Media's left-turn signal stuck on (Toronto Sun Editorial)

The Toronto Sun ^ | October 18 2012

[xp38]

What does it tell you when the room set aside for reporters to watch Tuesday night's presidential debate erupted into raucous applause after President Barack Obama made a mockery of Mitt Romney's personal wealth?

What does it tell you when Candy Crowley, CNN's chief Washington correspondent and the debate's moderator, crossed the line and told Romney he was wrong when in fact he was right -- that Obama didn't mention "terrorism" as the reason for the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya until two weeks later?

It tells you the media in the United States, like Crowley, is up to its sanctimonious neck in pro-liberal bias.

If it wasn't for the Washington Times, no one else in that reporters' room likely even noticed their own applause, proving just how steeped they are in their liberal ideologies.

What? We were clapping?

What does it tell you then when Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper prorogues Parliament for legitimate and well-stated reasons and gets viciously attacked in the media, yet Ontario's Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty gets no grief whatsoever for pulling the same stunt, without explanation and without legitimacy?

It tells you the same thing. It tells you Canada's media -- covering both houses of government, and almost regardless of province -- are up to their own sanctimonious necks in pro-liberal bias.

Unlike Harper, McGuinty wasn't trying to dodge an unholy coalition alliance of Liberals, NDPers and Bloc Quebecois forming a government that would bury the country in debt. He was avoiding a motherlode of scandals, contempt charges, and billion-dollar wastes which had run out of excuses and timelines.

So he took the coward's way out.

He turned his tail and ran, using his unexpected resignation as premier as a smoke screen to the prorogation.

This led to the majority of the media in Ontario writing stories of McGuinty's so-called legacy, too many unctuously positive, and let him get away like a bandit with the prorogation of Ontario's government, now dead in the water until at least springtime.

Then, as a followup, what does our media do?

It touts McGuinty as a serious contender for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada.

It's beyond disgraceful.

[blueunicorn6]

Did all the Germans in the 1930s hate the Jews? I don’t think so. So why was there so little interference when the Nazis started abusing and killing the Jews? I think it was because the German people, like the liberal media, bought into the notion of “for the greater good”. Yes, the National Socialists lied and stole and killed, but it was only because they really wanted a utopia in Germany. The liberal media knows that the liberals lie and steal and get people killed, but they reason it away by telling themselves that the liberals are doing it “for the greater good”. And so they march happily to hell allowing the liberals to get away with it.

[jmacusa]

A keen observation on your part. The Nazis were successful because of Hitlers personal magnetism and the fact, as Leftists always do, they appealed to all classes, ‘’all things to all people’’ under the guise of bringing all classes together. Class envy, class superiority and racism were some of Nazisms tools for taking control.The belief that all classes are the same is really just a front Leftists use to ultimately keep people distrustful of one another while all are under the control of one central authority. The difference however, as I see the two Leftist ideologies, Democrats and Nazism, is that where the Nazis were militaristic and nationalist, the modern Democrat Party in America isn't.

[Squawk 8888]

Canada Ping!

[fanfan]

It’s beyond disgraceful.

Bump and ping.

[GOPJ]

You're right on this - the Nazis were the cool ‘in’ group. And the German press of that time was biased in favor of their ‘elites’ including Hitler, his staff and his dreams. Lie were overlooked in the pursuit of delusion...

Our press is biased in favor our elites - and their utopian dreams.

Somehow journalism schools have got to teach kids that they're job is to report reality - not function as cheerleaders for the culturally in group... whichever group it might be...

[GOPJ]

You're right on this - the Nazis were the cool ‘in’ group. And the German press of that time was biased in favor of their ‘elites’ including Hitler, his staff and his dreams. Lies were overlooked in the pursuit of delusion...

Our press is biased in favor our elites - and their utopian dreams.

Somehow journalism schools have got to teach kids that their job is to report reality - not function as cheerleaders for the culturally in group... whichever group it might be...