Note to McClatchy: Not All Moms Are Socialists
Posted January 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 PM by Jeff A. TaylorGet a load of the propaganda churned out by McClatchy’s DC bureau and which infests about one-quarter of the Uptown paper of record’s local newshole.
It is a profile of Amy Tiemann, a leftwing Chapel Hill social activist. The piece is so full of bromides — Euro-style welfare benefits are “family friendly” — it should be a PR release. But worst of all is the tone that suggets that Tiemann is some sort of superhero for — wait for it — having kids and staying politically active. The wonder of it all!
Me, I have no idea how anyone could have kids, be a primary caregiver to them, and not be politically active, not speak out about all the insane stuff our so-called leaders at all levels are doing to us and our kids each and everyday.
But Amy Tiemann is special — she wants to give those leaders more control over our lives, more socialized medicine, more government day care, and she raises money for John Edwards. By all means let’s blow 55 column inches of our Charlotte newshole on her.
McClatchy editors, an oxymoron.
Bonus Observation: Tiemann’s group is a 501c(4) organization with ties to the George Soros-funded Democracy In Action network.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Here’s all you need to know:
“We will have MomsRising members around the country showing up at their senators’ offices,” said the group’s co-founder, Joan Blades of Berkeley, Calif. “It’s a real reminder that they’ve got constituents, real people, that are counting on them to make this legislation pass.”
Joan Blades is one of the cofounders of MoveOn.org. In essence, MomsRising is nothing more than a version of MoveOn.org targeted at mothers who are willing to do stuff like dress their infants in politically-decorated clothing.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Euro-style welfare benefits are “family friendly”
Yeah. So family friendly that native European birth rates are now below replacement levels – in some countries (such as Greece & Italy) perhaps irretrievably.
The tenor of the piece isn’t all that surprising. One way in which many liberals are different from other political persuasions is that liberals are less likely to think of their political beliefs as, well, political. Rather, they’re cloaked in more decorous and apolitical language. Liberal political action is “social activism,” or working in the “public interest,” “progressivism,” “forward thinking,” or seeking to advance “(fill-in-the-blank) justice.” I think that it comes, in part, from there being so many institutions where liberalism is the prevailing ethos. If you attended a major university, regularly partake of U.S. media and pop culture, attend religious services in a mainline protestant denomination, and work at a Fortune 500 company, there’s a lot of cultural momentum towards making you see certain liberal causes as simply what reasonable people are supposed to believe.
Witness the glorious failure of the Air America network. The network came about because some liberals believed that there wasn’t a liberal counterweight to conservative talk radio. The problem is, there is – it’s NPR. But NPR doles out its political ideology the way most liberals like it – not ranting advocacy a la Limbaugh or Boortz, but as a confidently assumed premise and part of a broader enlightened lifestyle.
I comfortably assume that most of the staffers at the Observer would fall into this to one degree or another.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:44 am
The Observer is struggling to find ways to survive, but it doesn’t occur to them that conservatives recocognize propaganda, and won’t pay for their “newspaper”.
With the Internet, conservatives can find the truth on all issues, that one pursues.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
My wife’s Danish relatives visit the US with full suitcases, donate all their clothes to goodwill or the salvation army, then buy new clothes to take back because the VAT and other taxes are so high that they get more clothes for the same price over here.
The Europeans are so crazy for money they’ve forced Linden Labs to charge VAT for goods bought in the Second Life Metaverse if the Avatar is European living in the EU. Its crazy.