Rightists Publish Stuff, Liberals Outraged!

In so far as leftists always claim to be devill may care rebels and iconocalsts speaking truth to power! in the face of the Evil Right-Wing Oppresion, it's always illuminating to see their hysterical reaction to actual right-wing thought.

This one from the Indie is a classic of the genre. They're shocked - shocked! - by the thought that there are people out there campaigning for lower taxes. Who knew? Not our tolerant friends, that's for sure. They keep trying to cast the TPA's activities in sinister terms, but can't help but come off as kind of, well, lame actually. As I read it the charge sheet is as follows:

1. The TPA does research
2. It then publicises it

What warped genius could have come up with such a plan? Well, off the top of my head: Liberty, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Christian Aid, Greenpeace and NACRO., all of whom have used the self-same tactics - and with far less scrutiny. Of course, the TPA has never allied itself for murderous savages, so I guess it's not the same after all.

No Bias Here!

Actually, the real question raised is this: how did the BBC miss out on hiring these people ?

At Least He Didn't Have To Risk Catching Anything!

Talking of middle east media hoaxes, here's another one. Note that this time the Greatest Broadcaster Evah! was involved - and still hasn't retracted its report.

Sunlight Sonata

You don't see the bias ? That's because it's too dark!

Footballers Against Materialism

Well, no - it's even better. Thanks to DB again, we can check out two Beeboids taking on media bias:



Call it a hunch, but I'm thinking if anyone in the Dextrosphere joked about assaulting a Beeboid, the girly hysteria would go on for weeks

Danger! Show May Contain Traces Of Conservatism

I too find myself wondering when exactly an absence of functioning genitals became a qualification for working for the Telegraph - although Ross actually put it differently.

Then again, I'm still wondering about the same thing as last time this came up. As I understand the left's position, a single TV program can cause professional soldiers to start torturing all and sundry, but there's no connection between the approximately 8 billion shows that feature absurdly hip and attractive people indulging in consequence-free drug abuse, criminality and sexual bulimia, and any of our nation's social pathologies. Perish the thought.

You know, it really gives the lie to the media's claims to be balanced when the merest hint of a right-wing slant to a mainstream show has the left forming lynch mobs. After all, it's not as if '24' is even particularly conservative. Au contrair, in so far as the terrorists always turn out to be working for a secret cabal of Kansas corn barons, or whatever, pretty much every season flirts with Trutherism to a greater or lesser extent. More to the point, as Ace explains, the show's metacontext is a distinctly left-wing one:

What is the basic plotline of every season?

America, essentially in a reactive posture against terrorism, catches wind of a terrorist plot at the last possible moment, usually almost precisely 24 hours before the Big Bang and often indadvertantly (i.e., not through proactive means and certainly not via military adveturism).

There is no need of messy invasions or pre-emptive unilateral military actions; America always gets lucky, just in time, and finds out it's about to be hit.

At this point law enforcement personnel move with incredible speed and unerring instict to thwart the plot by using, by and large, conventional law-enforcement techniques such as wiretapping, bugging, tailing, and simply reading files, and are always able to stop terrorism without ever leaving American soil (or, indeed, moving 30 miles beyond Los Angeles), and all without violating the national sovereigty of a single tyrannical foreign hellhole.

Indeed, every 24 episode could close with the declaration, No kite-flying children were harmed in the making of this production.

Isn't this the way terrorism is supposed to be fought in the collective fantasia of leftists?

Even More Vibrancy

More evidence of the type of culture the Left thinks we need more of. Feeling enriched yet ?

Still, the MSM knows what the real problem is:

In the latest case highlighting how conservative customs threaten women’s rights in Pakistan...

MSM: Some Extremists More Equal Than Others

Just thinking about a couple of posts over at ATW. Tom Tyler rightly points out the somewhat selective reporting of racial attacks in the MSM. Doubtless, these people would justify this by claiming they have to be sensitive to the possibility of aiding extremist thugs..

Well, OK, Libs. Let’s go with that: media organisations should refrain from reporting that could help the cause of violent lunatics. Except that turns out not to be the Left’s position at all. When the lunatics in question are Islamofasicts – henceforth to be known as 'real thugs' rather than, say, the still-waiting-for-it Islamophobic backlash – any suggestion that the media’s reporting ('all atrocities, all the time') could be helping these lunatics has the MSM cranking the girly hysteria up to 11.

So which is it ? Are the MSM fearless seekers after truth ? Or is responsible reporting all the rage ? Or is it, and I'll admit I’m going out on a limb here, just that they’re a bunch of hacks who’ll report anything – providing it harms Britain.

The Neutral Media

Reuters again. Much more of this and the BBC will seriously consider dropping them*.





* 'much more' being defined as another 10 000 or so incidents.