It’s [media bias] something that’s hard to prove or disprove, so you just run with it — reality be damned.

Actually, Tom, it isn’t hard to prove at all. It just requires some intellectual honesty. When 90+ percent of journalists self-identify as liberals, bias is inevitable. When Democrat candidates – in election after election – get a) more coverage and b) more positive coverage, bias is evident. Simply look at what the US media has done in the past week since the Palin pick was announced and then compare/contrast that to the same media’s treatment of Obama for the past year. There is absolutely no comparison to be made.

And remember: Obama is the one who’s running to be President…not Palin.

Your bringing up Obama’s church is actually a perfect illustration.

And for a cite that not only sneered, but ATTACKED the people of Obama’s church as American-hating racists, you have no ground to stand on here

Spin it however dishonestly you want, Bishop’s quotes above are damning. Those are the actual word’s of Jeremiah Wright, the leader of Trinity.

…you take a view examples and blow it up to smear and entire congregation of people.)

Tom, I think that quote clearly displays that you don’t attend a Protestant church. And if you do, then you are being patently dishonest intellectually.

Unlike in the Catholic church, Protestant pastors aren’t assigned or appointed to a church. It’s pretty much like any other vocation – the pastor applies for the job and the church’s congregation decides yay or nay. And, as with any job, you’re sometimes not going to get a good match. That’s why most Protestant churches also have mechanisms in place for getting rid of pastors who do not live up to or promote the ideals of the congregation. And it happens all the time.

The Trinity congregation had Jeremiah Wright at it’s helm for decades, with full knowledge of his beliefs and teachings. And they chose to keep him as their pastor. That indicates clearly that, at the least, the congregation did not find his views offensive enough to remove him as the pastor – ip so facto, the Trinity congregation illustrates an implicit endorsement of his views.

So now let’s take a look at the media’s treatment of Wright scandal.

First, they tried their best to completely ignore the story. It was only after right-wing bloggers – followed by Republican politicians – refused to simply let this be hidden from the American public that the MSM paid any attention to it all. Now, let’s imagine a leftist blogger releasing video of Sarah Palin’s pastor of twenty years saying “God damn America for gays and abortion and blacks!”: do you really think that the MSM would give it the same shoulder shrug? Ignoring the story for more than a month?

Then, when Wright’s comments broke through, Obama stated that he’d never heard him say stuff like that; that white people were just misinterpreting a cultural difference; that he couldn’t just dismiss Wright or comdemn him; and then proceeded to introduce his own grandmother to the bottom of the bus. The MSM’s reaction? “Well, that’s good enough for enough us! In fact, Obama just gave the most inspired speech on racial issues since MLK! Let’s move on!” Again, do you think Palin would receive the same “nothing to see here” treatment?

Then, Wright comes back for round 2 – very conveniently, I might add – and proceeds to say the exact same things that Barry had previously dismissed as a “cultural misunderstanding”. This time, however, Obama is “disgusted” and “outraged” and “hrrmph!” and states that he’s leaving the church. Now, considering that there was no substantive difference between Wrights earlier and later comments, a rather glaring question is screaming to be asked:

“Senator, you state that you are digusted and outraged by Jeremiah Wrights latest comments; however, there’s no real difference between Wright’s current comments and those that you earlier called a “distraction” and “out of context”. Care to explain?”

Tom, do you remember hearing that question from anyone in the MSM? I certainly don’t. What do I remember? “Well, that’s good enough for us! And now, with his condemnation of these horrible comments, this matter is finally closed. Whew!!! Now, on to some real news. There’s a rumor circulating that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist! More at 11!”

The bias is glaring and truly disgusting, Tom. It’s why I have such a deep and abiding distrust of your side. I see, very clearly, the depths to which your ideological partners will go to in order to gain political power. And they are more than willing to use the exact same tactics of smear, intimidation, and persecution that one finds in any third-world leftist sh!thole. And here in the West, the end result of giving too much power to leftist bureaucracies is beginning to become more and more evident…whether you’re talking about children being arrested in Britain for calling Scientology a cult or Mark Steyn’s recent trip through a Canadian Star Chamber.

As Alexander Hamilton warned in the Federalist Papers:

…a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

rvastar on September 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM