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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Pro Family == Pro Guns
The Family Research Council has very little to do with families or research. It's a pro-life, anti-gay rights organization that will align itself with anyone who will help Republicans get elected. Enter the NRA in yesterday's Washington Update:
The White House press corps spent the bulk of a 41-minute session with Presidential Press Secretary Scott McClellan peppering him with hostile questions about Vice President Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner in Texas last weekend. "Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras," yelled NBC's David Gregory. "Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question," Gregory roared. McClellan had simply been trying to get Gregory and his hotshot colleagues to wait until the cameras stopped rolling. Gregory was the reporter who went on national television several years back and asked the President of France a question in French while President Bush--who speaks Spanish--stood by waiting for a translation. Que bueno--how good, or how clever of you--President Bush shot back at the time. Today's Washington Post "Style" section is printed with buckshot holes all over the front page and inside. Que bueno. With the country at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Iran arming with nuclear weapons, with serious issues confronting us at home, the liberal media and their Capitol Hill cohorts are obsessed with what is--in essence--a very trivial story. They are filling their "news holes" with nonsense. Remember how these same reporters fell all over themselves to show Presidential candidate John Kerry hunting in Ohio in October, '04? Then, they wanted us to think that they really were for hunting; it was just those "Saturday Night Specials" they wanted to ban. The reaction of the liberal talking heads confirms what Americans have long known: They hate guns and the people who own them
The press isn't upset because the Veep shot a man -- the press is upset because the Veep didn't tell them about it. The hand-fed Washington press corps believes it is entitled to be given stories. When the White House violates that relationship by throwing an outside-the-beltway paper a bone, the insiders get mad.
It comes to this in FRC-world. Asking questions is liberal. Liberal is bad. Reporters are bad liberals.
For those unfamiliar with the Bush-Gregory exchange, here are a couple of accounts. Accuracy in Media:
President Bush's exchange with NBC News correspondent David Gregory over anti-American protests in Europe attracted widespread attention. Bush ridiculed the reporter, who asked Bush a question about the protests and then tried to ask French President Chirac a question in French. "The guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he's intercontinental," said Bush. "Sir, if I could just follow," the reporter began. "Thank you," Bush shot back, as he answered the questions and then silenced Gregory. As Bush stepped away from the podium, he called to Gregory. "As soon as you get in front of a camera, you start showing off."
CNN transcript:
DAVID GREGORY, NBC NEWS: But I wonder why it is you think there is strong -- such strong sentiments in Europe against you and against this administration, why particularly those of you that you and your administration are trying to impose America's will on the rest of the world, particularly when it comes to the Middle East and where the war on terrorism goes next?
(through translator): Mr. President, would you maybe comment on that?
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There's four words and he plays like he's intercontinental.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
BUSH: Yes, I'm impressed. (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Now I'm literate in two languages.
Gregory, then, paid Chirac the courtesy of asking a question in his native language, and Bush behaved badly. And that's Gregory's fault. Asking questions is liberal. Liberals are bad. Protect me, Daddy Bush!
