The Biased Media
Enough has already been written by others, unequivocally demonstrating the liberal bias inherent in most of the U.S. media (in itself, a sad commentary on the oblivious mental state of the average U.S. citizen).
Now for an exposé concerning a bias commonly found among selected conservative news sources. Today's specimen is the latest issue of the NRA's America's First Freedom magazine.
I'm an NRA member, and I'm not turning in my membership card or asking for a refund, but the NRA's political schizophrenia seems to have reached an all-time high with this issue of the magazine.
While extolling President Bush for standing up to the U.N.'s recent efforts to foist globalist gun control on U.S. citizens, America's First Freedom conveniently neglects Bush's campaign promise to renew the so-called Clinton Gun Ban (remember? The "Assault Rifle Ban"? The one that even the federal government admits has had zero effect on crime?) A more blatant double-standard could hardly be found. In effect, the NRA is cheering Bush for saying to the U.N., "You have no business trampling the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment -- that's my job!"
Elsewhere in the same issue of America's First Freedom, the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Judiciary are castigated for their roles in creating and upholding, respectively, the so-called Campaign Finance "Reform" Act -- arguably the federal government's worst trampling of our constitutionally protected liberties yet. Strangely silent, however, is this blindly pro-Bush magazine on the fact that President Bush is the man who signed the bill into law!
If they want to retain any semblance of credibility, the folks at the helm of the NRA will have to learn, sooner or later, that they can't maintain this schizophrenic posture, defending constituionally protected liberties from one side of their collective mouth, while extolling, from the other side, anyone (especially a president!) who is actively participating in -- nay, leading -- the federal trampling of those same liberties.
Let's just hope it's sooner.
Now for an exposé concerning a bias commonly found among selected conservative news sources. Today's specimen is the latest issue of the NRA's America's First Freedom magazine.
I'm an NRA member, and I'm not turning in my membership card or asking for a refund, but the NRA's political schizophrenia seems to have reached an all-time high with this issue of the magazine.
While extolling President Bush for standing up to the U.N.'s recent efforts to foist globalist gun control on U.S. citizens, America's First Freedom conveniently neglects Bush's campaign promise to renew the so-called Clinton Gun Ban (remember? The "Assault Rifle Ban"? The one that even the federal government admits has had zero effect on crime?) A more blatant double-standard could hardly be found. In effect, the NRA is cheering Bush for saying to the U.N., "You have no business trampling the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment -- that's my job!"
Elsewhere in the same issue of America's First Freedom, the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Judiciary are castigated for their roles in creating and upholding, respectively, the so-called Campaign Finance "Reform" Act -- arguably the federal government's worst trampling of our constitutionally protected liberties yet. Strangely silent, however, is this blindly pro-Bush magazine on the fact that President Bush is the man who signed the bill into law!
If they want to retain any semblance of credibility, the folks at the helm of the NRA will have to learn, sooner or later, that they can't maintain this schizophrenic posture, defending constituionally protected liberties from one side of their collective mouth, while extolling, from the other side, anyone (especially a president!) who is actively participating in -- nay, leading -- the federal trampling of those same liberties.
Let's just hope it's sooner.
posted by Mudrostovich | 7:21 AM
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