Under the Influence of Liberalism::By Nathan Tabor

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Under the Influence of Liberalism::By Nathan Tabor (http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/NathanTabor/2006/11/06/under_the_influence_of_liberalism)

I find it interesting that, in today’s maniacal media world, conservatives are taken to task for every syllable they utter, but liberals are given a pass.

A GOP gaffe will be replayed ad nauseam on news broadcasts, news magazine programs, and comedy shows. Then, it may get a second round of play on liberal talk radio and ripped-from-the-headlines TV dramas.

But when a liberal makes a rhetorical blunder, he or she is excused because, after all, he or she really didn’t mean to say it. The guilty party is too erudite or too compassionate for the remark to be taken at face-value.


It's not just another article about John Kerry and his dis of the armed services, so don't write it off before reading the whole thing please.
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[Air-Warrior]

I wonder where these apologists were when actor Mel Gibson, while drunk, blamed the Jewish people for the wars in the world. When the report of Gibson’s inebriated gaffe first emerged, television viewers were told that alcohol had enabled Gibson to reveal his true, disturbing feelings about people of Jewish descent. In other words, being drunk was no excuse. Gibson also apologized, but certain members of the media still wouldn’t let the matter rest. They suggested that his apology wasn’t good enough—that he had to back up his words with concrete action.
What about Kerry? Is it enough for him to say he’s sorry? Or should he be made to take an active role in supporting the Iraq war effort—something that I seriously doubt he would do. If Kerry isn’t required to make amends, doesn’t that mean that the media are engaging in a double-standard, lambasting conservatives for ill-chosen words, but quickly forgiving verbal mistakes from the liberal side of the political spectrum?
Yes! Yes! Put him in a jeep and have him search out and disarm IEDs in the roadways of Iraq! Or let him buy his way out and send 10 million dollars worth of Thanksgiving and Christmas treats to the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[DoctorDoom]

If Kerry isn’t required to make amends, doesn’t that mean that the media are engaging in a double-standard, lambasting conservatives for ill-chosen words, but quickly forgiving verbal mistakes from the liberal side of the political spectrum?Where have you been, Mr. Tabor? That has been the MSM/DBM modus operandi since the Vietnam war era.

But a number of journalistas are telling us ...There are no journalists left in the MSM. Journalism schools are churning out incompetent, biased political hacks whose lips are surgically gafted to the butt cheeks of the DemonRATs. The MSM/DBM is nothing more than a free PR company for the RAT Party.

Thank God for the "alternative media". Without them, we'd still rely for our news on the traitors in the MSM.