Reminds me of the Leprechaun. Always throwing in the "both sides" comment even when something is clearly one-sided.
Yeah, that comment really ticked me off. A mob gangs up on an elderly woman who is doing nothing wrong, or hateful, and that was the commentary? What???
A large group surrounded an elderly woman who had just as much right as they did to be there, took her property away, got in her face to shout her down and away, and the hate is on “both sides”? I think, for whatever it’s worth, I will write a letter to that news station pointing out how twisted and unacceptable that commentary was.
That’s the inherent bias of pseudo-objective media for you, a bias they share with elite universities, the sacred cows of modern secularism. If somewhere there remains a settled truth, and necessarily a hard-won truth, they will seek to controversialize it on the cheap so they can have something to “cover” or “study.” When the dynamics of the controversy shift in favor of the truth, as they always do eventually, their own role as controversialists makes them enemies of the truth, and so they resort to misstatements (”It looks like there is violence from both sides” or “Congress has devolved into partisan rancor”). That’s what it takes to keep the controversy going.
Reminds me of the Leprechaun. Always throwing in the "both sides" comment even when something is clearly one-sided.
http://laist.com/2008/11/07/2_protesters_sent_to_hospital_after.php
"A fight that broke out between opponents and proponents of Prop 8, the November 4th ballot initiative that sought to ban gay marriage in California, ended with two people apparently being sent to the hospital. Leah Murphy of Westwood said she was walking with a group of ten friends at Thursday's protest outside the Mormon Temple on Santa Monica Blvd. when two women who were said to have come from within church grounds began to call them derogatory names.
Both sides argued with each other before one woman apparently lashed out at a protester by punching her in the face shortly before 6 p.m. Soon, four protesters from the the group of friends were hurt in the altercation which soon involved five men who allegedly came from behind the church gates.
Two of the women were sent to the hospital and the other two were treated for their wounds, according to Murphy. The Los Angeles Fire Department could not immediately pull up records due to the sheer volume of hospital transports a day--500 on an average day--but Officer Jason Lee of the LAPD said "there were allegations of some battery" when asked about two women being sent to the hospital."
More evidence of "both sides"...
http://www.latimes.com/video/?slug=la-me-protest7-2008nov07-vid
It's so irksome. Drives me nuts!