Liberal mainstream media make a hard turn to the right and elude their conservative media-stalkers.
Dateline NBC - To Catch a Predator series starring new right-wing law and order poster boy, Chris Hansen. In the olde days the liberal msm would have had a problem with the commonly used police tactic of entrapment and liberals in general focused more on the criminal and his rights, if a legal technicality sprung him early on society to prey again so be it. To go after Michael Dukakis' weekend furlough program was deemed impolitic and uncivil and the famous Willie Horton ads were evidence of conservatives' inherent racism, now the new real-life crime shows like 48 Hours Mystery and Dateline highlight the evident failings of our criminal justice system and the insufficiency of our current laws to protect crime victims, Chris Hansen could probably pen the next law and order platform at the next big Republican convention in '08. On the last episode of Internet Predators they nailed a cancer-research specialist, a head of some medical affairs division at a large pharmaceutical company and they showed everything from his interrogation at the hands of a web detective to his painful phone call to his wife, "honey, you have to bail me out, it was a sting operation, I didn't do anything but I did do something stupid." Your life marriage and career have been destroyed in front of a national TV audience, tough shit buddy, that's the way the cookie crumbles pal. OK, so a prosecutor caught in the Internet sting killed himself, it's all in a day's work and society is better off without him. When it comes to issues of crime and punishment methinks many members of the liberal msm secretly vote Republican and have the Dirty Harry box set in their DVD collections.
Of course the Ole Gray Lady, the New York Times herself, is still way out there in the wild blue yonder, beyond being liberal, in some radical stratosphere of their own deranged thinking, defending people like notorious late-term Kansas abortionist George Tiller. Bill O'Reilly recently wrote about this Doctor of Death and the Times' defense of him. I can no longer stomach reading their editorials, they thought Bush's recent very pro-illegal immigration speech was pandering to his extreme right-wing base for cryin' out loud, and so I rely on what others who have stronger stomachs than mine have to say about Times' editorials. I prefer not to read them and so ruin my day, you have to go to work with a clear head and save masturbation of the mind for another day.
The Life Legal Defense Fund is now taking the Ohio chapter of Planned Parenthood to court because they allege they helped a 21 year old male statutory rapist elude the police when he impregnated a girl much younger than him and of course PP did the requisite abortion without telling anyone. LLDF claims there are many such cases that could be made against PP and that protecting statutory rapists by aborting their unborn offspring is standard operating procedure for them and LLDF further says that if this massive scandal of the abortion industry ever came to light it would wipe out PP overnight. Chris Hansen, anyone wanna run with this? The New York Times is out to lunch. People who masturbate your mind
I'm not saying the Chris Hansen series is a bad thing, quite the contrary. I'm usually against entrapment when it comes to adult prostitution let's say but in the Dateline series if they weren't being lured by decoys they'd be going after your kid or mine. I'm just saying maybe parts of the msm are becoming less liberal at least when it comes to issues of crime and law and order, it's an interesting development, and maybe liberalism is going the way of the dinosaurs.
ReplyDelete.....although the Dateline show does make me vaguely uncomfortable of late, maybe they're taking it too far and you don't see many women predators on these shows, they get the full Matt Lauer treatment instead, Debra LaFave may have splinters in the windmills of her mind but as Matt said you're gosh darn pretty or something to that effect.....
ReplyDeleteI sympathize more than a little with the liberal line on this, what if any one of these adults is later found innocent in a court of law will Dateline devote as much airtime to this development? The libs often protest don't try people in the court of public opinion and so maybe it's a good thing we have this conservative/liberal tension, this right/left thing, we can keep each other in balance and remind each other of what matters most.
ReplyDeleteRighties get overly dramatic at times. I worked with a rightie at work and he said if he was in a room full of these people and he had a machine gun he'd have no problem letting go and he also feels the death penalty should be expanded to include rapists. I find all of these crimes against women and children to be most vile but let's stop the hyperbolics already!