More Bullshit

Care to see a prime example of rampant media bias?

Here's the headline for an AP story written by Mira Oberman as it appears in Yahoo News today:

Race relations still tense a year after Katrina

Not exactly a smoking gun yet. Anybody with half a brain knows that race relations are somewhat tense in this country. Let us read on:

Images of seas of black faces begging for help that took days to arrive, and stories of sheriffs from adjacent white suburbs turning desperate evacuees away at gunpoint as they tried to flee New Orleans, horrified the nation.

But for many who grew up in a city that had hosted the slave trade and clung to segregation, the initial shock was transformed into fury that their deepest fears and suspicions were true: the government does not care about black people.


Whoa. Now wait just a damn minute. Sure, the systemic racism of Louisiana politics is well known and documented. But she's not talking about the government of Louisiana. She's just indicting "the government." Imagine what Mira Oberman's editors would have said if she wrote "Louisiana's Democratic Governor, Kathleen Blanco doesn't care about black people." The article goes on to outline the dismal conditions of New Orleans and the bungling of the reconstruction, but at no point does it mention the party affiliation of the governor or mayor presiding over the situation. Had they been republicans, we'd be reminded of it over and over again.

Ahmadenijad: Not that bright.

Is it just me, or does this guy have child molestor written all over him?

Diplomatic language from the cheeky Iranian President:

Mahmoud Ahmadenijad: "Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented."

Did you get that? An immediate ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon must be implemented, but the only way to achieve a peaceful outcome is for Israel to be destroyed. Sounds reasonable enough. I suppose we could call it the 2006 Roadmap to Peace! Israel may take issue with it, but I'm sure it will get ringing endorsement from the UN. But then again, it seems that that's been their official policy for some time now. Sit back and watch while terrorists attack Israel. Then when Israel fights back, condemn them for their disproportionate response.

What Mahmoud the grinning jackass doesn't seem to realize is that Israel has the most powerful military in the middle east. Some camel humpers with rockets killing a handfew of people here and there hardly matches the military might of the Israelis. I predict that this will continue to be a one-sided conflict until Lebanon and Hezbollah either give in to Israel's demands, or quite frankly die. And I have no sympathy for the Lebanese government, because they got themselves into this mess.