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a malcontent rant� 08.26.2003

 

 

The Dictionary has a Liberal Bias II... Vindication.

 

By tha malcontent (Direct Descendent of the Founding Fathers! - tha malcontent)
ap/afp Editor in Chief AUGUST 26, 13:30 ET

 

Siding with the powerless: Ideas from 60 years in journalism

Walter Cronkite: "I believe that most of us reporters are liberal."

By Walter Cronkite (Godfather of the American Journalistic Left - tha malcontent)

We [journalists] reached our intellectual adulthood with daily close-ups of the inequality in a nation that was founded on the commitment to equality for all. So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful. If that is what makes us liberals so be it, just as long as . . . we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism.

 

(ap) - Actually Mr. Cronkite, the Fact that the Liberal Arts Degrees your kind receives before you enter into the Journalistic workforce, are no more than Marxist Indoctrinations of your young, impressionable minds, is "what makes you Liberals", but your excusing your finally admitted, Abject Bias, will help the Collective Left to deal with your Revelation... And give my side substantial ammo against yours.  For that, I thank you Good Sir! - tha malcontent)

I hope we all get along as we go along. I expect that occasionally we will have some differences of opinion. I expect to be provocative. After more than 60 years as a journalist, I have some ideas about the state of our nation, of our world, of our culture, and I wouldn't be true to the purpose of a column if I didn't vent them here. 

My hope is that you will find my commentary interesting, informative, perhaps occasionally amusing (deliberately, that is), and, at all times, fair and as unbiased as it is possible for opinion to be.

 

("At all times, fair and as unbiased as it is possible for opinion to be."  Are we talking about "Reporters", or "Commentators", Mr. Cronkite?... Oh, they are one in the same!  Another shocking Revelation on the part of the Don! - tha malcontent)

You are going to disagree with me from time to time, and I will be disappointed if you don't. That fulfills the provocative requirement of a column like this.

When the nation was deeply divided over the Vietnam War, we at CBS got a lot of mail complaining about our coverage. I was disturbed until we found out that the number of letters condemning us as being government lackeys in support of the war almost precisely balanced those condemning us as being sympathetic to the war protesters. I relaxed with the simple philosophy that if you are being shot at from both sides, you must be in the middle of the road.

 

(Whatever helps you look in the mirror Walter! - tha malcontent)

Let's face this one down right now: I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

 

(In the previous decades Walter, how many (D)'s did you cast votes for, as opposed to (R)'s?... That's what I thought!  Stop hiding like a Coward behind the (I) and be Honest about your support of the DemocRAT Party for once in your Life! - tha malcontent)

Basically I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, but those who rabidly support those positions will be more often disappointed in my views than otherwise.

I believe that most of us reporters are liberal, but not because we consciously have chosen that particular color in the political spectrum. More likely it is because most of us served our journalistic apprenticeships as reporters covering the seamier side of our cities -- the crimes, the tenement fires, the homeless and the hungry, the underclothed and undereducated.

 

("I believe that most of us reporters are liberal"... The comment that will haunt you to your grave and beyond my man!  Thanks again!  And save the Rationalization, you have already opened the door and no amount of abusing the tragedy that is Life, is going to excuse your admitted bias now! - tha malcontent)

We reached our intellectual adulthood with daily close-ups of the inequality in a nation that was founded on the commitment to equality for all. So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful. If that is what makes us liberals so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism -- that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased. That clearly doesn't apply when one deserts the front page for the editorial page and the columns to which opinion should be isolated.

 

(This paragraph amounts to "White Liberal Guilt". - tha malcontent)

The perceived liberalism of television reporters, I am convinced, is a product of the limited time given for any particular item. The reporter desperately tries to get all the important facts and essential viewpoints into his or her piece but, against a fast-approaching deadline, he or she must summarize in a sentence the complicated story. That is where the slippage occurs, and the summary too frequently, without intention, seems to emphasize one side or the other.

 

(No, I think your first assertion that most of you are Liberals, is the answer. - tha malcontent)

(The answer to that problem, as with much else in television news, is in more time for the dominant evening newscasts. In our ever more complicated and confusing world, those newscasts need an hour.)

Incidentally, I looked up the definition of "liberal" in a Random House dictionary. It gave the synonyms for "liberal" as "progressive," "broad-minded," "unprejudiced," "beneficent." The antonyms it offered: "reactionary" and "intolerant."

I have always suspected those fine folks at Random House of being liberals. You just can't trust anybody these days. 

