Although I find it somewhat tawdry to bellyache about the liberal media when they’re actually on the right track, since it happens so rarely, I sometimes find it annoying even when they are. So I’m not in high dudgeon here, It’s just that I found another incongruity and I’m exposing it.
As I’ve intimated over and over again at this web site with my ever so subtle nuance and innuendo, the liberal media bears much of — or even most of — the blame for the shameless march toward liberal-leftism; toward the so-called “progressive”; and for that drip-by-drip Fabian socialist morass that they, the liberal media themselves, have fostered over the years by way of, well, every page of their journals and every minute of their broadcasts.
And then suddenly they have these minor epiphanies wherein they seem almost surprised that things are going exactly the way they’ve pushed them, and it ain’t all happiness and light. Usually their rage ignites when something possibly limiting their sexual escapades or costing them after-tax cash is involved.
A good case in point is the article covering this week’s Maclean’s magazine [see my blog entry] in which they suddenly discover, after years of liberals like them practically promoting that yummy promiscuity and lewd and lascivious behavior (and that’s just amongst the gay crowd, especially as they promote and sponsor the depraved “gay pride” weeks across the U.S. and Canada), and years of practically promoting carefree (“safe”, yet) sex among younger and younger kids (and then also free limitless abortions for all!), that alas, the teen pregnancy rate is way up. Golly, Mizzz Molly, who’da thunk it?
The liberal media maintain this pretense of surprise when they mention how, lo and behold, the divorce rate is sky-high; good, traditional families are breaking down; and the number of abortions in the U.S this year is a sickening 1.2 million babies. They manifest this surprise mostly by never talking about it or printing any stories about it or calling folks like me “extremists” if we do.
And then just to enable themselves to claim “balance”, they occasionally try to assert their groundedness by writing a smart little editorial or including the singular views of one lonely conservative chap in their Op/Ed pages or in a short TV interview (in which we are all warned beyond a shadow of doubt that the view comes from a “conservative” or a “right-wing” or “right-leaning” vantage point). When crunch-time comes, they point directly to that article or interview, and claim “balance”.
One almost has to take it as a joke.
Lead editorial in The Province this morning:
(My emphasis and notes in brackets)
Planned carbon tax endangers B.C.‘s fragile economy
It should by now be clear to everyone that, despite the rosy projections of some politicians, B.C.‘s economy faces a rough ride this year, due mainly to troubles south of the border.
[The “main trouble” couldn’t possible be our abject, near-total reliance on the great “evil” Americans, and failure to, after more than a century, create a more self-sufficient economy, then, huh?]
[…]
And we are forced to wonder whether Premier Gordon Campbell
[they forgot to mention the politics: liberal]
has grasped the gravity of the situation.
[They wonder whether HE has?]
There are indications that he has instructed [finance minister] Taylor, in next month’s provincial budget, to impose a hefty carbon tax as a means of combatting global climate change.
This would apply to the production and consumption of the fossil fuels that run our cars and heat our homes.
One way or another, it would hit consumers in the pocketbook, despite suggestions that higher levies on gasoline might somehow be “offset.” The premier, though, seems to be persuaded that such a tax will burnish his government’s “green” credentials.
That could mean hardship for many B.C families in the name of a supposed environmental “crisis” whose impact is neither fully understood nor universally accepted.
[Where the hell have you been? Certainly not reading PTBC!]
To launch a carbon tax now in the face of a potential recession would be foolhardy. Those gouged by it would be forced to cut spending on other goods and services, aggravating the slowdown and triggering further unemployment.
[I see. So if they’d launched it two years ago, you’d be calling for it to be rescinded now. Yeah. Sure. Rescind a tax. Who do you think you are? George Bush?]
What is needed now is not pie-in-the-sky idealism, but practical strategies to deal with pressing economic realities, including the severe downtown in our province’s largest industry.
It’s time Campbell and Co. stopped flying around in the clouds and got back down to earth.
[You see? They’re ever so grounded and balanced!]
You’d think they were “deniers” (note that we didn’t come up with that word, they on the liberal-left did) all this time. But all you have to do is wait until Monday to find you’re wrong.
Here’s another article in their paper today, written by one of their crack staff reporters, who obviously had absolutely no critical questions to ask in covering this news story (she’s one of the folks who thinks that our North Korean-style health care system is “free”):
Early-childhood education gets thumbs-up
B.C. invests $5 million in drop-in program
Cheryl Chan, The Province
Published: Sunday, January 20, 2008A free drop-in early-learning program for B.C. pre-schoolers is proving popular with parents and early-childhood educators.
A StrongStart B.C. centre at Cougar Creek Elementary School officially opened Friday, but has registered 75 kids since informally opening its doors last August.
“It’s getting quite popular,” said program facilitator Japinder Kaur. “We have regulars who attend every day and they’re really enjoying it.” On weekdays, anywhere from 18 to 30 children, aged three to five, attend the three-hour classes with a parent or caregiver as Kaur leads the kids through activities such as storytelling, music and art.
The location of the StrongStart centres in elementary schools helps prepare kids for regular school.
“They get used to the school environment. They learn how to walk through the hallways, follow rules, use the school gym and library,” said Kaur.
And parents like the program because it’s free, she added.
The province is spending $5 million on StrongStart B.C. in a bid to improve child literacy.
There are already about 80 centres up and running across the province.
The StrongStart program means B.C. is finally catching up to Ontario and Quebec in terms of policy on early-childhood education, said University of B.C. early-education expert Iris Berger.
“Early-childhood centres create a unique environment that supports and celebrates childhood culture,” said Berger. “[It] promotes thinking and encourages children to interact with each other.” Most experts believe that educational experiences are beneficial for young children and their families.
Dear God.
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