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Liberalism: Why think when you can “feel”?

Night & Day

Headline: Lefties Scorn Bush As ‘Mourner-In-Chief,’ But to ABC, Clinton Was ‘Chaplain-in-Chief’, via Newsbusters.

When the President is a Republican:

Over at the Huffington Post’s Eat the Press blog, Jason Linkins objected Tuesday night to MSNBC’s description of President Bush as “mourner-in-chief,” demanding they stop because “It’s emo and it’s weird.” Linkins admitted MSNBC was not the first to use this terminology.

When the President is a Democrat:

In fact, on the July 25, 1996 World News Tonight, after a TWA plane crash, ABC’s Jim Wooten tenderly hailed the Sensitive President, Bill Clinton, the nation’s “chaplain in chief,” an even stranger choice of words, given Clinton’s historic reputation for indulgence:
Mr. Clinton is clearly more and more comfortable now in the role these times have forced on our Presidents — first mourner and chaplain-in-chief. But his moments with the families must have struck him as especially poignant today, for when he left them in the hotel and entered his car, he buried his head on Mrs. Clinton’s shoulder.”

April 18, 2007 Posted by | hypocrisy, media bias | Leave a Comment

How NOT to prove your point

As the Washington comPost was trying to rustle up some foreigners’ opinions on our Second Amendment rights, I think they did themselves a great disservice by undermining their own point thusly (from Newsbusters):

But (author Molly) Moore’s article turned unintentionally comic when she quoted an Iraqi praising the gun-control policies of….Saddam Hussein. “But America has terrorism and they are exporting it to us. We did not have this violence in the Saddam era because the law was so tough on guns.”

Perhaps it’s not surprising for a liberal newspaper to use a terrible mass shooting as an opportunity for pro-Saddam Iraqis to condemn how the United States has ruined their paradise. But it’s hardly a poster for the Brady Campaign’s gun-control aims – and Saddam’s dictatorship is hardly a model of nonviolence. (It can, however, illustrate the gun-rights crowd’s belief in guns as a bulwark against dictatorship.)

Pardon me for just a moment…

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

OK…*snort*…*sniffle*…*chuckle*…I’m back. Thanks for bearing with me! Man, was that freakin’ hilarious or what?

April 18, 2007 Posted by | gun rights, media bias | Leave a Comment

Eisner proves CLOWNS definition of liberalism

Leftard media moron Michael Eisner, formerly of ABC/Disney, agrees with us here at the Crush Liberalism Objective World News Service (aka CLOWNS): Liberalism is a “feeling, not thinking” ideology. Eisner’s admission:

“I’ve always wanted to do position through story on the ridiculousness of having guns and automatic weapons in our society. And it’s been very much obviously in the news, sadly, sadly. But when you’re in a public company and you’re in Washington — I was just saying “Don’t fight the NRA” — or you’re in a big company where your major constituencies are middle Americans, and where you don’t own the company, you’re working for your shareholders, you’ve got to be very careful. And we pushed through same-sex health insurance, some very advanced things… But we never could do the kind of material that I can now do because nobody can tell me I can’t do it. So I think the solution is to get the public, in an emotional, story-driven way, behind the goal of an abolition of handguns and automatic weapons.

Yeah, that whole “appealing to logic and reason” thingy is sooooooooo yesterday. The MSM and CLOWNS just seem to go together, don’t they?

April 18, 2007 Posted by | CLOWNS, gun rights, media bias | 1 Comment

Memo to non-Asians: Don’t call VT shooter "Asian", got it?

So sayeth the Asian American Journalists Association!

Like the rest of the nation, we at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) are stunned at the news of today’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends as they cope with this horrific incident.

As coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane reason. There is no evidence at this early point that the race or ethnicity of the suspected gunman has anything to do with the incident, and to include such mention serves only to unfairly portray an entire people.

Just to make sure I’m understanding this correctly: pointing out that the deranged shooter at VT was Korean somehow makes it look like all Koreans (or all Asians) are deranged shooter wannabes? Um…no. Not quite.

Then, they reinforce the message to people like me:

We further remind members of the media that the standards of news reporting should be universal and applied equally no matter the platform or medium, including blogs.

Sorry, guys, but I don’t worship at your church of political correctness, so I’m gonna have to take a pass on your invitation. Good luck with that.

Exit question: isn’t it just a tad bit hypocritical for a journalism organization that identifies itself by their collective ethnicities to be lecturing ANYONE on ignoring race within news stories?

April 18, 2007 Posted by | hypocrisy, media bias, political correctness | 1 Comment

Euros to criminalize Holocaust denial

Any time a leftard says how the Euros are so much more “evolved” than Americans, I roll my eyes in disgust and disbelief. I can easily rebut such a ludicrous claim, and stories like this make rebuttal even easier. From the Financial Times:

Laws that make denying or trivialising the Holocaust a criminal offence punishable by jail sentences will be introduced across the European Union, according to a proposal expecting to win backing from ministers Thursday.

Offenders will face up to three years in jail under the proposed legislation, which will also apply to inciting violence against ethnic, religious or national groups.

I certainly don’t have a problem with criminalizing the inciting of a riot, and I wish we had a law like that here in the States. Oh, wait…we DO have such a law, don’t we? It just applies to everyone not named “Sharpton”! My bad. But I digress.

I most certainly have a problem with criminalizing people saying stupid things like “The Holocaust never happened”! While such idiots are certainly worthy of our contempt and scorn, throwing someone in jail for being a moron is going a bit far. If we had such a law here, many of our politicians would be in jail. Hmmmm…I’m kind of undermining my own point, aren’t I? (For those of you on the left, that was a joke.)

Wait a minute! Something just dawned on me. Recall how Ellen Goodman of the Boston Goob said that global “warming” skeptics were the same as Holocaust deniers? Well, I’m a global “warming” skeptic, so I wonder if that would make me a criminal were I to ever grace the Euros with my presence? I should probably be quiet about that, so as not to give the Euros any more bright ideas like this one.

What is it about freedom that stumps the Euros so badly?

April 18, 2007 Posted by | anti-Semitism, Euros, political correctness | 1 Comment

   

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