Wanna be famous? Do as the media shows others doing! Rant! Rave! Blow yourself away after taking thirty total innocents with you! The media will take the packet you send them as you take a breather from strenuous carnage and make you a cause celebre!
That's the ticket. Let the rating points show the way. Info-tainment as not even the Romans could do it.
Yesterday the Supreme Court, in a narrowly drawn 5 to 4 decision, upheld a 2003 federal law outlawing partial birth abortions.
Predictably this was both hailed and derided as an attack on Roe v. Wade. Should it turn out to be so so much the better but, in point of fact, it simply accepts human revulsion at the torture killing of any animal, human or not.
I would put this in the humor category, but then, it's really not that funny. Media bigotry has never been more in evidence in the coverage of recent American politics than it is in the current flap over the firing of a handful of federal prosecutors by the Bush administration. Democrats in charge in Congress and their flagrant allies in the news media are out to use these firings as a whip to drive Karl Rove out of office.
Do these people have a leg to stand on?
No.
Sometimes you just have to shake your head. The link below tells of a science experiment revealing that people see what they believe to be true. Duh.
It is called "prejudice". You may have heard of it. It is how we all work, even the poor, but revealing that would not have gotten you noticed on Yahoo! news.
Proof that an advanced degree is not a hedge against stupidity.
This one was too much to pass up.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070213/pl_nm/usa_politics_romney_dc;_ylt=AjTLNtsGxtMrKtr_1HZeu9LMWM0F
One of the ways the press seeks to control the public mind is to skew the definitions of terms the public considers important. "Conservative" is one of those terms. To call the Governor who presided over the most liberal state in the union as chief executive a conservative is either a sign that the press has no clue what the word means, that they consider non-Communists conservatives, or it is simply a lie.
If they can get us to buy this laugher anyone to the right of Lenin becomes a "Moderate".
You've got to be kidding!
Remember the old saw about prejudicial questions? How about just plain prejudiced assumptions? If I find a man planting a bomb in my basement when is it offensive for me to tell the police?
When the police want me to die.
Thus is it these days with the international press. So, when American military officials lay out a case for the presence of Iranian munitions in new and more sophisticated bombs meant to kill American GIs Reuters finds it "provocative" that they have gone to the trouble to tell the world.
OK, Iran is simply doing what Reuters would have them do. We don't have to shut up about it.
See:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070212/ts_nm/iran_usa_dc;_ylt=AvE8Jbp_UnXmL1wFUvC22hOs0NUE
Take a look at this article we found on Yahoo:
For a little historical background in 1950 the United States produced 69% of the world's man made CO2. For the most recent year for which we have records (2004 or 2005) the U.S. produced 25% of the man-made CO2. Well- the danger must be over! right?
Wrong.
If there is a smidgen of good news it is in the sulfur dioxide emissions, which are believed by many scientists to be the cause of the global cooling from W.W.II to 1984.
How long will it be before China is a pollution pariah among the media? I'm not holding my breath.
Lee Emmerich Jamison
Today on the web we find an article in the Washington Post which attempts to use herd mentality and flattery of an imagined consensus in the public to drive the U.S. out of Iraq. This would, of course, do exactly what I have predicted for several months the Left has been attempting to do: Abandon Iraq so that millions could die in a carnage completely discrediting America as a world power.
See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020901917.html
This is part and parcel of what I call leading with prejudice.
Lee Jamison
In view of the previous article it seemed appropriate to mention one of my sources for information on this story, specifically the information about Richard Armitage. This is from the September 8th, 2006 edition of the Washington Post-
See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701781.html
There are two statements I find absolutely amazing, considering the lengths to which Patrick Fitzgerald has gone to detsroy the career and life of someone who, it appears should never have been so much as questioned. (If it is purjury to fail to recollect when one first heard of the identity of someone, what is it to maintain [and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on] an investigation in search of a leak for which one already KNOWS THE SOURCE?)
"The confirmation of Armitage's role has provoked criticism of both him and the special counsel, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who learned of it shortly after his appointment in 2003. Some have questioned why Armitage waited so long to speak up about it, and why Fitzgerald spent two years appearing to chase a question that had already been answered."
...and:
"Armitage said yesterday that he did not disclose his role before now because Fitzgerald had asked him not to. But word of his role eventually began to circulate, and on Tuesday, Armitage said, he asked Fitzgerald to be freed of that promise. Fitzgerald agreed."
How much of the coverage of the Libby trial has made mention of this set of fact? None I've seen on TV!
Lee Emmerich Jamison
In the summer of 1995 I wrote an article for the Huntsville Item about the then-current state of affairs in what was widely referred to as "PLAMEGATE" in the Washington-New York-Boston center of the known universe. The issue at hand was who "outed" CIA agent Valerie Plame. The problem, as I saw it then, was that there so clearly was NO STORY. Virtually all of Plame's aquaintances knew she worked for the CIA. It was common knowledge, too, that she has been "under cover" (Her children even famously spouted off as much in the Boston Airport about the time this article was written.)
This is all current today because the only person indicted in the witchunt for a way to put Karl Rove in jail, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, is now on trial for perjury. Was he the leaker? No. Everybody who does not depend on the network news shows or the front pages of a major liberal newspaper for their news now knows not only that Richard L. Armitage admitted in September that he was the leaker, but we now know that Plamegate special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald KNEW FROM DAY ONE that he was the leaker. Libby's prosecution turns on whether he really remembered who first told him Valerie Plame was a spy and when or if he really forgot and misreported his first knowlege during the unnecessary investigation.
This blog is not just about whatever pops into my head. It is about prejudice, bigotry, and how some people use those foibles to empower themselves. I have stated that bigotry is the bias we can't see in the mirror. That is an innocent form. There is a form that is simply unmitigated evil, though, and this series of events is a clear case of a bigoted media mis-, dis-, and un-informing us for the sake of practicing and keeping power for themselves and their friends.
I re-print the article exactly as I first submitted it below.
