Summit Besieged by "Leftists"

While sitting in the audio booth waiting to cut the 6pm tease, Bob Schieffer, CBS' new man in the "Big Chair," teased his own show with a reference to President Bush's trip to Argentina for the Summit of the America's. Primarily the protestors, whom Schieffer characterized as "Leftist Inspired." The pictured crowd was very large, carrying placards, posters, signs and banners. Wearing flags, t-shirts and banners decidedly Anti-Bush. Some of these protestors fired slingshots, tossed Molotov cocktails and burned American flags, all in demonstration of the United States, and her President.

Bob Schieffer actually called these protestor's "Leftist Inspired!" That would never happen here in the states. Here they would be "Members of the Growing Anti-War Movement." Here they would be "Opponents of the President and his policies," using slurs like "Liar," "Idiot," and "Dangerously Hitler-esque." But they would never be called Leftists, and certainly not Liberal. That the protestors would be overwhelmingly Democrat, no mention would be made. In the eyes of the media, there is no Extreme Left Wing in the Democratic Party. Only Republicans are labeled "Extreme."

Does anyone see the Hypocrisy? When foreigners do it, they're Leftist, when they're Americans their Anti-War. Schieffer does make reference to Hugo Chavez's socialist leanings and his popularity among the crowd reflected in the banners and flags. But look at the face on some of these flags... Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Marxist Revolutionary... And murderer.

Good Grief! Are these folks serious? They worship a Marxist butcher while vilifying a man who would go to their aid should natural disaster strike their country. Hugo Chavez, another Castro in the making whatever Carter says, is as delusional as his mentor. The entire scene at the Summit was chaos. It is clear that the authorities had no control whatsoever of the streets. Their sole purpose today-- seemingly --was to keep the protestors away from the dignitaries.

It was Anarchy in the streets. Protestors, Rioters, throwing rocks, smashing windows in downtown department stores, looting, and revelry of the basest sort.

What does it say about a society that has so little control over its populous? What does it say about our own society when the Media Machine can't be honest enough to tell it like it is without injecting its own ideological preferences. What does it say about America when our own government is split down the middle, each side at each others throats? The rift in our own society is a product of the rift in Washington, and the Media is directly responsible. Like Jerry Springer, who deliberately pits two or more dysfunctional parties against each other on a national stage, the media misconstrues, prevaricates, and flatly omits the truth, waiting for the kicking, screaming, and hair-pulling that's sure to come. It's disgraceful.

Dan Rather can warn university students in Maine about the "New Media" and it's "Agenda Driven" purveyors, but he can't see his own Agenda, or that of his ilk. I'm tempted to call it hypocrisy, but the more shite I hear spilling from his and the rest of Main Stream Media's lips, the more pity I feel for how completely self-righteous and delusional they've become.

And in the "mean" time, America suffers all the more for it.