 

(See the "Vindication" portion of this Rant below from last July in regard to Walter's final, and Brilliant Revelation about the Dictionary and it's bias... - tha malcontent)


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The Dictionary has a Liberal Bias

 

By tha malcontent (Direct Descendent of the Founding Fathers! - tha malcontent)
ap/afp Editor in Chief JULY 19, 14:30 ET

 

(According to the American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, the following statement is true...  "Ultraconservative REPUBLICans are opposed to progress or liberalism, against social equality, against the common people, disrespectful of the individual, and they are intolerant, narrow minded, authoritarian, dogmatic bigots!"  And of course, Liberal DemocRATS are exactly the opposite... NOT!  If you don't believe me, read below and find out how the dictionary, yes, the DICTIONARY, reads like a DNC Talking Point!  It's no wonder that Colleges are churning out Ignorant Marxist SHEEP!  If this is the Dictionary, I would hate to see what the history books look like, but I am sure Lenin, Stalin and Marx would be proud of the fruits of their Labour!  Stick around after the following definitions for a "personal message" from the Editor in Chief! - tha malcontent)

 

 

ul�tra�con�ser�va�tive 

Pronunciation Key (ltr-kn-s�rv-tv)
adj. - Conservative to an extreme, especially in political beliefs; reactionary.

 con�ser�va�tive  

Pronunciation Key (kn-s�rv-tv)
adj.  - Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. 

 re�ac�tion�ar�y  

Pronunciation Key (r-ksh-nr)
adj. - Characterized by reaction, especially opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative.
n. pl. re�ac�tion�ar�ies 
An opponent of progress or liberalism; an extreme conservative.

 

 

ul�tra�lib�er�al

Pronunciation Key (ltr-lbr-l, -lbrl) 
adj. - Liberal to an extreme, especially in political beliefs; radical.

(Note: 20 years ago, this word did not appear in the American Heritage Dictionary, while "Ultraconservative" did. I wonder who finally complained long enough to force the Marxist editors at AH to include the other side?)

 lib�er�al  

Pronunciation Key (lbr-l, lbrl)
adj.- Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. 

 rad�i�cal

Pronunciation Key (rd-kl)
adj. - Arising from or going to a root or source; basic: proposed a radical solution to the problem. Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme: radical opinions on education. Favoring or effecting fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions: radical political views. 

 

 

dem�o�crat 

Pronunciation Key (dm-krt)
n. - An advocate of democracy. Democrat A member of the Democratic Party.

 de�moc�ra�cy  

Pronunciation Key (d-mkr-s)
n. pl. de�moc�ra�cies - Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A political or social unit that has such a government.  The common people, considered as the primary source of political power. Majority rule.  The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community. 

 

 

re�pub�li�can  

Pronunciation Key (r-pbl-kn)
adj. - Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic.  Favoring a republic as the best form of government. Republican Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States.

 

re�pub�lic 

Pronunciation Key (r-pblk)
n. - A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president. A nation that has such a political order. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. A nation that has such a political order.



Source: The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright � 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

 

 

(A personal message from tha malcontent... I must give credit where credit is due... Had it not been for a very enlightening conversation last evening with a future member of the NEA who is nearing the end of his Masters in Education and soon on his way "home" to San Francisco to do "some good" for that "conservative" city (Yep, he made the absurd assertion that San Francisco is a Conservative town), I would not have had the motivation to look up Liberal and Conservative today, and subsequently found what I found!  This gentlemen, who sparked my interest when generally referring to "right-wing religious nut-case Conservatives", but did not like my assertions that specific people were "Left of Marx", even went so far as to say that Willie "Credit card machines for bums" Brown, the Mayor of that ass-backwards cesspool of Marxism that this future "teacher" will be living in soon, had some Conservative views!  Yes, Willie Brown, according to this man, has Conservative views!  I tried to explain to him that his definition of the "political center" was not the true "center".  Let's leave reality for little while and enter the realm of the American Liberal and say that San Francisco is the "center" of the political extremes, shall we!  In that setting, a "Conservative" would be someone who supports Abortion and gay marriage.   A "Liberal" would be someone who supports inter-generational sex, sex with animals, and Abortions after Birth.  Basically, Liberal, and extreme Liberal.  As is the case with most Liberal DemocRATS, they live in a "relative" world where words have ever changing meanings and facts and Truth are examples of intolerance and hate.  They believe that the "center" starts with them, and that everything else is to Right of their "center".  One of there classic defenses of Homosexuals, is to assert that anyone who is disgusted by that non-species forwarding, deviant lifestyle CHOICE, are in fact, homosexuals themselves.  Of course, when you ask them how they feel about sex with children or animals, their "disgust" does not equate to their own pedophilia or beastiallity, and then they usually don't want to "debate" with you any longer!  The facts and the Truth are always getting in the way of their relative insanity!  Back to our "teacher", he also asserted that there is a "plague of White cop on Black youth violence" in this country that warrants the "racially" charged "Free Press" coverage, stemming from the King situation, all of the way up to the "ball grabbing retard" that happened to be Black, and the nuts he had a hold of, were White, and a Cop's, that has been making headlines recently! Another gem from this voice of reason and Truth, was that the Conservative claim that the "Free Press" has a Liberal bias is debunked, according to his "logic", by the fact that rich White people own the "Free Press", while giving no weight whatsoever to the 85% Liberally voting deliverers of the "Free Press" message, such as Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw on the TV, and the Associated Press puppets around the country, also know as the local news papers, who OVERWHELMINGLY endorse DemocRATS, election after election, while running "news" stories that support those endorsements!   I just though I would share a rare occasion that I had to actually hear a Liberal say something other than "George Bush is a dumb daddy's boy", and to give credit to the inspiration for this new piece of Insight that will find a permanent home at the ap under malcontent @ associalisticpress.com!  By the way, there are many new additions to that left hand column of the main page... GO THERE NOW! - tha malcontent)

 

 


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