Underreported Stories of 2009

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By Michelle Malkin (Archive) · Friday, January 1, 2010

Most news outlets end the year with extensive reviews of their top headlines and scoops. But the stories they didn't cover deserve much greater attention. Journalistic sins of omission are often far more damning and more telling than sins of commission.

Let's start with President Obama's ongoing radical czar problem. Until Bay Area Marxist agitator-turned-green-jobs-czar Van Jones resigned in September, most Americans hadn't heard of him. Mainstream newspaper readers and network news viewers were left in the dark about his cop-killer-supporting activism, his endorsement of nutball Sept. 11 conspiracies and his advocacy of using capitalism-sabotaging environmental policies as "the engine for transforming the whole society."

Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs pounded Jones' embarrassing public record for months until the White House and its press corps enablers were forced to acknowledge the firestorm. Only after Obama threw Jones under the bus did New York Times editor Jill Abramson confess that the Fishwrap of Record suffered from "insufficient in-tuned-ness." She promised better coverage of Obama scandals.

So, what's she waiting for, pray tell?

Obama has appointed unaccountable czars by the mile whose statements and policies have yet to hit national media front pages. The "safe schools czar," Kevin Jennings, is a far-left activist whose organization, GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) is infamous among parents' groups for promoting explicit, outrageously age-inappropriate sexual lessons in the classroom. GLSEN's recommended reading for teens includes pamphlets promoting leather bars and public sex in parks and lurid books describing incest, rape, adult-child fantasies and essay collections in which one author recounted playing "sex therapist" at the age of 6 with a 5-year-old friend, and exploring "our sexuality to its fullest."

GLSEN's corporate sponsors include Eastman Kodak, Ernst & Young, PepsiCo and Time Warner. Eastman Kodak defended its sponsorship as an expression of its commitment to "diversity." Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also said he stood by Jennings earlier this year, before this material was exposed in-depth on Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs. Where are the vaunted watchdogs of the Fourth Estate to follow up now?

Liberal journalists were also AWOL on the Obama White House's U.S. attorney nomination debacle in Denver. What, you hadn't heard of it? You're not alone. Nominee Stephanie Villafuerte withdrew earlier this month after Colorado Republicans, immigration enforcement activists, Denver Post investigative reporter Karen Crummy and Denver talk show host Peter Boyles raised bright red flags about the culture of corruption in her office.

Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis -- whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal charges. He's trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying.

Villafuerte served on then-Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter's campaign team while on leave from the Denver District Attorney's office, and from all Denver Post news accounts was deeply involved in the witch hunt against Voorhis.

Villafuerte and the Justice Department evaded critics as long as they could, but when U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for answers on Villafuerte's meddling, the stonewall crumbled. There's still a raft of unanswered questions about the cover-up and the feds' dangerously lax policies toward criminal illegal aliens.

Speaking of the corrupted DOJ, where's the heat on crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder for his continued obstructionism in the New Black Panther Party Election Day voter intimidation case? In a highly unprecedented move, Holder and his political appointees dropped default judgments against the NBPP's billy-club-wielding thugs who threatened white poll workers and voters in Philadelphia last November.

The nonpartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has demanded answers and issued subpoenas to find out why the cases were abandoned after the George W. Bush administration had won them. The DOJ has ordered its employees not to comply or cooperate. And over the holidays, the DOJ veteran voting rights section chief who originally handled the case was unceremoniously evicted from the Washington, D.C., office and moved to South Carolina.

One of the NBPP bullies was a local Democratic official. Another of the defendants, NBPP head Malik Shabazz, has decried the probe as a racist "political witch hunt" against Holder.

Grievance hustlers are counting on liberal journalists to give them cover. A nation of cowards, indeed.

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MichaelSSEC

Imagine what these radicals would be doing if Conservative radio, FOX News and bloggers hadn't noticed and made so much noise?

Chris Matthews summed up the mainstream media's duplicity in this radical transformation of America when he remarked that the media's "job now is to help make this administration work."

Since when? The media's job certainly wasn't to make the Bush administration work. It sure wasn't to make the Reagan administration work. Then again, they sure did seem bent on helping President Clinton as much as possible. When the Lewinski story was dropped in Newsweek's lap, the first thing the editors did was hold an emergency meeting -- to decide whether to kill the story of the decade. And they did.

Even after another source -- a blogger -- broke the story, the bias was astonishing. Suppose for a moment that it had been Reagan caught having an affair with a 20-year old female intern. There would have been no thought of killing the story, for one thing. But the headlines the next day would have ALL been some variation on "Most Powerful Man in World Guilty of Sexual Harassment of Young Girl." The story would have been all about how the President used his position of power and influence to pressure her out of her panties and how that practically constituted rape.

But it was Clinton, so the media focused instead on calling Monica a fat cow, mocking her hair and makeup and telling us what a clingy slut she was. Where were the women's rights? Where were the breathless stories defending the innocent young girl against the predatory male? The bias was shocking.

And what they're doing today makes that look like an innocent scene out of Bambi. So-called journalists routinely ambush GOP candidates with pop quizzes asking who's the Prime Minister of East Bumblebee, while reserving for Obama questions like "what's your favorite color?"

For all the paranoid vitriol the media hurled at George W Bush, accusing him of shredding the Constitution, persecuting Americans, committing war crimes and generally being evil. Very little of it had any basis in reality, and almost none of it was true. Yet now that we have a President who routinely commits actual abuses of Constitutional authority, the press yawns. When Obama appoints vicious radicals with literally insane views, the media looks the other way (maybe they share those insane views). When Obama turns America into the bad guy and the terrorists into victims, the media applauds. When his economic policies amount to the worst possible things to do during a recession, the media wonders why he isn't doing MORE.

America is fractured. There is an irreparable gulf between the Left and the Right. It cannot be mended because it's a fundamental split in how we see reality. The Right looks at a man who tried to blow up a plane and we see a terrorist waging war upon us all. The Left looks at him and sees a victim. There's no reconciling those two views.

What does it mean? Where does this lead us? I don't believe anybody can answer that right now. But I can tell you this. We've surrendered as much of America as we're going to. This far, and no farther. America is the single greatest accomplishment of Man. America has brought greater peace, liberty and prosperity to more millions of people than any ten countries combined in history. Destroy that and humanity will fall into an abyss of tyranny that we may never climb out of. Whether they realize it or not, that's where the Left is taking us. And that fate must be opposed no matter what.

After the 2010 election, they will be forced to work with us and stop this madness of trying to dismantle America. When the election throws scores of them out of office, there's a chance they will not go. Against that possibility, I have this warning: we have all the guns and we will enforce the Constitution. We would prefer it doesn't come down to bloodshed, but we won't shy away from it, if that's what it takes. So when you lose your supermajorities in 2010, you'd best go quietly.

Posted January 1, 2010 at 5:28:47 PM

g.wegmann

It would be more to the point if we called the Czar group in the White House, "rodent nest"! Thanks for your insightful articles! Keep up the good work, we need you and people like You to tell the TRUTH! It puts the light on the lies!

Posted January 4, 2010 at 8:59:55 AM

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