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I know, before you tell me "You shouldn't be watching it", I'll grant that you are probably right. However, it is important to note just how outright devious the media has become in its capacity to shape (more precisely, distort) public opinon, and we ought to be at least aware to what extent this is going on.
Two stories covered this morning were spun into nearly complete fabrication, and it was just sickening. The first was about a lesbian couple who split up and a custody battle over their child that ensued. The second was about the preacher in N. Carolina who excommunicated the democrats. Bill Hemmer was making GREAT efforts to exonerate the preacher, believe it or not!
I'll try to make these long stories short. First, it was Maria Hinojosa who covered the lesbian couple story. The gist of it was that the couple split up, the birth mother moved away from Vermont where she was going to be forced to share custody by VT law. She went to Virginia, (became straight all of a sudden BTW), got a conservative lawyer who called the partnering an "unnatural relationship", etc. The birth mother claimed that her "Christian" values just could not allow her previous partner to be a part of her child's life any longer. :eyes: The real jab was in the conclusion, however, when Hinojosa made her "wrap-up" statement. She said something like "Well, if you think things can get bad in a heterosexual custody case, you have never seen anything as ugly as a gay custody case can get." No bias here, eh?! Moreover, there was nothing in the story to support this conslusion... nothing! The story certainly was slanted such that there was NO sympathy for the grieved partner though, I guarantee. I can just imagine the "typical viewer" after this one musing, "Hmm, things can get pretty bad in heterosexual cases... society sure doesn't need queers messing it up more making it even worse. Think of those poor children. Gasp!" I truly believe that was the intended affect.
Secondly, Bill Hemmer is claiming that the preacher in N. Carolina also threw out members who voted for Bush, but gave NO corroborating evidence except for an interview with some poor old inarticulate chump who said he had been kicked out because he voted for John Kerry and the church clerk told him he was being kicked out for supporting abortion and homosexuality. Hemmer then said it was all a big mistunderstanding and read and displayed a statement by the preacher who claimed that his actions were in no way political. Hemmer did ask the "good old boy" if the preacher had indeed kicked out Bush voters too, and the man said very meekly, "Well, yes sir." Period. No other explanation, neither from the church member or from Hemmer as to who these Bush voters were and why they too were supposedly "kicked out".. NONE! Want to bet they were the forty who walked out in protest? Those who walked out were then probably deemed by the preacher to be "kicked out". The saddest thing about the whole dog and pony show was Hemmer's attitude about it. He was just chortling and beaming as he stuck the knife into this poor old interviewee guy and made his case for that poor, misunderstood preacher. His comment was, "Well, if you have Bush voters AND Kerry voters being kicked out, how can we call this political?" Just too much. I really want to hear the real story now. In the meantime though, just think what impression Hemmer left (intentionally) in the minds of his viewers... RIGHT - the preacher did nothing wrong! :grr:
Sorry for the lengthy rant, but DAMN... we are completely screwed. There is NO ONE left in our court. NO ONE!!! Screw CNN, Bill Hemmer and all the rest of the irredeemable whores that run mainstream media! :grr: :mad: :grr:
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