You remember when you were sixteen years old, right? That crucial time of life when every decision you made was the right one and adults would stand slack-jawed at your brilliance?
Naw, I don’t either. There may be no single year in our lives when we are more full of crap than sixteen. Actually, we’re not just full of it; we are pressurized with it, ready to spew bad ideas over anyone near us at the slightest jostle. That’s why we are legally not considered adults at that age. If anything, the law is too indulgent when it comes to being adult; research has shown our brains don’t mature until our mid to late 20s. Hertz car rental is right; the states are wrong.
But science, the law and reality have nothing to do with politics these days. The liberal media will bend or break any fact to convince people that they’re in the right (ironic, eh?). And the election is still eight months away.
The comment about age sixteen deals with Nex Benedict, a teen at a high school in Owasso, Oklahoma, where the media are certain everyone is a toothless moron. Sadly, Nex was murdered by some bigoted girls who hated her/him/it for being “nonbinary,” brutally beating her/him/it in a girls’ restroom at school.
Oh no, wait—that was the version of the story the liberal media wanted us to believe. A week or so after the kid’s death, reality began to disagree. Oklahoma state police announced the death was not due to trauma; an exact cause awaits the results of drug and other tests. A police interview on body cam shows the child admitting she helped set off the beating by pouring water on girls who were taunting her. The interview also shows she was functioning after the altercation and not bleeding; school video shows her following a security officer down the hallway, neither bleeding nor limping.
Nex was a troubled child, being cared for by her grandmother. She required several prescription drugs just to get through the day, but what was the media’s excuse for making Nex a political cause? Last weekend the New York Times updated its story without any correction or apology and continued its campaign of political correctness. Its story smugly noted that Nex’s grandmother “referred to Nex using their birth name and pronouns during the police interview and in calls with 911.”
In a story about a child’s death, the Times has to point out that her guardian wasn’t speaking about Nex in the manner currently demanded by whacked-out liberals. To them, the posings of a troubled sixteen year-old outweigh sympathy for a grieving grandparent.
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And were you aware that the State of Alabama doesn’t want women to have children? That was the spin the media put on a court decision this month in that state, ignoring the reality that it’s the media themselves who push the abortion button without pause.
The case started when a patient at a hospital in Mobile got into a supposedly-secure area where embryos were kept frozen. This person opened a container full of liquid nitrogen, reached in and pulled out some of the equipment, and was surprised the metal was cold enough to hurt like hell. The equipment and the embryos fell to the floor, and by the time hospital employees recovered them, the embryos were dead.
The couples involved sued, but how were the embryos to be classified? Were they just some cells kept frozen like blood samples? If so, their value wouldn’t be high enough to justify a lawsuit. Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that the couples could go ahead with a suit claiming the destruction of embryos was a case of wrongful death. It didn’t rule that it was wrongful death, just that the suit could be heard, and it based its decision on a clearly written Wrongful Death Act of 1975—oh, and every definition found in any popular dictionary, which state that the word “child” applies to both born and unborn offspring (unlike 99% of the media, I have read the decision).
Instantly, a couple of fertility clinics in the state halted operations temporarily, allowing headlines like this one from ABC News: “Alabama women describe heartbreak over some IVF treatments stopping following court ruling on embryos." Or this one from NPR: “How Alabama's ruling that frozen embryos are 'children' could impact IVF,” ignoring the court’s clear statement that it was only following a law passed back in 1975.
Remember, this all started when a hospital allowed a patient to get into its frozen-embryo container, hardly making it the hero in this story. The state’s Supreme Court was ruling on a specific legal case citing a specific long-existing law. The court’s ruling only applies to lawsuits like this in the State of Alabama, but the media want to turn it into a scare-the-hell out of every couple considering having kids. After decades of telling women they’re much more than baby-making machines, the media now want to play the part of in-laws shocked by the cruelty of yet another red state full of toothless morons keeping young women from reproducing—at least, when it’s not demanding they have children by banning abortions.
It’s an election year; down is now up and black is now white. Expect news stories tortured within an inch of their lives just to make liberals look good and conservatives look bad. Truth will be stretched on the rack until it confesses Donald Trump is evil and the only proper choice is the Democratic ticket.
I can hardly wait til October.
A perfect analysis & summation of what's really happening, Rene. Indeed, the TRUTH is the real victim in the Land of Leftist Loons, not much different that a duo known as Hitler and Goebbels. Oh wait!... they took a lot of their learning from the Democrats and their KKK minions some 60 yrs prior to them. Hmmm.... ain't it interesting to see the common thread woven throughout all of this mess. Sheesh!