Something ugly happened the other day outside the Capitol in Washington just before the vote on healthcare reform.
Or it didn’t.
Angry anti-ObamaCare Tea Party demonstrators shouted racial epithets at several black members of congress.
Or they didn’t.
By now, you’ve heard the story. As congress was about to vote on the president’s healthcare plan one or more demonstrators (no one claims to know how many for sure) supposedly shouted “nigger” at two black congressmen. Upon hearing the reports, leaders of the Tea Party demonstration denounced the incident and the leader of the House Republicans, John Boehner said it was “reprehensible.”
But did the incident ever really happen? It certainly is possible, that in a crowd of thousands, a few morons shouted out racial slurs. Apparently it was quite a scene. Congressman John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia and veteran of the civil rights movement, told reporters that the angry crowd “reminded me of some of the pictures you saw in newspapers and magazines in the 1950s and ’60s when little black children were trying to integrate schools. It reminded me of Central High (Little Rock, Ark.) in 1957.”
So it’s especially interesting that despite all the cameras and microphones at the scene, not one picked up the nasty remarks, even though they supposedly were being shouted, and even though another congressman, Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana, said that the demonstrators yelled “nigger” at least 15 times.
This, of course, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. As I say, it may have. Would I be shocked if it did. Honestly? No! So, let’s just assume the worst. And let’s see how the so-called mainstream media handled the story.
Even though journalists are normally skeptical of what politicians say – and pride themselves on accepting nothing without proof – there was no nuance, no hint that they might not know the whole story, in the headlines which shouted “Racism.” Never mind that not a single reporter actually heard the slurs that supposedly were being yelled out — repeatedly.
There was this, from a newspaper in Sydney, Australia no less: “Black congressmen run gauntlet of racist slurs”
And this closer to home, from the Atlanta Journal Constitution: “Republican Party is stained by the racism of its fringe”
At least the Journal Constitution included the word “fringe” – a word missing from the Chicago Sun Times headline: “Racism simmers below surface on health care”
The most irresponsible headline ran over an opinion piece in the Baltimore Examiner (and other publications in the Examiner family): “Tea party turns into Klan rally”
The (New York) Daily News said, “They might want to think about renaming it the Nastea Party.”
But why tar so many angry but peaceful demonstrators with such a broad brush? Why link them to a small group – it if existed at all – that was out of line?
Simple. It fits the storyline that liberal journalists like to pursue. These are news people (not all, of course, but way too many) who believe conservatives in general and tea partiers in particular, are bigots. Simple as that, friends.
Yet these same fair-minded journalists would never tar the entire environmental movement because a few angry screwballs burn down an SUV dealership in the dark of night. Or link peaceful environmentalists to the maniacs who put nails in trees that are about to be cut down hoping to maim the tree cutters. Nor would they tar the entire anti-war movement because Bill Ayers and a relatively few other radicals tried to blow things up to protest the Vietnam War.
But the tea partiers can’t catch a break. Twenty bigots at a rally, or maybe only two or three, or maybe just one … is enough to give tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators a bad name. As Keith Olbermann, the fearless and courageous Howard Beale (without the charm) of MSNBC said: “If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart.”
And when it comes to hatefulness of the heart, there is no one more expert than Keith Olbermann.
HERES MY FAVORITE LAME BRAIN, OBAMA OREILLY, HE TRASHED GOV SARAH PALIN, OH SHE
WOULDNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE WARS IN EUROPE, SHE HAS 0 CHANCE. HAS HE
BECOME ONE OF THE OBAMA MEDIA?
I KNOW ONE THING FOR SURE I BET SHE NEVER HARASSED HER PRODUCER AND GOT SUED
FOR MILLIONS, THATS REAL SMART,
Very cool article, I don’t suppose you’d ever think about doing one but more about the effects it has on people who play PC games a lot?
Nifong media describes it best. The nifong media hushes up even the biggest story if it doesn’t support democrat politics.
Yeah, thats it – nifong media. The nifong media helps democrats with all the race bait games. Without the nifong media helping them, the democrats couldn’t play the race card effectively.
If you will check out the staff of Rep Lewis during his march to the capitol. You will see that one of them is carrying video recorders in each hand. If you don’t think for one minute that if these accusations were true and done to the extent suggested it would be on those tapes.
