On Friday, March 30, I will be speaking to Frank of Queens and John of Staten Island about South Africa. The station is The Right Perspective, WWCR. The frequency is 3.215 MHz Shortwave. The segment is “Hello, Africa!” and it airs at midnight, EST. Call (718)761-9996 to be heard on the air!
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Chatting to Frank of Queens & John of Staten Island
On Friday, March 30, I will be speaking to Frank of Queens and John of Staten Island about South Africa. The station is The Right Perspective, WWCR. The frequency is 3.215 MHz Shortwave. The segment is “Hello, Africa!” and it airs at midnight, EST. Call (718)761-9996 to be heard on the air!
Perverse Reaction to Pummeling of Centenarian
By now you’ve seen the surveillance-tape images again and again: an ancient woman pushes her walker along the foyer of an apartment building. A robust man moves in, and punches her in the head repeatedly. Before she goes down, the centenarian reaches pitifully for the purse the thug has snatched. He turns to finally flatten her.
This is a scene lacking in any nuances. At a time in her life when she ought to be shown respect, a frail lady is treated with brutality. That the woman, Rose Morat, is talking brave, and being made a celebrity for her tough-old-biddy stance after the fact does nothing to change that she was a helpless victim. To pretend otherwise is plain perverse.
The camera caught a frail lady being handled like garbage. She displayed no spunk, because people her age are too frail to fend off such a feral attacker. She survived, not because of her gumption, but because her attacker did not plan to kill her.
This is not how the network nits are covering the story. CNN has been running an up-beat segment in which the centenarian receives an award for bravery. To the sound of the theme from Rocky, Rose Morat shuffles into a room of cheering twits.
Not every story is a story of triumph. Sorry, thanks to this twisted hoopla, the thug is the winner, not the woman with the walker. This feel-good reporting distracts from the reality I described–and the real business at hand: Repeat the description of the criminal again and again; show his face up close; encourage his community to rat him out–that’s how this story should be handled.
A small consolation is that once in custody, inmates will probably restore a serious tone to the tale. I believe even thugs have a code of honor they adhere to.
Updated: WND and Me
“…Before long, a rather unconventional man by the name of Joseph Farah called me. WND.com’s CEO was funny and frank. I had lived among the Nordic, morose Canadians for seven lean years. So this lively American, who cocked a snook at the media establishment, was a breath of fresh air. Mr. Farah told me that launching the odd blowhard with limited cerebral agility was lucrative, but that WND also intended to nurture real talent. ‘This is where you come in,’ he said, and forthwith made me a featured columnist for WND.com.”
“Consider this: I have been fired from a libertarian website for deviating from dictated dogma. Yet in all my years with WND.com, the Internet’s leading, largest independent website, I have never so much as been censored —not even when I liken Bush’s ‘Bring ’em on grin‘ to the grimace ‘on the face of a demented patient with end-stage syphilis.'”
WorldNetDaily.com columnists were asked if they’d write something in honor of the site’s 10th Anniversary. “WND and Me” is my tribute.
Update: A reader wrote the following, with respect to a particular line from the column:
“‘Mr. Farah told me that launching the odd blowhard with limited cerebral agility was lucrative…’ And who is that bitchy swipe supposed to refer to?”
My reply: It was not a bitchy swipe, but a rendering of a conversation that occurred. It’s the history of an exchange between myself and Mr. Farah. Naturally, I will not divulge more than that.