how ludicrously.

That is it in a nutshell. Funny thing, though, the people are on to it, dear media. We even know when our formerly favorite Fox News Channel does it. And we will call you on it every single time, you Pravda* clones. And if you think there are a lot of stupid people out there who will believe you...perhaps there are, but they're not "likely voters" in the way you hope they are. The only things they are likely to vote on are who will be the next winner of "Survivor" or whether or not Brittney Spears will stick to her new chastity pledge.

*The mainstream media think that if they are not serving as some kind of mouthpiece for the government that they are all for freedom of speech. They still speak with only one voice (anti-GOP government) instead of presenting both sides of any issue. Thus, I call them Pravda clones.

[Dog Anchor]

"These newspapers, owned and edited by these men, although free from the repulsive vulgarity of the yellow press, were susceptible to influence by the priviledged interests, and were almost or quite as hostile to manliness as they were to unrefined vice...they favored the removal of tariff on works of art; they favored all the proper (and even more strongly all the improper) movements for international peace and arbitration; in short, they favored all good, and many goody-goody, measures so long as they did not cut deep into social wrong or make demands on National and individual virility. They opposed, or were lukewarm about, efforts to build up the army and the navy, for they were not sensitive concerning National honor; and, above all, they opposed every non-milk-and-water effort, however sane, to change our social and economic system in such a fashion as to substitute the ideal justice towards all for the ideal of kindly charity from the favored few to the possibly grateful many."
- Theodore Roosevelt

[SierraWasp]

"G'mornin' FRiend!"

Not so loud and exuberant, my geographically connected FRiend... It's still pretty early on a Sunday Mornin, out here!!! Whew... (faint grin)

[Grampa Dave]

[JayNorth]

It is incredible that any paper that purports to be even the least objective...

You probably aren't from Seattle. That paper is so bad (how bad is it?) that everyone calls it the "Post UNintelligencer". The paper calls themselves "The P I". Everyone else calls it "The P U" because it stinks.

The Post Intelligencer was one of those papers that you would read and burst out laughing at how incredibly they had to twist a story to get a negative Republican spin or a positive RAT spin. I swear if judgement day came and all the RATs went "south" and all the PUBs went "north" the P U headline would be "Bush uses rich oil buddy connections to get special treatment while brave Democrats work to solve the problems of the unfortunate in Hades".

[SierraWasp]

I think you should get some kinda "Tagline Superiority" AWARD!!!

That poster ain't too bad, either...

[Liz]

Heheh......good one.

[Puzzleman]

But one reason why John Kerry calculates he can get away with damning the Bush administration as ''crooks'' and ''liars'' is because he figures he can count on the mainstream media doing what the Post-Intelligencer did -- instinctively framing every issue in anti-Bush terms, no matter how ludicrously.

I agree that the press’ covering for Kerry and all the other Democrats is extremely important. It explains the major difference between us and them.

In Plato’s Republic, he asks whether a person would act in a moral way if he were invisible. I believe that the answer depends on whether the person is religious or not. Religious people would continue to act morally because they would not be invisible from God. Secular people would feel free of all constraint and might not be moral.

Kerry and the other Democrats are secular and have been made invisible to the voters by the press. That is what allows them to make these outrageous statements and makes it easier for them to slide down a slippery moral slope.

[Grampa Dave]

With what the liberals do and their poster boy John F'onda al Querry, taglines are very easy to come by.

Thanks. I will be mainly off the boards for a few weeks to handle a lot of personal stuff, (Good things). So don't panic if I don't answer for awhile after today.

[blackie]

Wow ~ Mark Steyn nailed it ~ thanks LL!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~