I think that the best evidence that the racial slur did not happen is to watch the body language of all the congressman as they are walking through the crowd. There is no hesitation in any of their strides. I would expect a very dramatic reaction from not one but all of the congressman to the racial slurs, now said to be shouted as many as 15 times!
How to spot a liberal with no aurgument— when you see the name G. Bush in a comment trying to explain away President Obama’s failure to create jobs.
I happened to hear you on The O’Reilly Factor questioning whether the “N” word was really used and if it were why was it not picked up on any microphone? I attended the funeral of an amazing African-American labor organizer and community leader in early March. Andre Carson spoke during the celebration of this very accomplished woman’s life. I found it very inappropriate that he brought up the health care debate during his comments and mentioned that it all boiled down to race. It struck me as “not being the time or place” to bring the topic up, but also added a level of tension and division to a very diverse group of people who had gathered to pay their respects to this amazing woman. It seemed peculiar to me when I heard that racial slurs had been hurled at the group of Congressmen that included Mr. Carson. I for one would like to hear a sound bite!
“I think it was more a victory lap and why not? She won. She was proud. Actually I thought it was gutsy for her to do it. But she fought hard and she won. It will probably be the biggest day of her life.”
Hardly sounds like a condemnation!
This is truly an epidemic of ignorance that is propagated by the ultra-leftists at the top of the political heap. You will NEVER hear about the fact that the KKK was originated by southern democrats and that blacks,AS WELL AS REPUBLICANS,were in the crosshairs of hate. Hate speech,as we know it, originated on the left.
Additionally I would like to conclude with these two points of fact. First, the republican party(GOP) was the party that opposed slavery and waged war to abolish it-the democrats went to war to defend it. Second, little if nothing is said about the fact that it was the GOP that sponsored and pushed for the civil rights act of 1964. Historically it has been the democrats that have been a fly in the ointment to REAL social and political equality; and that’s just a recorded fact.
Tom, No it actually was the liberals that opposed slavery and waged war to abolish it-the conservatives went to war to defend it. Get your facts straight!
Wil, if you mean the Democrats were the ones that opposed slavery and not the Republicans, by all means, please provide historical evidence to support your claim. Otherwise, Tom is right to have stated what he just stated.
And now, another installment of “Wil Burns Theater,” brought to you by Sofa King (‘Where our furniture is Sofa King-good!’).
WB: “The conservatives are the bigots! I don’t need any facts to back it up, and just my saying it is enough! In fact, Lincoln was a democrat! John Wilkes Booth was a Bush-loving conservative!
Don’t you hateful conservatives know that having the opposite position from mine is mean-spirited bigotry?! That’s why nobody has been able to debate me! You all just run and hide every time I prove you wrong! And hateful!”
Thank you for tuning in to “Wil Burns Theater.” Tickets are still available for the upcoming live performance of WBT, taking place on April 1 at the Opposite Land Auditorium.
Really? You have very little proof or actual knowledge about the various positions held by people in the deep south over 200 years ago.
How many segregationalists were “conservative”? How many were “liberal”? Were those terms (liberal/conservative) even IN USE? How much have the positions of each descriptor changed over hundreds of years? Are the views of then and now even comparable?
Your speculation over what may or may not be the possible similarities is useless and reminiscent of what the MSM is doing now: mudslinging, speculating on irrelevant topics, and asserting slurs over things they’ll never be able to prove or ever have to.
Are you a high school student? Or maybe you slept everyday in U.S. History, I not sure but I am sure that you are 100% indoctrnated into far left reaches of the liberal mindset. What a remarkable statement you have made.
That’s absolutely incorrect, Wil. The whole premise of your argument is incorrect. To analyze slavery under the modern political affiliations of “liberal” and “conservative” is a lie, here are some examples:
John Adams (Whig) never owned a slave, opposed slavery on morality grounds;
Henry Clay (Democract) owned slaves, however, opposed slavery;
Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) believed in natural rights of persons, owned slaves;
Abraham Lincoln (Republican) abolitionist and signer of Emancipation Proclamation;
Teddy Roosevelt (Progressive) believed all non-whites were inferior savages, particularly Indians;
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat and borderline Socialist) Issued Executive Order 9066 interning Japanese-Americans;
Hugo Black (New Deal Democrat) member of the KKK in Alabama, but also was one of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices who struck down “separate but equal” in Brown v. Board of Education;
Storm Thurmond voted against the Civil Rights Act while a member of the Democratic Party;
Robert Byrd (Democrat) issued a 13 hour speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1964;
Harry Reid (Democrat) said that Barack Obama only has a “negro dialect” when he wants to;
Michigan University (Liberal University) attempted to issue quotas in higher education as a way to limit the amount of white individuals allowed per year;
Barack Obama (Democrat) automatically sided with a black professor who was arrested by a white police officer before knowing the facts of the case and realizing the white police officer was correct in his actions;
Sonia Sotomayor (Liberal Justice) claimed that female latinas with rich life experiences are wiser than white men;
Michael Steele (Republican) chairman of the RNC and conservative activist.
