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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Commie, Commie, Commie......
Dennis Prager takes time out of his busy schedule of being a full-time dink to piss on Sylvia Bernstein's grave:
On Dec. 1, 2003, this obituary headline appeared in the New York Times: "Sylvia Bernstein, 88, Civil Rights Activist, Dies."
Though the passing of Mrs. Bernstein was reported in almost every major newspaper in the country, there is a good chance you missed it.
Too bad. Because the headline and the obituary tell you a great deal about the moral compass of mainstream American (and world) journalism.
For, if you read through the entire piece (almost always either a verbatim or edited Associated Press report), you will come across this one line: "Members of the Communist Party in the 1940s, the Bernsteins were targets of government scrutiny."
Note the headline: Mrs. Bernstein is described simply as a "civil rights activist." Indeed the whole obituary is a laudatory description of her and her husband's work "to desegregate area restaurants, an amusement park and pools and playgrounds. She advocated home rule for the District of Columbia and protested the Vietnam War and the development of nuclear weapons."
You see, Prager thinks that Mrs. Bernstein's body should be drug through the mud because she was once a (gasp!) Communist....back in the 40's, mind you. Nevermind what she did for the past sixty years. She's tainted. Damaged goods.
As noted above, in the words of the AP report as printed in the New York Times: "Members of the Communist Party in the 1940s, the Bernsteins were targets of government scrutiny."
In the Washington Post's words: " . . . the Bernsteins were Communist Party members in the mid-1940s and endured long persecution by the government for their political beliefs."
The poor Bernsteins. Investigated by the American government for being members of a genocidal, totalitarian, anti-American party.
Our language has become Orwellian. Communists are described as "social activists"; and when communists are investigated by a democratic government, the government is the villain and the communists are victims.
Fair is fair. Let's take a look at Prager. Mr. Praeger, are you now or have you ever been a liberal?
As a New York-born and raised Jewish liberal, when I am asked when I left liberalism, I answer that I never left it. It left me -- first and foremost over the issue of communism.
String'em up, boys....
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