Posted by
Diocuore on Friday, November 06, 2009 5:54:35 PM
"Instead of focusing on [the] intense ideological divisions, the press and elites continue to look for a racial element that drives these voters' beliefs – but they need to get over it. Conducted on the heels of Joe Wilson's incendiary comments at the president's joint session address, we gave these groups of older, white Republican base voters in Georgia full opportunity to bring race into their discussion – but it did not ever become a central element, and indeed, was almost beside the point." Blanket charges of racism have become the stock-in-trade
of the liberal media in reporting on town-hall protesters. For converging to petition their representatives about the administration's profligate policies, independent-minded, patriotic constitutionalists have been savaged by rabid reporters who see signs of the divine in Obama and the devil in his detractors.
One apropos sign at a tea party captured this state of affairs: "It doesn't matter what my sign says, the press will call it racist."
In fairness, members of the media are more inclusive in their reprimands about racial exclusion. The general, (alleged) racial backwardness of the American people is a repeated refrain in the popular press. This nonstop, relentless propaganda, enforced by the tyranny of political correctness, helps explain why most Americans – who themselves harbor no racial animus, and, if anything, are remarkably naïve about human differences, cultural or racial – believe racism saturates their society.
It is one thing for a starlet like Janeane Garofalo to defame tea party attendees as "a bunch of teabagging rednecks," and accuse men and women she knows nothing about "hating a black man in the White House" and harboring unadulterated racism. It's quite another matter for cable-network anchors to parrot the loopy lady's lines.
Nevertheless, ape they did.
So it was that thought-crime investigator Keith Olbermann broke news on his MSNBC nightly show. With his most solemn, commissar-like countenance, Keith informed his viewers, matter-of-factly, that the intensity of the animosity toward Barack Obama is based on his being a black man.
Instead of arguing their "case" with reference to facts and reason, Keith and company chose to impugn their disputants based on assumptions about their motives. Still worse, this balderdash, framed as breaking-news, was bolstered by another logical fallacy: an argument from authority.
The feeble-minded Jimmy Carter had seconded Garofalo the histrion. By Keith's journalistic standards, this was all the proof he needed to pronounce the libel true and use the pejorative liberally. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115150