Sally must have attended NYC public schools. Her Civics teacher may have been, well, absent that day. I call your attention to a New York Post article I initially believed to be bogus, a late April Fools joke. Concerning an out of control teacher, a Mr. Garabitos, the Post reported "Garabitos -- who is also the school's union representative -- had been
suspended for "striking a student" on Thursday and was supposed to
report to a rubber room for out-of-control teachers yesterday, sources
said." That was the second reference to a "rubber room." The first I thought perhaps should have made reference to a room for out of control students, alas, twasn't so! Story here: http://www.nypost.co.... I looked through the comments to see if anyone mentioned the rubber rooms. No one did! Is it a common thing in New York? Is it that crazy there?

Sally's choice of "fomented" struck me as odd, also. A writer desperate for novelty? I can see the artist Hellman being asked "Mr. Hellman did the actions of the government foment your work?" Hellman: "What, excuse me?" The errors, more substantial than this, are seen everyday in our newspapers. That newspapers hire such people and editors don't catch so many errors tells us something about the schools we must correct.

rsl775

Journalists call on McCarthy anytime they want to discredit something as radical, unfair, over the top, nasty, a lie and on and on. Most know nothing of the man and most don’t know of the Venona papers that confirm that communist operatives were all over government. McCarthy’s techniques were less than honest and he only suspected. He probably saw lots of smoke but didn’t have evidence to point to the fire that was there. He tried to intimidate and scare not good tactics for good man and he paid for it.

• Does the media always get it right the first time? No. In fact, they almost never get the story right the first time.
• Does the media correct itself after it has a chance to gather more information and reflect? No. They don't reflect, and often they get the extra information as wrong as they got the first. Reality has a way of forcing perception along, but some perceptions are so strong that not even reality can correct it.
• Does the media get it right after years of historical perspective? No. Very often, the first mistakes never get corrected. With McCarthy, the mistakes started in the beginning, morphed into liberal conventional wisdom, and coagulated into liberal history.

Historical bias isn't new. It's happened often before, especially under when historians were commissioned by kings to write history (so they wrote of their patrons favorably).

But it seems to me that with the advent of the TV networks, and the fact that they were uniformly Democrat and liberal, there has been a two- or three-generation period where one political perspective has dominated. What the liberal reporters of the 1950s believed, so too have the reporters of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and now 2000s. Which means in turn that there has been nothing to dispel the bias. And the power of TV networks has been extraordinary. Liberal myths take root easily, and little dissuades them.

I think that maybe Fox News, or maybe talk radio do it a little, but NewsBusters is specifically missioned to dispel and combat that bias.

Keep it up, guys ...

I wished the day would come when the msm is nothing but irrelevant...I'd like to say they are now, but that wouldn't be true, the lead the dem party with their daily talking points for the talking heads let alone the print that are killing trees daily for their leftist rhetoric....

Where oh where are the greenies demanding this abuse stop at once!

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

  The HUAC started investigating Hollywood artists in the late 40's and into the 50's. She got the decade wrong too.

 Sen. McCarthy was mainly concerned with communist infiltration of the United States Government. Not artists.

  Collectively, they were rooting out card carrying members of the Communist party, Communist sympathisers, and spies. I do not believe either one were looking for Communist-oriented dissidents.

dissident: disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief

— dissident noun (1)

 Dissidents are most often known for opposing Communism, Socialism, and the other nasty types of failed government.

 Also, then-Sen. Joseph McCarthy, never became anything else, he retired, so you can safely refer to him as Sen. McCarthy without the then. His only significant activity after retiring was to die. In which case he went from Sen. McCarthy to now deceased Sen. McCarthy. Still, not then though. We do not refer to all dead people as then.

 Then-President Ronald Reagan said "Tear down this wall". Nope, sounds funny.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

(1) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissident

Read some of the HUAC reports from back then and FBI FOIA documents released on this subject.  They show the rampant infiltration of practically every government department by Communists and their sympathizers tied into actual Soviet agents assigned to work over here and pose as citizens.  Some of those closest to FDR were Communists supplying info to Moscow.

They also show the heavy involvement of many prominent Hollywood types in far left politics back then.

Strange that a Sean Penn today is no big deal, but people are shocked, shocked mind you, that Lucille Ball for instance played dumb concerning Communist meetings in her own home and the fact she had registered as a Communist in the 1930s.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

Hey, you people out there, shut up and believe what the comrades tell you to believe. This "journalist" is a prime example of a media whore. no facts but propaganda galore. But the only thing that will change a liberals set of pre-conceived ideas, is to have their bank account and property siezed by the gov;t they propound. Most libs however are on the public dole anyway, so they desire higher taxes on those that work. The top libs of course, are using this failed ideaology for control of the masses, that's how they "get off" you see, control.