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May 17, 2005
"Is That What You're Saying Here?"
What's up with the PC prohibition against anger, anyway? I read something once about anger being a necessary precursor to justice, i.e., the troops that liberated Dachau had every right to be very angry indeed.
The Anchoress is angry. She expounds on the staggering (and depressingly familiar) display of disrespect, contempt, and ultimately hatred the press displays toward the White House, the President, and the military. I will not requote her carefully constructed broadside, but she did include a transcript of today's White House press briefing. The following question--for me--just leaped off the screen:
Q Are you asking them to write a story about how great the American military is; is that what you’re saying here?
This quote reveals the kernel of truth at the center of the rat's nest of rhetoric. Paraphrase: "Are you insane? You want me to write a story on how great the military is? I didn't sweat j-school at Cornell to be Rummie's chump." Her presupposition, of course, is that the military could not possibly be anything other than evil. The true bias, arrogance, and prejudice (in its literal sense of "pre-judging"), is perfectly framed by this statement.
And another thing: Why in bloody hell aren't these journalists required to state their names and associated employers before they are allowed to ask a question. This is standard procedure in other news briefings.
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What drives me nuts is the Washington press corps' operative presumption that the U.S. military is untrustworthy if not downright 'bad'. Like Clinton, they 'loathe' the military.
When it comes to a conflicting account of anything between the U.S. military and X, the MSM will ALWAYS side with X. It doesn't matter if X is an unsubstantiated anonymous source or a Lynne Stewart-style attorney defending Afghani, Al-Qaida captureds in Guantanamo.
Posted by: Logical Meme at May 19, 2005 06:26 PM
Yeah. I have such a deep-seated animus toward the moral relativists in the academy, and their little brothers and sisters in the ed colleges. So now we have earnest high school seniors mouthing buzz-phrases like "I want to empower people to change their world for the better", and then you find out they're going into j-school. And so we have these sanctimonious ill-educated twerps making executive decisions on what "the people" should consider as important topics.
And thus riseth the blogosphere.
Posted by: Jeff at May 19, 2005 10:16 PM
