My co-blogger Anthony wrote an outstanding post earlier today roasting NPR and other liberals for their phoniness when it come to their professed belief in “the expression of free thought.” I wanted to add to it, but what I have to write about the issue is rather longish (which I’m sure surprises no one!) so I thought I’d create my own post on the matter.
The Detroit News reports on how Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy is trying to combat youth crime: by making it a crime for parents of underperforming students to not attend parent/teacher conferences. So many things wrong with this story:
One of the few unpleasant things columnists/pundits/political bloggers have to do in their daily lives is read and/or watch stories they would have rather gone their whole lives without noticing, because there are many such stories that come up which deserve an informed commentary that can’t be written unless said stories are perused and examined. Such is the case with having to endure ABC’s “The View” on occasion, and yesterday was no different. A drama unfolded Thursday morning when View co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg “stormed” off the set after getting angry at Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly over a discussion about whether or not the Ground Zero mosque plans should proceed. He remarked that Muslims killed innocents on 9-11, which launched both Behar and Goldberg into galactic orbit. Alana Goodman at NewsBusters has the relevant part of the transcript:
Er, this column sort of speaks for itself, methinks. Or maybe he’s just saying it’s not massive under his definition of the term …
The confirmed Socialist (scroll) and Dr. of Disology told the Obama administration’s favorite “news” network that the GOP has, in effect, “created a monster” by giving credence to the Tea Party movement:
Yesterday, Marxists liberals held a rally of their own at the National Mall in Washington, DC that was billed by the MSM as the “counter” rally to the massive Restoring Honor rally held by Glenn Beck back in late August. Naturally, liberals wanted the rally to outshine the Beck rally in terms of the message and attendance but …
