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August 5, 2008
Bob Kravitz Offers No Respite from Moonbattery, Even on the Sports Page
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 5, 2008 9:53 AM
Comments
uh... I grew up in Indianapolis, IN and Bob Kravitz can barely write about the Colts either. Bring back Robin Miller.
Posted by: metalgarth at August 5, 2008 10:02 AM
Using Knob Kravitz's "logic" the US should never have gone to war against Nazi Germany because we weren't culturally "pure" enough.
"restrictions on child-bearing" --- What a quaint metaphor for forced infanticide.
Posted by: V the K at August 5, 2008 10:10 AM
OT: There's more than one way to avoid execution.
...and just try and feed him less. The ACLU will sue for cruel and unusual starvation!
Posted by: Lyle at August 5, 2008 10:24 AM
Sort of related. As you may know, Rush Limbaugh celebrated 20 years of broadcast excellence last week, receiving calls of congratulations from Bush 43, Bush 41, and the Smart One (Jeb).
As you may not have noticed, left-wing trolls went nuts.
And kept going nuts.
Read the comments, and feel happy you're not a moonbat. (And I can only imagine what was said at the Democratic Underground Message Board {the DUMB]).
Posted by: V the K at August 5, 2008 10:42 AM
So - he's equating slavery with Hurricane Katrina? And giving a pass to China because their definition of human rights may not be similar to ours?
Tool.
Posted by: Kris, in New England at August 5, 2008 11:26 AM
soaring unemployment?
Posted by: Jeff at August 5, 2008 11:42 AM
Oh, I must hang my head in SHAME... how did the Indy Star end up with such a moron on the sports page??? UUUUUrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at August 5, 2008 12:08 PM
>>In the 1960s, civil rights marchers in the South were brutally put down.>>
The civil rights marches were all about CONFRONTATION. King knew that people would object when they invaded public and PRIVATE property and he counted on the police being called, or property owners throwing out trespassers (When you tell someone that they CAN'T enter your property and they do anyway, they are TRESSPASSING, no matter how "rightious" their cause is)
>>There was the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.>>
By communist-backed professional rioters. They came armed with rocks, bottles, fireworks and sticks. Private and public property was damaged.
Denver should remember that.
>>There was the killing of student protesters at Kent State in 1970.>>
The National Guard was called in because of the vandalism, threats and assaults the day before. More "protestors" were present than the ENTIRE student body of Kent State because they had brought in professional trouble-makers. Some of the troops reported rocks being thrown at them just before the shooting.
It was learned )And confirmed) around 1971 that CBS has hired agitators to stir up people to turn protests into riots so that they would have something MORE INTERESTING to show on the evening news.
Posted by: KHarn at August 5, 2008 12:09 PM
One more thing:
Let us not forget that the "war protestors" encouraged the communists in North Viet Nam and prolonged the war for almost FIVE MORE YEARS.
Posted by: KHarn at August 5, 2008 12:11 PM
Equating killing 50 million peasants with not providing cradle to grave welfare for Katrina layabouts is quite a stretch isn't it?
Posted by: Bandit at August 5, 2008 12:50 PM
So good ol' Bob brought his crappy columns to Indianapolis?
Wondered where he went after slopping up the Rocky Mountain News sports section back in the '90s.
Hack--just more moral equivalency.
Posted by: El Presidente at August 5, 2008 1:17 PM
Read the comments, and feel happy you're not a moonbat. (And I can only imagine what was said at the Democratic Underground Message Board {the DUMB).
Posted by: V the K at August 5, 2008 10:42 AM
Did you happen to notice a commenter talking about trolls, mentioned "hashfanatic"... man that troll gets around!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at August 5, 2008 3:49 PM
He can't possibly, POSSIBLY believe that America is anywhere near as restrictive, abusive, and outright cruel as Communist China. Every nation has stains on its history, but just because we have stains on ours doesn't mean we don't recognize a brutal totalitarian regime when we see one.
And Bob, here's a hint: in which of the two nations would I be arrested for what I just wrote? China. That's your human rights violator right there. Maybe we should send him there to live for a year or so and see what he thinks about evil, rotten, foul America then!
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at August 5, 2008 4:12 PM
What a surprise. A Communist..er, I mean Democrat..making excuses for Communists.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 5, 2008 7:53 PM
Since America is such a hellhole, Kravitz should move to China and work in the press there. I'm sure arresting journalists is morally equivalent to not passing the Fairness Doctrine that would stop Rush Limbaugh's abuse of human rights over the airwaves.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at August 5, 2008 8:04 PM
Liberal politics and an attempt to be a "writer" on a sports page, looks like someone's trying to be Hunter S Thompson.
Never mind that his sports knowledge was encyclopedic, his columns were entertaining, his match tips prescient and he actually lived the counter-culture lifestyle far more than he ever talked about it.. I'm sure this guy will go down in history as an equally great literary figure..
Posted by: mandible claw at August 5, 2008 9:44 PM
Yes China's Government is brutal and repressive.
And what better reason do we need to financially bankroll their booming economy.
They even get most favored nation trading status.
Nixon went there first.
Now Bush snubs his own party's little whinefest over not drilling and goes to bow before his masters.
Damn liberals kissing up to the Chinese.
Posted by: DanMingo at August 5, 2008 11:08 PM
