'Oh, God!' It's Bobby Jindal!
By Frank Salvato
February 27, 2009
It is no secret that today's mainstream media has morphed into an ideological and agenda-driven propaganda machine, complete with preconceived notions and pre-existing biases. We witnessed the repercussions of this ethical degradation first-hand in the mainstream media's failure to critically examine the Obama presidential candidacy prior to the 2008 Presidential Election. This bastardization of the media's informational charge can only be understood as being detrimental to the United States.
Recent episodes involving Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews illustrate precisely how the mainstream media is leading the intolerance movement and why their actions serve to divide our country.
Following President Obama's first address to Congress, MSNBC political personality Chris Matthews was caught muttering "Oh, God" on the air as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal walked toward the camera to deliver the GOP response. The remark was heard after Countdown host Keith Olbermann interrupted the network's political panel to introduce the Republican governor.
And last month, the duo took shots at departing President George W. Bush during the network's prime-time coverage of his farewell speech. "Am I wrong that the only thing missing tonight was another 'Mission Accomplished' banner?" Olbermann said condescendingly. Matthews followed-up with: "He got to be president because of his father. The same way he got into school and everything else...the same way he got his car, probably."
I would call the arrogance that emanates from Messrs. Olbermann and Matthews hypocritical but I'm not sure they have the recollective wherewithal to be that disingenuous.
That Olbermann, Matthews and the crew at MSNBC would disparage Governor Jindal before he even opened his mouth shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. They shed their journalist costumes some time ago in favor of the disingenuous and opportunistic masks worn by only the most vicious partisan hacks; the victims in their maliciousness being the truth and the American people.
It is interesting that in the face of Attorney General Eric Holder calling out of the American people as "cowards" where the discussion of race issues are concerned, that no voice has questioned whether Matthews' immediate reaction and subsequent apology had anything to do with the color of Governor Jindal' skin. Had the exclamation been directed at a Black elected official we can all rest assured Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the NAACP would have been organizing efforts to have Matthews, Olbermann and anyone in-studio that evening dismissed from employment by MSNBC.
This presents an opportunity to point out two chief reasons why there cannot be an open and honest discussion about race in this country:
When the indiscretion occurs at the hand of someone touting the Progressive-Left, or neo-Marxist, agenda it is over-looked and/or reconciled with nothing more than an apology, sincere or contrived.
Leaders like Sharpton, Jackson, and Bond are quick to opportunistically read "race" into anything that can be stretched to include it.
But while the theory of a racial overtone to Matthews' utterance may be disturbing to contemplate, it is the hypocrisy of the statements made against former President George W. Bush -- that he attained everything because of his father -- that stinks worse than a garbage can filled with week-old poultry entrails.
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