So This Is ‘Repugnant’
So warned “objective” news anchor Katie Couric about the following (HT NewsBusters) from her show’s “Free Speech” segment on Monday contributed by Brian Rohrbough:
Oct. 2, 2006
(CBS) I’m saddened and shaken by the shooting at an Amish school today, and last week’s school murders.When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I hoped that would be the last school shooting. Since that day, I’ve tried to answer the question, “Why did this happen?”This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.
We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.
Suicide has become an acceptable action and has further emboldened these criminals. And we are seeing an epidemic increase in murder-suicide attacks on our children.Sadly, our schools are not safe. In fact, we now witness that within our schools. Our children have become a target of terrorists from within the United States.
I can think of any number of other infinitely more “repugnant” items that Ms. Couric and her network’s associates have aired over the years that contained no accompanying warning.
Katie is just pandering to her left wing cronies. I’m sure she did find it “repugnant” since Mr. Rohrbough uses “hateful” speech (”Abortion has diminished the value of children”, “there are no moral absolutes”). The public school system is a vast wasteland, nationwide, thanks to the NEA. However, I do feel that many people would agree with him. The problem is that those who may have done so, probably weren’t listening to Katie and CBS.
Comment by codekdyguy — October 5, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
#1, but if so, it is not a strategy for growing an audience for a third-place newscast.
Comment by TBlumer — October 5, 2006 @ 6:59 pm
I’d love to shake Mr. Rohrbough’s hand. He has written in eloquent form what we all have been thinking. The American left does not believe in moral absolutes and espouses a relativistic morality. So we hear them saying, “What’s truth for you may not be truth for me,” and “I’m okay, you’re okay,” and “Who are you to tell me I can’t kill a developing human being as long as “it” resides in “its” mother’s womb,” and “You can’t tell me it’s somehow wrong for me to ‘marry’ my sister or my dog,” and “If you hurt my feelings, I’ll have you arrested.” Democrats generally are moral relativists, and so you get them calling me a hatemonger because I’m opposed to same-sex marriage or a bigot because I tell them that God loves them and has a plan for their lives. In a world of situational morality, anything goes, baby, and ya got no bone to pick about it, ’cause my behavior is morally okay by me, and that’s all I need to know. It’s also called chaos.
Comment by Excelsior — October 5, 2006 @ 11:43 pm
#3, Yup. I would only suggest that what you’re saying is generally true of Beltway Dems, or those who wish to be. A lot of other Dems, esp in Red States, still think their national party is run in line with FDR’s thought processes. We should be so lucky.
Comment by TBlumer — October 5, 2006 @ 11:58 pm
You’re right, Tom. My mom and dad were ensnared by that anachronistic thinking. I told them over and over that the Democrat party of the 80’s and 90’s (when they were still alive) was no longer the party of FDR, HST, JFK, HHH, Nunn of Georgia or Henry “Scoop” Jackson. I posted a similar comment on an Orthodox Jewish political blog recently, trying to make the point that a preponderance of Jews seem to vote for Democrats for the same false reason that my parents did. And when I watch the local Dems twist and turn to walk the tightrope between their nearly amoral “progressive socialist” base and Mr. and Mrs. Redstate Voter, I laugh and shake my head and shout at the TV until I’m hoarse.
Comment by Excelsior — October 6, 2006 @ 12:35 am
This is repugnant?…
Thanks goes out to Bizzy Blog for running this it reminded me the other night about when we were out getting dinner, my wife’s answer was why do we even need CBS they’ve been proven too many times to be liars. This falls under Katie’s definition …
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