Courant’s Slanted Coverage
December 5th, 2007 by Peter
Last September 300 people attended an FIC rally on a Wednesday morning at the state Capitol to protest the Connecticut Supreme Court’s pending same-sex “marriage” ruling. The Courant ignored it.
Last Saturday, about two dozen activists held a few events around the Capitol targeting “apathy” toward AIDS. The Sunday Courant’s coverage of it appeared front page above-the-fold of the Connecticut section:
“A lot of people don’t know we have close to 18,000 confirmed cases in the state, plus all the ones that are not diagnosed,” said Barbara Case of the state Department of Public Health.
This was just one sobering aspect of HIV/AIDS that was highlighted Saturday in activities throughout the Capitol area commemorating World AIDS Day.
Here’s another: So-called “gift parties” are sometimes held so that gay men can intentionally acquire HIV by having unprotected sex with men or groups of men known to have the virus.
“It’s a very real thing that’s happening,” said Kamora Herrington, who was among more than two dozen activists and experts involved in Saturday’s activities.
How the Courant can ignore a pro-family event attended by 300 people (on a Wednesday!) but give major coverage to a “gay friendly” event that “involved” only about two dozen “activists and experts,” (on a Saturday!) only they can say.
But if the Courant has a pro-gay bias, why report the unsavory truth about “gift parties”? Apparently, it’s to tell religious conservatives that it’s our fault:
“Kids think it’s no different than herpes and is not going to affect their everyday life,” said Herrington, who works for True Colors, a gay and lesbian advocacy group. “Even if they get it, they think they’ll take these really cool drugs and live forever.”
She said gay teenagers are especially vulnerable.
“They already know they are going to hell,” Herrington said, alluding to the damning messages that bombard stigmatized teens. “They’ve internalized it.”
Such a mind-set can make gift parties appealing, Herrington said, because gays who believe that acquiring HIV is inevitable can get it over with and then not worry about high-risk behaviors.
The previous Sunday the Courant ran a lengthy front page story on the burden of being developmentally disabled and gay. No, really. I’m not making it up. You might think mentally handicapped folks face challenges more worthy of major news space in the Sunday paper than whether they can find homosexual partners. But then, you are not an editor at the Courant.
Slight quibble: The number in the article quoted above “…Kamora Herrington, who was among more than two dozen activists and experts involved in Saturday’s activities.” is not referring to the total number of attendees at the event but rather the number of speakers that were presenting throughout the capital area on Sat. The total number of people in attendance for all events held throughout the area on Sat far exceeded 300 people. See the following link for the list of speakers, events, locations, and sponsors for the many events held Sat.
http://www.incommunityresearch.org/news/worldaidsday2007_program.htm
The number of attendees are never mentioned in the article, just that there were “two dozen activists and experts” who were “involved”–making it reasonable to infer that the numbers were low. If attendees “far exceeded 300” it’s odd that the Courant made no mention of it.
My blood pressure can only take so much of this nonsense!
They should instead exchange health insurance plans at these so-called “gift parties” because given my druthers, they would have to pay for their own healthcare or else suffer the consequences of their own willful and knowing errant actions that endanger the innocent along with guilty as these abominable cretins laugh in our faces!
No wonder the left so favors socialized medicine.
What part of either the state or the federal Constitution tells me that my taxes have to subsidize this degenerate behavior here, and espsically in Africa, where they are enjoying a $15 million “gift” from US taxpayers?
I agree with P.J. O”Rourke in that no individual is entitled to charity, but every individual has a duty to support it, mind you, individuals, not governments, not that I would waste a penny of my earnings on this chic cause celebre. Let the loopy Hartford Courant cut these sociopathic freaks a check. Want to really end AIDS? Shut off the money spigot, for starters. What motivation is there for change otherwise? This isn’t 1980 any more. If AIDs was a person, it would now well be an adult pushing 30. Even many caves now get Internet access and cable TV. I find it hard to beleive that that many people, if any at all, don’t know the risks of this deviant behavior, and espescially without protection, which isn’t infallable anyway. We all know how to cure AIDs, but the ones at risk are the ones who resist the “cure.” That is where the real apathy is! So why exactly are we even losing sleep and wasting time, energy and money over “World AIDS Day”?
And then these hedonistic, narccicistic “gift-giving” freaks whine and scream discrimination when bloodbanks refuse to accept their donated blood. As the sage, old adage reminds us, “Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose!”
The only ones I feel sorry for are the truly innocent AIDS victims, such as the ones who accidently recieved tainted blood, etc…
And those teens get “bombarded” with mesages bcause other people genuinely care about them. as Father John Corapi of EWTN says, “I’m not going to Hell for anybody.” Christian evangilism does not end at the pulpit, or with the clergy. We all have a duty to each other, to love our neighbor, espescially when they go astray, and to try to lead them to salvation. If that is “bombardment,” then it is bombardment out of love, not to be duplicated by the wolves in sheep’s clothing at gay orgies. Sadly, some of those seeds fall onto stoney ground. There is only so much we can do. If someone is that committed to commiting suicide, in this life, and in the next one, there is realistically little we can do to stop him or her. And nobody is necessarily stigmitized. Hell is for unrepentant sinners, not those who have previously sinned out of basic human infallibillity rooted in original sin, or we would all be going there. yes, of course, those with morals are the bad guys, kind of like those mean parents who abuse their children by insisting that they eat their vegetables. These are often grown adults who still are steeped in the adolescent mindset that “no” is always a bad word. Welcome to “If it feels good, do it” liberalism, the gateway to the decay and demise of mankind.
