In what is perhaps the most disgraceful display of political grandstanding ever witnessed since the time when leading Democrat politicians turned the late Senator Poundstone’s funeral into a political pep rally years ago, far left partisans in the mass media, led by their counterparts in congress, and other far left activists; have taken this past Saturday, when a lone mentally disturbed 22 year old gunman named Jared Lee Louhner shoot and killed six people – one amongst them, a nine year old girl who was born on 9/11 – and critically injuring Representative Gabrielle Gifford’s (Dem. Ariz.) and fourteen other people around her, within just two hours of this tragic event, shamelessly used it to promote their political agenda ranging from the Fairness Doctrine to more draconian gun control laws, in the process demonizing all Americans who disagree politically with them. These shameless opportunistic partisans took aim specifically against Sarah Palin, and talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage In all of my years, I have never witnessed such a shameless display of mischaracterization and hateful rhetoric and libelous slander against another as I have witnessed this past week on the alphabet soup channels, and some of their cable counterparts.
Beginning with Prima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a far left machine politician who has used this event to demonize the Republican Party, talk radio, and the T.E.A. Party, and all conservatives on the various morning shows. Dupnik has perjured himself from this case by his statements, something that a law enforcement officer should never do during the investigation of a crime. Have these people no sense of decency? Have they no shame? Can they not once dispense of their activism and lies in consideration of the grief of the families of those who died and those who are struggling with the wounds inflicted by this maniac? Could they not allow a grieving nation to reflect upon what just occurred instead of twisting the tragic event to take the opportunity to promote their political agenda? And why is the news media complicit in doing the same thing along with them? What has happened to objective reporting? Why is it that news reporting given way to editorializing and the promotion of one political point of view, and the slandering of all others who hold a different point of view? What has happened to a person’s right to conscience? To the free and open exchange of ideas? And why not wait to the families and the nation have had time to mourn their loss? Again I must ask, “have these people any sense of human decency? Have they no shame?”
It is ironic that the very people who decry extremism in others are themselves the most extreme of partisanship, of opinion – some calling for the abolition of talk radio, ban of all fire arms (repeal of the Second Amendment), even legally proscribing certain “types” of speech – in short, removing the very liberties our Constitution has protected for over two hundred years. It is interesting that those calling for moderation, and for all the facts to be vetted when a Muslim fanatic went on a shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas a year ago, today are quick to lay blame at the feet of those whom they disagree with politically. These are the same far left characters who last year called the T.E.A. Party racist, and extreme, and dangerous without a shred of proof to support their claims. And now they shameless and disgracefully rushed to demonize a part of the American electorate they disagree with and seek to supplant by any means possible. Ladies and gentlemen, these media pundits and politicians are themselves the dangerous ones. No one hears anyone from the “Right” calling for the abolition of free speech, or the abridgment of the right of the people to their fire arm, or the curtailing of any of the liberties enjoined and protected under our Constitution. Then, it must be observed and then asked, “Who are the extremists here? Who are the people calling for measures which in one way or another assault the rights of the American people?
Step back and take a long hard look. Listen closely and do not allow yourself to get mindlessly carried away by the naiveté of the talking heads of the alphabet soup media who harbor their own agenda for the Left. And don’t be fooled by those who claim to be the avatars of moderation, who claim to be without title, and who claim not to want to be identified by either the Move On.org extremists on the Left or the T.E.A. Party on the Right, but are really leftist hacks masquerading as “mainstream.” Again, their own rhetoric exposes them, because it is the same rhetoric one hears from the left who command the alphabet soup news channels who have made this claim for years, but who in recent years, have come out as transparent partisans in every issue.
And please don’t be taken in by their cheap and simplistic rhetoric. Their claim at being “objective” or the guardians of information and truth; they are not. Their behavior during this tragedy is only the most recent example of just how callously shameless and inconsiderate these people are. By rushing to demonize a sector of the American electorate during a national tragedy such as the one which occurred this past Saturday, they show themselves to be contemptible and without any moral standing. This is a trend that has been increasing in how the networks report news, as news reporters have becoming more and more partisans with agendas they must use any tragedy to exploit. After all, they have a very good example in Rham Emanuel, who himself said, “A crisis should not be brought to waste.”
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