Surveys show that 40% of Americans characterize themselves as “conservatives” versus only 19% who call themselves “liberal.”
If the media were even remotely objective in their news coverage, no Democrat would ever get elected. Even San Fransisco would reject vile liberals as vile.
But the media isn’t objective. And they haven’t been since long before Walter Cronkite in his guise as “the most trusted man in America” somehow forgot to disclose that he was in reality a full-fledged tinfoil-hat-wearing liberal loon.
You’re never going to get the unvarnished truth from the media: either they lay on coat after coat of varnish until they create the message they want, or they just sit on a story altogether when no amount of varnish can cover up the facts.
Case in point: in the sensitive political climate following the Tucson, Arizona shootings, the media bent over backwards to keep the story of a throat-slashing leftist maniac out of the news.
Via The Gateway Pundit:
Far Left Activist Slashes Throat of Man He Mistakes For Governor – Media Silent
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 22, 2011, 11:29 AMCasey Brezik – a leftist slasher you’ve never heard about.
22-year-old Casey Brezik, a far left student at Metropolitan Community College — Penn Vally, thought he had stabbed the governor in Kansas City and was disappointed when he learned that the victim was actually the school’s dean of instruction, Al Dimmit Jr.Ed Driscoll reported:
Ever hear of Casey Brezik? Neither did I, until now. At the American Thinker explains how a story that doesn’t fit the accepted MSM template doesn’t bubble up to the national news:
In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.
At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.
The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.
Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others.
In his “About Me” box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins “Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism” and gets more belligerent from there.
On his wall postings, Brezik ranted, “How are we the radical(s) (left) to confront the NEW RIGHT, if we avoid confrontation all together?”
September of last year. And the media sat on it all this time. You would have thought such an event would have been important for the sake of balance while the media was falsely demonizing the right for the Tucson shootings. You know, “Let’s not go too far blaming the right for hate. Don’t forget that only a few months ago a leftist attempted to slash the throat of the governor in Missouri.”
But nope. They just let that little detail pass by, while they piled on unmercifully and demonically on top of a completely innocent Sarah Palin.
If there had been even the tiniest thread of a connection between Casey Brezik and the rightwing, the news media would have been all over this like flies on horse crap. But given the fact that this thug is as leftist as, well, his hero Che Guevara, all you hear is the sound of the crickets.
It is simply amazing how dishonest and treacherous the mainstream media truly is on a constant basis.
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