Saturday, November 07, 2009
"Rush Limbaugh And A Tale Of Two Soundbites"
The media coverage might be considered heavily biased if both sound bites were actually proven to have been said; BUT, only one can be proven.
Guess which one the media is highlighting?...
Guess which one the media is highlighting?...
This is part of a column by Mark Steyn on the Philadelphia Bulletin website:
"So if I understand correctly:
Rush Limbaugh is so 'divisive' that to get him fired leftie agitators have to invent racist soundbites to put in his mouth.
But the White House Communications Director is so un-divisive that she can be invited along to recommend Chairman Mao as a role model for America’s young.
From my unscientific survey, US school students are all but entirely unaware of Mao Tse-Tung, and the few that aren’t know him mainly as a T-shirt graphic or 'agrarian reformer'. What else did he do? Here, from Jonathan Fenby’s book Modern China, is the great man in a nutshell:
'Mao’s responsibility for the extinction of anywhere from 40 to 70 million lives brands him as a mass killer greater than Hitler or Stalin.'
Hey, that’s pretty impressive when they can’t get your big final-score death toll nailed down to within 30 million. "
