American Media (or, Where's the Rage?)
During the Bosnia conflict, the Clinton Administration told us that American forces would be home by Christmas 1997. Almost seven years later, they're still over there, and we don't have any liberal complaining--no hearings demanded, no calls for a "plan" or an "exit strategy" or references to Vietnam or the asinine use of the term "quagmire". Yet after less than a year they're whining about Iraq.
Charles Pickering has been waiting more than two years for confirmation to the Fifth US Court of Appeals, and is still being Borked. There's a filibuster out because of his support of segregation. Never mind the fact that this 'support' consists of a paper he wrote in law school wherein he spoke of but didn't protest Mississippi's anti-miscegenation (anti-mixed-race marriage) law. Never mind the fact that he testified against the KKK in the 60's. (Testifying against the KKK in southern Mississippi in 1967 wasn't exactly safe...), nevermind that he's got vigorous support from black folks in his home state--he's gettin' Borked. Meanwhile, Robert Byrd (D-KKK-WV) who used the term 'nigger' in an interview and excused it by saying he was 'raised that way'--and, by the by, used to be a Grand Kleagle for the KKK--is still high up in Democrat leadership.
The LA Times showed its support for Gray Davis by searching for women to accuse Shwarzenegger of groping them--at least one, according to the LA Weekly, came forward at the "urging" of a close colleague of Gov. Grayout Davis. Edtitorials featuring the title "Win One for the Groper" have come up, and Gary Trudeau, further proving that he hasn't had a grip on reality since 1963, referred to him as "Gropenfuhrer" in his nationally syndicated comic--combining the engineered accusations with the typical liberal tactic for when your opponent realizes you have jack for evidence: Compare Your Opponent to Hitler. Clinton, however, recieves no such condemnation for Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, etc., etc., ad nauseum, nor for the rape accusation standing against him. So where were the feminists screaming that Schartzeneggers accusers must have had a book deal, that it doesn't affect the way he does his job, that it's all about sex, or that it was just his private life? And people wonder why we don't take these broads seriously....
School vouchers are the Antichrist, according to the Democratic party--yet these same democrats send their own kids to private schools. Public teachers in urban areas are far more likely than the average parent to choose private schools for their own kids (At the bottom of this page, cited). Algore, who's children attended the exclusive St. Alban's, made opposition to school vouchers a cornerstone of his campaign. Biilzebubba, who vetoed a voucher proposal while Chelsea was attending Sidwell Friends, had the same thought in mind, apparently--choice is good for me, but bad for the peasants. And, of course, he (and they) gets a free ride on it from the press.
In the 200 primary, President Bush decided to forego the federal matching funds, which meant he also didn't have to follow the spending caps. The press went nuts. The Washington Post commented that he was "Thumbing his nose" at the campaign finance system, and Gore's media consultant claimed "He is running rough-shod over it and the American people will see that." In November, 2003, Democrat candidate Howard dean chose to forego the federal matching funds--now the Washington Post says, "One can't fault Mr. Dean--or any other dandidate--for opting out." Strange, they were able to fault the Republican candidate just fine...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich accepted a $4.5 million book deal. Politicians and the liberal media hounded him relentlessly until he gave up the advance. Senator Hillary Clinton recieved not 4.5, but $8 million from Simon and Shuster for her White House memoirs--the deal signed a few hours before she was sworn in as a senator. And the rage... just didn't flow. The same guys who were so pissed at Gingrich didn't have any problem at all with Shrillary.
But now, on to name recognition...
In October of 1998, a homosexual man named Matthew Shepard was murdered because of his lifestyle choice--beaten nearly to death and left tied to a fence in the Wyoming winter for the elements to finish the job. Probably you heard about it--after all, he was all over the news. Maybe you heard people blaming Christianity for the attack, such as Deborah Mathis on Inside Washington on October 17--"The Christian Right per se and some particular members on Capitol Hill have helped inflame the air so that the air that these bad people breathed that night was filled..." Or heard Katie Couric on the Today show asking Elizabeth Birch, head of the Human Rights Campaign, "Do you believe this campaign ? this ad campaign launched by some conservative groups ? really contributed somehow to Matthew Shepard's death?" and Birch's reply, "I do, Katie." (Interview with Janet Folger of the Center for Reclaiming America and Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign Fund by Katie Couric, October 13, 1998. ). Or, perhaps, the piece in Newsweek, reading "Well, the consequences of condemnation can turn out to be death.... But just as the white racists created a climate for lynching blacks, just as hate radio created a climate for militias, so the constant degrading of homosexuals is exacting a toll in blood.... Discerning clergymen and moralists can hate the sin and love the sinner; but by the time the homophobic message reaches the angry guys sitting in the bar, that distinction has been lost." (Jonathan Alter, "Trickle-Down Hate," Newsweek, October 26, 1998.) (and another by Couric here, if you can watch .ram movies) But have you heard of Jesse Dirkhising? In September of 1999, Jesse was kidnapped, repeatedly raped and sodomized with objects, and then left tied in a position where he couldn't breathe while his two tormentors took a break. Said one of his rapists in this story quoted by a homosexual-advocacy news source, "I'm sorry that Jesse is dead. Jesse was a very good boy." Just try to read that and not shudder. But back to the original point, where was the media outcry? For that matter, where's the outcry about Jeffrey Curley, who was murdered during an attempted rape by two homosexual men? (Here, and commentary here and here.) Where's the media outcry over it? In fact, where's the media MENTION of either of these two? If you have access to LEXIS-NEXIS, then by all means, do a search on these three names and see how the numbers run.
While you're at it, take a look at the name James Byrd. I'm sure it's familiar--the black guy who was dragged to death by three white thugs down in Jasper, Texas. The NAACP even used his death for political gain in national ads. But have you heard of Ken Tillery? Within 5 years of James Byrd, also brutally murdered because of his race--in fact, within a couple miles of where James Byrd Jr. was murdered... in fact, pretty close to the same procedure. Ken was hitchhiking, picked up by three guys who offered him a right but instead drove him to a remote area and murdered him by dragging him beneath their car's undercarriage. The reason you saw Byrd's name all over the media and not Tillery's? Byrd was a black man, murdered by white thugs. Tillery was a white man, murdered by black thugs.
