The great pain of being

It was "a landmark nuclear deal, a coup for Bush’s first visit to India," but the story ranked second at best in MSNBC's line-up of the day's "top stories." Pride of place went to the Bush-Lied-People-Died™-friendly terrorist attack in Pakistan, with "Bush was warned on levees" running a close second. The medieval "great chain of being" (below) came to mind, an hierarchical schema that told the believer -- in this case today's media and their fellow travelers of the left -- that they were on the top and Bush was on the bottom in the best of all possible worldviews.

Have we come to the point where it takes a stunt to make news?" asks Betsy Newmark of Betsy's Place re the MSM's willful turning of a blind eye to a woman from the other side of the debate, "a grieving mother of a soldier killed in Iraq [who] wants to voice her opinion. She has a message about the war in Iraq and feels the American people need to hear what she has to say":

Merrilee Carlson is thoughtful, sincere, professional and respectful of those who disagree with her. Not only does she have the exact opposite message from the spectacle in Crawford last summer, she has the exact opposite approach. Regarding the efforts of her group she said, "This isn’t about us. We are not looking to be that public figure; we have stepped out because of the need. This is not about us, it is about our children."

Obviously, the mainstream media is going to do everything they can to avoid Carlson. They are not interested in balancing her view against the anti-war view they have so heavily promoted. We already knew the media was liberally biased. Now it’s apparent they are also biased against ordinary people as well. The foaming-at-the-mouth fanatical fringe gets news coverage and the people who portray the best qualities of us are ignored.

1579 drawing of the great chain of being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana, according to Wikipedia.

But of course. As InstaPundit commented today re the MSM's desperate attempts to keep their anti-Bush narrative on track,

The news is that the port-deal publicity is dying down, Iraq's not in a civil war, and we need something to fill the headlines with anti-Bush stuff.

That's where we started out this morning, on the bogus Bush-knew-Bush-lied levee "news" -- "The article is a smoking gun on Bush's unpardonable failure to keep us safe," went moveon.org's shrill email to the faithful -- before we got totally bored with our own post about the MSM's "desperate attempts to keep their anti-Bush narrative on track":

An historic agreement between two of the world's great democratic powerhouses -- the U.S. and India -- and what leads "the" news? Explosions, of course, deadly ones in front of the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, the next country on GW's itinerary of strategic points east. Not one of the MSM reports we surfed through thought to explain what Pakistani terrorists were upset about. In their reliably strategery-free way, the media wanted to know whether the explosions would lead GW to change his plans, not to mention what Bush knew, when, regarding the breaching of the New Orleans levees.

That's when the yawning overtook us.

Comments

[andophiroxia]

Just to let you know, the 'image not available' is popping up.

As for the headlines, same old, same old. I am SO tired of the same rhetoric...Bush=Hitler=lying puppet...whatever. How horribly irritating.

[Sissy Willis]

Thanks for the info re image unavailability, ando . . . I don't know what happened but have replaced 'em, and last time I looked, they're still there. :)

[goomp]

Who is going to lead a campaign to boycott the MSM and those who support it by advertising? Without our support the MSM can not exist.

[Teresa]

I pretty much already boycott them goomp. I don't buy their product. As for the advertisers - since it seems just about everyone advertises on news shows - that might be tougher.

I will continue to get the stories online where I don't have to pay to read their tripe. And if any of them go away - I always have lots of other stuff to read.

Sissy I don't know how you can actually watch them - I'd be throwing stuff at the television. *grin*