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In Case You Had a Single Illusion Left
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
About the Mainstream Media, Check out my Googles from this morning:
First, the smashing coverage of the John Kerry tasering incident.
452 articles! Way to chase a story, MSM!
And then the coverage on the Republican Attorney from the Pensacola US Justice office who arrived in Detroit with a Dora the Explorer doll, hoop earrings, and a jar of vaseline, planning to rape a 5 year old girl.
21 articles. Hmmm.
Note that the headlines do not ever use the word "rape", opting for the kinder, gentler term "child sex".
Note to MSM: It is impossible to "have sex" with a five year old. It is always rape. Always.
This story doesn't appear in "top stories" -- I had to dig for it within Google News. Before the arguments begin about how this does not represent slanted coverage by the MSM, let me just pre-refute them:
Anticipated Argument #1: "But Kerry is a main player. Atchison is a nobody attorney from Florida. Of course the story isn't going to get the same coverage!"
Refutation: Bullshit. "Nobodys" who are involved with child molestation make the Top Stories page all the time. Even more so if they are people of color, or poor, or uneducated, or mentally ill.
And as far as what the MSM considers "important news" -- today, a story about a city manager who got lost while hiking was more of a "top story" than the fact that a fucking representative of our justice department was arrested for coldly calculating to rape a child.
Anticipated Argument #2: "But he hasn't been convicted. Innocent until proven guilty is a part of what makes our country great!"
Refutation: Tell that to the prisoners in Guantanamo.
Anticipated Argument #3: "It was entrapment."
Refutation: Don't even start that shit with me. And while you're busy shutting the fuck up, take a look at the "cheerleading" program at the youth group that he helped with.
Based on recent experience, I think that the Republican party should be stripped of its right to use the phrase "Family Values" ever again, in any context.
Regular readers here will know why this particular story strikes close to home for me. I hope this man is put in prison for the rest of his life. However, I also hope that there is massive media coverage of it, because it highlights something I've always known: While the MSM rants on about sex offenders in the community and Cosmopolitan magazine warns us of the 5 places that sexual predators search for women, the same media ignores the fact that one of the most dangerous places for children to be is probably with some "upstanding" guy who constantly touts his family values, publicly and politically, and who is trusted because he is in a position of authority and adheres to a political party that claims the mantle of moral rectitude.
I noticed that when Melissa blogged about this over at Shakesville yesterday, there was suddenly a flock of commenters that I had never seen before. If they show up here, I'll consider that they are Republican flacks madly searching for Atchison references to hush up.
This is a rape scandal that conservatives cannot possibly justify with "entrapment" arguments, or ridiculous bullshit about being afraid of black men in the park -- its a crime so heinous that they must simply try to get us to ignore it. (Check out the "Look! A kitty!" tactics that were attempted over on the Shakesville thread.)
Try it over here, and I will go all avenging angel on your ass.
Posted byPortlyDyke at 10:30 AM
Labels: Mainstream Media, Rape Culture, Truth
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PD, thank you so much for bringing this story to mine (and all your readers')attention. I am a little speechless right now...
You Go, Gurrrl!!!
(Gee, I seem to say that a LOT around here... )
I bet Atchison just luuuuved helping those little cheerleaders with their hand-stands.
I hope he goes to prison for this; they know how to show their respect for "skinners" in The Big House.
"I hope he goes to prison for this"
Me too.
"they know how to show their respect for "skinners" in The Big House."
Yep, by having "prison sex" with them.