Selective outrage of the MSM
Bill Sammon points out what I reported on at length in my “Assassination Chic” chapter of Unhinged and in years of my Unhinged blog archives: Journalists don’t care about nutballs and extremely extreme extremists unless they can be used to embarrass conservatives.
As it has always been:
News outlets that are focusing on the incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama’s town hall meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric — and even violence — of liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. Bush in 2002.
When Bush visited Portland, Ore., for a fundraiser, protesters stalked his motorcade, assailed his limousine and stoned a car containing his advisers. Chanting “Bush is a terrorist!”, the demonstrators bullied passers-by, including gay softball players and a wheelchair-bound grandfather with multiple sclerosis.
One protester even brandished a sign that seemed to advocate Bush’s assassination. The man held a large photo of Bush that had been doctored to show a gun barrel pressed against his temple.
“BUSH: WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE,” read the placard, which had an X over the word “ALIVE.”
Another poster showed Bush’s face with the words: “F— YOU, MOTHERF—ER!”
A third sign urged motorists to “HONK IF YOU HATE BUSH.” A fourth declared: “CHRISTIAN FASCISM,” with a swastika in place of the letter S in each word.
Although reporters from numerous national news organizations were traveling with Bush and witnessed the protest, none reported that protesters were shrieking at Republican donors epithets like “Slut!” “Whore!” and “Fascists!”
Frank Dulcich, president and CEO of Pacific Seafood Group, had a cup of liquid thrown into his face, and then was surrounded by a group of menacing protesters, including several who wore masks. Donald Tykeson, 75, who had multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair, was blocked by a thug who threatened him.
Protesters slashed the tires of several state patrol cruisers and leapt onto an occupied police car, slamming the hood and blocking the windshield with placards. A female police officer was knocked to the street by advancing protesters, badly injuring her wrist.
Noel Sheppard has more.
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Meanwhile, Patterico does more reporting the rest of the MSM won’t do — exposing an Obamacare supporter at Sheila Jackson Lee’s town hall who pretended to be a pediatrician.
Absolute moral authority, and don’t you dare question it, you political terrorist racists, you!
Video here.
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So when will the Chronicle correct this? They specifically called her a pediatric primary care physician without checking it out.
You are actually stupid enough to believe the crap you write, so I can’t call you a liar.
But everything you said there was wrong.
“Nationally syndicated
radio hoststelevision hosts and major political party office holders” were of course egging on the moonbats, as five seconds with google would show you. John F’n Kerry was spreading the “Bush Lied” bs.No, it sounds a lot like you Goebbels types. If the Secret Service ever investigates that person, chances are they will find a Dem party operative.
Yeah, right, you filthy hypocridiot. Like the Bush haters weren’t egged on by the Democrap propoganda machine: Kos, Unions, ACORN, Code Pink, etc…
Shut up and get out of here, fool.
oh, and I forgot the biggest Democrap mouthpiece: the MSM
Back in the 80s when Ronald Reagan visited Duke University, a large banner was hung on a dorm building facing the presumed motorcade route. The banner said, “Hinckley had a vision.”
Although certainly not an authorized expression of official Duke sentiment, this incident was striking because the banner was displayed so prominently on a university building. The administration never issued any public apology or repudiation of this bit of “assassination chic.” (I guess you have to be a cynic like me to suppose that the faculty and the general Duke community found this incident amusing and had no clue how deeply offensive it was.)
Never, the Chronic is dutifully doing its role for the MiniTru.
The online story and picture captions have been changed, but no mention of the deception is to be found.
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BTW, considering the stupidity involved, I’d go 50/50 chance anybody displaying a “DEATH TO OBAMA” sign in public is a Demonratic plant.
Many Republicans are religious. Not talking Gaia worship, either. Most Demonrats are godless.
When “the ends justify the means” and “do as thou whilst” sum up a person’s moral code, they will stoop to any level of deceit and trachery.
Hence the fake doctors, ‘random’ school girls with written questions who mother’s just happen to be important enough Obama volunteers to be photographed with Obama, etc.
