Labelling by Media

A shooter enters a building on Ft. Hood base, shouts Alahu Acbar, then proceeds to shoot dozens of people, killing 13.  The shooter was a muslim man.  The media tells us not to rush to label the man as a muslim extremist or jihadist.

A shooter in Arizona kills several people, and wounds other, including congresswoman Abbie Giffords.  The media tells us it is because of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.

A man leaves a car parked in the streets of New York near Time Square, with a bomb inside.  The bomb does not explode.  The media says the man was upset over the lack of health care in the US.

A shooter kills a couple of soldiers at a recruiting station in Arkansas.  Again the media tells us not to rush to judgement about this man or his motives.

A man plants a bomb that does vast damage to a building in Oslo, Norway, then goes to an island camp where he shoots and kills more than 70 young people.  The media tells us he is a christian extremist.

The trend in these stories is that muslims who commit, or are accused of committing, violent crimes that could be declared terror, are spared the rush to judgement, while caucasian men doing similar acts, are quickly labelled.

The evidence is clear.  The left leaning media is loathe to label any muslim as extremist or jihadist, while quickly doing so for non-muslims.  Not only that, the non-muslim is quickly labelled right-wing extremist.

Why would they be so protective of jihadists who hate them to the core, and would kill them at the first opportunity?

Obama, Holder Busted in Gunwalker Cover-up - HUMAN EVENTS

So, guns used by Mexican drug cartels are coming from the USA. In order to make this claim true, the ATF sold guns to those cartels, and $80M in financing came via the stimulus bill. An apparent motive for this activity by the Obama administation was legislate more gun control. But they got caught, so what happens next?

Obama, Holder Busted in Gunwalker Cover-up - HUMAN EVENTS

The Beltway Industry Full-Time Employment Act - HUMAN EVENTS

This is how Congress makes legislation nowadays - extremely long winded pieces of prose, which once voted on and signed into law, is handed to bureaucrats to make the rules by which we all must then live.

Dodd-Frank and Obamacare are both over 2000 pages without the meat and potatoes of specifics. This method of legislating effectively puts the agencies which oversee the activity of financing, healthcare, environment, and more, in charge of legislating. These agencies can write their own rules according to how they interpret the vagueness of the bill they are handed. Congress has abdicated its consitutional authority to policy wonks.

Is that how the government should operate? I think not. Ms. Malkin describes one such example of how this process fails the citizens.

The Beltway Industry Full-Time Employment Act - HUMAN EVENTS

'News of the World' vs. WikiLeaks: Murdoch's the Only Variable - HUMAN EVENTS

The obsession with the story of Mr. Murdoch's news tabloid is facinating. The media tends to get hyped by certain stories and not by others. We've had big stories such as 9-11, the OJ trial, Michael Jackson, various missing young women, Casey Anthony, and now News International. I think I read an op/ed piece months ago that explained it this way. The 24 hour news cycle built into cable news makes sensationalizing necessary in order to fill the time. The cable news networks were designed to deal with big stories, though not for small ones. So when no big news event reveals itself, smaller stories get overexposed.

Now, how do you suppose they choose which stories to overexpose? In this case, some tabloid reporters hacked their way into the cell phone voicemail boxes of some people, and used the information acquired in news stories. Not a significant and big story you would think, but for the CEO of the news organization being Rupert Murdoch, whose holdings include the 'evil' Fox News.

'News of the World' vs. WikiLeaks: Murdoch's the Only Variable - HUMAN EVENTS

Disagreement and Racism

Was Sheila Jackson Lee a racist for disagreeing with George W. Bush? 
And does disagreeing with President Obama make Herman Cain a racist?

AAA Bond Ratings

Moody's and S&P are both threatening to reduce the US government's AAA bond rating if we do not raise the debt ceiling before August 2.  I have one question for both of those entities.

With a $14.3T deficit, and $70T in unfunded liabilities, how in the hell do we rate AAA in the first place?

By the way, if we do not raise the debt ceiling, we do not instantly default on anything.  Default is when you don't pay a due bill or debt.  We have enough money to pay some things, just not all things.