Posted on 04/04/2009 9:27:58 AM PDT by IrishMike
Very good essay. Thanks for posting it.
If you are going to talk about malicious prosecution of Republicans, then you have to include the big one: Watergate.
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Ann Coulter wrote:
To obscure the overwhelming liberal dominance of the media, the few designated media “conservatives” are cited tirelessly in testimonies to the ideological diversity in the nation’s newsrooms. Democrats in the media are editors, national correspondents, news anchors, and reporters. Republicans in the media are “from the right” polemicists grudgingly tolerated within the liberal behemoth. Republican views must be accompanied by a conspicuous warning: “Partisan Conservative Opinion Coming!” Neutral news slots are reserved for Democrats exclusively. “Balance” is created by having a liberal host a debate between a liberal and a moderate Republican.
“Ann Coulter wrote:
To obscure the overwhelming liberal dominance of the media, the few designated media “conservatives” are cited tirelessly in testimonies to the ideological diversity in the nation’s newsrooms. Democrats in the media are editors, national correspondents, news anchors, and reporters. Republicans in the media are “from the right” polemicists grudgingly tolerated within the liberal behemoth. Republican views must be accompanied by a conspicuous warning: “Partisan Conservative Opinion Coming!” Neutral news slots are reserved for Democrats exclusively. “Balance” is created by having a liberal host a debate between a liberal and a moderate Republican.”
Excellent quote and oh-so-true. I remember seeing on CNN a debate between liberal, pro-abortion Republican Congresswoman Susan Molinari and one or two other pro-abortion women about the GOP and abortion. Nothing like drive-by media “fairness and balance.”
One of the best examples of this was the Texas Air Guard documents scandal. Dan Rather, who's never hidden his Democrat affiliation, accepted as gospel the word and clumsily fabricated “documents” of a notorious crackpot. Rather's 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes acknowledged during CBS’s internal investigation that she was in contact with John Kerry's campaign managers leading up to the airing of the story. Mapes gave copies of the documents to the Kerry camp who quickly recognized them as bogus but they let Rather and Mapes walk off a cliff in hopes the story would damage Bush. I can remember how quickly Rather's “scoop” was debunked on Free Republic.
This scandal also exposed the fact that television news anchors are not journalists. They are actors who are hired and advanced on their looks, voice, persona and ability to read news copy—written and gathered by other people—in front of a camera. Actors portraying journalists. The mistakes that led to Rather's downfall would not be made by a summer intern at a rural weekly paper. So you had to wonder if an “icon” like Rather was this f*cked up, how reliable is the rest of the industry?
Ted Stevens isn't guilty after all. Imagine that. His case was just tossed out of court for prosecutorial misconduct . . . after the 2008 election, when the charges cost him his seat in the U.S. Senate. Add Ted to the ever-growing number of exclusively Republican non-crooks who are frog-marched by partisan elements in the American justice system in time to ruin their electoral chances, only to see the actual charges vanish in a waft of political smoke once their seat is safely in the hands of the opposition party. Remember the horrible, patently unconstitutional actions of Tom Delay, who was forced out of the 2006 race? Whatever happened to those charges, by the way? They seem to have dropped off the judicial radar. And then there's the prosecution of Scooter Libby for "lying" about not lying about not outing Valerie Plame. This non-lie "lie" was only possible since Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald kept the investigation alive for a couple of years after learning that Colin Powell's lackey was the real perpetrator. But Dick Armitage was never charged with any crime for actually doing what the Special Prosecutor was charged with investigating, since Powell, though nominally a Republican, had already gone public with his disdain for the Bush Administration. The only thing that saved Sarah Palin from a flood of phony ethics charges in 2008 was that her political opponents thought that a single charge against firing her ex-brother-in-law who carried a badge and had a tendency toward violence was sufficient to damage her political prospects in Alaska. When she rose to the national stage, there wasn't enough time to gin up additional ethics violations. But since she still polls well as a prospective 2012 Republican presidential candidate, a small cottage industry of ethics violations charges has already been launched.
Do you remember the last time you saw a debate on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, or read about it in The New York Times, etc. that explored the reality of man-made global warming? Don't bother to look it up. There hasn't been. Despite the fact that sea levels aren't rising, that winters are getting colder, that virtually none of Al Gore's predictions have come true and an increasing number of mainstream scientists are challenging the methodology that produced these conclusions, the matter is "settled" in the eyes of the press. This is because there's a lot more riding on this belief than whether we all need an extra pair of summer shorts to add to our wardrobe. An entire economic and political agenda of the Left is built around the premise that man is producing "global climate change" (the new term of choice since the Earth clearly isn't warming like it was supposed to). Challenge the premise, or at the very least allow for reasonable people to disagree, and suddenly the momentum is gone for acting now! Or, acting at all.
Time Retracts Anti-Bush Racial Smear"The article 'Look Away, Dixieland' [Jan. 27] stated that President George W. Bush 'quietly reinstated' a tradition of having the White House deliver a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery -- a practice 'that his father had halted in 1990.' The story is wrong. First, the elder president Bush did not, as TIME reported, end the decades-old practice of the White House delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial; he changed the date on which the wreath is delivered from the day that some southern heritage groups commemorate Jefferson Davis's birthday to the federal Memorial Day holiday. Second, according to documents provided by the White House this week, the practice of delivering a wreath to the Confederate Memorial on Memorial Day continued under Bill Clinton as it does under George W. Bush."
Friday, Jan. 24, 2003
This charge was bogus. The charge was not discarded for a technicality. The whole process stunk. I do not know about other ethics issues. I have not been a fan of Stevens for his pork spending. Even though this charge was bogus, Stevens should have dropped out of the primary. He knew this charge would hurt his chances for election. At his age, he should have bowed to the greater good to keep the rats from taking the seat.
Emily Littela: "Oh...that's different.... Never mind."
Ed Freeman
You’re an 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you’re not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn’t seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He’s not Medi-Vac, so it’s not his job, but he’s flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.
He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses. And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman,died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....
I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s
passing, but we sure were told a whole
bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward
beating the crap out of his “girlfriend”
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Shame on the American Media
Very good article.
Summing it up:
Don’t trust the driveby media. They have an agenda. And because they lie and/or shill so much, intelligent folks don’t believe them anymore.
See post #32
Oh I did!
Morgan from Denver posted it on my Sunday Morning Talk Show yesterday; we discussed it at some length.
One final Salute to Col Freeman!
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