Jan 17

Apparently the democratic switch vote for Romney worked. The headlines from the Detroit Free Press reads: "ROMNEY MAKES IT ANYBODYS RACE." Detroit News reads, "ROMNEY BLASTS GOP RACE WIDE OPEN." I wonder whether these news papers know about the Mitt for Michigan campaign. Romney’s win in Michigan must be taken with a grain of salt. It is possible that the papers are trying to sell copies by slanting stories, but the reader must not be pulled in to thinking that Romney is doing great.

Unfortunately, the conservative blog I have been following hasn’t posted anything new for quite some time. I am left only to comment on the liberal site “The Daily Kos.” In a recent post, the blogger brings up the issue of Mark Deli Siljander, a former Republican congressman from Michigan.
“A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.”

The blogger takes this exception to a respectable congressman and turns him into the “first Congressional creation of the radical religious right.” But the quote that I find the most ignorant is this

“In short, Mark Siljander is a archetypal radical rightwing politician. They espouse patriotism and fundamental values, but really, they're just ignorant, intolerant, greedy and don't care about America.”

Not only do they apply the miss deeds of a single person to an entire group, a strategy used by the worst kind of people (of whom we have talked in class), but they then make further rash generalizations about the entire group. One of the things that bugs me the most is when people make ignorant generalizations. Generalizations are bad enough when they come from someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about, but for a “political analyst” to make such a sweeping statement about a group as visible as the Republican Party is outrageous. It leaves me only to assume that the blogger, although intelligent, cannot not be trusted. Everything that they have said is now irreversibly redeemable. I fear for those who rely on this slanted opinion for their own political outlook.