The Quintessential Example of Media Hypocrisy

A couple of days ago Matt Drudge caused a firestorm of controversy to sweep conservative circles when he reported that NBC was considering banning columnist Ann Coulter 'for life.'

That may yet happen, no doubt, but not yet.

Coulter appeared on NBC's Today Show yesterday morning, and once again caused liberals and mainstream media types to grind their teeth--all as part of making her rounds to promote her new book.

But, as L. Brent Bozell III writes at CNS News, the mainstream media's treatment of Coulter is a blatant example of just how thoroughly partisan it is...and how much it hates the truth.

States Bozell:

It’s easy to run down a list of inflammatory liberals who are welcomed on the TV morning shows. Start with Kitty Kelley’s wild “investigative” books on the Reagans or the Bushes. Or Michael Moore’s kooky conspiracy theories. Or Al Franken suggesting Karl Rove and Scooter Libby should be executed over Plamegate. (NBC’s Matt Lauer and his off-camera crew laughed at that.)

Or recall Bill Maher on his HBO show in 2007 suggesting Arianna Huffington shouldn’t ban commenters on her website wishing Dick Cheney had died in a terrorist attack in Afghanistan. “That’s a funny joke,” Maher said. “If this isn’t China, shouldn’t you be able to say that?” He added that Cheney’s death by suicide bomber might be a public service: “I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”

Harry Smith hosted Maher on CBS just months ago on his faith-mocking movie “Religulous” and didn’t say one discouraging word to him about his caustic remarks about Cheney or his hateful anti-Christian bigotry. Not one word.

And yet, when Coulter exhibits the very same type of acerbic rhetoric aimed at liberals instead of conservatives, the mainstream media in its false righteous indignation acts as if it has the moral authority to pronounce judgment.

Not as long as Matthews, Olbermann, Harry Smith, Matt Lauer, Michael Moore, or Al Franken are around...

And therefore, the Coulter flap is the quintessential example of media hypocrisy.

Stupid, Idiotic, Clueless Yankee Woman

Other than being a very attractive woman, there is practically no redeeming value to the patent drivel of neo-Commie New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.

She is an airhead. Her columns are sophomoric, detached from reality, lacking in insight, and basically nothing but anti-conservative diatribes.

I find her to be beneath contempt.

The fact that the New York Times publishes this totally irrational balderdash is only more proof that the newspaper is no longer a newspaper but a tabloid. Someone should go ahead and put it out of its misery before it becomes just another rag one finds in the racks along the checkout lines at grocery stores.

Dowd has made a career out of inadvertently drawing into clear focus what most Americans have known all along anyway--liberals are dangerous to America, lacking in any true adherence to the principles of the Founding Fathers and their legacy--the Constitution and the Bill of Rights--and so extremist that the mainstream citizens in the heartland fear for what would become of our nation if people of Dowd's ilk ever become the ruling majority in Washington.

A very impressive blog I have been reading of late, The Stiletto, has singled out Dowd for the latest of her less-than-stellar articles, in which she claims she was 'just a child' when she first encountered the Mormon Temple outside Washington on the Beltway.

As expected, the article is a set-up for a Romney-bash, using his religion to engage in a bit of liberal-approved religious bigotry. But of course, if the liberals do it, then it's not bigotry.

However, as the Stiletto points out, someone noticed a major discrepancy in Dowd's chronology of events in her life. The Mormon Temple to which she refers was completed in 1974. The problem is that Dowd was born in 1952, making her at least 21 years of age when she claims she used to pass by that edifice 'as a kid.'

In short, Dowd effectively shaved off 15 years from her age in this article.

So, the question becomes, how does a political columnist maintain any credibility when going after certain discrepancies on the part of Presidential candidates when the columnist herself is so willing to misrepresent her own life?

Read the full story here, at The Stiletto: http://thestilettoblog.com/2007/12/14/not-the-sharpest-knife-in-the-drawer-maureen-dowds-extended-childhood.aspx#Comment

Second Amendment News Roundup for 12/14/07

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

John Lott says that a lot is at stake in the next election regarding global warming, particularly in light of the fact that most of the reliable science has totally debunked the theory. But the environmentalist wackos will still try to use the issue to take tax dollars, change our way of life, and restrict our freedoms:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2007/12/lot-is-at-stake-in-this-next-election.html

Eugene Volokh posts an interesting entry today on government punishing businesses for posting signs that say, 'When ordering speak English':
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_12_09-2007_12_15.shtml#1197658033

From the NRA: 'The Outrage of the Week'...a MUST-read!:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3318

Also from the NRA: 'The Hypocrisy of the Week':
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3317

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership reminds us that tomorrow is Bill of Rights Day. The JPFO contends that the Bill of Rights should be celebrated every day:
http://www.jpfo.org/smith/smith-bor-07.htm

You gotta see this one today at Traction Control, entitled, 'Fred's Apology':
http://tractioncontrol.well-regulatedmilitia.org/?p=849

The War on Guns comments on the double-murder at LSU:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/12/caution-at-lsu.html

Squeaky discusses CCW in light of a scare she recently had:
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2007/12/13/ccw-question-from-last-post/

Snow Flakes in Hell reports that some bad stuff in the form of anti-gun legislation is coming up in New Jersey:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=2157

Sharp as a Marble has some hot, fresh, steaming PSH here:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2007/12/14/Get-your-hot-fresh-steaming-PSH-here.aspx

Red's has more info on serious record-keeping problems at the ATF:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/12/do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do-serious.html

Of Arms and the Law posts an excellent op-ed from the Portland, Maine Press-Herald:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/12/good_oped.php

Syd at Front Sight, Press has an excellent read on the Christian and the gun:
http://www.snubnose.info/wordpress/concealed-carry/the-christian-gun/

Born Again Redneck posts an interesting comparison between Abe and Fred:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2007/12/abe-and-fred.html

Alphecca has another example of liberal hypocrisy, and it is a biggie:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=574

Armed and Safe asks a very good question, 'Who do you trust?':
http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/2007/12/who-do-you-trust.html

A Keyboard and a .45 has the latest political and gun news from Texas:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/12/texas-house-district-97-special.html