Barack Obama listed “Black” as his race on the census report, when there is a option for a mixed race.
Thought this was really funny:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2010/03/26/daily-gut-anger-is-a-right/
Please, go back to 3rd grade grammar and learn the use of quotation marks.
I didn’t realize anyone in the Jewish religion had declared war on America? Am I missing something?
Further, I think that if a faction of the Jewish religion did declare holy war on the United States, most Jews would stand up and denounce their actions. They wouldn’t give their tacit approval by refusing to speak out against the violence.
No Joel;
A faction of a religion has declared war on us.
Wake up.
Our President spends 20 years as a member of a church led by a pastor who clearly has an anti-American agenda. “God damn America,” was not the use of a profane adjective. He was using “damn” has a verb and praying that God damn this country. And Obama never saw that side to the good pastor? In over 2 decades? And he’s the most brilliant man ever to serve as President?
While using offensive epithets is obviously wrong, it doesn’t come close to having your preacher pray that the nation, for which you’re the President, be damned by God. And yet, any suggestion that Obama is linked to such a philosophy is rejected by his supporters as absurd. These same supporters, however, are quick to denounce all tea-partiers for the supposed indiscretions of a very few (if any).
Somehow, there seems to be a double standard here. Or is it just me?
No, it’s not just you, Stevecee. It’s ridiculous that Barack Obama spent 20 years in a racist church, then decides to lecture the country on the evils of racism, and the lamestream media lauds his speech as if it were the equivalent of the Gettysburg address.
This is just another example of why the mainstream media is losing viewers, why the NY Obama Times is going broke, and why Fox News has gained viewers in the 13 years of its existence. Fox is the only network that doesn’t fawn over Obama like he’s some kind of God.
Isn’t it ironic that the lamestream media deliberately set out to help elect Barack Obama, and in the process, damaged their own credibility to such an extent that much of the public doesn’t trust or respect them anymore?
An old one from Will Rogers that had never been more true than it is today: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you read it, you are misinformed.”
Ed,
Thanks for the Will Rogers quote, very timely.
Stevecee, Rev. Wright was a Marine who served valiantly for his country, what have you done to serve our country?
And that TOTALLY eliminates all his inflammatory rhetoric (yeah, right).
There are plenty of Americans who have served valiantly for our country, most of them don’t come back this hate-filled.
You coined it right Mr. G., when you said “Lamestream Media” A big fuss over nothing to deflect the failings of their own disaterous bill. We know all about govt. health care in Canada and its major pitfalls, like ER 12-16 hr waits, months for elective surgeries, and town lotteries to obtain a doctor. Good luck with this bill America, you are going to need it.
This statement by Lewis absolutely kills me:
Congressman John Lewis, a Democrat from Georgia and veteran of the civil rights movement, told reporters that the angry crowd “reminded me of some of the pictures you saw in newspapers and magazines in the 1950s and ’60s when little black children were trying to integrate schools. It reminded me of Central High (Little Rock, Ark.) in 1957.”
This is without a doubt the most contrived Democratic BS episode I have ever witnessed. Lewis is taking Pelosi “across the bridge” and out of the capitol buliding with a 12 lb gavel tauting the Tea Party movement in a civil rights reenactment. She did not have to leave the capitol, but chose to. Why? To infuriate the Tea Partiers. By going to this extreme she is saying…. Not only am I going to pass Obamacare; I’m going to p— in your face while I’m doing it.
Then she has the nerve to stand behind a microphone and whine about threats to Democrats. I don’t advocate violence but where was her outrage, when they depicted in a movie, Bush being assassinated?
Imagine if you will they made a movie about the death of Obama. I’ll let you ponder that for a moment… in the meantime someone better call Mel Gibson.
I don’t think she did it to infuriate the protesters. I think it was more a victory lap and why not? She won. She was proud. Actually I thought it was gutsy for her to do it.
I agree the process was slimey and the bill creates spending and enforcement problems possibly worse than our wildest expectations. But she fought hard and she won. It will probably be the biggest day of her life.
To use your own words, if a process is slimy, how could it be right?
A “gutsy” victory lap with a twelve pound gavel to celebrate a “slimy” victory. How symbolic. She bullied and bribed her way to foist this monstrosity upon an unwilling public – a bill that “creates spending and enforcement problems possibly worse than our wildest expectations” and you think she should be applauded for it? The constitution had just been trashed, state and individual rights trampled upon, one-sixth of our economy brought to heel under government control and she shows up with her gaggle and gavel to parade in front of and taunt the protestors. You might consider that a display of guts and pride. Most would consider it classless contempt. Pelosi and most of those who voted for this bill don’t have a clue what is in it. They are still writing the “fixes”. The only thing that mattered is that they pass something, anything, to claim a political victory. Never mind that it will bankrupt the country and destroy the best health care system in the world.
As for the bad behavior of the protestors, it’s no secret that SEIU, ACORN and other leftist operatives have infiltratated the tea party groups to stir up this kind of trouble at their protests in an effort to make them look bad. The progressive mainstream media then laps this ruse up and runs with it in their reports about those evil tea baggers.
Ed:
You hit the nail on the head. Check out what Mohammed, I mean Joel, said about Bernie in the above post.
Did somebody say she should be applauded?
Did somebody say it was right?
Nancy’s ‘gavel procession’ drama cheapened the civil rights allusion.
Leave it to a bunch of modern statists to denigrate past achievements.
Found this buried on Yahoo News: “US healthcare reform is boon for India outsourcing companies”. Since there are regulations keeping healthcare info from being outsourced, India is setting up companies in the US. Just who I want to talk to – someone whom I cannot understand, and YELLS when you say you can’t understand them!! More of your tax dollars at work…eating us alive from the inside out.
Wil, you hang around this forum so often that you must be a Closet Conservative. Maybe instead of trying to ram your opinions down our throats, which lately seems to be the “American” way, express your comments in the form of a question and we will show you the way.
Mr. Goldberg, you are a national treasure. I remember your first column in the WSJ and have been following you ever since. As a long-time broadcaster and a long time elected public servant, I just wanted to thank you from my perspectives for constantly showing us and reminding us what a real journalist and reporter should be. Thank you!
can’t thank you enough D R …
It’s just goes to show you how phony and hypocritical the MSM are when they cheerfully reported on the violent Iraq war demonstrations, where President Bush was called Hitler and burned in effigy. They didn’t care one iota about inciting violence. No one accused the lamestream media or the left of sedition or causing an insurrection. It was “noble” to protest. However, when the tea parties are exercising their rights as citizens to peacefully protest this administration’s policies they are accused of racism, biogtry and hate speech. They are “domestic terrorists.” They (the “Progressive” media) are really a disgrace to this country and their profession.
It is a shame that in this day and age there is so much hate strewn about. I have always
believed that this is a country founded on principles and a democratic society. A country
with freedoms that other countries can only dream about. I can almost bet that our
founders are turning over in their graves. We have a President and administration that
places not value whatsoever in the Constitution of the United States, nor do they have
any respect for the Supreme Court. I don’t dislike the President. I don’t know the man well
enough to dislike him. He may very well be a nice person. It is his policies and polictical
agenda that I dislike. To me, and I may be wrong, but I doubt it, it appears that he is
playing Chicago Politics of lying and corruption. He lied to the American people during his
campaign and continues to lie to this day. And so does his administration. The country is
slowly going to far to the left, leaning toward Socialism, and when the people attempt to
peacefully protest this, they are called racist, bigots and are compared to the KKK. God
is almost a forbidden word. Doesn’t the President and all the politicians that We The
People have elected into office work for us??? Should they not be listening to ALL the
people and not just a selected few??? What we need to do in November is, before we
cast our ballots, think about which candidate is goint to take this great country in the
right direction and listen to the people, ALL THE PEOPLE, of this country. Don’t let all
the far left liberals take away our rights and freedoms that we so dearly cherish, and that
myself and millions of other veterans have fought, and many have given the ultimate
sacrifice, to keep these rights and freedoms. God bless America and all she stands for.
You’re right. He is nothing but a Chicago style politician. I’ve lived with his actions and the actions of his cornies for years in the state of Illinois.
Bernie–
I am so glad you wrote on this. I was just thinking that this intimidation of the Tea Party by the media (and that’s what it amounts to, really) needs to be countered by a boycott–yes ala the 60′s, of all the sponsors of irresponsible journalism–just as people marched for equality in our schools we must demand equality in our news rooms–this liberals only need apply discrimination MUST stop. I turned on CNN during the the weekend and saw NO references to the thousands of people protesting the vote on Capital hill. And the last few days has been frankly nauseating with regard to their wall to wall coverage of their deliberate caricature of the “angry tea party fanatics”. Although their motivations are transparent, I think we the people deserve better and more from our media than this. Lets formulate a plan to make them accountable!
What I am saying is…we can whine and whinny til the cows come home but what is needed is action. There are media watchdogs that can be used to say, give hard stats on percentage positive vs negative stories on say, the tea party movement—armed with these we can first ask for balance and if it not forthcoming–we can boycott sponsors. Isn’t something like this feasible Bernie?
Nancy, organized boycotts almost never succeed. For a couple of years, I’ve been engaging in my own personal boycott. I don’t watch the lamestream media. I won’t log onto their websites. I won’t pay for my hometown paper, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, because it’s a piece of liberal garbage. I don’t pay to see movies featuring Sean Penn, Matt Damon or any of the Hollywood big-mouths. I refuse to watch TV shows like Law & Order that have a left-wing slant. I won’t watch Letterman.
Done on an individual basis, these things work. CBS, NBC, etc are losing viewers. Fox is gaining viewers. Air America radio went bust. Conservative talk radio is growing. The New York Obama Times is losing readers every year. The late, late, late comedy show with Greg Gutfeld on Fox has bigger ratings than MSNBC in prime time.
People all over this country are quietly waging their own personal boycotts, writing letters to sponsors, refusing to buy products from left-wing companies like General Electric, etc.
I used to work in retail. One of the first things we were taught was that for every letter of complaint someone writes, there are a hundred people who don’t write. Those 99 people, my first manager once told me, are the PEOPLE WHO NEVER COME BACK.
Nancy, another thought. As an indvidual, you can counter the media by presenting your own conservative views in a thoughtful, positive, non-judgemental way. I remember the first time I heard a conservative use the phrase ‘personal responsibility.’ It started me thinking about the concept. And I found I liked that concept a whole lot more than the Democratic victimology concept.
We as individuals may not have a microphone or a printing press, but we can still make a difference in our neighborhoods and communities.
Jana–
Thanks for your thoughtful replies. I agree that it is up to each individual–it just bugs me that the liberal slant in the news is so blatant and I worry about the undue influence they may be having on our citizens. For example, I truly believe that minorities in this country are systematically being held down by the liberal policies that are and have been enacted. But you add to the liberal media, the equally liberal academic community and where can the truth truly bloom? I believe the media is responsible for pointing out discrepancies in what is said and what is true. This is not happening and as a result, many people will remain ignorant and really isn’t that the point? I further think that you are powerful, and I am powerful but together, we are more powerful…thanks again for your comments.
How about rolling strikes, hitting different areas? Not much to lose, cause under obama and a socialist democratic party, we will all be slaves under their yoke. With a ‘national id card’ with a chip in it to scan, we will be at their non-mercy.
I would like to say that the allegations made by the new media against the Tea party (Nastea party) are untrue, but I did see one video where I heard the N-word used. In defense of the person using it, it was plain as day that he was very passionate and upset about what the congress and senate were doing to our country. Did he make a mistake in saying that, YES. Was he wrong in feeling the way he did I believe not. I am among many who always thought I was involved in politics because I payed attention to what was going on every week. In this 24 hour news day it is impossible to know everything that is going on. The one good thing that will come out of this is more people will begin to take a harder look at what and who they are voting on and for. Even possibly vote for the first time because they don’t like the way OUR country is headed. New media needs report the truth and not be so opinion based.
Thanks
Natalie Fruge’
Natalie
Discussion of a major issue by focusing on the excesses of one sides’ fringe supporters is simply a propaganda tactic. This is especially clear because the Tea Party side is largely composed of normally non-political, middle class people with JOBS who have been roused by seeing the country driven to bankruptcy.
It is too easy to remind the audience about the foibles of the Left with certain anti-war and anti-globalism demonstrations that involve vandalism, gay pride celebrations that welcome NAMBLA members, bombing SUV dealerships and spiking trees by environmental terrorists and Keith Olbermann on general principles.
Concern over mountains of debt, new taxes far as the eye can see, billions being sucked out of the private sector, and,,,bringing back Jim Crow. Ah, yes, I see the connection.
Remember the good old 90′s when for one brief and shining moment we had a balanced budget? Whatever happened to that? Why doesn’t anyone (on either side) talk about that anymore?
Republicans SHOULD talk about it because they made it happen. The heavy lifting was done by John Kasich and Clinton was cornered into signing it.
At this writing Clinton and Democrats take full credit for it.
Bernie;
A pattern is emerging; we saw it during the campaign with the marginalization of FoxNews. The idea is: don’t respond to the substance of the right’s viewpoint; smear it.
You know, stoke the old stereotype of Peter Boyle’s ‘Joe’ or Archie Bunker: Republicans, and now conservatives, have to be racists; they oppose affirmative action and treating people of color (except Asians) as victims.
After all, Janeane Garafalo said so, Tea Party people are, “straight-up racists.”
What is beyond belief is that so-called journalists accept and amplify it.
Hey Bernie, How about the man protesting federal health-care legislation who berated and tossed dollar bills at a supporter with Parkinson’s disease last week says he is remorseful – and scared. “I snapped, I absolutely snapped, and I can’t explain it any other way,” said Chris Reichert in a Dispatch interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8
The only reason for the apology, someone posted a comment on the original dispatch article stating that this guy sells medical equipment, and that the talk internally was that people he worked with would out him.
Wil,
Read Bernie’s article again. Where did he condone such action if it occurred. He is clearly explaining how the MSM made this a major story without any proof. And I have checked European newspapers and it’s clearly a major story there as well. In the minds of the MSM it happened and is now fact. Why are you so afraid when Bernie questions the motives of the MSM? I’m sure it’s because you like their politics!
Tim Ned, it wouldn’t make any difference if Willie Burns, the man who never learns, read the article sixteen times. He sees what he wants to see, and shuts out everything that conflicts with the worldview he has bought into. I know because I used to do the same thing.
Wil’s distorted view of reality has left him in a daze. He has full blown BDS. I think he is just jealous because Bush is ten times smarter than he will ever be. I didn’t even care for the guy as a President and can tell he is smarter than he is given credit for. Just because one can’t articulate themself doesn’t mean they are a total moron. People who graduate from Harvard and fly planes aren’t morons. Those are referred to as the best of the best.
Bush again?
Why are you so afraid when Bernie questions the motives of the MSM? I’m sure it’s because you like their politics!>>
Tim, Bernie makes his living bashing the liberal press. Now, don’t you think he has an agenda, that he promotes ad nauseam? Hell, O’Reilly trots Bernie out weekly to perform his vitriol on the liberal press and now Keith Olbermann. There is no question about Bernie’s motives, it there for all to see!
Wil, Bernie Goldberg was addressing the issue of bias in the press a long time before Fox or O’Reilly came along. He was addressing it when he worked at CBS, when he could have lost his job because he displeased the people who employed him. I don’t call that “an agenda.” I call that courage.
How typical it is of you to question Bernie’s motives, instead of presenting a rational argument of your own. If you want to present a case that the mainstream media is NOT biased against conservatives, then make that argument. You’ve got free reign, buddy. We’re all listening.
Give us something to think about. Don’t do your ususal drive-by insult and then just disappear. We’re all listening, Wil. Give us your best argument.
Ain’t happening, Jan. This guy’s brain dead. Ignore him.
Okay Jana, The press is not biased and people that spew that nonsense are wrong! Now, if you are loking for biased opinions, all you have to do is only watch Fox news with Beck, Hannity and O’Reilly for your information. Oh, and also listen to right wing radio with Limbaugh and Limbaugh types. They will teach you how to hate paying taxes and all about hating your government.
Seems the only thing you’re presenting is your own bias against conservatives. Typical!
Wil, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly are not journalists. They don’t do news shows. They are commentators, and their programs are opinion commentary. Obviously, you are not smart enough to figure that out.
Brett Baier, Shepard Smith and Major Garrett are some of the news people on Fox, and they do a superb job. Obviously, the public agrees, since a recent poll found that Fox is the most trusted network on the air.
It’s funny, Will. I’ve never heard you whine about Rachel Madcow, Chrissie Mathews or Keith Blabberman, who also do opinion commentary, although not very well, considering their ratings. I’ve never heard you whine about Katie Couric or Brian Williams, who make a pretense of being unbiased while they slant their coverage to favor the left-wing.
As for hating to pay taxes? Tell that to your Democrat friends in Congress who don’t bother to pay their taxes half the time. Republicans and Independents do not hate paying taxes. They hate paying taxes only to watch their tax dollars squandered on porkulous programs that don’t work.
And hating your government? What’s that about? I thought Liberals considered dissent the highest form of patriotism? I guess not.
BTW, Will, how’s your Messiah going to get all the Independents back to help him win in 2012? Oh, yeah. He’s going to attempty amnesty for illegals, cap and tax, and the VAT tax. That should bring the Indpendents flocking back!!!!
See ya’ at the polls in November, Wil. Until then, graze peacefully!
Jana, you say Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly are not journalists. You are correct, they are provocateurs who hate America!
Gee, Wil, that’s such a brilliant, well-thought out retort that I can’t think of any response. I’m sure everyone reading this is going to give you a round of applause for your brilliance.
Please keep your posts coming. You’re such a fine example of liberalism for the masses.
The press isn’t biased? Thanks, for the wake up call, Noam Chomskey! You have to be the single most biased, uninformed individual in America.
“Biased opinion” is redundant. Just putting that out there.
Wil, I’ve read Bernie’s books and I relate to him. I was once a good JFK democrat like Bernie. But the party changed and so did the press. But in your eyes, if someone doesn’t agree with you it’s got to be an agenda. I’m sure Bernie enjoys all those great dinner parties the MSM invites him to. Ya right, I’m sure he gets invited to tons of them and most certainly the ones feature in the book “110 people screwing up America”. I bet they invite him to every event! It’s easy to criticize people outside you peer groups. But Bernie criticizes his own. So explain to me again the agenda please I’m not quite getting it?
How does the mainstream media coverage of the Tea Party Protest compare to the coverage of the Ann Coulter attempted speech in Canada. Last time I was in Canada I found the people to be quite friendly, but the video revealed some hateful people to me.
Bruce, Did the government ban Coulter from speaking?
Did the “protesters” bind and gag her so she could not speak?
Did they hold a gun to her head to prevent her from speaking?
No, she CHOSE not to speak.
We’re still waiting to hear your argument that the lamestream media is not biased, Will.
Got nothing? That’s what I thought.
She chose not to speak because the kind, compassionate left wing saints were sending her death threats. Ahh hypocrissy, liberalisms greatest feature.
When you tell Muslims that they shouldn’t be allowed on planes and should ride camels to get around, you’re kind of asking for it.
I suppose she expects a warm reception in Harlem after announcing that all blacks should be imprisoned.
Ann hates Canada. Her entire goal here was to get an experience to add in her little book. She’s like Lady Gaga – anything for attention. It was always her intention to get banned or get her speech restricted. It’s what she does!
Wow!!! Only in the mind of a liberal would one blame Ann for not speaking when the anti free speech liberal protesters threatened violence and scared the college officials into canceling the event. I hope next time they use tasers on the protesters that are a threat to the safty of people that want to hear a person speak. I wonder if Wil the liberal would say the same thing if the speaker was Mr. Ayers ?
John Lewis plays the race card because he cast an unpopular vote. SHOCKER!
I wouldn’t be suprised if the libs planted some of their people to shout racial slurs. It is one of their tricks. However, I doubt that it happened even once. Why? Because no one has proof and if it happened someone would have picked it up and magnified it with equipment and would run it over and over and over on MSNBC all day long. Obama wouldn’t get an FBI clearance with his associations. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, SEIU thugs, ACORN, etc. Pelosi wanted to incite problems when she had her giant gavel and Congress walk thru the crowd. Here people….shove it! They’re getting a fraction of their own tactics and their crying like a bunch of babies. Saul Alinsky tactics can work against them too. It’s worked for them for years. Now main stream America finally knows what liberals/progressives are all about. Obama said after he signed Obamacare bill “This is what change looks like”. Where is the media outrage when over half the country is disenfranchised? These lamestream losers have no viewers for a reason.
You’re right. If it did happen it was a plant.
