I wanted to follow up on my previous post that alluded to the effort by ABC’s Brian Ross to slander the Tea Party movement in the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado, massacre.
In all of this, I’m reminded of the effort by liberals to place the blame for President Kennedy’s assassination on the atmosphere of “right-wing hate” that supposedly characterized the city of Dallas. We later learned, of course, that Lee Harvey Oswald was sympathetic not to conservatism but to communism and Castro. That didn’t fit very well into the liberal template, but the left did what it could.
Beyond that historical parallel, the attempted smear by Ross underscores the extraordinary double standard between the media’s coverage of the Tea Party versus that of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The main residual effect of Tea Party rallies is that the grounds on which the rallies were held were usually cleaner after the Tea Party held their event than before they assembled.
For Occupy Wall Street, on the other hand, we saw acts of violence and sexual assault; looting, vandalism, and the burning of property; rampant anti-Semitism; defecating on police cars; and all sorts of just plain trashy behavior. Yet the media seemed completely uninterested in the damage inflicted by the Occupy Wall Street movement even as it made up false things about the Tea Party. In fact, much of the coverage of OWS was downright sympathetic.
One can only imagine if the incidents that happened at OWS protests had occurred at Tea Party gatherings. We would have seen wall-to-wall coverage condemning the Tea Party. Yet when it came to the ugly and violent face of OWS, the offenses just weren’t all that troubling.
There’s nothing terribly deep or profound going on here. It is what one imagines it to be. What is happening is captured in the three words that cause many mainstream journalists to recoil but which are nonetheless true. And just what are those three words? Liberal media bias.
There is only one real answer to the problem of media bias: the guilt tripping of Americans too lazy to discover the truth. We do not live in North Korea! A fairly intelligent individual has no excuse. It only take a few hours a week to get their act together.
So what are the implications wrt the media? n nAre you saying that if only they would apply themselves that they would appreciate their home country and start reporting news and information accurately and without bias? n nI don’t thinks so. Liberals, perhaps starting with Sinclair Lewis, have despised America, and especially traditional American values, for the years and years; it’s what they do. I do not believe that it is a matter of laziness; they are actually quite deliberate and industrious in producing their bias. Ask Dan Rather. And for everyone like him there are thousands waiting to be caught Red Handed, so to speak. n
I obviously did not clearly make my point. The typical American is guilty of laziness. There is no reason to justify the power of the MSM. It is merely the result of people unwilling to invest a few hours a week to keep up on the news.
Brian Ross needs to be held to more account than he has been. At a minmum, he needs to face his critics and answer questions about how it is that he would even troll around the tea party looking for connections. It's one of the greatest acts of media slander I've ever encountered. n nAs for OWS, I'd like to see "limousine liberals" spend a few nights with them, sleeping bags, public toilets–one can only hope–and all, who they extoll from the safety, security and comfort of their own surroundings. n nI've seen my city's version of the occupiers. I wouldn't spend 10 seconds among them.
FLASHBACK: when Dr. Amy Bishop shot her colleagues, the Left speculated that she was a Tea Partier. In fact, she was an Obama donor. _FLASHBACK: Discovery Channel hostage-taker was supposedly a climate change denier. In fact, he was an enviroweenie, D.Channel intern. _FLASHBACK: the census-taker was supposedly hanged by extremist anti-tax Tea Partiers. In fact, he hanged himself. _FLASHBACK: the Times Square Bomber was speculated to be upset about [Health Care Reform]. In fact, he was jihadi scum. _FLASHBACK: the guy who flew his plane into the IRS in TX was supposedly a Tea Partier. In fact, he quoted from the Communist Manifesto. _FLASHBACK: the guy who was stabbing NYC cabbies was supposedly an anti-Ground Zero Mosque Tea Partier. In fact, he supported the GZM. _FLASHBACK: the Pentagon shooter was supposedly a Tea Party extremist. In fact, he was a 9/11 Truther. _FLASHBACK: when the Ft. Hood shooting happened, the Left speculated that it was a “RWNJ.” In fact, it was a Muslim nutjob. _FLASHBACK: When the Tucson shooting occurred, it was immediately blamed on Tea Party rhetoric. In fact, Loughner was a-political & insane.__
Lee Harvey Oswald was a KGB agent