Sometimes it’s a little tricky to find things to write about with this administration. Namely, things don’t seem to change. Bush’s SOTU warmup was today, and in incredibly typical Bush fair he spent the bulk of it dodging any question he didn’t like. Ask him about the pictures with Abramoff and he talks about how he takes lots of pictures so it doesn’t mean anything. Ask him about meetings with Abramoff regardless of pictures and he talks about how he takes lots of pictures so it doesn’t mean anything.
So I’ll move to something else. I really wish I knew where the liberal media was. I can’t seem to find it. I just get Wolf Blitzer and Katie Couric trying to insist that Democrats were involved with the Abramoff scandal, repetition over and over of Rove and Gonzales saying Clinton did illegal searches, and Hillary’s “plantation” quip on near loop. Then we find Matthews and Fucker, er… Tucker Carlson babbling over and over how Osama is taking notes from Democrats (because clearly a comprehensive list of Bush failures means democrats). As I sit here I get to listen to Matthews asking if the Filibuster idea of Alito is useless while Pat Buchanan laughs at any suggestion otherwise.
In a recent episode of Scarborough Country, there was a story about liberal professors, with our friends the Bruin Alumni Association on one side (represented by Ben Shapiro, the author of Brainwashed) and Brian Wilson from the UCLA department of film and telivision offering the two sides of the issue. Near the end, the conversation quickly turned to an attack on the professor for his own beliefs. The show ended in this manner:
SCARBOROUGH: That‘s not what we are talking about. We‘re talking about bias on college campuses. You say you don‘t know if there is bias on college campuses. I‘m asking you, if you had to place that bet, straight-faced test, as my law professor in torts once told me, would you bet for—put your moneyon John Kerry or George W. Bush?
WALTER: The fact that there‘s a preponderance of Democrats does not mean that there‘s a political bias and a propagandization of students in the way
that is described by Mr. Shapiro.
(CROSSTALK)
SCARBOROUGH: Richard, let me help you, buddy. Let me help you, buddy.
(LAUGHTER)
SCARBOROUGH: Take all your chips and pile it up on Kerry, and you will make a lot of money.
No matter how much Walter tried, Scarborough and this 21 year old self-important ass would stomp all over him. They refused to let him get the point across that, you know what, it’s pretty easy for a lot of democrats to be the professors but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a liberal bias IN THE CLASSROOM. In fact, immediately prefacing Scarborough’s “question” about voting, Wilson had this to say:
Most everybody that I know and that I know of at UCLA and in every college, and I know lots of people at lots of colleges, do what I try to do, which is to air all sides of the issues, to get students to speak for them—to think for themselves. Sometimes, I will embrace a point of view that I don‘t even agree with, simply to provoke students into thinking for themselves. That‘s our job. And that‘s what we do responsibly.
But that means nothing to these guys. All that matters is who the professors vote for, not what they teach in the classroom.
Damn liberal media!
