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Liberal bias in the Media?
This morning, I was listening to Don Imus interviewing NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. When he got around to asking her about President Bush’s new High Court Nominee, (Judge Samuel Alito), she cited the Judge's support of Pennsylvania’s ‘Casey’ law, noting that the law required a woman seeking an abortion in PA must have “permission from her husband” which is why that provision of the law was ruled by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.

The provision of the ‘Casey’ law that she wrongly cited (intentionally I believe) most definitely did not require permission from the husband for an abortion! The law simply required that the husband be notified prior to the abortion!

In its 1992 ruling on the case of “Planned Parenthood vs. Casey” the High Court held that “A Pennsylvania law that required spousal notification prior to obtaining an abortion was invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment because it created an undue burden on married women seeking an abortion.” It additionally held up the remaining provisions of the Pa law saying, “Parental notification, informed consent, and 24-hour waiting period were constitutionally valid regulations.” Hence, “Judgment of Second Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part.”

Clearly there was no requirement for the husband's permission as Ms. Mitchell asserted. I consider this an obvious attempt by Ms. Mitchell to foment hostility toward the Judge Alito nomination! Those who would ascribe any other motive to Ms. Mitchell’s comments are either not aware of her history (in my opinion) of Liberal advocacy under the guise of reporting, or are probably Liberals themselves who would consider her to be impartial!

As a Conservative, I like to deal in facts. I admit I was not aware of the issues involved in the ‘Casey’ law, in fact I was not even aware that such a law ever existed until this morning!

After hearing Judge Andrew Napolitano’s description of the law on Fox’s Fox & Friends show, I switched to MSNBC in time to hear Ms. Mitchell’s interview on the subject, and it was clear that there were two distinctly different views of the law’s provision!

Honestly, I tended toward the Judges point of view, because A) I know the Judge to be experienced in the law, and B) I’m familiar with Ms. Mitchell’s history (in my opinion) of slanted reporting. However I decided to research the matter for myself.

It took me less than five minutes of searching the internet to find the PA law as it was written, as well as the Supreme Court's Decision relative to the suit filed by Planned Parenthood in opposition to that law! My point is, I don’t believe Ms. Mitchell can cite ignorance as a reason for being wrong (if that were true, that would be bad enough for a person in her profession)! If I can obtain the facts of the matter within five minutes as an amateur blogger, she has no excuse for being wrong as a professional highly-paid journalist!

What she does have is a reason for being wrong, or to put it bluntly, she had the intent to be wrong! The so-called mainstream media, who have every right to their political leanings, let those leanings color their reporting to the point where objectivity is completely compromised! Ms. Mitchell's interview this morning is glaring proof of this! Liberal journalist will not give you straight facts (except if they are harmful to conservatives) because they are afraid you will make up your own minds and form opinions contrary to their Liberal agenda!

Now this begs the question; if Ms. Mitchell can be so wrong about this matter for reasons which can only be attributed to personal subjectivity, shouldn't that cast doubt on any and everything she has ever reported on or about?

When former Chief Justice Rehnquist passed recently, I found myself in the wee hours of the following morning unable to sleep. I was watching the reporting on Rehnquist on the various 24 hour news channels, when I happened upon an interview on CNN of a Rehnquist biographer. The interviewer actually told the writer (and I'm para-phasing) "Even though Rehnquist was a Conservative, you make him seem human!" As a Conservative, I'm glad to know that I can aspire to someday be thought of as human by Liberals!

Please dear ‘news’ media, could you just give me the news in black and white, and if there’s any coloring to do, leave it to me to do for myself? If you’re doing a news program or an opinion show, please be kind enough to let me now which! Reporters and columnists should never be confused one for the other!


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