As for the Courant’s slant, in this regard, it is beyond right vs. lft, it is more akin to right vs. wrong, or more speciifcally, good vs. evil.
Go ahead….somebody just try to preach to me about “tolerance”!!!!
Doug
Peter, even if you allow that it is “reasonable to infer that the numbers were low” based on the article that has no bearing on whether or not the argument contained in the blog post is correct. The article is talking about the number of those involved in holding the events not those in attendance. To misrepresent that is wrong. The argument in this posting is that the Currant ignored a far larger rally (300 vs 24+) when that is simply not the case. So while I admit that a misunderstanding of the article could lead someone to make the argument in the blog post it is still a flawed argument. 5 minutes worth of checking with the organizers of the event would have cleared up the error.
I made inferences based on the Courant’s omission but I didn’t misrepresent anything. I said that two dozen activists “held” events and then I quoted the Courant’s own description of two dozen activists and experts being “involved.”
I’ll take you at your word that the attendees “far exceeded 300” but your word is all I have on that. And if I checked with the ideologues who think gay teenagers deliberately give themselves AIDS because of religious conservatives I would only have their word on it.
Actually, you edited the post after it was first written and didn’t note the changes you made. You actually did misrepresent the facts originally, and now you are misrepresenting your own actions on top of it.
Actually, I edited the post within the first minute or two after it was published…to include the phrase “at the state Capitol” in the first sentence. Dune’s response appeared in the moderation queue sometime later. So the only one making misrepresentations here is you.
Just a couple more thoughts on this subject…
Yes, teenagers are certainly more vulnerable and impressionable. That is why “bombarding” them with the right messages is so crucial.
The family unit has eroded. Mom is poften apathetic and entertaining boyfriend du jour. Dad is AWOL. Teachers never get any support, cops get sued for looking crosseyed at someone, most people don’t attend mass any more, and on top of that, because an infintessimal number of priests, out of thousands that serve, molested teenage boys, now some people are of the mindset that anyone with a Roman collar and a crucifix is a sex predator. All our societal taboos are going or already gone. Who is left to guide our kids today and protect them from the twisted vermin who persuade them to delibertaely catch AIDs and be used as a nameless, faceless, worthless piece of meat for no other purpose than fleeting erotic pleasure?
As for assigning guilt to those trying save them from a life of gauranteed misery (both here and beyond), the drivel of “damning them” just doesn’t fly. That is the same secularist tactic used to support abortion…if it is outlawed, women will be endangered by desperately performing abortions on themselves. People put themselves into situations because thy made bad decisions, and sometimes, even after being stuck in a bad situation, they have helpful options that they still ignore. I don’t accept the killing of the messenger doing the “bombarding”, but blame legitemately goes to the so-called “gift giver” at these insidious gay orgy AIDS shindigs. Is life really that chap to be so cavaleirly discarded for such brief physical pleasure? “Gift-giving parties”? Let’s cut the fluff and speak some truth. This isn’t a bunch of housewives exchanging Tupperware in the middle of the afternoon, it’s a murder/suicide pact.
This is not the first report I have heard of these so-called “gift-giving” parties. Sadly, they have been around for a while. And I still wretch every time I think of it. This is the epitome of sheer depraved evil.
I understand that the so-called gay community is diverse in mindset, but to the limited extent these “parties” can be stopped at all, pressure must come from within the peers of the gay community because these participant certainly won’t listen to anyone outside of the gay community.
Beyond innocent victims who acquire AIDs, like the unlucky blood donor, the partner of a cheating spouse, etc.., it’s pretty tough to muster up sympathy for World AIDS Day, espescially when its organizers step into line with everyone else with a cause and an open extended palm to Big Daddy Government for their every woe and whim. If they took a break from their precious porn and perused the US Constitution once in a while, they would know that we have no obligation to subsidize their hedonistic, sadistic, masochistic filthy perversion. It’s bad enough that we have promiscuous gays acting negligently, but now we have them acting recklessly, and deliberatley seeking to give and receive AIDS. Abstinence would end AIDS permanently. (Abstinence makes the heart beat longer!) Now, we have people seeking to deliberately spread the disease. They don’t need my money!!!!
Whatever happened to the bygone days of challenging people and humiliating them for shameful behavior, before we became pusillanimous lemmings, so afraid and timid to “offend” or “judge” them? And what…..THIS is better??????
And who defines the significance of AIDS? When is World Cancer Day, World Heart Disease Day, etc…? This is simplly political correctness because gays ar considered chic and trendy by the left.
That’s where I draw the line. As Clint Eastwood said in one of his “Dirty Harry” movies, “A man has got to know his limitations. ” I know mine. These gift-givers make their bed, now let them sleep in it. God can sort them out accordingly.
I am a firm beleiver in stewardship and a supporter of many charities, but I also beleive in common sense, and prudent use of my resources and donations, not to be wasted on evil, incorrigible fools who defiantly userp any good done by charity they recieve for no better reason than a cheap thrill.
As long as this putrid behavior continues let the organizers of World AIDS Day run a car wash or sell cookies…to someone else. And shame on our government officials for embezzling our money in violation of articulated constitutional functions to subsidize utter debauchery.
Doug