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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by George Neumayr
Eliminating guns is a separate goal from eliminating violence. The media
supports the former but opposes the latter. It routinely props up the
culture of death, guarding abortion with even more zeal than it condemns gun
rights. “We need to have a conversation about the killing of unborn
children,” is a line you will never hear from CNN’s Piers Morgan or
Soledad O’Brien.
The lamentations of posturing pro-abortion journalists over a coarsened
culture don’t count for much. Piers Morgan, when not hectoring the NRA, can
usually be seen interviewing actors and directors who have profited off the
corruption of children through demented depictions of violence. Will Piers
hereby resolve to cancel all bookings of violence-and-gore actors and
rappers? Will he ask the guard in front of the CNN building to disarm
unilaterally? Will he show the ultrasounds of “precious little” (a
favorite phrase of journalists in recent days) unborn children to stay the
scalpels of Planned Parenthood doctors?
No, the more commonplace violence of abortion leaves the media untroubled.
Journalists scoffed when Mother Teresa appeared at a D.C. prayer breakfast
in the 1990s to say that “any country that accepts abortion is not teaching
its people to love but to use any violence to get what it wants.”
The media likes to isolate evil, suggesting that it exists only on the
margins of society, while ignoring the violence at the center of it. As C.S.
Lewis said, violence sanctioned “in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-
lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and
smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices” poses the
greatest risk to civilization. The respectably violent often turn up at the
media’s cocktail parties: domestic terrorists from the 1960s, musicians
sprung from prison, partial-birth abortionists feted for their “bravery.”
Polite society will even turn children over to them. One of the most
influential figures over public education in the last few decades is a
radical who tried to blow up buildings, Bill Ayers. “Guilty as hell, free
as a bird,” he bragged of his crimes. From his perch as vice president for
curriculum of the American Education Research Association, Ayers determined
what public school teachers would learn at education schools. Violence in
the name of vague resentments — which is only slightly more
intellectualized than the thinking of lunatics recently in the news — is
the chief idea Ayers sought to advance. “I don’t regret setting bombs,”
Ayers said. “I feel we didn’t do enough.”
The self-righteous gasping over “unthinkable violence” is a little hard to
take from pols who blurb books by Ayers or from pundits who consistently
ignore the mass-murdering lunacy of radical Muslims. “If [Adam Lanza] had
had an Arab name, people would be going nuts about what we ought to do right
now,” claimed CBS’s Bob Schieffer. No, it is more likely that journalists
would be downplaying it. After the worst shooting on a U.S. military base
ever at Fort Hood by an open jihadist, they shrugged. They cautioned against
backlash and hasty prescriptions. Obama’s top brass appeared on their
shows to fret over the loss of “diversity” stricter policies in light of
the shooting might cause.
“We are the only country that regularly experiences horrors of this sort,”
harrumphed pundit E.J. Dionne. Never mind the steady stream of stories from
abroad in which children are blown up by suicide bombers. The proximity of
the shootings to the media center of New York City accounts for some of this
intense navel-gazing, making the spree more real and singular to
journalists than if it had occurred in the Middle East or even the Midwest.
Dionne’s insular comment also fits with the media’s agenda here, which is
to advance the idea that America is a peculiarly misgoverned country in need
of a good gun sweep.
The media’s proposed solutions are always collective and federal, not
individual and local. Rousseau’s idea that evil comes not from the human
heart but from a poorly designed society has been much in evidence in the
media’s pontifications. Panelists nodded vigorously on Meet the Press as
Tom Ridge said that no one is born bad but only becomes bad as a consequence
of collective failings.
In a less de-Christianized society, at least one of the panelists might have
noticed that he had just repudiated the foundational idea of original sin.
Don’t expect any “conversations” on that subject. |
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