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From: tom@gcc-opus.ARPA (Tom Westberg)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: liberal news media
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 22:54:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 22:54:36 1984
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Summary: 

I don't understand how people on the net can think that the news media in the
US aren't liberally biased.  For example, look at all the media coverage of
the chemical leak in Bhopal India!

Let's look at the facts.  A Union Carbide fertilizer plant in India has a 
major chemical leak.  The result, a couple of thousand Indians die.  OK,
maybe 2500, I won't quibble!  Sure this looks bad, but think about it.

This was a fertilizer plant.  Now, since it is a fertilizer plant in India,
where do you think most of the fertilizer goes?  That's right, India!  Now, what
do you use fertilizer for?  (I have to go slow for the liberals.  I have a 
bumper sticker on my Z, it says 'Warning, I brake for liberals')  That's right,
to grow food!  Now, what's the biggest cause of death in India?  Hey, three
times straight, you got it, malnutrition!

If you guys think that Ethiopia has a problem with overpopulation, it doesn't
hold a flame to India!

So think about it.  Here is this fertilizer plant which is probably saving
millions of Indians anually.  They have an accident which kills a few thousand.
Now, what are you liberals going to do?  Close the plant?  Drive Union Carbide
to bankruptcy?  This is the same sort of fuzzy headed liberal thinking that
invariably leads liberals to shoot (or tax, or regulate, or sue, or protest,
or boycott, or anything else handy) the hand that feeds them!

So, now we have the facts of the story.  And what do we hear on the radio?
What do we see in the papers?  What do we see on the CBS Evening News?  Hell,
it's called a 'tragedy', a 'disaster'.  Union Carbide is raked over the coals
for negligence.  Interviews with sick Indians.  Hell, the PR is so great that
congressmen are arranging junkets to go take a look!  As if it they could 
help the situation!

And then we get those Liberals (making asses of themselves as usual) complaining
that Union Carbide is just putting their plant in India so they won't have US
regulatory agencies to contend with.  After all, they say, this wouldn't have
happened if the EPA had been looking over their shoulder!  Come on, give me
a break!  You think those morons in the EPA would have made a difference?  All
they would have checked is whether there was a filter between the crappers and
the river!  And where WOULD you rather have the leak, in India or in your
back yard?

Phaug!  I'll just go home how and clean my rifle.  I hear liberal season opens
right after frog season this year.

Tom

Yes, Massachusetts does have a frog hunting season.  And you need frog hunting
licenses.  You also can't 'take any frog less than 6 inces from snout to vent'
or use 'explosives, seine nets, or fike nets' whatever the hell a seine net is.
Damn liberals ...