Posted by
John Caile on Friday, April 17, 2009 11:25:49 AM
For the few remaining Americans who still don't recognize the blatant bias in the mainstream press, the coverage of the April 15th "Tea Parties" should remove all doubt.
From the laughably under-reported numbers of participants, to the incredibly hostile comments from journalists who have forgotten the meaning of the word "reporting," the mainstream media maniacs did everything but pledge allegiance to the Obama administration.
The Associated Press described the rallies this way in their opening paragraph:
"Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country Wednesday to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts."
"Whipped up?" Apparently, to today's "journalist," anyone who doesn't embrace Obama's brand of Liberal Fascism and economic insanity MUST be being led astray by "conservative commentators and bloggers." They couldn't possibly be merely expressing disagreement with policies they correctly identify as disastrous.
Here in Minnesota, overhead video clearly showed about 6000 to 8000 people at the peak of the rally. Given that many people were coming and going throughout the event, the total number was likely closer to 10,000. So how did our local press and TV report the attendance?
Well, WCCO, the CBS affiliate, announced at around 5:30 PM that the crowd numbered "almost a thousand people" then added "although organizers expect as many as twice that number." Even the police on scene laughed at that one - though the rally ran from 5:00 until 8:00 PM, and the biggest crowds didn't arrive until around 6:30, by the time of the WCCO "report" there were already at least 4000 people present.
The TV reports also made sure they reported about the "counter protest" from some socialist group that loves high taxes (on you, that is), but surprise, surprise, they failed to mention the number of people in that group: about a dozen.
And local print media was no better - the StarTribune (known affectionately as the "RED Star tribune") also reported a figure of around a thousand. Coincidentally, these are the same people who refer to half a dozen "welfare rights" protesters as "a large crowd."
Falsely reporting the attendance was only the beginning. The real story was the nearly hysterical fear mongering by the news types. From CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, who found the events "disturbing," to various other talking heads fearfully expressing similar "concerns" (with properly furrowed brow, of course) the verdict was unanimous: be afraid, America. The way they talked, you would have thought they were reporting on a 1930's Nuremberg rally (then again, these are the same people who actually did call George Bush "Hitler" so we shouldn't be surprised.)
But there was no more perfect example of the downright delusional mental state of the media than the CNN female talking head who verbal assaulted a participant at the Chicago Tea Party.
If you haven't seen it, she asked a man who was with his toddler why he was at the rally, and before the man had said half a sentence, she jumped all over him and went into what can only be described as a pro-Obama rant about how grateful the man should be for the "stimulus" money that Illinois will receive.
And as if that weren't enough, she signed off with a completely outrageous comment about the crowd being "anti-goverment, anti-CNN" and opining that this was to be expected since the event was "promoted by the right wing, conservative FOX network" (it wasn't, of course).
But the larger issue is this: Why was this woman arguing with the man in the first place? She is supposed to be reporting - NOT advocating (in this case, almost violently) for the policies of the Obama administration.
Now, anyone with a functioning brain knows the answer: Mainstream news people today are NOT interested in objective reporting of the news. And they are certainly not interested in the truth.
Instead, today's media (who are 90% left-wing Democrats) are committed to promoting the expansion of Big Government Liberalism, by electing, protecting, and defending liberal Democrats who share their vision of a Brave New World.
And they say WE'RE crazy...