Any business this crooked would usually be closed down
Bookworm on Apr 23 2008 at 7:57 am | Filed under: Gun control, Media matters
If a store routinely cheats its customers, its customers begin to go elsewhere. If the district attorney gets wind of the cheating, a criminal prosecution can result. It’s only in the wonderful world of TV news, however, that lying and cheating seem to have very limited repercussions. People like you and me have already gone elsewhere, and the true believers are happy to buy a false product.
This little rumination is brought to you courtesy of a brand new media malfeasance story, in which ABC uses blatant lies about guns to claim that the love affair the Bush administration has with dangerous weapons is responsible for Mexico’s drug cartels (and, by extension, America’s drug problems). The Confederate Yankee has the details of the endless cascade of lies that permeate the story.
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The media has an extraordinary ability to not notice - I use the phrase deliberately: they don’t “ignore” what they don’t like, they genuinely do not see it - when realities have collided with their preconceptions.
They have been lying about guns for decades - only the thing you have to realize is they aren’t lying: they are telling the truth that they see, and if it’s contradicted by numbers and statistics that you put in front of them, well: those must be wrong. The fact that when people are allowed to have guns crime goes down is excessively counterintuitive for them to process, so therefore it can’t be true, period. The fact that the minute guns are outlawed, as in England and Australia, crime goes through the roof is equally counterintuitive to them, and equally cannot be true, and the hell with the fact that we all know London has become the most dangerous city in Europe.
It’s an illness, I think: a uniquely liberal one.
But don’t get the idea it’s free for them. Who the hell watches ABC news? At CBS nobody’s watching Katie Couric outside of her immediate family, and nobody was watching NBC to begin with. They’re paying. The NY Times will righteously run itself face-down in the dirt - and take to the end the belief that they know more than everybody else and were correct about everything all the way.
I wouldn’t say “nobody” and just because “they” are paying, doesn’t mean that they won’t take down everyone with them. You got to watch out for these nihilists and their mass murder-suicide sprees.
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And what’s worse, this same media is campaigning hard to establish “shield” laws for their members. Many states have them already and the effort continues at both the state and the federal level.
As Orwell noted, “All animals are equal; some animals are more equal.”
I think most human beings aren’t upset so much by lies as the fact that those lies aren’t working in their favor or maybe not even working at all.
Most people have the ethics of animals, in that if you aren’t caught and punished for doing something, then obviously that “something” should be done again.
People didn’t seem comfortable with accusing the President of lying in 2003 or 4, but that wasn’t because they thought he was honest. No, it seems more like people won’t talk about lies or accept them, unless those lies are being challenged and successfully challenged.