Here's the gratuitous "we're open minded" crap again ... making precisely my point for me. Supe, are you irony-proof? This is about the Left acting to suppress dissenting opinions through threats of lawsuits and injunctions!!! Yet it's only us "neocons" (an unimaginative pejorative label that doesn't exactly convey open-mindedness by its invoker) that are intolerant of dissenting opinions. Riiiiiiiight.
The point is that the RNC and the Administration took no steps to censor something like F9/11, fraught with lies and distortions, catalogued exhaustively elsewhere.
The DNC and the Kerry campaign have taken numerous steps this year to stifle free speech under the threat of lawsuits and injuctions. That's open minded to you? That's acceptance of dissenting opinions? Is Tenino, WA in Oceana b/c that is absolutely Orwellian.
And, yes, PBS and NPR are slanted and liberal, though if you define overt acts of censorship by the DNC and the Kerry Krew as "openminded" maybe you view "liberal" through an Orwellian filter too. Yes, many other news media are liberal and slanted -- the denials of media people invested in this myth of objectivity should be taken no more seriously than Big Tobacco executives insisting there's "no proof that cigarettes are harmful." Really, why would you defer so completely to the statements of interested parties about their prejudices? That's not a bright thing to do.
Just b/c they're slanted doesn't mean they're wrong, however. I didn't say that. Say what you gotta say and I'll evaluate it on its own merits, but don't come out of Left field (so to speak) all the while telling me yours is the middle of the road position. I won't trust the messenger at that point, so the message is tainted. Don't act like you're not pulling for one candidate when you so obviously are -- just come out and say it, get it off your chest and be honest about it. I can't fault someone for being honest and up front about their bias, but I certainly hold their lying to me against them.
And finally, I realize the point of the piece was subtle, but it was censorship by the DNC and the Kerry Kamp and trying to use the government to suppress individual opinion. I put it right in the title of the thread and everything. Seizing on a couple of gratuitous digs at PBS and the media,
obiter dictum, you've tried feebly to disintegrate the points involving the attempted censorship. Not a spectacular rhetorical technique.
A professor of mine, lamenting a particularly ... challenged ... student (not yours truly
) sighed and said "some people go for the jugular by instinct, others ... can never lose that instinct for the capillaries."
JP