If Only The U.S. Had Always Been More P.C.
By Bronwyn's Harbor on November 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM in Current Affairs
Written with the input of the highly imaginative Reverend Amy.
These days, says that old crab* Charles Krauthammer, P.C.-ness is “endemic.” He is such a pessimist that he thinks we’re hopelessly overcome by the P.C. crowd. Well, I must say, I concur. We are all so much more sensitive these days, aren’t we? If Americans had been as sympathetic to others’ travails over a hundred years ago, perhaps history would have been so much more progressive in its treatment of terrorists (forgive me, criminals), and the “report” of the tragedy referenced below may have been reported thus:
When John Wilkes Booth opened fire on President Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre in April 1865, the media was puzzled. “True, the actor was outspoken in his Confederate sympathies and viewed himself as a Southerner,” said someone who knew him, “but that was no reason he might want Lincoln to be dead.” The day before he went on his shooting spree, Booth hoisted a big Confederate flag outside his hotel room. After he leaped onto the stage he shouted, “Thus ever to tyrants!” the motto of the rebel state of Virginia.
The New York Times reported that Booth was psychologically unstable and was frightened of the Civil War coming to an end and having to face a peacetime actors’ surplus. “His political views had nothing to do with the motives for this tragic act,” it said, quoting experts. …
Can’t you just see something like that happening now? I heard this on Bret’s Baier’s Special Report yesterday and fell off my chair. In case you could not tell, it’s from a satirical site, “RubinReports.com.” The way things are going, though, it is possible that, in order to be PC, many real tragedies will be written up just like this.
*Of note: It is not anti-P.C. to call Charles Krauthammer an “old crab” even though it refers negatively both to his age and to his tone of observations. That is because Dr. Krauthammer is a conservative. I’d never say that about any liberal, would I. Especially if I were a commentator on the Lamestream Mainstream Media. I’m too tingly these days with the influences of Chris Matthews’ virile passion and the top Newsweek analyst Evan Thomas’s deeply profound and infinitely more fashionable definition of Major Hassan as a “nutjob,” not a terrorist. D.C. insiders are so much more cool and cerebral than the common people.
Truth be told, I am very, very fond of Charles Krauthammer’s always insightful, wry remarks on Fox’s Special Report and look forward to his columns, several of which Rev. Amy has discussed in her posts. It appears I am not the only viewer who looks forward to Krauthammer’s remarks since, one day, Bret Baier said that viewers in droves were writing e-mails demanding to hear Krauthammer’s views on a particular topic.
by Ronald Scott
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