Thursday, November 09, 2006

It's a great day for us libs!

I got an email from a good friend of mine, wondering what happened this week. The best I can say is... I sure am glad I am now a liberal. We won. We completely ignored the facts, analyzed our emotions, pled our emotional causes, and have now received validation.

We were very successful in convincing people to vote on emotion in complete ignorance of the facts. For example, the largest deciding factor for most of us was the war in Iraq. We don't like the way it is going. So we voted for a Democrat who also doesn't like the way it is going. Interestingly enough, George Snuffalufagus said, on ABC this morning, that there is admittedly very little that Congress can do to affect the way the war is going. That is the president's job.

Ignore the facts, vote on emotion.

You should try it.

It is very liberating.

Speaking of the President (I mean "Mr. Bush"), it sure was kind of him to wait until after the election to change out Rummy. Heaven only knows how many of these elections would have gone to the evile Republicans if he had only made the switch last month! Thanks, George! We owe you one.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

What is irony?

Interestingly enough, just after my original letter concerning bias in the school paper, this story was printed on the front page of the Arkansas Traveler (U of A school paper).

Headline: Kimple Hall is falling down
(Kimple Hall is the home of the journalism department... and the Arkansas Traveler)

Exerpts from the story:
"The journalism department might be headed for a crack-up - literally. Some offices in the journalism department are sinking because the grade of the slab on which that part of the building is based has settled, said Bob Beeler, associate director for design and construction. Officials with UA Facilities Management have known about the sinking for three months, and have tried to measure its progress by putting motion-monitoring devices on the cracks that have appeared in Kimpel, Beeler said. The movement stopped momentarily, and then began again three weeks ago, he said."We know it is a problem and we are on course to fix that," he said."

"The sinking could be caused by a dry summer, he said. A lack of moisture could have affected the soil on which the building is based."

The journalism department is sinking.
The foundation is crumbling.


Oh, the irony...

Stirring up the Ark

Well, my letter got printed in the Arkansas Traveler, and the response has been wonderful. One insightful writer, a former journalist, went off on me because she is being stripped of her rights and doesn't know it (or I don't know it, or somebody in Iraq doesn't know it?)? Yeah, figure that one. Another assumed that because I don't like media bias, I don't know much about the war in Iraq, and neither does anyone who else who watches Fox News. (I just wish I could get Fox News.) And then there was Mr. Sturtevant, an Education graduate, who finally got to me. His wisdom and insight left me to ponder things about myself, and I realized that I just think too much. I learned that I have led a sheltered and insulated life. So, after much reflection, and lots of Cutsie Curic, I decided I needed to publicly recognize Mr. Sturtevant's contributions to my life.

Liberal letter enlightens (How do you like that headline?)

Please thank Mr. Sturtevant for bringing to light my unfortunate disposition toward being easily misled. Having reflected upon this personal fault, I am now a changed man. There is no bias in the media. Rove's comments were properly sandwiched between arguments against the administration, and under a headline, which clearly and properly colored his visit and comments in shrouds of protest. I can ignore that such treatment was not given to any of the many stories reporting on activities promoting the illustrious left (e.g., Judge Griffen's story, or the Oct. 9 story regarding the former CIA agent promoting Bush lied to us.)

I can accept that Bush lied to us, even though this greatly distorts the definition of "lie." I can ignore the actual fact that my president acted on faulty intelligence, and patterns of behavior and threats made by Hussein.

Judge Griffen correctly stated that no one invited us to depose Saddam. I can simply ignore the fact that thousands of dissidents had been begging us for years to do just that.

People of faith have no business expressing their moral opinions. Pointing out to another where one thinks that person has gone astray from moral virtue, standing up to protect society from what one considers to be deviant behavior, and defending what one perceives to be morally right is intolerance, and should not be tolerated in our society!

The loss of 2,809 soldiers in a three and a half year war to defend me from terrorists, and the world from madmen who killed hundreds of thousands of people and threatened to use weapons of mass destruction to destroy me and my way of life is too high a price; and not contrasting it to the number of soldiers killed in previous wars does not misguide or mislead people. This number should be placed in front of me at all times so that I might feel the guilt.

Finally, I am convinced that when my school paper speaks to issues outside of campus, it should be to reform those misled conservatives. Leave fair and balanced to Fox News. I should have been more supportive of my fees going to support liberal campaign material.

Again, thank you, Mr. Sturtevant. You have changed my life. By simply ignoring the facts, I shall no longer be misled.

Sam Eastman
Graduate Student
Law

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