Media Bias and the Pepper Spray Video
11-22-2011
- by Cynthia Tooredman, conservativeincalifornia.com
I haven’t really wanted to write anything about Occupy Wall Street because a) I was busy working at my primary job (somebody’s gotta contribute to the tax base to pay off the student loans of the OWS protestors) and b) the OWS people are tiresome.

However, most of the media are having their usual orgasm in response to any hint that law enforcement may have done something wrong and, also as usual, are reporting on the pepper-spraying incident at UC Davis with left-wing bias.



At the gym this morning, I was able to watch news broadcasts from CNN, KABC, and Fox News side-by-side. KABC aired the pepper-spraying video about every 4 minutes. To be fair, they reported on the mudslide in San Pedro just as often. Christina Salvo reported “The students sitting peacefully with their arms intertwined were protesting in support of the overall Occupy Wall Street movement.”

I just love leftist media bias. It’s so blatant. I never have to watch more than a couple of minutes of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, etc. to spot a bias. For this story, the adverb “peacefully” does not belong in a straight news story. One of the first things I learned in Journalism 101 was to leave the bias-revealing adverbs and adjectives to the op-ed writers.



KABC also had an exclusive from Linda Katehl, the UC Davis Chancellor who is being pressured to resign “amid the controversy.” (Can’t these reporters come up with a less hackneyed phrase?)

Her comments included a promise to investigate thoroughly—and the following statement: “We really need to start the healing process and move forward. There are so many things we need to learn about this horrible incident.”

I have news for you, OWS. This woman is on your side. Her mealy-mouthed call for “healing” is exactly what OWS people adore: blurring the lines between right and wrong so thoroughly that our kids barely know the difference any more. You might want to re-think your demands for her resignation.

It was clear from her comments that she thinks the “horribleness” of the situation was the officers’ reaction rather than the fact that this entitled group of brats were actually blocking a pathway and had most likely been ordered to disperse several times. Just a thought: at a Tea Party protest on the Mall in Washington, DC, the protestors were ordered by the DC police to leave pathways open. Nobody objected. Good thing, because several people needed to be evacuated for dehydration.

CNN also ran the story over and over again. You’d think nothing else is going on in the world. I would have chosen a different lead story, oh, let’s say the likely failure of the so-called Supercommittee to find 1.2 trillion in budget cuts. This is an issue that is going to affect these OWS protestors profoundly over the course of their lives. Assuming they ever get jobs, they are going to be paying crippling taxes to pay for all the debt we’re currently running up. The republicans on the committee don’t want to raise taxes. But the democrats do, thereby increasing the tax burden to those of us who are productive now but passing the largest part of that burden to the next generation.

Fox News covered the story, ran the same video feed, but the broadcast included no expression of sympathy for either the protestors or the police.



Like most conservatives, I tend to give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. This is unlike leftists, who tend to give the benefit of the doubt to anybody who hates America or wants to tear down its institutions. Want proof? Go ahead. Crap on a police car. The Left will love you for it.

by Cynthia Tooredman
Political Commentator and Owner of conservativeincalifornia.com

Tags:   Pepper Spray Video  sick of occupy wall street  

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