Sunday, November 27, 2005

Headlines on AP Story: Is High School Teacher Liberal, Or Just "Liberal"?

This is a follow-up on the story about the high school teacher who made test questions that were obviously trying to indoctrinate the children to his left-wing bias...Lets just remember a few of the questions:

"I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes,"

"It is frightening the way the extreme right has (balled, arrogated) aspects of the Constitution and warped them for their own agenda."

The governor (of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger) should have been (excoriated, coherent) by the press for calling Democrats "girlie-men" but instead was invited to speak at the Republican convention; it only goes to show what kind of people they are.

The follow-up is even more interesting....it shows just how subtle the bias is in the media...

CNN.com has "Teacher accused of giving 'liberal' quiz." Putting the L-word in quotes in a headline is a bit funny since the lede of the AP story itself says Chenkin's in hot water for "giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right." But the AP and their subscribing websites don't put "extreme right" in quotes. I'd tell them that if they're putting "liberal" in quotes, they should also put "extreme right" in quotes. In this AP dispatch, no one who is quoted actually describes Chenkin or his test as "liberal," but Chenkin's test question does mock the "extreme right."

But so it goes, with the Santa Fe New Mexican using the headline "High school teacher accused of giving 'liberal' vocabulary quiz," and the local Barre-Montpelier (Vt.) Times Argus using "English teacher's 'liberalism' under investigation."

You see, liberal needs to be put in quotes because no one is really a liberal, people on the Left are just normal everyday good folk...now, when a conservative or right wing person is mentioned, they do not need to be put in quotes because it is a fact that they are crazy special people that need to be described with a qualifier. When someone is accused of being a "liberal" they need the quotes because it is hard to believe that anyone is actually on the far left.

This teacher is obviously trying to teach his political views. Don't you see how the media is unable to accept the fact that he and his test is liberal. They have to put quotes around it. Its almost as if it is sarcasm. It's like they are rolling their eyes as they write it. This happens everyday. Usually the liberal is not even mentioned as a liberal, but the conservative is ALWAYS mentioned as a conservative.

This message was brought to you by just one more example of media bias. Once again, it is happening because the media is liberal and can not help but write stories like this.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Semantics Antics, Game.
They really don't have much of an effect though, because the majority of citizens don't have the necessary education to understand those slights.
Funnier yet, is that the majority of the ones who wouldn't understand, are Democrat voters.
So we right folks can shrug that one off.

Anonymous said...

OOPS...there should have been a parentheses around right folks....;)
I can hear it already.