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Posted on 08/02/2011 11:34:08 AM PDT by freespirited
Look, I am past exhausted talking about liberal media bias. It’s real, we all know it, and people who deny it aren’t even fooling themselves. But some things just have to be pointed out. This morning I watched the first 15 minutes of the Today Show. I don’t particularly love or even like the program, but I find it useful to see what the producers think is the big news of the day. And sometimes Chuck Todd is on, and I like him. If I sound defensive about watching the show it’s only because I am.
Anyway, the first ten minutes was about Gabby Giffords’ return to the House yesterday. I’m not sure it merited the full ten minutes or trumped the hard news that later followed, but it’s a great story and everyone is rooting for the lady, so I’m fine with it.
But think about this for a second. The Giffords shooting sent the media elite in this country into a bout of St. Vitus’s dance that would have warranted an army of exorcists in previous ages. Sarah Palin’s Facebook map was an evil totem that forced some guy to go on a shooting spree. The New York Times, the Washington Post, all three broadcast networks — particularly NBC whose senior foreign-affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, devotes, by my rough reckoning, ten times as much air time to whining about Sarah Palin as she does about anything having to do with foreign affairs — flooded the zone with “Have you no shame” finger wagging. A memo went forth demanding that everyone at MSNBC get their dresses over their heads about the evil “tone” from the right. Media Matters went into overdrive working the interns 24/7 to “prove” that Republicans deliberately foment violence with their evil targets on their evil congressional maps.
Everyone “knew” the shooter was a tea partier. Except he wasn’t. He wasn’t even a conservative. He was a sick, demented, nutball. And it still didn’t matter! More bleating and caterwauling about the “tone” followed. More chin stroking and tut-tutting from Meet the Press roundtables and “very special segments” on the Today Show. More pizzas were ordered for the Media Matters galley slaves.
Finally, president Obama, our national-healer, gives a speech. It was a good speech. Indeed it was one of the first speeches in a long while that got anything like bipartisan support. Civility. New tone. No more martial metaphors. These were the takeaways.
So flashforward to this week. Tom Friedman — who knows a bit about Hezbollah — calls the tea partiers the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP bent on taking the country on a “suicide mission.” All over the place, conservative Republicans are “hostage takers” and “terrorists,” “terrorists” and “traitors.” They want to “end life as we know it on this planet,” says Nancy Pelosi. They are betraying the Founders, too. Chris Matthews all but signs up for the “Make an Ass of Yourself” contest at the State Fair. Joe Nocera writes today that “the Tea Party Republicans can put aside their suicide vests.” Lord knows what Krugman and Olbermann have said.
Then last night, on the very day Gabby Giffords heroically returns to cast her first vote since that tragic attack seven months ago, the vice president of the United States calls the Republican party a bunch of terrorists.
No one cares. I hate the “if this were Bush” game so we’re in luck. Instead imagine if this was Dick Cheney calling the Progressive Caucus (or whatever they’re called) a “bunch of terrorists” on the day Giffords returned to the Congress. Would the mainstream media notice or care? Would Meet the Press debate whether this raises “troubling questions” about the White House’s sensitivity? Would Andrea Mitchell find some way to blame Sarah Palin for Dick Cheney’s viciousness? Would Keith Olbermann explode like a mouse subjected to the Ramone’s music in Rock and Roll High School? Something inside me hidden away shouts, “Hell yes they would!”
The Today Show even had Debbie Wasserman Schultz on this morning for five minutes talking about Giffords. No one thought to ask her what she thought of Biden’s comments? It’s not like she’s the Democratic party’s national spokesperson or anything. Oh, wait. She is!
Instead, after the full ten minutes on Giffords, we get an update about the debt-limit situation (which is supposedly an Armageddon-level issue) and Kelly O’Donnell basically carries water for Biden on the issue by completely muddying whether he said anything of the sort at all. (His office says, no, no the vice president didn’t call them terrorists, he just politely agreed with all the Democratic congressmen in the room that they “acted like terrorists.” Ah, this is a distinction a team of a million Jesuits working around the clock would have a hard time slicing.)
And yet you know the next time there’s the slightest, remotely exploitable tragedy or hint of violence, the same reporters, editors, producers, and politicians are going to insist that blood was spilled because of the right wing’s rhetoric.
