Thursday, April 19, 2007

 

Dear NBC News,

Tonight I see yourselves and the other major and minor news outlets second-guessing whether or not you should have aired the gunman's video following the Virginia Tech shooting last night.

I want to THANK YOU for airing the videos and pictures and printed ramblings of the killer for a variety of reasons:

1) Because it is your duty to do so. During the Nixon administration when Spiro Agnew was attacking the networks as propaganda arms of communism, our local news station ended each newscast and each news promo with the mantra, "Because you have the right to know". I have always appreciated that exercise of the Constitutional First Amendment. In the 21st Century, rather than becoming a stronger and free-er people, Americans have succumbed to to the liberal nanny-culture that demands that nothing ever be said or aired that might offend ANYONE. There is no Constitutional prohibition against anyone ever being offended. There IS a Constitutional admonition that encourages the media to keep The People informed.

2) Because it shows the shooter for what he is: An evil madman. Nothing more. Not a "victim" of bullying, not a "victim" of poverty, not a "victim" of racism, not a "victim" of medical misdiagnoses. A "victim" only of his own delusions, anger and narcissism.

3) Because it shows that Cho, not his weapons, is the instrument of evil. The liberal media are eager to blame "the American gun culture" for each and every crime upon which they report. Seeing the face and the rantings of this madman show that it is the heart of man, not his tools, that is the culprit.

While you may not agree with my reasonings, I hope that you believe in your collective corporate and individual hearts that airing Cho's messages was the right thing to do.

Sincerely,
****** ******
Oceanside CA

posted by huggy 7:30 PM

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

 

DEAR DON IMUS,

I have ranted long and loud about my intolerance for voluntary ignorance--one indicator of which is the entire rap/hip-hop culture and all that it entails--including "urban" (read: Black) idiomatic language. You, Mr. Imus, will for the next several weeks be paraded around the media to make public apologies for your statements, which will be characterized as "racist", "sexist" and "hateful".

In NONE of the hyperbole will there be ANY reference to the likely number of times the Rutgers players have called each other "nappy-headed hos" in times of anger, spirited conversation, or during lapses of supervision. And you can rest assured that most of them listen to and embrace "music" that pours out racist and sexist language that makes "nappy-headed hos" sound like a cuddle-time remark from your grandma. But, in a social culture in which such things as conversatons of "the N-word" regularly contain such rhetoric as, "there is no word in any language that carries the emotional weight of that word", a truthful account of the Rutgers players' language styles and habits will never be offered.

Your crime, Don, is not "racism", "sexism" or any other "ism". Your crime is allowing yourself to be suckered into wallowing in the urban black language that you can be sure is regularly used by the majority of the supposed "victims" of your comments.

Your crime is sinking to their level.

posted by huggy 3:11 PM