Right On: Biased media gets its comeuppance
by Howie Carr 8/17/13
When you were a kid, how many times did you have to burn your hand on the stove before you learned to stop doing it?
Not many. It’s the same way you learn to avoid people who cheat, or lie to you. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. You stay away from them.
So why is it so shocking that the Republican party is finally pushing back against the state-run media? They say they’re going to ban CNN and NBC from 2016 presidential debates, because the two moonbat nets are planning to run what amounts to millions of dollars worth of free publicity on Hillary Clinton disguised as programming.
The only mystery is, why aren’t CBS and ABC included in the ban?
“We’re done putting up with this nonsense,” GOP national chairman Reince Priebus said yesterday.
Of course, the networks’ defense is that Hillary is one of the smartest women in the world. Everyone knows that. That’s why this week she called the late civil-rights leader Medgar Evers “Medgar Evans.”
What the hell took the Republicans so long to wake up? Obama played golf and was hosted at a cocktail party Thursday night on the Vineyard by the owner of NBC, whose lunatic spinoff MSNBC spent the week flogging a preposterous story blaming the Boston marathon bombings on right-wing extremist literature.
As for CNN, what more do you need to know than Candy Crowley works there, and that Soledad O’Brien, who was caught using Democrat talking points in an interview last year with John Sununu Sr., used to be an anchor there, until she left for an even more simpatico network, Al-Jazeera.
Yesterday, driving to Maine, I was listening to Glenn Beck on satellite radio. His network, the Blaze, produces its own newscasts. The Blaze’s lead story was about a great-grandmother in San Diego becoming the latest woman to accuse Mayor Bob Filner of harassing her.
Only the Blaze described him, repeatedly, as “Democrat Mayor Bob Filner.” It was disconcerting — nobody who watches the news is used to hearing the words “Democrat” and “scandal” in the same sentence, especially the lead. It’s become a joke — if you’re reading a story about a pol who’s “embattled,” whether it’s for OUI or wife-beating, if the story doesn’t mention his party affiliation by the fourth paragraph, you can assume he’s a Democrat.
You know the phrase “tar baby?” When Mitt Romney used it, it was a racial slur. When John Kerry said the exact same thing — nothing to see here, folks, move along.
A rodeo clown puts on an Obama mask and the NAACP calls it a “hate crime.” One of the networks uses a freeze frame of George W. Bush with the sign “Snipers Wanted” superimposed — that’s speaking truth to power, baby. That’s the First Amendment.
You know, like mentioning “Democrat Bob Filner.”
Carr: Bay State ‘justice’ needs an equalizer
The late Jennifer Martel didn’t need a restraining order Thursday night, she needed a gun.
This is what happens when the population is disarmed. They can’t fight back. Kristina Hill and Benjamin Ray courageously risked their lives to save their defenseless neighbor, but what could they do with their bare hands against this monster?
They needed a gun, too.
The National Rifle Association has a host of slogans that drive moonbats crazy, probably because most of them are indisputably true. This is one of them:
“When seconds count, police are minutes away.”
Another one is, “I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by six.”
They don’t call firearms “the equalizer” for nothing. Jared Remy allegedly stabbed the mother of his daughter to death with a knife. We all know you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.
It’s not easy to get a gun permit in many places in Massachusetts, in fact it’s almost impossible. It’s not Politically Correct to own a firearm. But this is exactly the kind of state where it’s most imperative to own a firearm, given the utter breakdown of the criminal justice system.
Two weeks ago it was Amy Lord, allegedly butchered by a guy whose driver’s license was given to the police by a woman he’d tried to strangle in Roxbury. That was a police breakdown, but much more common is what happened with Jared Remy.
For more than 10 years, he ran amok in Middlesex County, beating one woman after another after another, always skating. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. Especially when no matter how horrific your behavior, you can always fall back on the eternal question:
“Do you know who I am?”
Reasonable doubt at a reasonable price — that’s all Jared Remy is looking for now. Already his J.W. Carney-lookalike mouthpiece is striking the all-too-familiar chords. Jared is a victim. Dyslexia. This is a tragedy for “both families.”
(The lawyer is half-right.) Now more than ever, his daughter needs her father. We are told Jared had “defensive wounds” on his hands — as if she started the fight.
“We know how this ended,” the Remy lawyer said Friday. “But we don’t know how it began.”
Oh, but we do.
This is exactly why you need a gun. The more alleged compassion society shows for the perps, the more disposable their victims become.
The victim gets a red rose dropped at the murder scene, and her murderer gets hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars to hire a team of lawyers from San Diego.
Too bad Jennifer Martel didn’t come up with the equalizer. Ditto, Amy Lord. Ditto, Aaron Hernandez’s victims, and Whitey Bulger’s too.
Here’s another truth the bleeding-hearts find quite inconvenient. The recidivism rate among shot-dead murderers is zero.