Letter to Longmont Times-Call
Published 7-15-08

MEDIA BIASED, GULLIBLE

     “Woman ticketed outside McCain event.” (T-C p. A5, 7-9-08). So went the blazing headline over another non-news story carried by most of the gullible media describing the “terrible abuse” political activists may be subjected to when their disruptive acts are noticed, they refuse to cooperate, and are turned away or arrested—as they should be. This time it was liberal activist Carol Kreck, an ex-newspaper reporter, who got caught trying to bring a “McCain=Bush” sign into a McCain meeting, where all signs had been declared off-limits beforehand. (Try taking an Obama=Carter sign into the Pepsi Center during the Democratic National Convention and see how far your First Amendment rights go.)

     This latest act is almost a carbon copy of a put-up job carried out against President Bush in 2005 by three Denver-area liberal activists who attempted to disrupt one of his rare meetings in Colorado and got caught on their way in. Some in the media sympathized with them for weeks afterward, and their lawsuit as far as I know still drags on, clogging-up an already overloaded judicial system.
     Talk about a biased media, Bob Schaffer who is running for the U.S. Senate certainly has his work cut out for him, as attempts are being made in news reports to envision him as some sort of a criminal for having been employed in the oil industry. We all cannot make a living arranging pack trips into the wilderness, tramping over the tundra. Some of us have to work at real jobs.
P.