Department of Stupid Comparisons
November 16, 2009 12:06 pm ET by Jamison Foser
CNN on Monday featured a fifth grade student who is refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance in his classroom until gays and lesbians have equal rights.
Not surprisingly, he was treated with far greater respect by the cable news network than Tea Party and town hall meeting protesters were earlier in the year.
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Despite all its pretense of being an impartial, neutral network compared to MSNBC, the advocacy of CNN comes through in almost every story it does.
"Tea Party" protests featured people with tea bags dangling from their hats and the frames of their glasses, people who had no coherent explanation of what they were protesting, who were misusing the iconography of the American Revolution-era tea parties that were protests against taxation without representation, and involved crazy comparisons of Barack Obama to Mao and Hitler, claims that Obama has a "Marxist agenda," allegations of fascism and socialism, references to Nancy Pelosi being a witch, .
By comparison, Arkansas fifth-grader Will Phillips offers a clear and straightforward explanation of his position, without resorting to silly props or name-calling:
Well, I looked at the end and it said "with liberty and justice for all." And there really isn't liberty and justice for all. There's -- gays and lesbians can't marry. There's still a lot of racism and sexism in the world, yes.
Yeah, it's really hard to see why CNN would treat this fifth grader "with far greater respect" than they treated a bunch of screaming nut-cases with tea bags dangling from their hats and signs comparing the President of the United States to Adolf Hitler. It must be liberal bias!
If you wingnuts would like to be treated with the same degree of respect given this 5th grader, it's completely within your power. You just need to start being as thoughtful and mature as 5th graders.
The right wing must continue to tear down all other media to maintain their hold on the hearts and minds of the right wing
proletariat, or grassroots, as they prefer to be called.
Trolls here have characterized virtually every conceivable source of information as unreliable and left biased.
This includes Wikipedia, any .gov website, all school textbooks and popular encyclopedias. They say that they are all authored by liberal biased individuals advancing a liberal agenda. The right wing is actively purging all perceived liberal bias from every imaginable source that they can get their hands into, including the Bible.
Would any right wingers care to share a list of the "acceptable" authoritative sources for factual information and research?
Teabaggers seem to take all rational statements as personal affront. Stupid teabaggers.