I highly doubt that if you are on this site, reading this article, that you need to be convinced that the MainStreamMedia is horribly biased against conservatives either by what they choose to report, or by what they choose to ignore. So it’s not exactly front page news to offer the observation that the MSM is, well, biased.
But sometimes even the media suffers a bout of bias which is so pervasive, so hypocritical, so beyond the pale of even casual observance that it merits special mention. Well, if the media has ever jumped the shark with regard to blatant, biased reporting, it occurred this week in Madison, Wisconsin.
As we are all aware, two months ago, Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a deranged individual. It seems he targeted Ms. Giffords out of anger over a perceived slight from 2007. This senseless and tragic shooting resulted in the deaths of 6 people and injured 13 others.
The bodies had not even grown cold, and the blood hadn’t even dried, before the mainstream media minions rushed to push in unison a single meme for the shooting: it was the result of hateful, vile speech which had spewed from the mouths of right-wing fanatics, tea partiers, conservatives of all stripes, and, especially, Sarah Palin.
Within hours, leftist shills all the way from Keith Olberman to the AP to the Kos Kids to ABCCBSNBCMSNBC were pontificating about the “atmosphere of hate” that those angry denizens of the right had fomented in our political discourse. All of a sudden, using such time-worn political metaphors suck as “target” and “battleground” were found to be incentives to violence, and placing “crosshairs” over “targeted” races was akin to calling for the assassination of candidates.
Democrats in the House of Representatives criticized the use of phrases such as “jobs-killing bill,” while Republicans were encouraged to sit alongside Democratic politicians during the State of the Union address. This move was ostensibly aimed at fostering unity and demonstrating a “new tone.”
Except there was one slight problem. Jared Laughner, come to find out, had zero connections to conservative policies or groups.
Oops!
Fast forward to this past week in Wisconsin where union supporters gathered together to “protest” the bill that was being proposed by Gov. Scott Walker to restructure public sector collective bargaining rights.
Consider for a moment the reaction of the media if the following had come from a Tea Party or conservative action group.
There’s the description given by Sen. Randy Hopper of the mob scene at the state capitol following the vote (h/t to Rob Costa @ NRO)
Now, my guess is that there isn’t one in a hundred thousand Americans who have read, heard or seen any of this. Why? Because a search in the last 48 hours of major news outlets – AP, NYT, WaPo, ABCCBSNBCPSNBC, Yahoo! etc. has turned up exactly one mention of death threats and that was a one-sentence, next-to-last paragraph generic mention in an AP article of death threats being investigated.
How. Utterly. Shameful.
In all my years of following the media, I can’t remember a more stark example of blatant hypocrisy and brazen shamelessness than the reporting of the Gifford’s shooting vis-a-vis the mobs that descended on Madison, Wisconsin, this past week. It is sickening. It is disgusting. And you know as well as I do that there’s only one way to pierce the veil of deception behind which the Liberal Media wishes to seclude us: The New Media.
You read it. You use it. You know how it works.
Git ‘er done!
