The best thing about Iraq is that we have learned a lot about the kind of people who broadcast news. We sense joy from many professional newscasters when American troops are killed. We sense impending doom when American troops make gains on the ground.
It’s part of a pattern. The other side thinks news is good when those closer to God do something bad or something bad happens to them.
When a priest, minister, or rabbi, for instance, is accused of wrongdoing, the news spreads with blinding speed from local to national news. When a public school teacher does the same thing, news is limited, unless she’s remarkably photogenic or gets teen-age lover(s) to murder a spouse.
When Israelis are accused of blowing up a Red Cross ambulance, outrage comes from every network. When a Red Cross ambulance is blown up in Darfur, by Islamists, there is no news.
When minorities rape a Caucasian girl, little, if any news is allowed to be broadcast. If utterly fabricated happenings (Twana Brawley, Duke Lacrosse Team) involve sexual misconduct involving white men against minority women, lots of news.
If Wal-Mart opens a store in a minority neighborhood and supplies 300 jobs, bad news. If a business in that same area is driven out by excessive taxation/regulation, losing 300 jobs, no news.
It’s never news when Castro murders and tortures political prisoners. If, a few miles away, vastly better-treated prisoners in air-conditioned cells allege maltreatment, why, the news is full of it.
If extremists crash American airplanes full of American citizens into American buildings full of Americans, news about it quickly disappears. Excuses are made for those responsible.
If Americans carry the battle directly or indirectly toward those responsible for the disaster, the news is overwhelmingly bad.
Why? There is something in the liberal breed that hates both truth and improvement. The same person who will worry mightily about the ozone hole will not concern himself about the failures and waste in public education.
Oddly, this sad breed who strains out gnats and swallows camels is trapped in a strange perversion of Christianity. Their faith has two demands: one, that everyone but them turn the other cheek; two, that their priorities are the only important ones.
In short, liberals think that they are God. It is that profound violation of the First Commandment that allows them to ignore as many of the other Nine as they want.
