Inquirer Pours On The Bias

The Philadelphia Inquirer has always been biased but took great pains to conceal that. Today, they've given up any pretense in the Currents section, the Sunday opinion pages.

Check this out, these are what appears in Currents today:

U.S. In The Time Of Empire written by a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute that discusses America's new imperialism and how we are rotting from within. As you can note by reading the essay, it contains such liberal tenets as:

The most damning indicators of national decline are upon us. We have watched an oligarchy rise to take economic and political power. The top 1 percent of the population has amassed more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined, creating economic disparities unseen since the Depression...

That has all the lefty buzzwords, "oligarchy," "top 1 percent" and "economic disparities." It includes everything but fascist but the author has a new book coming out in which he compares the Christian right to fascists so he must have just forgotten.

Next we have the solipsistic one, Trudy Rubin, espousing her usual pessimism about Condoleeza Rice's meetings to move the Palestinian/Israeli issue along. Believe me, when it was Madeline Allbright or Bill Clinton meeting to solve the issues, Rubin wrote with a completely different tone, one of optimism and the great appeal of Bill Clinton. In this she says it all in one paragraph:

If Annapolis does nothing but pay lip service to the road map, the conference will be viewed as a sham. Much more is needed to inject a note of hope into an atmosphere of fear.

It's not only the editorial writers who get in on the act, it's the editorial and they have two pieces that leave one agape at the blatant liberal leanings.

First about crime in the city and specifically about John Lewis who shot Officer Chuck Cassidy to death in cold blood. You see, it wasn't Lewis' fault, it was societies fault. And not only the fault of inequities in the system that is oppressive to blacks, they fail to even hint at the most important aspects of inner city violence--the cultural breakdown that has resulted in kids being raised by relatives or worse yet, raising themselves. This is an example of what passes for journalism at the Inqy:

To reduce crime, especially violent crime, you must address the factors that produce it, including unemployment, poverty and bad schools. There's plenty of each in any big city in America. But in all of the Democratic and Republican presidential debates, have you heard anyone detail a cohesive national urban policy aimed at these issues?

Studies have shown that teenagers who have received high-quality education, beginning in preschool, are less likely to be arrested for violent crimes. Yet urban schools continue to be underfunded - in Philadelphia and elsewhere.

Oh, and they also blame commercials such as a Burger King ad but can't bring themselves to talk about the culture and the inherent violence in rap music.

It goes on and on, calling Bush the "Fiscal Phony", and a piece that doesn't even appear on the website but appears in the paper comparing the US to Rome's downfall written by a Vanity Fair author.

The Inquirer will continue to pound out liberal talking points and I'll continue to slam them every time they do.