Well, go to Hell. All of you.
“Yes, well given some of Ann’s @ssinine comments lately, sounds like Jonah may have been justified.”
The phrase “girly man” comes to mind.
“Being nice” and “civil” to the left just invites them to push us further back.
There’s a cliff behind us folks. Push back or die.
It sounded as though he was about to say it, but I didn’t hear it.
-Rex
Remember how he was a Christian, a Teapartier, a follower of Pam Geller and Mark Steyn?
Well, maybe. But it turns out the guy is a complete nutjob:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2757620/posts
But who cares? Being the NY Slimes means never having to bear any responsibility for the smears and character assassinations that are the liberal media's stock in trade.
Yes, as Glenn Beck has been saying of late: “Turn it OFF.”
I like the quote, indeed.
I wouldn’t limit it to the “current occupants” though.
“Killing fields” inhabit the imaginations of every leftist.
There's a problem right there. Personally, I do not like anybody who (in Todd's case, clearly) sides with those who wish to destroy traditional America and its families. Stop trying to "get along", Jonah. If somebody is a leftist scumbag, they are a leftist scumbag and there is nothing to "like". Nothing.
If someone is a leftist scumbag, they intend to have you killed by the government if you disagree or resist. That’s a fact.
Treat them accordingly.
OP: completely agree.
But just remember that the very definition of liberalism allows for the ability to 1)lie 2)be hypocritical 3)posture about “righteousness” without regards to #1 and #2.
Thats becuase pure and simply, for liberals, the ends justify the means. Everytime, all the time.
Conservatives define a good fight, they define a fair fight. They adhere to basic rules of truth and logic.
In this respect, I just don’t let my emotions get the better of me when I hear the VP and a congressman describing the tea party as terrorists.
Because they are who they are. They are lying, deceitful, hypocritical people who will never change.
THE LSM are the same people, so they will always support this behavior and will never call it out.
The only thing we can do is:
1) dont allow yourself to fall to these tactics or get to discouraged when you see it.
2) continue to communicate with conservatives
3) support those who are able to communicate conservatism to the public like Rush and Sean and Mark etc.
4) work within the system the best you can in the school systems, the elections, politics, media etc.
It aint over till its over.
Remember the elections of 2010 for some moral encouragement. Those were historic.
I still think conservatism is winning and rebounding.
Better sooner than later.
I truly believe in American exceptionalism, and knew that the time would come when the left would have to show itself for what it is. I hear the sound of an approaching tidal wave- I think the demonRATs hear it, too. It is the only explanation for the hysterics and hyperbole coming from that dim side.
All the people ever need in this country is the right information and they will do the right thing. They are getting that info and they are seeing the true face of leftism. That is all it will take.
We need a Constitutional amendment. And not just any “balanced budget” amendment, but one which limits spending in any year to the previous year’s revenue. On pain of disqualifying all members of Congress, and the administration, from standing for reelection.
Bump
Instead, those jackwagons are ramping it up?
To quote the great American philosopher F. Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does."
Off subject, but I watched The American President last night. I saw it in 1995, when it came out.
So, it is set 16 years ago and the premise is that we *must* do something about Global Warming immediately, or we will all die.
The entire movie is blatant liberal bias...disguised as entertainment.
What always cracks me up is that you could give the liberals every single thing they want and even they would absolutely HATE what they’d end up with. That’s how ignorant and dumb they are.
We on the right are the only thing protecting them from their own terrible ideas. And we get accused of the most heinous things because of it.
Very, very frustrating.
Talking about debt, both public and private. All illusion - no money to pay to even put fuel in military aircraft. All borrowed money.
He sort of let his guard down and sounded like a real human for a change. No bluster. Just a hint of resignation. I also think he feels that Boehner used him.
You tell ‘em, Jonah. (fistbump)
Amen. The left is REALLY in a hissy fit mood today. I got into it twice with co-workers, each of whom is a Hussein cultist, because I do not think the GG fiasco was genuine. I was blasted, told I was partisan, and shouted down.
Another called me a bully for expressing an alternative POV without apology.
My response was to tell them they were hurting my feelings. :-D
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