Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Saturday, September 01, 2012 4:22:11 PM
I made a prediction to my wife before the Republican Convention started. I told her that the news media herd would peddle the same old yarn that they always peddle. They would say that the Pachyderms are the rich white men party and that they hate everybody else -- women and other minorities (somehow you expect the herd and the other Democrats, being so bad at math, to fail to notice that women are the majority of Americans, and have been for years now), the poor, and everyone who isn't a rich white man. I told her that any and every woman, every minority group member, and especially every both-of-the-previous speaker would vanish into the media video hole, and would be ignored as far as the herd could manage it. It's the bias of omission, which the herd has used for years. Dynamic Congressman J. C. Watts, a black conservative from Oklahoma (and former quarterback for the University of Oklahoma Sooners) was a featured speaker at the 1996 Republican Convention. NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN (the herpes outbreak of the American news media, MSNBC, hadn't erupted yet) refused to show the young black conservative addressing the convention of the party that was formed to stop the spread of slavery across the American continent, in the belief that if slavery did not grow it would die. They refused then as they refused this week to show Mia Love, Artur Davis, and Susana Martinez, and as they refused to allow their audiences to hear what these Republican office-holders or former office holder's (in Davis's case) have to say. They are so committed to the lie that they have peddled all these years that they can't give it up now, no matter how much evidence piles up against them. Once their audience realizes that they've been lying about this all of these years, they'll start exploring to find out what else they've been lying about...