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Media's blatant Democratic bias begs questions
by Howie Carr
Sunday, December 3, 2000
I watch TV, and except for Fox, it's all-Al-all-the-time, so I have a few questions about the coverage of the media's monthlong telethon for the man who invented the Internet.
For instance, how come, when the Florida Legislature has 58 Democrats among its 160 members, it's always referred to as ``Republican-dominated,'' which it is, but the Florida Supreme Court, which includes zero Republicans, is never called ``Democrat-dominated''?
How come when the Republican Legislature says it will follow the Constitution as written it's a ``partisan political ploy,'' but when the Florida Supreme Court turns the law upside down to give Al Gore an extra 12 days to steal the election, it's an impartial judiciary just doing its job?
How come it's not ``hate speech'' when Bill Maher says on national TV Thursday night that as the country watched the Ryder van with the Palm Beach ballots moving up the Florida turnpike, ``For a few brief moments, America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris''?
And how come it isn't ``mean-spirited'' when Craig Kilborn freeze-frames a picture of George W. Bush with a caption that says ``Snipers Wanted''?
Probably for the same reason that it was permissible during impeachment for reputed actor Alec Baldwin to mention it might be a good idea to stone Rep. Henry Hyde and his family to death.
If you're a Beautiful Person from Hollywood and you suggest lynching Republicans, that's fair comment under the First Amendment. If you're a Republican and you live within 300 miles of a lynching, you may as well have personally knotted the rope.
How come looking into the sex life of Bill Clinton, when it involves perjury, obstruction of justice and sexual harassment, is ``the politics of personal destruction,'' but, as Laura Ingraham noted, trying to dig up dirt on Katherine Harris' sex life is investigative journalism?
How come when Bill Clinton gets 60 percent approval for anything it's a ``mandate'' but when 60 percent of the country wants Al Gore to throw in the towel the caption at the bottom of the screen is ``The Nation Divided''?
How come George Bush has an MBA from Harvard Biz and he's a moron and Al Gore ``dropped out'' of Vanderbilt Law School and he's a genius?
How come no one on TV can mention Katherine Harris without remarking on the fact that she worked in the Bush campaign, but outside a handful of newspapers, no one ever points out that Florida attorney general Bob Butterworth was chairman of Al Gore's campaign in the Sunshine State?
How come so few media outlets picked up the Miami Herald story that hundreds, probably thousands, of ex-cons illegally cast ballots in Florida?
How come, after the Republicans lost their bid to convict Bill Clinton of high crimes and misdemeanors in the Senate, the left wing Ivy League chattering skulls said as one that it was time for America to ``move on.''
But now, even after Al Gore has lost recount after recount, you could forfeit your invitation to Renaissance Weekend by suggesting that it's now time for America to ``move on.'' How come, on election night, Al Gore ``won'' states but they always ``fell'' to George Bush?
How come it's always germane to point out that seven of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents (even though at least two of them have since flipped sides), but it's not even worth 10 seconds to say that basically all seven Florida jurists were appointed by Democrats?
Why does no one ever mention that one of the Florida justices is so ignorant that during one hearing he referred to the ``Electorial College''?
How come all the Gore rumpswabs in the press keep referring to the Seminole County case as involving ``ballot tampering,'' when actually it's applications for ballots? And why do you have to go to Florida newspapers to find out that the judge hearing the case had her campaign do exactly the same thing when she was running?
All in all, this campaign of disinformation is just what you'd expect from these sleazeballs, and it's only going to get worse before their hero Al gets the job he so richly deserves - ambassador to Chad. |
