Via Hot Air:

Video: CNN hammers the Democrats on pork again

If you’re keeping score, this makes not one, not two, but three hard slaps on ethics delivered in the span of nine days. Exit question one: What gives? And exit question two: How soon before the Democratic candidates boycott CNN debates, too?

 

I hold CNN and most of the media in a cynical light, and with good reason.  They don't report the news fairly, they either have a political agenda, or they report for sensationalism.  Either way the truth is sacrificed.

So seeing this story I was encouraged, maybe they were changing.  But seeing this story, I was shown that they are still playing politically correct as much as not.

You see, I have previously blogged about the savage rape and murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, and the media's yawning reaction to it.  After all, it is just a white couple brutally murdered by a gang of blacks.  It is not like a gang of whites killed a black couple, which would instantly be a hate crime, and would be the lead story nationwide.

So when CNN did their story on it, I should have been happy right?  Not so much.

Not only did they completely reject this as a hate crime, they actually made this into a racist issue against whites by showcasing all the white supremacists who were outraged, and ignoring all the mainstream blogs that have covered it.

The implication is that if you are outraged by this and consider it a hate crime you are a racist.  Its so outrageously hypocritical I cannot believe it.  Again, via Hot Air.

Video: CNN covers the Christian-Newsom murders

As only CNN can, with a sneer that anyone who cares about what happened to Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, and why it happened, has to be a redneck bigot white supremacist. The report starts off citing an Aryan blogger and descends from there.

 

Graduations are supposed to be a happy occasion.  For High school kids it is the culmination of 13 years of public education, and a symbolic transition to adulthood.

As such you would think we would be ready to teach them the right lessons.  Like being responsible for your own actions for one.

But no.  The recent spat of schools imposing strange restrictions on students and parents at graduations makes me wonder what has happened to common sense.

Take this one for example:

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=6594996&nav=1sW7

Some Galesburg High students and their parents are planning to meet with District 205 leaders late Thursday afternoon. That's after their diplomas were withheld following outbursts in the audience during Sunday's ceremony.

For Amanda Kelley, 18, graduating from Galesburg High is a family milestone.

"Her mom didn't get to graduate, so she wanted to make sure she did," said Carl Kelley, her uncle. "She wanted to prove to other friends and family that she could do that."

But observers reported an audience outburst as she crossed the stage.

"Someone yelled," Carl said. "She didn't get her diploma because of that."

"People are going to be happy and cheer for you," Amanda said. "You only get to walk across the stage once."

Since when is it bad to be proud?  Since when do we sanction punishing the kids for the actions of their parents?  This is outrageous and it gets worse.

The Galesburg students singled out after the ceremony can still get their diplomas by working a day of community service at the school.

What crap.  Someone needs to lawyer up.

"I'm not doing it," said honor student Caisha Gayles. "I think it's dumb. You're punishing me because of what somebody else did. I don't think it's fair."

"If I were that student, it would send a very negative message to me," said Jerry Jones, executive director of the Martin Luther King Community Center in Rock Island.