Gutfeld: Media Only Like Protests If They Agree With Protesters

"Red Eye" host Greg Gutfeld on Saturday said the media's response to the nation's anger over healthcare reform was totally predictable.

"I've been down this road so many times I could navigate it blindfolded and covered in peanut butter," Gutfeld marvelously wrote at his blog.

"It goes like this: for the media, anger is only okay if its targets meet their stereotypical, romanticized criteria. Meaning: the corporation, the conservative, the daddy who never loved them."

Gutfeld then marvelously offered "a list of people doing angry things the media is okay with" (h/t Glenn Reynolds):

-People calling Bush a Nazi
-Students and non students rioting on college campuses
-Animal rights freaks dousing rich folks with paint
-Actors wishing average folks would get rectal cancer
-Bureaucrats labeling military vets as potential violent right wing extremists
-Radical environmentalists advocating violence against loggers
-Pranksters throwing pies at conservative commentators (you know, somehow they never pie Michael Moore, which makes him sad; he likes pie)

But this health care bill anger is different from all that - not just because it's right, but because it involves Obama. And being angry at Obama is like being mad at Santa Claus. How can you be mad at Santa, when he brings us so many gifts?

And so, this anger is scary! It's a mark of incivility! It's deadly!

Interesting, isn't it?

After all, the media typically love protests and acts of civil disobedience.

Yet, we've learned since Obama was elected that most members of the press only like such acts when they demonstrate antipathy for what they themselves dislike.

As such, protests are only good when the media agree with the protesters.

Sadly, this is what makes most of them advocates and NOT journalists.

Bravo, Greg!