It’s more than just Fox Noise
This post may contain viewpoints offensive to readers. If you become easily riled with positions other than your own, you may want to stop right here…
I’ve always been a huge fan of Keith Olberman, he combines a quest for the truth in the news with some humor, and of course a view point similar to my own. Usually I watch his show, learn about what’s going on the world, and get my jollies at the expense of guys like Limbaugh and O’Reilly. That said, two nights ago’s show was something extra.
The number one story was the murder of George Tiller, the abortion performing doctor who was murdered a few days ago. He was brought to court a while back on performing a late term abortion where he was found not-guilty. Following the result, the right wing news unloaded waves and waves of hate upon the doctor, saying he should “burn in hell”, that someone should “do something” about this guy, and more. Needless to say, he was shot and murdered in his church a few days ago. Am I solely blaming Fox News for this? Of course not. They spew hate about lots of people, and most of them don’t wind up dead (Bernard Goldberg’s book aside), but they fuel an anger and a hatred which were it coming from the left would be considered a dangerous revolutionary force. Look it up, watch some of the awful things Fox said about this guy, both before and after his murder. It’s terrible. They say he was as bad as Hitler and Stalin! Olberman goes on to discuss how he’s done making fun of O’Reilly. It’s more than that now. It’s not just that he’s some lying clown, it’s that he’s really a bad person, committing bad deeds, and deceiving the world. If he just spewed hateful opinion it would be one thing (in fact, there should be lots of opinions on the news I disagree with), but he is a dangerous man with an enormous following who lies about the actual facts of the news. Olberman goes on to discuss how we need to nationally boycott O’Reilly and Fox News. It’s not censoring him; it’s using the free market which he just loves against him. Anyway, check out the Countdown, it was a really good one.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677#31053544
Back to the story-
In the end, this is terrorism. It’s right here in the U.S. and no, it’s not committed by Islam. It’s committed by good ol’ white Christian Americans under the guise of being “pro-life”. This wasn’t just about killing one man; it was about scaring the rest of the pro-choice world that it is dangerous to support a woman’s right to choose. The term “pro-life” really bothers me. It sounds so nice, who isn’t pro-life? I mean, Hitler clearly wasn’t! Maybe Old Man Death isn’t? The truth is, 95%ish of pro-life people aren’t pro-life. They’re just anti-rights. If you were really pro-life, you’d support health care, you’d support shelters, you’d support adoption agencies, and the host of other issues which ya know, support “life”. It’d be one thing if these folks who oppose legalized abortion supported all of those things. I might, and I just mean might, not would, be more ok with their view, but they almost never do. No male has any right to tell a woman what to do with their body. We just don’t have the physical capability to understand their potential situation. We just don’t. Backing up a step though, the abortion debate is only one battle in the overall right wing war on sex dating back fifty+ years. When Meghan McCain was on The Colbert Report a few weeks back she discussed the current state of the Republican Party among other things, and said she was “pro-sex”, which caused somewhat of a stir and she later apologized and said she went a little too far. She was laughing a bit in the process, and Colbert even broke character a bit, but the reality is that she was far closer to the truth than the jovial tone let on. Much of Conservative social agenda is built around sexuality in some fashion: anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, abstinence only sex-ed, formerly anti-interracial marriage, and more.
The question then become the why. Is it that they actually follow the bible by word and that they are just supporting the word of god (bet they hate shellfish too!)? Is it that they want to wake up back in the early 1950s with Dwight D at the helm with the two kids in white suburbia again? Or is there something even more sinister?
Or do they even really care about these social issues, and they just know it’s something to rally the troops while they get their real agenda going behind the scenes?
I’d wager one of the last two, but what do I know, I’m just a liberal 