Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev.Wright

And since you're quoting the Washington Post:


The Washington Post Apologizes
Posted by John Rosenberg Jul 20th 2010 at 5:57

On Sunday the Washington Post ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, issued an interesting apology for his paper’s failure to write about the Department of Justice’s handling of the Philadelphia New Black Panther Party case.

After summarizing the case and the controversy over it, Alexander admitted,

“To be sure,” Alexander said, “ideology and party politics are at play,” although he seemed to be referring only to liberal bloggers, “Fox News and right-wing bloggers,” “Congressional Republicans,” Sarah Palin, etc. No admission, that is, of ideology or party politics at the Post.

To his credit, Alexander chastises the Post for not covering the controversy and concludes by telling his colleagues, “Better late than never. There’s plenty left to explore.” He even suggests some topics:

But is the Post really capable of providing neutral, objective “clarity” when it, or at least its ombudsman, seems so confused about colorblindness, the principle, that is so central to this controversy?

Eric Holder has been Attorney General for a year and a half, and “his department” has not been “colorblind in enforcing civil rights laws” for one day of that time. The Obama administration has nominated two Supreme Court justices and a slew of lower court judges all of whom oppose colorblindness, some of them vehemently. Indeed, one of them, Ninth Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu, even asserted once in a Los Angeles Times editorial that nothing in Brown v. Board of Education “establishes or suggests colorblindness as a legal principle.”

Obama made it clear before he was president that he opposes state initiatives, modeled on California’s 1996 Proposition 209, that would prohibit preferential treatment based on race, and his Dept. of Justice recently filed a brief in Texas supporting racial preferences not only in college admissions but in schools systems in general.

If the Washington Post has ever “nailed” the Obama administration in general or its Department of Justice in particular for their flagrant flouting of colorblindness, it must have used a super-quiet hammer and an invisible nail.

 

Good for you, atleast WP is not 'liberal media' anymore.

 

in your own article

Brian Jones, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said he disagreed with the study's conclusions but that it was difficult to offer a detailed critique, as the research had not yet been published and he could not review the methodology. He also questioned whether the researchers themselves had implicit biases -- against Republicans -- noting that Nosek and Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji had given campaign contributions to Democrats.

 

Racism, Right Wing extremism and the politics of white nostalgia:

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/racism-right-wing-rage-and-politics-white-nostalgia

A bit dated, perhaps, but nothing has really changed.

 

It's not complicated gadfly, we want to take our govt back away from the socialists/communists, race hustlers and the authoritarian inclined nanny state sycophants.

 

The case presented suggests that it is somewhat more "complicated" than that.

 

Well I guess it would pose a serious conundrum for someone who thinks there is a "bliss of ignorance" referenced in an oft misquoted poem.

:eek: