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If journalism still existed, I’d still be doing it in television, likely. – AM 790 KNST morning show host Jim Parisi via email

I emailed Jim Parisi this morning with a link to Orson Scott Card’s angry rant at journalists because he had interviewed Card once before, and one of the topics Jim discusses on the show fairly regularly is media bias. He has had a long career in journalism as a reporter and a news director in television and radio, so he’s seen it. He ended up doing the morning news here in Tucson because his wife is a native Tucsonan, but Jim is originally from New Hampshire and has directly covered the New Hampshire primaries on more than one occasion. He spent some extended time in Bill and Hillary’s presence when they were campaigning there. I can’t find it now, but he did a scathing monologue one day on how he personally liked Bill, but found Hillary to be loathsome, and how that discovery finally turned him away from being a Democrat.

A couple of years ago the morning show guy quit (or was fired) and he was put in the morning show seat with basically no warning – newsman to talk-show host in ten seconds flat.

His show is now #1 in the Arbitron ratings for AM stations here in Tucson. Jim is, if you say nothing else about him, fair – giving each side a voice, and smacking them down when they deserve it. He’s also got a twisted sense of humor, and that helps.

I’ve quoted Jim before here.

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If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.

You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a daily newspaper in our city.

– Orson Scott Card, Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?Thanks to Unix-Jedi for the pointer. And, as Unix points out, Card is a Democrat.

Edited to add, from Instapundit:

Charges of ACORN-like registration fraud on behalf of the GOP, too. I almost hope we’ll see more of this, as it’s the only way to get the press to pay serious attention to the issue . . . .

(My emphasis.)

The examples of the media being, as Card puts it, “the public relations machine of the Democratic Party” are nearly endless.

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See, I am seriously worried, even from this other side of the Atlantic, by certain facts about Barack Obama. He’s seen as a saintly, almost messianic figure, he who’ll change America into a better place, accepted as peer by the international community, where the power of the state will be used to redistribute wealth, and where all races – except those whites who don’t repent for the sins of their race – will proportionally share power, and the government will be your friend and help you from cradle to grave, even saving the fools from the consequences of their folly.

It looks more like a nightmare than a dream to me, even more so if I consider that America is today the only place left where a man can be minimally free in the true sense of the word (there are other places where life is good, but not as free). – Fabio, The Second Version: In Which I Occasionally Embrace Political Activism

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For years we have tolerated incompetence, corruption, dishonesty — and yes, greed — in government while looking the other way. On those rare occasions when politicians have made principled stands, we have rewarded them with a firestorm of political assault, full-throated media ridicule and criticism, and enormous financial pressure from lobbyists pouring money into the pockets of those who purport to represent the people. We have elected a government of the people, in the most literal and disgraceful sense: we have elected, and kept in office, those who share our desire for self-gratification and materialistic acquisition at the expense of character, moral integrity, honesty, and prudence. The cesspool which is our current Congress is what we have reaped by our own actions — or perhaps more accurately, by our inaction. We have elected those politicians who are like us in every way — and we hate them for it. They are, after all, created in our own image. – The Doctor is In, Surveying the Abyss

This was not the best quote from the piece, but it was one of the few capable of standing alone. Read the short essay in its entirety. Several times.

Tough History Coming, indeed.

H/t to Van der Leun.

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Has anyone actually seen Wayne LaPierre pull a trigger on any firearm?

A gunblogger who shall remain anonymous, asked of Ashley Varner at yesterday’s meet-n-greet/show-n-tell here at the Rendezvous.

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From someone who should know. . .

This is Mrs. Ly Chho, born of Chinese parents in Cambodia, raised and schooled in Taiwan, naturalized American citizen for fourteen years, and new NRA member, along with her husband who couldn’t make it with her to the NRA press conference yesterday evening because he had to work late.


Unfortunately, Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox were a bit late arriving, so the TV cameras left in the middle of their announcement in order to make the 6:30 news deadline, but (unsurprisingly) the NRA has officially endorsed McCain/Palin.

But that’s not, precisely, what this post is about.

After the announcement, Wayne and Chris took comments from the audience – mostly white people over the age of 40 (mostly well over) from what I could see – but this diminutive asian woman stood to ask her question and was recognized.

She asked, as best I can recall:

I am a new NRA member. I have been a citizen for only fourteen years. I believe in the Constitution and the Second Amendment, and when I see Obama, I see Communism, and I am afraid. I believe he is going to win the election. Do you have any plans in place if this happens?

Wayne LaPierre responded that we all have the blood of the patriots who threw the tea into Boston Harbor and stood on the bridge at Lexington and Concord in our veins (metaphorically speaking), and that the NRA would never rest, yada, yada, yada.

But that was a powerful statement from Mrs. Chho. I caught up to her to ask her about herself so that I could write this post. At the moment, the Chho’s do not own a firearm, but they are planning to get one as soon as they’ve gone through some NRA basic training. Mrs. Chho explained that she was educated in Taiwan, and had studied the U.S. Constitution, and had chosen to come to America and become a citizen because of that document. She loves and respects what America is, and Obama frightens her deeply.

And she should know.

Thank you, Mrs. Chho. You are another example of someone who is an American because she thinks she’s an American. It doesn’t matter what her ancestry is, or where she was born or where she was educated. She’s an American, and was one long before she made her citizenship oath.

Damned straight I’m a believer in American Exceptionalism.

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In honor of the now $800,000,000,000 bailout and other government takeover of the economy, a prophetic repeat from December 13, 2003:

I predict that the Bush administration will be seen by freedom-wishing Americans a generation or two hence as the hinge on the cell door locking up our freedom. When my children are my age, they will not be free in any recognizably traditional American meaning of the word. I’d tell them to emigrate, but there’s nowhere left to go. I am left with nauseating near-conviction that I am a member of the last generation in the history of the world that is minimally truly free.

Rev. Donald Sensing at Sense of Events: Bush Republicanism = Roosevelt Democratism?

Read Rev. Sensing’s whole piece. Consider the last nearly five years since that piece was written.

I wrote the Reverend yesterday morning asking him if, five years later on, his opinion had changed any.

Read his reply.