The Blame Game!!!!!

Arizona was the site of a tragic shooting that killed 6 people and wounded another 14 including a member of Congress. Since the moment it was reported that police had a suspect in custody and his identity was divulged the media frenzy to paint him started. I have been involved in several threads on Facebook attempting to get people to give pause as the Left is trying to blame the assassination attempt on the heated rhetoric from the Right and Tea Party members. A common theme has been the Sarah Palin target map of 20 Congress races. Here is the poster in question:

 

 

The Left is bashing Palin and other members of the Right as being the catalyst for the attack. Now back in 2004 the Democrats put out this poster in their attempt to take back Congress:

 

How are these two maps different? It is not uncommon for politicians to "target" certain campaigns by either party. Why is it okay for Democrats to have such a poster but not for Republicans? We need to take pause and a deep breath before we pass any further judgment. Without doing so we will only continue the heated rhetoric and further inject emotion into a rational discussion of why this event took place. By taking pause does not translate into one condoning the attack or lack the empathy for the families of those affected. While we give pause let's include these families into our prayers and allow the investigation to run its course before accessing blame.

Political Correctness has become “retarded”

I know that I already posted earlier today but I read this and just couldn't contain myself.

I am sorry but come on. Are we as a society really this sensitive? Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is reported to have commented during a liberal strategy session this past August that liberals planning to run attack ads on conservative Democrats for their stance on Health Care were "F…ing retarded." To which now Emanuel forces Emanuel to meeting with Special Olympics head Tim Shriver at the White House today to discuss the use of the word "retarded". Really, Emanuel needs to apologize for an offhand comment. All the man said is that it was "retarded" for Democrats to attack Democrats. Where is the harm in that?

The Republican Poster Child for Down Syndrome children, Sarah Palin, weighed in by writing on her Facebook page, "Rahm's slur on all God's children with cognitive and developmental disabilities – and the people who love them – is unacceptable, and it's heartbreaking." WHAT!!!!! Now I think Palin brings a fresh face and a nuance to politics that has been lacking but to blast Emanuel for the phrase "F...ing retarded" even I know that is a little too politically correct. What word or phrase is next? Just because someone states that an action is retarded, I am pretty certain they are not trying to equate to Down Syndrome children. Or perhaps I am just naïve. Thoughts….

Sarah Palin: What is the liberal media worried about?

I just do not get it. My hope is that while I write that logic or reason will seep in that enables me to understand the liberal media's quest to soil Sarah Palin. No one had heard of the former Alaskan Governor prior to Sen. McCain's decision to add her to the Republican Presidential ticket. Since that time she was quit as Governor and written a new book called "Going Rogue". Today she is at Fort Bragg signing books. At first there was not going to be media allowed then outcry came from the liberal press to which a change was made to allow media attendance at the book signing. It is a book signing, yet the liberal media is doing what it can to discredit and discount Governor Palin. Why?

The latest issue of Newsweek had Sarah Palin on the cover. The photo on the cover had Sarah Palin in a jogging suit that was originally shot for a different magazine. Newsweek posed the question "How Do you solve a problem like Sarah?" on the cover with the tag line of "she's bad news for the GOP – and for everybody else, too." I still don't get it. What is it about Sarah Palin that scares the liberal press? Perhaps the Augusta Chronicle editorial staff member has it right as to the hysteria of media probing of Palin by stating, "We understand the media's fear. Sarah Palin embodies a conservative values system that horrifies liberals. But what's really frightening is how the media take those values and reflect them in a funhouse mirror back to the public, trying to pass that off as the truth"(http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/11/23/edi_556743.shtml).

Over the weekend the Senate finally moved forward on health care reform by voting to allow the bill to the floor. So, why is that not the hot topic of the day? Why is the liberal media not digging into the bill to vet it, to bring to light the amount of new taxes, to investigate the purpose of the Health Benefits Advisory Board, or why the bill, if passed, does not establish a public option until 4 or 5 years later? Instead the media is spending a lot of air time to the Sarah Palin book tour. In reading the news articles about Sarah Palin, I may have found my answer in a blogger on The Huffington Post. Eric Boehlert posted "Palin's book and Obama's bow: A media week to forget" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/palins-book-and-obamas-bo_b_367325.html). Mr. Boehlert lashes out at the mass media as reporting on "pointless, vacuous 'news' stories" because it is "easy, lazy, and safe thing" to report on.

President Obama has not even been in office a year, yet the media is doing what they can to discuss the faults of Sarah Palin. Can the media please get back to solid, investigative reporting of the news of the day? All this addiction by the liberal press to cover the Palin book tour does is distracting the public from the real news of the day. Well I guess I did get my answer to my original point. Journalism is dead in the United States and people are not really interested in items that will affect our lives like health care reform, increase taxes, mounting debt, printing of money by the Fed, and the elephant in the room; inflation.