Sound too incredible to be true? Unfortunately it is true. It's not only true of the incredibly biased media, but it is becoming true of our schools as well--and it doesn't stop there. Political Correctness, another liberal tactic to force the Mindset of the Left upon the public, is sweeping the nation like a disease.

This is the first in a series of articles examining liberal attempts to brainwash the people of this nation. In this, the prelude installment, we will start with some brief examples of media bias. Fortunately, this aspect of the left's strategy is becoming widely recognized.

The Media

A poll last year by Brill's Content magazine shows 74% of Republicans believe the media tilt to the left and that even 47% of Democrats agreed. What makes things even more interesting is that members of the media are coming out and admitting it -- and not just Bernard Goldberg (author of Biased) either:

Eric Burns of FOXNews writes:

Do I believe there is a liberal bias at the three major networks? Yes, but it is more than just an opinion.

I used to work for NBC. Several years after leaving, I found myself hosting a series of cable programs which were being produced by one of the most highly-esteemed figures in the history of TV news, a man who had recently left his own position at ABC.

A major story had just broken. I was to comment on it. As I sat down to write, he stood at my shoulder and told me what to write. Not like a boss giving orders to a subordinate, but like a fellow chatting with a colleague of like mind, members of the same club. He just assumed I had the same views that he did. He was wrong.

But did he discuss the matter with me? Did he want to reach some kind of consensus that incorporated both of our views, and perhaps others? He did not.

When I told him I did not agree with him, he looked at me as if I were kidding, and then, more appalled, as if I were serious. He told me to get up: he would write the commentary. I said fine; you can deliver the damn thing, too.

The liberals love to throw statistics at us to convince us of just how urgent their cause is. Their claims have little merit because, as we have discovered, they often make up these figures or don't bother the check them out. For example:

"The gun lobby has been talking for 40 minutes. During that time, 40 people have died from the use of small arms and light weapons in this country. That figure. . . is further proof that this country is at war." -- "Million Mom March" spokeswoman Mary Leigh Blek criticizing the "gun lobby" defense of Americans' Second Amendment rights in testimony concerning the UN's conference on restricting "small arms." **Apparently Ms. Blek used the same calculator to count gun-related deaths as she does to count Million Mom marchers . . . According to the FBI, the actual figure for murders committed with firearms is 8,259 for the most recent year of record. . . --not one-per-minute (525,000), as Ms. Blek insists. Of those, about 50% are drug and gang related and 30% are suicides.

Courtesy of The Federalist

The following is a great example of a left slant combined with some very weak statistics to supposedly back it up, This tidbit was dug up by Neil Boortz:

"Well, Atlanta's WSB-TV (Channel 2) got around to reporting [a] "study" . . . I won't mention the name of the reporter-- she didn't write the copy, she just read it. Some fresh-out-of-college weekend news writer probably wrote the actual script. Fresh out of college and still under the insipid influence of the liberalism and political correctness that permeates university and college journalism schools.

Here's the script:--- straight from the teleprompter:

New this morning ...news about how the President may sleep at night. Researchers say Republicans are three times as likely to have nightmares as Democrats. A California dream researcher says that ruling is based on interviews with 56 people chosen at random across the country. The researchers believe left-wingers apparently sleep easier because they are more open to how things could be made better."

What? Someone talks to 56 people and we have a RULING? And all this time I thought that rulings came from courts! And this research tells us how President Bush may sleep? The implication is clear, obvious. Bush, being a Republican--Bush, being a right-winger doesn't sleep well at night because he's not open to how things could be made better. . . The media isn't biased. Yeah, right." --Neil Boortz

These few instances may not constitute a full blown attempt at brainwashing, but we have just touched on a few brief examples. In the upcoming installments of this series we will look more in depth at the media, the schools and at the spread of the infection otherwise known as political correctness.

--Foamy Dog

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