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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (80566)	7/11/2010 8:22:38 AM
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What Media Bias? Part 176, the Col. West Edition By Mark Noonan on Michele Bachmann Col. West, Republican candidate for Congress, gets this headline over at Politico: <<< Bombastic West rakes in cash >>> Bombastic? Can you imagine any MSMer, anywhere, describing any on the left side of the aisle as “bombastic”? Of course not. But, they have to do something about a black man who is extraordinarily knowledgeable, speaks very well and and who is conservative to the core…and is, as they say, raking in the cash: <<< West, a former Army colonel challenging Democratic Rep. Ron Klein, raised $1.4 million in the second quarter of 2010 – an astonishing number that puts him in the same league as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, the inflammatory conservative who raked in $1.7 million over the same period, and Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, the caustic liberal cable news fixture who vacuumed up $800,000 in the first three months of 2010. (emphasis added) >>> You catch that? West is “bombastic”; Bachmann is “inflammatory”; but Grayson is “caustic”. Two quotes: <<< Liberty is about each and every person having the abiliy to do what they want with the fruits of their labor but tyranny is when someone else comes in and tries to make the decision about what you should be doing. – Lt. Col Allen West (Ret.), July 4, 2010 >>> And: <<< How about tracking down every person who said ‘drill, baby, drill’ and putting them all in prison? – Rep. Allen Grayson (D-FL), June 4th, 2010 >>> Is West “bombastic”? It Grayson merely “caustic”? No, West is merely stating first principles – bedrock, American beliefs. Grayson is calling for the jailing of people for holding certain opinions – and if you listen to the audio, its clear he’s not joking and that quote is not out of context: Grayson is of that leftist type who views opposition to leftism as criminal behavior. This is the media bias – essentially slandering a Republican by making him out to be terrible when he’s not; white-washing the downright evil being said and done by Democrats. .