Soap Box

Anybody who even makes a cursory effort to keep up with the news would, in all honesty, have to admit that there is a double standard when it comes to who gets handled with kid gloves and who gets handled with a pitch fork.

For instance, Paula Deen was harassed and hounded by the media causing her great loss for racial slurs she supposedly had made years ago concerning African Americans while Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" comment, a term disparaging to Jews, and the comment about wanting to castrate President Obama passed either over or under the heads of the media.

Al Sharpton�s Tawana Brawley charade was totally fabricated, an out and out lie; yet the media still follows him around like a hungry puppy lapping up every race baiting statement he makes, and even gave him his own TV show.

Jane Fonda was photographed in the 70s sitting on a North Vietnamese tank obviously giving aid and comfort to our enemies, yet she came back to this nation and received an Academy Award and became the darling of the media and the far left crowd.

While Pete Rose, who admitted to his gambling mistakes from decades ago is deprived of his rightful place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Obama attempted to move heaven and earth to bring back a soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, who had apparently deserted his post in time of war and walked over to the enemy, trading five of the most dangerous terrorists in the world for his freedom, while he can't even pick up his phone and call the powers that be in Mexico to effect the release of an American Marine who did nothing more than make a wrong turn at the border.

Eric Holder didn't make a wrong turn, he knew full well what he was doing when he flooded Mexico with heavy firearms that resulted in the deaths of countless Mexican citizens and a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

Yet Obama, in effect, sealed the records with executive privilege despite the fact that Holder is under a charge of contempt of Congress. Woodward and Bernstein could have had a field day with this, had it been Nixon or any other Republican president.

Football players are rightfully suspended for spousal abuse and even slight drug infractions while Hollywood stars get stoned, ignore speed limits and crash expensive cars endangering the lives of countless Americans and the press only holds them closer, and with tongue in cheek claim they're just living up to their "bad boy" image.

Dan Quayle was portrayed as an out and out dodo in the media, forever branding him as a dunce in the minds of those who refuse to look beneath the surface, while Joe Biden - who seems to live with his foot in his mouth - is treated like a kindly and somewhat eccentric uncle who's gaffs are humorous but harmless, even when he divulges the names of Navy SEALs who are on our enemies' hit list.

Bill Clinton took advantage of a star struck White House intern, looked directly into a television camera and lied about it, survived impeachment and remains to this day the rock star of the Democratic Party while John Edwards� dirty little dalliance was exposed by the National Enquirer which eventually cost him his reputation and banished him to the land of also-rans and ignominy. It was one of the few times that media actually viciously turned on a Democrat politician.

"What's fair for the goose is fair for the gander� does not apply in the halls of journalism. If you belong to the "in crowd" or the right political party you get a pass, or at least you can expect the press to make excuses for you or ignore negative stories all together.

But if you ain't and, make the slightest error, you'd better watch out for falling newsprint and all the negative stuff that can be piled on your head, it's a mountain and mole hill situation, makes no difference how slight the infraction, you have given an adversary media a splinter to pull on and they won't stop until they've completely stripped it from the log.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels​