Last night I caught the beginning of the 10 pm news. This story was the lead. I noticed that, while the names and states these asshats represent were discussed, their party affiliation was not.
Now, way back in high school and college when I was taking journalism classes, we learned that when dealing with an elected official..like say…oh…a congressman, the proper syntax (ok, they said ’style’ but I prefer syntax) is to state the person’s name, then in parentheses their party affiliation and state. Here is an example Sen. Robert Dole (R-KS). See? Always with the party.
But the news story last night, it didn’t tell us if the lawmakers that took the Saddam sponsored junket were dems or repubs. I told the 5/8 and No. 1 Son that those three had to be democrats, because if they had been republicans, the news bimbo would have said so. Instead of the headline being "Saddam Paid for Lawmakers’ Iraq Trip" the headline would have read "Saddam Paid for Republican Lawmakers’ Iraq Trip."
No. 1 Son had some trouble understanding why. I tried to explain to him that the news reporting is mostly biased towards the leftards. That most of the reporters and editors are leftards, and glorify the likes Chavez and Castro, which is why we see so little news about the piss-poor living conditions, and the atrocious human rights violations that occur there.
I don’t think he completely understood what I was getting at. But he’ll learn. We all had to learn that lesson. The hard lesson when we discovered that Dan and Peter and Tom weren’t giving us the full, un-biased skinny and any damn thing they talked about.
Now, the question is, did these fellows know their trip was sponsored by the Butcher of Baghdad? Probably not. I don’t believe that any lawmaker who would travel to Iraq on the eve of the US invasion could be smart enough to figure it out. But then again, only they know. I mean, it was, after all, paid for by a charity group. And seriously, how would these male-bimbos know they guy who runs the charity was getting oil in exchange for getting them to Iraq?
I’m certain though, if the congressmen would have been republicans, we’d be hearing all the screaming and crying of corruption that the leftards are so good at spewing.
The un-American racist group La Raza’s president and CEO Jante Murguia is at it again. Wanting to remove the debate over immigration from the national discourse. Railing against ‘rhertoric’ and inferring that any one who wants to quel the problems we have with illegal immigration is actually ‘anit-immigration’ and racists.
She wants news shows to stop interviewing folks who believe that America should be able to control her boarders. She wants removed from public debate those poeple who advocate for a rational, reasonable immigration policy which does not include complete open borders.
“Anti-immigrant rhetoric has filled the debate with code words that demonize Latinos as a threat to the American way of life,” Murguia said.
Code words that demonize people. Would that be like saying people against illegal immigration are completely anti-immigration? Isn’t anti-immigration itself a code word, meant ot demonize the rational, thinking American populus? Looks like it to me. By and large Americans are not anti-immigration. They all know that we all came from somewhere else, at least our ancestors did (ang that includes you Native Americans too, y’alls ancestors came across that landbridge up by Alaska). Immigrants have created some of the best innovations we have ever seen.
La Raza, which, BTW they tell us means “The People” or “The Community” is truly translated as “The Race.” The term they would use for “The People” is “La Gente” and “The Community” would be “La Communidad.” So when the un-American card-carrying member of La Raza tries to tell us that their name is mis-translated, they are perpetrating yet another lie to further their cause - and we all know that is the cause of complete and open borders…at least on the US side. They probably don’t want Americans running around Mexico, opening businesses and making money and sending it back home (but I could be wrong).
A perfect example of how La Raza does not believe that the 1st Amendment should be the primier law of the land is their statement that their new website is meant to;
“take the hate and vigilante groups off the air,” “clean up the rhetoric,” and track hate crimes and offensive comments.
Track offensive comments. Like, oh, I dunno, some kind of ‘thought police’? Since we do not live in Canada, we have the right to say offensive things. We have the right to hold people up to scrutiny and ridicule. We are gauranteed by the First Amendment to be able to say things which hurt other people’s feelings.
It seems that La Raza wants to have the last say in what is offensive, in what should be allowed to be uttered, in who can say what and when. La Raza’s mission, belief, goal and purpose for being is completely antithetical to liberty, freedom and the American way.
Doug Ross manages to succinctly and concisely capture an entirely foreseeable chain of events. Head on over and check it out, it doesn’t take long - I promise.
This video is somewhat disturbing. It comes to me by way of Lane Hudson over at the Huffington Pos. In it we see a student at the University of Florida asking John Kerry a question about whether or not he was part of the (notorious?) Skull & Bones society while at Yale. Before Kerry could answer, the university police begin to remove the petitioner. When the student complains, they tazer him and forcibly remove him from the building.
While the video itself is terribly disturbing, what really caught my attention (aside from the fact that someone on HuffPost actually posted a video that put a democrat in less than stellar light) was that Hudson tried to spin this incident into somehow being President Bush’s doing. That somehow, because a student who asked a question unfavorable to Senator Kerry was tazered and forcibly removed from the forum, is the responsibility of President Bush, and it happened because he is “edging towards ANOTHER ill-conceived war”.
Please, don’t take my word for it, go and read it yourself. It seems that the far left are grasping at anything and everything these days.