Kimberly,
Good News I heard ACORN was closing its door. Ofcourse I heard that on a major news media station so we better wait a few days to see if its really true or not.
Their major branches are breaking up and forming smaller groups. It’s like a really bad science fiction move. The monster gets destroyed, but all of its pieces turn into monsters themselves.
Kimberly, I suspect exactly the same thing. Those “racists,” if they existed, might have been plants. It was the first thing that came to mind.
I seem to remember a case on a college campus a couple of months ago where someone was supposedly sending racists emails, but it turned out that the culprit was some black guy pretending to be white. He was sending emails denigrating blacks and using racist language, including the “N” word.
I remember when I was a hippie leftist liberal many years ago. I know the picture they have in their minds. I found out it just wasn’t true.
I wish I could remember all of the Twanna Brawley like incidents. There were nooses at a college, spraypaint or bricks thrown through glass with the intent to demonize Republicans or the right. Then they were found to be frame ups.
It’s a tactic. Whether something happened or not and who that person was who did or did not do it remains to be identified and confirmed. But before that, I agree that it will continue to be portrayed as fact, emblematic, and pervasive in the near if not the distant future as well.
Ron, I was never a hippie, but I was certainly a liberal! I did my share of calling Republicans racists and misogynists. In my case, I actually believed it.
My eyes were opened in 2008 when the lamestream media did its best to help get Barack Obama elected. I honestly had never noticed any bias in the media before. I just didn’t see it.
The lamestream media helped elect Barack Obama, but in the process, did itself irrevocable harm. Don’t you just love the irony?
I can happily, and with much pride, state that I never spent 1 minute as a liberal. Not one.
EddieD, if you ever had been a liberal you’d understand that the VAST majority of liberals have no clue about the aims of their left-wing leaders. Most have little knowledge in the way of political philosphies. They are liberals because they were raised in a world where their news is shaped and formed by a liberal media that, until recently, went unchallenged.
Most liberals are not bad people. They are idealistic people who honestly want a better world, and have been brainwashed by the media and the school system and Hollywood into thinking that government holds all the answers.
If Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had their way, the government would control every single aspect of our lives. Individual freedoms would be a thing of the past. And the most shocked people in the country would be Liberals.
Jana, The greatest threat to individual freedom come not from government, but comes from big business!
Spoken like a true Marxist.
Um, no. Just… no. Period.
When I think of countries like Cuba, North Korea, and China, you are way off base!
When ‘we will force this thru’ for your good (socialist-democrats) became reality, so did wil’s hammer and sickle on the the stars and stripes. All they are saying is totally opposite to their own oaths to defend the rule of this country by the people, not their own hidden agenda to destroy the constitution. The constitution has enabled more people to expand their horizons without trammeling other’s rights. You can already see they have good medical and personal protection, yet they water our medical down, and threaten us daily with more and more taxes, fines, and jail time for giving them our hard earned money so they can blow that like they did with social security and medicare. That’s your legacy wil.
It is ironic that in the same week that Anne Coulter is banned from speaking in Canada for allegedy “painting an entire group of people [muslims] with broad strokes” The media in America is brushing the entire Tea Party movement as racist with broad strokes.
These stories and the rapid diffusion of them across the Leftist media outlets is just another attempt to isolate and minimalize a movement that scares them to death. As the Democrats begin to truly feel the REAL threat, which is: THE LOSS OF THEIR JOBS, the attacks against the Tea Party will just become more frequent and more vitriolic.
I have been a member of my own local Tea Party for more than a year. Our leaders might be seen by the media as “White and Black” (our co-chair is black) but to us, the members, they are merely American.
Nalora, Many of you people are unemployed (thanks to Bush) and therefore you have the luxury of standing around on street corners with your misspelled signs declaring that you want no “pubic option” LOL. When the economy picks up the teabagging rallies will be gone! Maybe, looking for a job would be a better use of your time!
You don’t even know the basics of economics. Who the hell are you to discuss the economy picking up?
Nalora,
I don’t formally belong to a Tea Party, but I certainly support tea partiers, and donate to conservative candidates in my state and occassionally in other states. More power to you and people like you for standing up for your beliefs.
As for the man who accused you of standing on street corners with your “misspelled signs,” well, he’s showing his anxiety and fear of your movement. If the tea parties weren’t a force to be reckoned with, people like Wil Burns would simply ignore you. The fact that he’s moved to insult you illustrates that he perceives you as a threat.