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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article on examiner.com regarding bias in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. My final few paragraphs suggested we all try an experiment where we email our friends at the local newspaper when we see an article that we believe is dripping bias. I suggested that we send them an email that says simply, “Regarding your article on ____ dated _____, I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” I want to announce I have taken my own advice.
The Thursday June 11, 2009 Journal Sentinel contains a “Quick Hit” by editorial page editor O. Ricardo Pimentel regarding Karl Rove’s article in the Wall Street Journal from “a few months ago” where Mr. Rove accused President Obama of being ungracious by criticizing his predecessors. I was struck by many things regarding his seventy-five word harangue- the main one being, “What?”
First, why does Mr. Pimentel wait “a few months” if Rove’s comments merit a mention on the Editorial Page of his paper? I would think he would have mentioned this long ago unless he feels Mr. Obama is reeling under recent criticism and needs someone to defend him and attempt to deflect some of that criticism by obfuscation. Am I the only one who wonders if the Journal Sentinel’s (as well as over ninety percent of the rest of the mainstream media) endless cheerleading for the President signals the end of objective journalism? If you doubt the cheerleading charge, toward the end of the “hit” is this gem, “He (Rove) also has called Obamas’s effective public diplomacy ‘the apology tour.’”
How exactly has the country benefited from this “effective” public diplomacy? Despite breaking tradition and bowing to the head of another country (sorry, I forgot that depends on what your definition of “bow” is), most of the Arab world still seems to dislike us. Considering the missile test and probable underground nuclear test, North Korea doesn’t seem all that impressed with our “effective” public diplomacy. The governments of the E.U. seem less wowed with President Obama than their citizens did last year with Candidate Obama. Effective, isn’t it?
I am also struck by Mr. Pimentel’s inaccuracy when he criticizes Mr. Rove for becoming “the attack-pundit darling of right-wing media for doing precisely that.” The “that” he refers to is “criticizing his predecessors.” Now you may think I’m nitpicking, however this points up something that drives many Conservatives nuts: liberals don’t seem to get that words have meaning. Liberals tend to spew out whatever makes them feel good without regard to accuracy and without regard to the facts. In this case Mr. Pimentel most likely really means to point out that Karl Rove is criticizing the Bush Administration’s SUCCESSOR, not predecessor. It may seem like a little thing, but the man is an editor so you would think his command of the English language might be a little better.
Finally, Mr. Pimentel mentions that there is no criticism from Rove regarding Dick Cheney. I assume he is talking about Cheney’s taking on the Obama Administration for “criticizing his predecessors”. Once again facts will not get in the way of a liberal argument. For months we have heard the President and his spokespeople talk about the “problems they inherited”, the “problems from the previous administration”, and the “problems I (we) found when I (we) got here”. The former Vice-President was silent for a long time before (apparently) he became “mad as hell and was not going to take it anymore.”
The hatred and vitriol coming from the left for the past eight plus years is becoming comical. Bush “stole the election”. Bush “lied, people died”. Rove is “Darth Vader”. Rove is “running the Administration”. Enough already!!! Can we please have a discussion on the merits of the issues and dispense with the sloganeering and name-calling? I suspect the answer the liberals would have to come up with is “No we can’t since all we have is sloganeering and name-calling. Our proposals have no merit.”
In summary, I am “mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” I sent an email to O. Ricardo Pimentel stating this and will continue to do so as long as the Journal Sentinel continues to irritate me. I suspect this will be a long time.
By the way- earlier this week I posted two articles regarding the Wisconsin State Budget: “Budget concerns in the state of Wisconsin” and “Wisconsin budget woes (continued)”. In the first, I mentioned the tax on Oil Companies and the fact that the budget would NOT allow them to pass the tax on to consumers. I predicted that prices would have to eventually go up and, in the Thursday, June 11, 2009 edition of the Journal Sentinel, I was proven correct. The State Assembly “tweaked Doyle’s proposal to allow gas companies to pass on the tax” to avoid possible litigation. Two reasons I bring this up: first, I told you so; but, more importantly, this shows how crazy some lefty proposals can get- even our liberal legislature had to scale back Doyle’s insanity. And here’s another prediction (one that’s not hard to make): there will be more craziness coming out of the Governor’s office until someone sends Jim Doyle home for good.
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