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6/3/05 The Liberals' New Clothes Imagine the media strutting around, clothed in their mantle of objectivity. It would not take a child to point out that they are actually naked. Every few weeks there is more evidence of their lack of objectivity. They view reality through a lens of liberalism that makes them critical of conservative thought, religious thought from conservatives, corporations, the military, and just about anything else not dominated by liberal thinking. When Richard Nixon, a Republican president, abused his power to frustrate his enemies' attempts to bring down his presidency, it was their duty to help his enemies bring him down. When Bill Clinton, a Democratic president, abused his power to frustrate his enemies' attempts to bring down his presidency, it was the duty of the media to cover up his wrongdoing. Linda Tripp, who documented the president's wrongdoing, was treated by the media as a pariah, her motives being questioned to the point of denying her humanity and almost literally accusing her of being a witch. Mark Felt, who was recently revealed as Deep Throat, the source who helped point Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the direction of the truth about Nixon, is a great hero to the media, a man who served the Constitution (despite the fact that he was convicted of ignoring the Constitution around the same time he was supposedly saving it), and his motives are irrelevant. Dan Rather and his cohorts at CBS News did not seriously question the accuracy of forged documents when they purported to portray George W. Bush as having shirked his military duty, or of official documents that defended John F. Kerry against the charge that his military medals were not duly earned. But they never accepted the validity of official documents when they defended Vietnam-era military men against charges they had committed atrocities. Enemy eyewitnesses during the Vietnam era were (and ever since have been) treated by the media as truthful victims of American brutality. But loyal American eyewitnesses who disputed the stories told about John F. Kerry's exploits were treated as self-serving, politically motivated story-tellers. And now al Qaeda prisoners, who have been explicitly instructed in documents available to the media to lie if they are captured and say they are being mistreated, are believed when they say they are being mistreated. These liberal lap dogs don't bother to check the facts very vigorously, since the both expect and apparently hope to find evidence that our military is somehow the "bad guy" in this moment in history. And when it turns out, as in the Rathergate scandal, that the evidence they presented was false or misleading, they deny that bias had anything to do with it, and blame it all on haste or carelessness. But they're never hasty or careless with stories that would hurt liberal causes or Democrats. They filibuster those items, spiking them or burying them until the public consciousness has moved on. Yes, they are naked when they strut about thinking they are clothed in their objectivity. And imagine Democrats strutting about clothed in their convictions. It does not take a child to observe that they are clothed in gossamer nothingness. Years ago, when Republicans were a minority in the Senate, using the filibuster rules to stymie Democratic legislation, many Democrats agitated to do away with the antiquated "tyranny of the minority." Now those same Democrats use the filibuster routinely, for the first time in history, to block any nominee who does not pass liberal muster. And when Republicans propose to change the rules so nominees cannot be filibustered (as the Constitution implies they must not be), they are accused of attempting to dismantle the foundations of decency in the Senate (foundations that meant nothing to them when they were in the majority). The Democrats who spent money like drunken sailors spend cheap wine when they ran the Congress in the 1980's, who were brought to heel by the Republican Revolution of the mid-1990's, now put on the mantle of fiscal responsibility as though they wouldn't be spending twice as much (with half the results) if they were in power today. The mantle is insufficient to cover their hypocrisy. And a handful of Democrats (including their great "statesman" the former Klansman who can't get enough of listening to his own bombastic rhetoric--and assumes no one else can either) help broker a deal with a handful of credulous Republicans to end the rampant filibustering of Bush nominees--and two days later they filibuster another Bush nominee and claim it is not a filibuster. If it's not a filibuster when you block cloture, then it's not a vacation when you take time off of work to do something else for a while. Every election season in the last decade has been winter for Democrats, and they keep wearing the same outfit: nothing. They need something of substance to clothe themselves, but they don't seem to be able to come up with anything. If they could, they might be worth listening to. Until then, they're preaching to the converted and will continue to be ignored by anyone with common sense. Modified: 06/16/2005 |
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