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2010
Soap Box Archives Liberal Bias If you only listen to the liberal media, you have most likely been led to believe that Republicans, primarily conservatives, are complete blithering idiots, while liberal Democrats are the epitome of intellectual superiority. To borrow from my pastor, there is a Greek word for this… "Baloney." But, if you only listen to the mainstream liberal news media, popular culture shows like Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher and virtually any late light talk show, you can just about be assured that your perception of conservatives versus liberals is weighted heavily to the left. Almost anyone over 35 remembers when former Vice President Dan Quayle was ripped to shreds by the media as being a complete ignoramus for telling a child to add an "e" to the end of the word "potato" on a chalkboard when he was visiting an elementary school. In the 80's, shows like SNL and Not Necessarily the News would have you believe that Ronald Reagan was a senile old fool who was ready to wet himself at any moment. The worst they said about Bill Clinton was that he was a horn dog. Of course, according to the liberal media, George W. Bush was a blithering idiot who couldn't tie his shoes without the help of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney -except for those loons that think he was a diabolical genius that engineered the 9/11 attacks to commandeer the world's oil supply. And, of course, Sarah Palin is always a favorite target of the left. For someone who's qualifications have been the called into question so often, liberals feel so compelled to stay in full attack mode ever since John McCain picked her as his running mate, just in case anyone were ever "mistakenly" think that she might actually have a brain. But what if the Commander-in-Chief of the United States armed forces gave a speech in which he called a Marine corpsman a "corpse-man" -instead of the correct pronunciation of "core-man?" Wouldn't David Letterman surely have that on his "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" segment that was a regular staple during the Bush years? Not if that Commander-In-Chief was Barack Obama. He gets a pass, as do most liberals when they say, or do, something idiotic. I specifically watched David Letterman's monologue last night to see if there would be any mention of Obama's gaffe. No, but he did mention that the president was planning a Super Bowl party, mocked John McCain and took plenty of shots at recently sworn in Republican Senator, Scott Brown. Dave's joke du jour was that Brown had to be reminded constantly to keep his pants on his first day as in the Senate. Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan in 1982 when he was 22. We get it, Dave. The same goes for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Nada on the corpse, man. Not that any of this is a big surprise. The way the mainstream media treats conservatives compared to how they treat other liberals is night and day. Reporters couldn't get to Alaska quick enough to find any dirt they possibly could on Sarah Palin, yet the same press apparently decided the fact that for twenty years Barack Obama went to a church whose pastor made frequent anti-American and racist comments, and Obama's association with domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, weren't newsworthy… but by golly, they found video of a visiting Kenyan pastor who prayed for Jesus to protect her from Satan and "all forms of witchcraft," in her church in Wasilla! What a nut! It didn't stop there. Bogus lists of books that she purportedly wanted banned were produced, Bill Maher called her a "Category 5 idiot," and even went as far as to suggest that her son, Trig, was actually her daughter Bristol's son that she was raising as her own, as did a blogger at the Daily Kos. The Palin attacks continued throughout the campaign with Charlie Gibson hammering her for her lack of knowledge of the "Bush Doctrine" (which according to Charles Krauthammer -who coined the term- would go on to say that Gibson got completely wrong), to claims of abuse of power as Governor of Alaska, to being lampooned by Tina Fey on SNL. To this day, there are people who believe that Palin actually said that she could see Russia from her house because Tina Fey said it. The most obvious liberal bias on the campaign trail was Katie Couric's interviews with Palin and Joe Biden. Couric looks on with stern distaste and skepticism as she presses Palin on specific Supreme Court rulings, while she doesn't even bat an eye when Joe Biden inexplicably talks about what FDR said when he went on television to talk to the American public after the stock market crashed. For those youngsters who may not know why that is significant, Herbert Hoover was president when the stock market crashed in 1929, and television was still being developed. Hoover delivered a presidential radio address after the stock market crashed. I'm sure… at least I'd like to think that Biden knows his history better than that, and it was just one of those "duh" moments that most of us have from time to time (some of us more than others, Joe.) But the truth of the matter is that liberals give a pass to other liberals when they say or do something that could be perceived as "less than brilliant." Sure, one could say "Birds of a feather flock together," but the problem is that most of the birds in the media are flocking liberals. Conservatives who have tried to be voices of reason against the liberals pushing the global warming agenda are labeled as "flat earthers" or "Holocaust deniers". Gotta love the irony that the EPA, which is working on guidelines to regulate greenhouse gases to combat global warming, will be shut down, along with the rest of the nation's capitol, due to a snowstorm that could drop over 2 feet of snow on D.C. this weekend. For months, conservatives have been vocal in their opposition to what President Obama has been saying about his attempts at health care "reform." He has said consistently that you can keep your doctor and your health care plan if you are happy with it, and that no one would come between you and your doctor. People like Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh have been ridiculed and accused (along with congressional Republicans) of fear mongering for suggesting that the government would come between you and your doctor, and that you may NOT be able to keep your current health care plan. This has caused the Democrats to go on the offensive, and the media has been their lapdogs. Well, it appears that these crazy right-wingers may not have been so far off base after all. Says who…? President Obama. In his own words on 1/29/10, "…we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -If you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge." Have you heard this on NBC Nightly News? CBS? CNN? Unless you listen to conservative talk radio, or watch Fox News, not very likely. How about the mainstream media's complete journalistic incompetence with regards to John Edwards affair and love child scandal? It is almost incomprehensible that The National Enquirer, of all publications, was the only one to investigate and break this story, let alone come anywhere NEAR it, and as more details come to light, this was a very poorly kept secret among his campaign insiders. Imagine if this had been Mitt Romney, John McCain or Fred Thompson in 2008. That would've been a guaranteed front-page story of the New York Times and Washington Post in the middle of the campaign instead of the mainstream media being reluctantly dragged to it by a trashy tabloid. But complaining about liberal media bias is like complaining about the weather. There's not too much we can do about it. At least conservatives still have talk radio… for now. And we may have to fight to keep that if the liberals have their way. And they will try.
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