by Andrew Klavan of PJ Media
The Democratic Party is a machine for inciting grievances in order
to consolidate its power. The Republican Party is also just such a machine, but
poorly run. Incompetence and stupidity are its only saving graces. Journalists
who cast a hostile and suspicious eye equally on both would be… well,
they would be journalists, wouldn’t they? How can you suspect the stratagems of
those who seek power and go far wrong?
Instead, what we have in our news media is a cabal of
over-educated but under-smart elites under the hilarious impression that one
power-hungry party is out for the good of mankind and the other staunchly
opposed. It’s such a stupid thing to think — such a blitheringly naive
proposition — that reacting to them with outrage seems almost unkind, like slapping
a child for believing in Santa Claus.
And yet one feels one has to say something. Take a look at the
mighty John Nolte’s timeline of journalistic lies
about the Zimmerman-Martin affair. From CNN falsely attributing a racial slur
to Zimmerman, to NBC’s actionable editing of audio to make
Zimmerman seem racist, to the New York Times‘ invention of a
unique racial category (white Hispanic) useful for nothing but the ginning up
of public hostility, there is a childlike insistence that the world be as
Democrats claim it is, rather than as it really is, a willing suspension of
disbelief in a political distortion. It really is so infantile that it would be
kind of sweet and silly if it weren’t so dangerous. I mean, it’s all fun and
games until somebody puts out an eye — or burns down a city.
This is not a political problem, it’s a cultural one. Leftist
journalists trained by leftist professors and encouraged by leftist
entertainers to slavishly serve the aims of leftist politicians. This circle
will not be broken by the cowards and hapless fools on the other side of the
political aisle, but only by new educators and new journalists and new culture
makers who refuse to conform, rebels who respond to the ceaseless barrage of
cynical and racist distortions with facts and moral truths. They can be
liberals or conservatives as long as they’re honest. They just can’t be liars
and clowns as most journalists seem to be today.
It better happen fast — it better happen now — because jurors like
the ones in the Zimmerman trial, jurors who serve the truth above all, will be
ever harder to find in a culture shaped by the current set of miscreants.
This has been a shameful affair and America’s newsrooms — and the
people who create and encourage them — are to blame.
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