Conservatives believes the media is against them. Some for good cause, others because they do not believe the media fully reports the news. How often did the media tell the people over the past three years that ObamaCare was going to cost more than 50 million Americans their health care coverage-forcing them on the government dole? Four people died at Benghazi, yet the media has not demanded an explanation.
The media has allowed Sarah Palin to be trashed, but the corny, illiterate, plagiarist Joe Biden is laughed at as “Uncle Joe” (which may be accurate-the last time the media used the term Uncle Joe as a term of endearment they were referring to Joseph Stalin). The recent “slowdown” of government, per the media was because of the Republican-not mentioning our national debt has gone up six trillion in five years as a significant cause.
Now the San Jose Mercury News names call former Senator DeMint (in headlines)
, without a single quote as to why-yet refuses to call Barack Obama the ideological opposite. Read the newspapers, but as Reagan said, “trust but verify”.
Pass this editorial to your friends, let them know they can speak up against opinion pieces masquerading as news stories.
California Political News and Views, 11/12/13
Seldom is a belief proven so harshly spotlighted as it is by a story in the San Jose Mercury-News on Sunday, “Arch-conservative Jim DeMint’s visit highlights divisions among Bay Area Republicans” http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_24494337/arch-conservative-jim-demints-visit-highlights-divisions-among
- 1. Not once in the article does it quote Senator DeMint on anything—no policy at all. So why is he an “arch-conservative”? What does he say or believe that creates that connotation?
- 2. If he is an “arch-conservative” then to be fair the Mercury News needs to declare Barack Obama an “arch-liberal. This is nothing more than name calling by the newspaper.
- 3. How do they prove DeMint is a bad guy? They quote six people saying in one way or another that DeMint and what he stands for is wrong and harmful. Yet, they quote one man who is “pissed” at government as if this was a defense of Senator DeMint. There were 500 people at the meeting to hear DeMint, local elected officials, former elected officials, GOP leaders and Party officials. Yet the reporter did not quote a single one of them.
- 4. In fact, all the quotes saying DeMint is a bad guy came from people who did not attend the meeting or hear the speech. Biased? What do you think?
- 5. Here is a quote from Duf Sundheim, a man who has worked hard to defeat conservatives and even started a PAC to do that. “”The fight I’m going to pick is one that unites my friends and divides my enemies, not one that divides my friends and unites my enemies,” said former California Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim, 60, of Los Altos Hills.
To Sundheim, October’s government shutdown over President Obama’s health care law seemed “much more Pickett’s charge” — the disastrous Confederate Army maneuver at Gettysburg — “than Normandy invasion.”
He is a little over the top. Duf, as usual is ranting because a conservative is getting heard. Duf was the California Republican Party chairman who turned the Party over to Arnold Schwarzenegger—you have seen the results.
- 6. Then you have this statement of “fact, “Valley Republicans like Campbell, Pete McCloskey and Ed Zschau were fiscal conservatives but social moderates with a libertarian streak.”
Actually they talked about being conservative, but voted for taxes, bigger government (but said it would be “more efficient” (in fairness Zschau served only one term—and he ran for the U.S. Senate instead of actually being a member of Congress). Campbell has tried to be a U.S. Senator—he lost once to a Democrat and twice after that could not even get the GOP nomination—so does he represent a mainstream position in the Party? Then you have Pete McCloskey—in April 2007 he re-registered as a Democrat—is that a “conservative”
Oh, then you have this “conservative” legislation: “One of McCloskey’s enduring legacies is his co-authorship of the 1973 Endangered Species Act.[1]” This is the act that “saves” animals by killing jobs and the economy.
Yet, the San Jose Mercury is holding these three out as conservatives and mainstream.
- 7. By this statement, I guess you can only be an “arch-conservative”. “Some archconservatives believe the GOP has abandoned them”. Yes, and Nathan Fletcher abandoned the GOP:-that does not make him anything other than opportunistic. Leaving the GOP, or joining it, has many reasons—to the reporter there can only be one—the GOP has “sold out”.
This article can be used by journalism classes as a textbook example of bias and prejudice by a reporter. I usually like the material from Josh Richman, but this looks like it was written by Nancy Pelosi not an objective reporter. This is why most folks have little trust or respect for the media. It name calls those not willing to support taxes, big government or it view of tolerance.
I have not seen a better example of how the media tries to spin a story to make you hate a person or cause. Not a single part of this is good journalism, unless you thought you were writing an opinion piece.
If you find similar articles, please send them to me. I want to analyze them and expose them for what they are—propaganda in the guise of news.
