Both Congressman Ron Paul and his son Senator Rand Paul have been repeatedly vilified by the mainstream media for stating certain parts of the 1964 Civil Rights Act go too far when violating a private business owners right to discriminate.
Yet today CNN is lauding a private business owner, who discriminated against a customer, as a hero.
See for yourself:
Did you hear the reporter press upon the store owner that she violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and then ask her if she was trying to return our nation to slavery? I didn’t either. To be fair the reporter mentioned the Civil Rights Act, but then immediately accepted the restaurants owners reply and moved on.
But when Ron and Rand Paul preemptively defended this woman’s right to refuse service the mainstream media said things like this:
…and this…
…and there are literally hundreds more articles and television discussions with the same type of commentary from all the various mainstream media outlets, all of them condemning the Paul’s as ‘traitors to one of the great progressive movements of our nations history’.
The media wants to have it both ways. If they can demagogue and twist an issue to make a political candidate (they fear) look like a racist, the media will tell us the idea of private business owners having the right to discriminate is a terrible thing. But if the discrimination is against someone with an unpopular opinion suddenly the discriminator in question is a bona fide hero who should be revered for standing up for what is right.
It’s still discrimination in both cases but the media works hard to give us two different interpretations and meanings of the exact same set of actions. This is called “double-speak”.
How can our nation be expected to grow and correct it’s problems when the controllers of our national dialogue seem intent on manufacturing division? We can’t. If we want to have a better and more prosperous nation we have to fix the media, both on the “left” and the “right”.
