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August 5, 2008
Bob Kravitz Offers No Respite from Moonbattery, Even on the Sports Page
Posted by Dave Blount at August 5, 2008 9:53 AM
You would think the sports page would be a refuge from moonbattery. It isn't. Lowlights from a piece by sports columnist Bob Kravitz at the Indianapolis Star.
Chinese critics want to talk about the massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Well, we aren't simon-pure, either. In the 1960s, civil rights marchers in the South were brutally put down. There was the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. There was the killing of student protesters at Kent State in 1970.
We all have crosses to bear.
China has suffered terrible human losses from two failed Communist Party imperatives of the past, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. But we, too, have seen terrible acts committed by our leaders, many with the support of the people: slavery, the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the years of Jim Crow and the epic failure to help the Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans.
We all have crosses to bear.
Human rights were a big issue when the International Olympic Committee chose Beijing as the site for these Games, but we need to understand, there are different definitions of human rights in different parts of the world.
We look at the lack of press freedoms, the restrictions on child-bearing and the lack of an independent legal system as outrageous examples of an authoritarian government that doesn't cherish the individual.
They look at our lack of universal health care, our soaring unemployment and the lack of a cradle-to-grave government-sponsored safety net as human rights violations.
Therefore, criticizing China's communist regime would be "the height of arrogance, American arrogance, the kind that makes us so deeply disliked around the world" — and far be it from America-bashing moonbats in the media to indulge in arrogance.
Even sports columnists can master the art of moral equivalency, which magically renders America, the world's last best hope, comparable to a totalitarian police state that has killed tens of millions of its own population.
If only Kravitz weren't too arrogant to stick to covering the Colts, instead of pandering to dolts.
On a tip from JM.
