Ace summed up the painful hypocrisy found on the front cover of the latest issue of the The New Republic (TNR). The Left of center (I'm feeling generous, today) magazine whose staff has historically been all-white-all-the-time, found it necessary to run a lengthy story entitled, The Republicans, The Party of White People. 

Much like most of the news media, TNR is out of touch with working class Americans. People are losing purchasing power. Our government's incessant spending is slamming up against the concrete laws of economics and more Americans are suffering as a result. But to the editors at TNR, Hollywood's lack of gay sex scenes, the GOP's race problem and amnesty are all far more important stories. 

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Shortly after one of the worst snowstorms in history (I know, I know, it's "climate change" now, not "global warming"), the mainstream media is obsessing over the question of whether President Barack Obama will mention climate change in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. It's Politico's lead story, for example.

Hey, our economy just contracted and unemployment went up and debt ceiling sequester Benghazi spending Syria etc.--but let's talk about climate change. Because... because it flatters our liberal self-regard, that's why.

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There's a clever loaves and fishes trick going on with today's major anti-GOP narrative. It begins with a sequester story Politico published last night. The story opens with the splashy claim, "Republicans open to letting billions in sequester cuts go through figure they can blame the president if the economy goes south."

Notice they don't say how many Republicans are thinking this way. And after a long recounting of a DCCC press release we finally get to some Republicans who argue something quite different:

“Too often, some in Washington underestimate the knowledge base of the voters,” Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told POLITICO. “And from a Republican perspective, it’s a base that believes much more needs to be done to reduce the size and scope of the federal government because we can’t continue to borrow 43 cents on the dollar and survive.”

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Michelle Malkin has a nice rundown of the previous adventures of the Blame Righty Mob, which fell suddenly and universally silent when it was time to Blame Lefty for Chris Dorner.  Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was but the highest-profile killer they tried to pin on the Right:

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In addition to taking great care to avoid mentioning the political leanings of the L.A. madman, the media has also done a fine job of ignoring the latest late-term abortion death.  Whatever one's stance on the abortion issue, it's difficult to justify the level of media silence on this one, in any sort of rational and dispassionate terms.  Rest assured that if such an incident came from the offices of a conservative "hero" or "evangelist," we'd hear about it, and as part of a great "narrative," not as an isolated news tidbit.  Media bias has always been largely about which stories the press decides not to tell.

Also, I seem to recall hearing a few very loud lectures from Barack Obama and Joe Biden recently, in which it was asserted that if we can save just one life by banning something, it's worth a try.  

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In response to Nick Gillespie's brilliant insight about journalists' hypocrisy on drones:

I added a few thoughts about Gillespie's fine piece here.  (Special guest appearance by Ace, because I thought immediately of something he wrote the other day when I was reading Gillespie.)  I've always been fascinated by the intersection of left-wing politics and power worship.  It seems initially contradictory, because they talk so often of their appetite for individual "freedom," in areas they think judgmental conservative busybodies want to invade... but time and again, they fall head-over-heels for authoritarian rulers, and their domestic policy agenda is all about power and control.  

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In response to Meet the New Boss:

I think it's true that libertarians generally have been consistent in their criticisms of drone policy (and anti-terror policies in general). But so, too, have the so-called "neoconservatives"--folks like Charles Krauthammer and John Yoo, who have backed anti-terror policies and executive prerogatives in war even under Obama. 

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Who would've ever thought that someday I'd be paid actual real-live money to wake up every morning to ridicule, expose and go to war with the most hypocritical, dishonest, snobby, bigoted out-of-touch, provincial, mean-girl institution allowed to operate legally in America.

And the media makes my job so easy. The media's so consistently awful, there just aren't enough hours in the day to cover all the material.  

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