Latest Media Circus
Bensblurb #584 1/11/11 -- How ‘bout them numbers!
The latest media circus
When Reagan was shot, the pundits blamed guns, not politics. When the mad Major killed Fort Hood troops, they blamed lax controls and oversight, not Islamists. And when the Tucson madman strikes, they blame guns and politics.
Here’s betting some folks tried to do something medically about the madman, maybe repeatedly, without success. You see, patients’ rights, especially in the mental health field, have gone overboard. Even getting a person voluntarily into a facility can be a hassle, since so many of them appear to be closing down. And getting someone committed takes a judge and I don’t know what all.
The patients-rights explosion reminds me of something similar. We have the capacity in medical science to handle the loonies, but not in confinement...that is so barbaric, don’t you see. Similarly, we have the know-how, the technology and plants in place to generate a huge amount of nuclear energy in this country. But that would be barbaric also, according to airhead environmentalists.
Granted, as you can tell, I don’t know much about either mental health policies and effective treatment or nuclear energy. But both seem to be blocked by too-powerful elites of a too-liberal persuasion and their media trumpeters.
The media do seem to go ape in such traumatic circumstances. Sarah Palin had better hide. Even so, “The establishment media...[are] perceived by an ever-greater percentage of Americans as simply an arm of the political-class Democratic Party. If you pay attention, they have power over you,” writes Glenn Reynolds in the Washington Examiner
Regardless, it’s true that ..”[Political violence has been rare in the United States in recent years... despite the disputed 2000 presidential election, the unpopular Iraq war and the election of the first black president...World Bank ranks America above the UK when it comes to “...absence of violence.”--James Pethokoukis, Reuters
This latest flareup will die down after everyone has milked it beyond its worth, as usual. Nothing will change. And we can return to such matters as the NFL payoffs, resuming soon.
Ben Blankenship
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The latest media circus
When Reagan was shot, the pundits blamed guns, not politics. When the mad Major killed Fort Hood troops, they blamed lax controls and oversight, not Islamists. And when the Tucson madman strikes, they blame guns and politics.
Here’s betting some folks tried to do something medically about the madman, maybe repeatedly, without success. You see, patients’ rights, especially in the mental health field, have gone overboard. Even getting a person voluntarily into a facility can be a hassle, since so many of them appear to be closing down. And getting someone committed takes a judge and I don’t know what all.
The patients-rights explosion reminds me of something similar. We have the capacity in medical science to handle the loonies, but not in confinement...that is so barbaric, don’t you see. Similarly, we have the know-how, the technology and plants in place to generate a huge amount of nuclear energy in this country. But that would be barbaric also, according to airhead environmentalists.
Granted, as you can tell, I don’t know much about either mental health policies and effective treatment or nuclear energy. But both seem to be blocked by too-powerful elites of a too-liberal persuasion and their media trumpeters.
The media do seem to go ape in such traumatic circumstances. Sarah Palin had better hide. Even so, “The establishment media...[are] perceived by an ever-greater percentage of Americans as simply an arm of the political-class Democratic Party. If you pay attention, they have power over you,” writes Glenn Reynolds in the Washington Examiner
Regardless, it’s true that ..”[Political violence has been rare in the United States in recent years... despite the disputed 2000 presidential election, the unpopular Iraq war and the election of the first black president...World Bank ranks America above the UK when it comes to “...absence of violence.”--James Pethokoukis, Reuters
This latest flareup will die down after everyone has milked it beyond its worth, as usual. Nothing will change. And we can return to such matters as the NFL payoffs, resuming soon.
Ben Blankenship
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
8:44 AM
