RSSTwo Stories, Too Little Press
Gene Lalor | March 20, 2010
Every news story does not see the light of day or its day in print or on air.
That journalistic reality goes beyond the news axiom of, “Dog bites man, not news; man bites dog, news!” to a newspaper’s or network’s philosophical beliefs and editorial policies. Ideally, editorial opinions belong on the editorial page yet frequently make their way into editorialized news features.
Some stories never get beyond a reporter’s notes or laptop if they’re deemed not fit to print, as the New York Times’ slogan puts it. However, thanks to the new age of the internet, rare is the story that doesn’t get at least minimal publicity even if, or because, it is politically incorrect.
One such story is being widely condemned as outrageous and “off-target,” descriptions which should immediately raise red flags among thinking people indicating it’s true and very much on target.
Former NATO commander and senior officer, retired General John Sheehan of the Marine Corps was testifying in congress about the infamous 1995 Srebenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in that Bosnian town when Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI) attacked his testimony as being “off-target” because he had overstepped his bounds.
The precise subject of Sheehan’s remarks was woefully inappropriate and markedly politically incorrect chiefly because Levin didn’t want to hear that Dutch peacekeeping forces in Bosnia failed in their mission because the ranks of the peacekeepers were crawling with proud and outed homosexuals.
As the senate is grappling with a foregone conclusion, repeal of Clinton’s 1993 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays in the military, Sheehan was asked and told the truth, that being poorly-equipped and poorly-led were only two of the reasons the Serbs were allowed to run roughshod over Srebenica. The other was the presence of massive numbers of homosexuals in the Dutch battalion.
Asked how he knew that, Sheehan under oath testified that the information had come to him directly from the former chief of staff of the Dutch army. Levin, Chairman of the Senate committee on Armed Services who was sitting on his ass in Washington during the massacre, knew better and denounced Gen. Sheehan’s testimony thereby effectively calling the former Marine a liar.
Unsurprisingly, a spokesman for the Dutch government also criticized the testimony as “complete nonsense:” http://bit.ly/dnewaJ
What’s nonsensical as well as rude was Levin, an individual who never served in our military, attacking the veracity of a retired general purely in the interests of placating his homosexual constituency and repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
A second story is equally unsettling although dealing with a totally different subject.
Hidden in the bowels of the massive, 1018 page senate Obamacare bill about to be voted on, or not voted on, by Nancy Pelosi’s minions is a tiny, little feature endorsing racial discrimination.
On page 879, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to discriminaate “in awarding grants or contracts under this section . . . [and] shall give preferences to entities that have a demonstrated record of . . . training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds.”
Translation: Whites, even poor Whites, need not apply.
Preference for Blacks and Latinos, for example, to nursing, medical, and dental schools, will become the law of Obamaland under Obamacare. The errant rationale is that disproportionately poor health among Blacks is due to racism and not attributable to lifestyle and other factors.
That flaw in our society is supposed to be remedied by the senate health bill.
The United States Commission on Civil Rights, however, doesn’t think so. The commissioners said, “Racial preferences in the Senate Health Care Bill, in addition to being unconstitutional, will not improve health care outcomes for minority patients.”
Besides, I would add, isn’t this supposed to be a health care bill and not a civil rights bill?
Joe Hicks, a California advisor to that civil rights commission, concludes his observations by writing, “Some say that life is a game of winners and losers. This might be true, but we shouldn’t allow Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid to pick the people who win or lose just because of skin color or their last name:” http://bit.ly/9yenqa
Good point, Joe. Another good point is, Why won’t anyone hear anything about it or about Dutch gays allowing a massacre to happen?
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