Day: November 25, 2010

Lemmings hop on Palin

Now and then, rather often in fact, the left-wing bias becomes crystal clear. What did the lemmings do lately? Try this, with comment by Power Blog:

Sarah Palin referred to “our North Korean allies” on the Glenn Beck show, a slip of the tongue that was deemed newsworthy by CBS News, the Washington Post, and many other outlets. Did those same sources publish gleeful headlines when Barack Obama talked about campaigning in all 57 states? Of course not; Obama is so, you know, brilliant. Everyone who talks in public will occasionally mis-speak; whether slips of the tongue are newsworthy is an editorial decision that is entirely motivated by political loyalty.

Remember it, remember it when you pick up a newspaper or watch TV news or even TV features, which also toe the line.

Later: Even Fox, where Shep Smith follows the crowd.

Notre Dame’s selective prosecution

President Barack Obama bows his head during th...
Bowing the head at Notre Dame

Dennis Byrne hits on the prosecution of 88 protesters, in a column about Notre Dame’s abdication of responsibility for the attempted rape of a St. Mary’s woman:

While leaving to its own police force to investigate the sexual assault charges it quickly handed over to the local prosecutor the case of 88 people who were arrested by school police for peacefully demonstrating on campus the selection of anti-life president Barack Obama as an honored commencement speaker. The schools determination to punish the demonstrators can only be described as spiteful and obsessive.

The Notre Dame 88, which included a nun and an elderly priest, face penalties of up to a year in prison and fines of $5,000. The Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a pro-life law firm, is defending the protestors without charge. The university technically can claim that calling off the prosecution is out of their hands, but at the same time, it has not used its so-called prestige to seek Christian charity for the protestors.

“What in hell is going on?” Byrne asks. So do I.

Leave the assault to us, they say, following up on it not a whit. But those protesters must pay. Why not the other way around?