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We really ought to round up the lawmakers who took money to protect and perpetuate the failing charter-school experiment in Detroit, sew them into burlap sacks with rabid animals, and toss them into the Straits of Mackinac.
Two years ago, Stephen Henderson won a Pulitzer Prize. I’ll let you decide what you think that says about the state of journalism, especially as you consider what he wrote late last week. Henderson, the editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press (and a Facebook friend of mine, at least as I type this), has become increasingly hysterical in the past year - seeing racism behind almost every perceived societal ill and ascribing to conservative policymakers not just mistaken thinking but, invariably, an intent to hurt people.
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto notes how rich this is coming from the media establishment that is horrified by the things Donald Trump says. Indeed it is, but even most of the liberal media establishment isn’t calling for Republicans to be killed just because they pass school reform bills the left doesn’t like. In that respect, Henderson is a trailblazer.
And maybe he is ahead of the curve. If you observe the political class (and that includes the establishment media), you’ll notice that they admit to believing things once they believe it’s publicly acceptable to do so. Ten years ago they would not have advocated gay marriage, even if they privately thought it was OK, because they didn’t think the public would accept their saying such a thing. Five years ago, it would have been unheard of to favor sending bakery owners to sensitivity training for declining to bake a cake - even though these committed newsroom liberals probably believed in the sanctity of their own domain that it was perfectly justified.
Today, they perceive that cultural attitudes are more willing to accept their fascist tendencies, so they express them a little more openly. In the liberal ivory towers of the Free Press, fantasies about Republicans being mauled by wild animals and thrown off bridges are probably commonly shared. But actually write it in the paper? Not unless you think the public is ready for that sort of thing.
The real issue here is this: ALL your pundits, talking heads, all the right and left biased media goons, all the politicians you can shake a stick at, bar one, have sacrificed their morals for their pocket book, and have been caught doing it. You cannot trust a bloody word any single one of them has ever said. Clinton, Trump, the Huffington Post or the rag you refer to above, the nonsense of CNN, the twaddle of Fox News. It's all bullsnip, and it's bad for you, to paraphrase the great George Carlin.
If you are 'progressive' it is ok in the media to call people retarded or talk about killing opponents, but dare mention a wall and you are a hated racial bigot worthy of abuse and riots.
originally posted by: stosh64
If you are 'progressive' it is ok in the media to call people retarded or talk about killing opponents, but dare mention a wall and you are a hated racial bigot worthy of abuse and riots.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: stosh64
I'm torn between calling republicans, "snowflakes' and calling democrats, "hypocrites".
Every Mexican in America that didn't follow American Laws, is a criminal.
Obama personally broke immigration laws.....