Left-wing Bias and the Facts

This last weekends news has been an eyeopener for many Americans. Left-wing bias and lunacy has gone viral on mainstream television and the internet. Many Americans that had been reluctant to embrace the Tea Party movement are now seeing first hand how rabid and flawed left-wing bias is.

The shooting of a sitting U.S. Congresswoman and the murder of a federal judge as well as the other victims, both dead and alive, have brought to the surface the Left's most sought after restrictions to personal freedoms in modern times, gun control, talk radio control, internet control and the destruction of Fox News, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Their arguments have met a lot of resistance from the right-wing and even mainstream Americans as the left has spewed its malevolent, hate-filled rhetoric. The nations airwaves are filled with blame for everyone on the right side of any issue but not the person who is allegedly responsible for this heinous act. The Left has been short on facts and long on talking-points. Here are just a few commonsense facts that the left-wing loons may have overlooked in their rush to judgment and desire to denigrate every ring-wing thought and smear every right-wing personality and politician in the process.

The United States of America is the most heavily citizen armed society in the world; and it is the freest. The countries that are the most authoritarian are places where their citizens have no rights, no guns and no freedoms as Americans know through their Bill-of-Rights. If the guns owned by Americans were distributed evenly inside our borders, nine out of every 10 Americans would own a legal weapon.

It took only one legally owned, semi-automatic weapon in the hands of one mentally disturbed man to extinguish 6 lives and change the lives of 13 more, forever. There are laws on the books in Arizona that should have prevented this man from purchasing the gun and ammunition in the first place as he was already know to law enforcement, yet he was never placed on any restricted list for the purchase of a weapon or ammunition.

How can guns be the problem in the face of that kind of evidence?

There are more than 2000 talk radio stations carrying some form of talk, 24 hours a day, in America. Free speech and talk radio are the cornerstone of freedom in our Republic in the 21st Century. The free exchange of ideas, political, sports or the wider communities of though are broadcast 24/7 all across the nation without incidents of mass murder because of the subjects being discussed on these programs.

There is NO evidence that the shooter ever listened to any form of talk radio. He was a “metal-head” and listened to demonic, heavy metal music from what the video evidence of him as the grim reaper, burning the American flag, with a heavy-metal soundtrack seemed to suggest.

So how can talk radio or the hosts on these shows be the cause of this man's insane act?

Fox News is the highest rated cable news network on television, pulling more viewers than all other cable news shows combined on most nights. They, unlike their competitors, consistently provide many points-of-view on all sides of whatever issue they are discussing and they don't feature as a headline personal attacks on the host of their competitor's shows. They have to do a lot of defense from the slings and arrows being thrown by the hosts of their cable networks competition such as CNBC, MSN, MSNBC, CNN and Headline News. And again, NO evidence that this self-described Anarchist and accused murderer ever watched television, let alone Fox News.

With so many words spoken across the airwaves in the 24 hour news cycle, how can Fox News be the problem?

As for the individuals the left-wing media apparatus is smearing, none is more hated by their ilk than Sarah Palin. The very fact that she is a woman who has carved out a place in the public arena while still being a wife, an unapologetic mother, an executive and politician gives the liberals fits. She doesn't fit their template of the successful woman.

Sarah is Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-God and she actually shoots and processes her own fish and game in a state where there are few grocery stores and people really do eat what they kill. She is a person so alien to the left's lifestyle that they can't fathom her presence on the planet let alone imagine her as President. In their view she must be destroyed, lied about, and by whatever means necessary, be prevented from ever being elected to the highest office in the land.

As for Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and their megaphone of TV and talk radio are an ever present danger to the Left. The Left has been trying for decades to get control of the airwaves through the fairness doctrine or any device which would silence their most hated critics.

How can Sarah, Rush or Glenn be the problem? They aren't.

There is so much blame being bandied about by the Left, it is mind boggling. They can't see the flaws in their machinations let alone be reasonable and use commonsense. I could list all the false statements by the Left's talking heads but it would take far longer than I wish to devote to this article. The Left's own President, Obama, has been guilty of some of the very speech the Left is complaining about. He is now trying to portray a himself as a more sensitive, thoughtful leader; doing and saying all the right things.

This I fear is a deception . A leopard can't so easily change its spots. In the next weeks and months I see him as the manipulator-in-chief who will begin to inflict serious damage on the U.S. Constitution. I hope I'm wrong but this President's history betrays his move to the middle. He is, after all, a committed leftist, a community activist and still trying to bring about the radical transformation of America. I pray that Americans are not fooled by his pretense. But the President is not responsible for this attack on the Congresswoman and the rest of the victims.

The person who pulled the trigger on that legally purchased weapon is ultimately responsible.

Don't let this demented man's insane act be used as an excuse to let this Administration take our freedoms away. Stand up for what you know is right, not right-wing, just right.