I would say the chances are more like 99% that it is a liberal. Those of us who are angry and speaking out about the travesty of this administration would not be dumb enough to sabbotage our cause by doing something that stupid. Those are the tactics of the left. Dishonest, corrupt, lying crapweasels. We all know that. But the msm continues to report these incidents like they actually were perpetrated by the Mobs (that would be us). We need to get names of the people who have those signs and expose them!!
Or a Lyndon LaRouche devotee, which is worse.
Selective outrage matched by selective positive coverage.
You should have seen Harry Smith this morning on the True/False of Health care reform myths bit.
Oddly enough, western Maryland is a haven for the KKK which is of course, an organization founded by a Democrat and historically largely made up and run by Democrats like Byrd, Hollings, etc…
Frankly, I suspect the guy was a Democrat plant of a Democrat KKK member. Let’s see how the investigation turns out.
The guy was picked up, questioned and released by the FBI. He was not arrested.
Dimsdale–I heard that imbecile, Smith, this morning too.
After I cleaned up the rage vomit on the carpet, I asked myself: ’silly cakes, why do you watch this stuff?’
Ed Mahmoud–my thoughts always run to a ‘double-secret probation plant’ when something like that happens.
Much the same way I start wondering where the body is hidden when a ‘mom’ says someone took her child out of the bedroom when the drunk boyfriend was just in the next room…
Luckily I didn’t see this bit of vomit-inducing agitprop. But I’d like to toss in a comment about what a piece of low-life scum Harry Smith really is.
The thing about Smith is that he actually has a rather pleasant persona most of the time, which is disarming. But he picks his moments and unloads some of the cheapest shots you will see anywhere in the MSM.
My feeling is that Smith really is not all that political or even thoughtful. But he has an instinct for the sucker punch that will delight his centrist-lib audience. He never used to miss a chance to show his righteous indignation at “Southern bigotry” or, specifically, at Jesse Helms. Quel courage!
Me too, 30, and I’m not very religious. I feel like I’m living my childhood all over again in a college town where the college professors were the unchallenged creme-de-la-creme who looked down on the townies. I feel like these politicians are so out of touch they no longer feel accountable to We The People.
What is worse is that I no longer feel like my vote counts (I’m an absentee NY voter) or that my voice or any of the people’s voices are being heard. There are elements in our country who hate the rest of us so much that they’d rather try unproven healthcare experiments than listen to reason and learn from current examples like the VA and Tricare.
I’m in my 30’s and I’m scared. I’m a Tricare beneficiary and I’m treated like crap. Tricare doesn’t value my privacy, nor does it treat my medical records with any kind of discretion or respect. They are prone to fraud and theft. Is this the kind of system these condescending bozos want for everybody but themselves?
On a sidenote: good luck pursuing your degree! I know you’ve been busy juggling the demands of school, work, and all that. It’s all worth it in the end.
I certainly hope you’re not calling our esteemed hostess “crazy pants.” That is not only rude but disrespectful and you know it. You libs want to teach others tolerance why don’t you learn some yourself?
On another note, who are you to determine when conservatives are outraged and when they’re not? You’ve got a lot of nerve. There are a whole lot more honest Conservatives in regards to Bush then there will ever be liberals in regards to Obummer.
You have no integrity and as somebody who has criticized the Bush administration (Michelle Malkin) you are barking up the wrong tree. Stick your “outrage regulations” where the sun don’t shine.
/snark off
My sentaments exactly, if I need to be entertained by unAmerican elitist, socialist, actors I feel my values are no more correct than theirs. Obviously I don’t watch many movies anymore. Oh and their is a list of left wing Hollywood actors that is 10 time the number of conservative, our pickens are slim in comparison but I will not put money in the enemies pocket, if nothing else I feel good about it.
AlohaGuy said (#91):
I would be glad for the Chronicle to act as “truth squad”. They could run a headline:
??? not a pediatrician. Palin “Death Panel” false — she supported end of life counseling as recently as April of this year.
They could follow up with:
Democratic Congressmen receive death threats over health care legislation.
Analysis: Medicare has less overhead than private insurance
Analysis: private health insurance contracts with hundreds of pages of legally binding fine print limit expensive treatments for the elderly
Oh, dear. lgm has lit up one of those funny little cigarettes again.
