Create a problem, shift the blame.
The moonbat left-wing of the Democratic Party is a master of creating problems and then successfully shifting the blame onto others. For example, create a welfare state that destroys families and economic prosperity in minority communities then, with the complicity of their “liberal sleeper cells” in the mass media, fill the airwaves, op-ed pages and left-leaning cable news channels with constant disinformation that will shift the blame to the Right — then vilify and marginalize those who disagree with the “party line.” It is a formula that has served the Left well for decades and has been very well documented in Bamboozled.
That’s why we weren’t surprised to read a little missive on News Hounds (“We watch Fox so you don’t have to.”) that talked about the coverage of last week’s Presidential Candidate debates, both Democratic and Republican. It bemoans that Fox News Studio B had three segments (in which Angela was a guest) on the Republican debates the day after they occurred, while having less coverage following the previous Democratic debates. On the surface, that does not seem “fair and balanced.” However, there’s nary a mention of the fact that the Democrats first committed to a previous Fox News debate with the Congressional Black Caucus, then choked, after the Lefties started whining — leading to the withdrawal of the three leading contenders Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, thus rendering the debate irrelevant. Interestingly, this happened after Rupert Murdoch had held a fund-raiser for Hillary during her last Senate campaign. What was he thinking? Hadn’t he studied enough about Hillary to realize that she’s got all the loyalty of a drunken coed at Mardi Gras? She’s loyal to whomever tossed the last beaded necklace.
So, while the News Hounds piece is “technically” true, it’s the equivalent of quoting someone “out of context.” By not reporting the “whole story,” the reader is left with a false impression. In this case, a news organization was ”shunned” by a political party in a way that ended up costing it “big bucks.” Now, don’t you imagine that the same news organization would think long and hard before committing major resorces for coverage of that political party’s events in the future? Of course it would.
Here are some background sources for this. (International Herald Tribune, “Fox News debate drives wedge between Democrats,” May 27, 2007. CBS News, “Democrats Dismiss Fox News Debate,” May 31, 2007.)
June 11th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
“Technically” is all that matters here. FOX purports to be a “news” organization but just proved the Democrats point: that it is unprofessional and not above sniping and unfair coverage when it feels the need.
That’s not fair and balanced. That’s punitive and untrustworthy.
June 12th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Dearest Maggie:
If your education had included a proper grounding in American literature, you would certainly be familiar with Mark Twain’s On the Decay of the Art of Lying. Perhaps, it just slipped your mind — undoubtedly filled with liberal disinformation over the years. In any event here is a brief quotation from that essay that illustrates why “technically” is NOT all that matters here.
However, you are to be congratulated on following in the tradition of Clintonesque word parsing — “That depends on your definition of ‘is.’”
Here’s a link to the entire text of the essay for your erudition.