Behind The Bias: A Drive For 'Social Justice'

IBD Editorials ^ | November 25, 2008 | Dennis Prager

[umgud]

"It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business. . . . It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."

Yes, but it worked.

[Enchante]

Halperin had no outbursts of conscience BEFORE Nov. 4 when it might have mattered — he didn’t stand up and shout to his colleagues, “stop what you are doing, this is a complete travesty of our profession” — no, he waits until the Obamessiah is safely into harbor and then he whines a bit just so he can have it both ways. Now as revelations come forth of all that the Mediascum knew about and didn’t report, etc. he can pretend to be the conscience of the profession. Someone hand me a barf bag please.......

[Sicvee]

Then there was this song, Easy to Be Hard, by Three Dog Night, whose muddled sentiments defined the next 35 years:
How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard, easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud, easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I’m hung up on you
Easy to be proud, easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, we all need a friend

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be proud, easy to say no
Easy to be cold, easy to say no
Come, on, easy to give in, easy to say no
Easy to be cold, easy to say no
Much too easy to say no

[DeweyCA]

Liberalism is their religion. They have rejected Christianity. Now they want to fill the resultant void by being good Marxists and create a utopian heaven on earth. It’s all they have. They don’t have the hope and purpose that comes from Christianity, so they got a cheap substitute, Liberalism. That is why they are so intense about their politics. They are religious zealots.

[Paul R.]

“There used to be a feeling among the people I grew up with that free men could never be defeated.”

I am trying to keep that thought in mind, especially when I gag at EVERY single guest on Leno singing the praises of Obama. Hey, I’d actually accept the Fairness Doctrine, if it applied to those nits, too!

[driftless2]

"got a conserve to write for them"

Have you ever read the IBD editorials? They have about the most conservative editorial staff in the country of any publication you can name.

[Maine Mariner]

Yes and after an editor at the WSJ praised Ayers and Dorhn, I am switching from the Journal to IBD this week.

[headsonpikes]

“Social Justice” - It’s what state agents and other riff-raff prefer to call their intellectually bankrupt and ethically perverse campaign against actual justice.

[driftless2]

"WSJ praised Ayers"

When did they do that? That seems odd considering their past editorials.

[Maine Mariner]

About a month ago, in an article written by one of their senior editors. He attacked McCain for tying Ayers to Obama.
This editor knew Ayers when he (the editor) lived in Chicago and praised him to the high heavens. I made a post about it after I read the article. It was not on the editorial page.

[walford]

Years ago, Walter Williams offered a $1,000 bounty for a coherent definition of “social justice.” It remains unclaimed.

[andy58-in-nh]

"Social justice" is the desired result of an effort to equitably and involuntarily redistribute goods and services in accordance with the perceived needs of those to whom and from whom things are to be taken by government.

Karl Marx phrased it more precisely: "to each according to his needs, from each according to his ability".

[MosesKnows]

A Drive For 'Social Justice'

A proper discussion of “Social Justice" requires that all involved in the discussion agree on the definition.

Is there agreement on the definition? Does a definition exist that is in concert with laws the legislature is constitutionally empowered to enact? The Constitution guarantees due process but it does not and cannot guarantee justice.

I have yet to see a cogent definition of “Social Justice”.