Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Bias? What Bias?

I was looking at CNN this morning and I saw this article from WSDU-TV in New Orleans:

HOUMA, La. -- A state representative in a runoff election infuriated civil rights leaders after she ended a conversation with the mother of the NAACP's local president by saying, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat."
State Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, of Morgan City, acknowledged she made the remark during a Thursday night telephone conversation with Hazel Boykin to thank her for driving voters to the polls.
Buckwheat, a black child character in the "Little Rascals" comedies of the 1930s and '40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype demeaning to black people.


Hmmm..... I'm trying to tell if good ole Carla is a Republican or Democrat. Since they aren't saying, I'll assume she's the latter. Ah wait! A clue! When we get to the bottom of the article we see this:

But the "Buckwheat" remark is the latest bit of trouble for Dartez and her husband, Lenny, who is a member of the Democratic Party's State Central Committee.

Aha! We now know that that her husband is a member of the State Democratic Party Committee, but what about Carla? Are we to assume that she's a Democrat too? It could be one of those "mixed-marriages" that I've heard about.

Since it never says, we'll have to draw our own conclusions. I'll assume that she's a Democrat because if she were a Republican they would have stated that fact in the first sentence of the article and then repeatedly throughout.

This is exactly the kind of subtle bias prevalent in the MSM.

I read that 92% of Washington D.C. journalists voted for John Kerry and I wasn't the least bit surprised.

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