This just in: pale, XXY male runs over squirrel’s nut in road whilst riding wooden bicycle. The distraught almost-man cried upon learning the nut will never become a tree. “I was in rush to get to the Prez’s Koolaid parlor that just opened! We were gonna talk about free healthcare and how tacky Sarah Palin is!”
Film at 12:00
Funny how lgm doesn’t seem to know the difference between a contract between a company and a person and THE ONLY OPTION AVAILABLE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
If you don’t like your private health insurance why you could CHANGE IT. Or buy a supplemental policy. But you can’t choose those options under OBAMACARE!
I have been treated in US military hospitals and in Russian hospitals. Let me tell you I know what the future holds for socialized medicine. By the time our kids and grandkids need medical care it will make Soviet era medical care look like paradise. Of course, I am sure lgm goes down to Cuba for his checkups.
I did not know Cuba was famous for mental health therapy.
Not to belabor the point, I’m sure all on here are reacting with emotion to lgm’s ignorant comments when you tell him to leave, go back under your rock or bridge. If you really don’t want to see his remarks don’t reply…he will stick around for awhile, no one replies he’ll feel left out like he must in his must in most of his life, then he’ll disappear and come back with some other id, but think of the temporary relief.
You are right. If we ignore him he will take his ball and go home…
I didn’t know he had any.
I bet he will complain that was raaaaaaacist or sexist or genderous or something. Or was it “mean-spirited” and “dangerous.”
“Waaaahhhhhh! The Left did it first! They started it!”
How juvenile. And how distracting. Meanwhile, unnoticed by the adolescent, pointless finger-pointing being done here (not to mention the hypocrisy of doing what you’ve condemned for years and years) there’s a real, important story with the potential to kneecap nationalized health care from both sides at once that is being studiously ignored, probably because of it’s source.
Grow up.
I have many times been tempted to make the same suggestion in how to handle the attention-seeking drivel from this loser, not that anyone here is really unaware of the best way to handle trolls.
I held back, because you’re not ignoring someone when you start a discussion about the need to ignore them. Sometimes, though, the discussion needs to be had so I am happy to chip in here.
So many times I have seem this creep become the focus of threads, and it does real damage to the forum. I don’t ever expect to speak to the troll again so I offer here my final farewell:
Hey, lgm, drop dead you jagoff. -30-
It’s issue time at last — no more grade school sexual insults.
WarEagle82 said (#114):
The “public options” is not mandatory. There should be as many options after reform as there are now.
Not true for most people, those who get health care through work. They are stuck with the provider the employer chooses.
This is waaayyy OT but from Fox news:
I told my husband before the 2 billion was approved, that these car dealers will be left holding the bag for the $4500 cash for each clunker. I guess if you live long enough, nothing will surprise you. This is the Obama way. Empty head, empty suit, empty promises…
Well it just goes to show who is staging the townhalls. They can blame the grassroots all they want, but reality is beginning to show.
Problem solved!!! I’ll just inform my employer that they shouldn’t be going through Kaiser Permanente and that they should pick someone with lower premiums. And then after that, I’ll ask for a raise. And a company car. And a date with the boss’ daughter.
Is there usually a little warm puddle on her seat when she “feels global warming” during her flights? They have pills for that.
lgm – I defend your right to post here to the death! You are entertaining…kind of like a car wreck.
Umm, The public option will destroy the private insurance market. Sure, you can chose your own plan! It just won’t be there.
Thanks for the comic relief.
Exactly, swede. But you cannot PROVE the public option will wipe out private insurance.
Reality is too complex to always be able to PROVE what is obvious to common sense. Until it is too late. The party of lawyers and race mongers and redistribution and the ‘living constitution’ perversion count on that fact.
Democrats will often tell you that common sense is not common. For them, it is completely true, common sense among Democrats is exceedingly uncommon!
Thanks, emjem!
You’re welcome, 30. Just remember to treat/reward yourself now and again. The whole juggling thing can be really exhausting (I’ve done it) so don’t get burnt out.
Keep truckin.’