Posted on 11/30/2005 10:40:01 AM PST by curtisgardner
AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF MILITARY
FORCE AGAINST IRAQ RESOLUTION OF 2002
All wars are but brakes on a world faced with runaway breeding; this is all inevitable and apparently immutable, it isn't so much that any one group, race or culture wants or seeks to outnumber the rest but merely the inevitability of what we laughingly call peace leads to too much leisure time and people resort to the ageless recreation of consorting with its obvious product: more people with too much leisure time.
Without war, this planet would have been overwhelmed centuries ago.
We don't associate in groups because we want to, we do it because we get bored.
It is easy to be a liberal; it's a gutless choice.Why is it the easy way out? Because the one thing that journalism sells is the idea that truth and virute are cheap. All of journalism shamelessly promotes the conceit that journalism is objective. Think what that means! Objectivity is a virtue, and it is arrogant to claim virtue. Yet journalists openly argue that you and I aren't objective, insinuating or saying outright that they are more virtuous than we are.
The people have been bombarded with a tremendous propaganda barrage all their lives, and they accept - many of us accept - the conceit of journalistic objectivity. Yet the truth of the matter is that journalism is simply arrogant and (with its deadline time pressure) superficial. Those are characteristics which lend themselves to negativity and bullying, not of objectivity and virtue.
The First Amendment does not say that journalism is objective; to the contrary it says that the government is not authorized to require that it be so. If anyone wants to claim that journalists are objective, the burden of proof logically falls on them to prove it. It is not for me to have to prove the contrary, they are the ones making the claim and they are the ones to bear the burden of proof.
But of course they won't touch that burden with a ten-foot pole. Because absence of bias is at best an unprovable negative. And because in fact the arrogant negativity of journalism is what defines the so-called "liberal" viewpoint.
Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU
Your take is spot on (as usual)
TT
Good post, and this thread has turned into a great resource also.
BTTT
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