Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Your “librul” media hard at work
A couple of quick items for your perusal here. First, there was this AP article profiling environmental activist John Francis, who famously stopped speaking for 17 years in protest over the Slixxon-Valdezification of San Francisco Bay in 1971. For the most part, the article is an interesting read, detailing how, as a teaching assistant while seeking his Master’s Degree from the University of Montana during his "silent period," he developed his own personal sign language to teach the undergrads, and, after breaking his silence in 1990, defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin. Unfortunately, the article also includes this piece of crap when talking about the event that sparked his silent protest:
Francis arrived in the hippie hot zone of Marin County in 1969 after growing up in Philadelphia. After two oil tankers collided beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in 1971, spilling black crude across San Francisco Bay, Francis decided to give up cars. Then, he stopped talking.
Because we all know that all environmentalists are really whacked-out ELF/ALF-types.
Meanwhile, CNN hands White House correspondant Suzanne Malveaux the “I Hate Democrats” stick, which she gleefully applies to liberals’ heads. Again and again and again.
Just another day at the office for your “treasonous, America-hating librul media.”
UPDATE: It appears that the “I Hate Democrats” stick has been passed on to the Washington Post, and from there on to Bill Kristol, both of whom apply it with as much eagerness as Malveaux.
