She is the info-babe blonde dishing it out on the early morning news. (Not Diane Sawyer.  The local one.) Ten million bucks says she has put on her lipstick in the rearview mirror while driving to work.  With her body turned slightly clockwise to the plane of the politically incorrect, she outdid herself this morning. 

Ah, the Oregon Media.

Did you know that a pack of stupid Eugene liberal fanatics showing George Bush with a gun to his head is a free speech question, and doesn't even require Republican response when the item is aired on local television?  That struck me as odd.  During Clinton’s first term, a woman from the midwest was jailed for holding up a sign that said “Clinton Sucks” when his car passed her location along a parade route.  Free speech, to liberals, is a relative right, apparently.

A note to Miss Marmion: when you reach your sixteenth birthday, and so qualify as an adult journalist for television, you will discover that among the long-recognized limits to free speech is the act of threatening the life of a sitting president.  Then, there is the matter of bad taste. What, young lady, would you say if a college comedy group presented the world with the image of Nelson Mandella hanging from a lamp pole?  How about a humorous advertisement for gas ovens manufactured at Auschwitz?  Are these free speech, too?  Would you have anybody on to react to them when you ran the item on your program?

Getting back to this morning’s Nineties-kind-of-Happy Days approach to playing journalist, she next announced that by universal voice vote a clot of Oregon Democrats had demanded an investigation of George W. Bush’s theft of the presidency.  Specifically, said Miss Marmion, this group wants to see if the U. S. Supreme Court judges who voted to “give” the presidency to Bush should be impeached. (Kind of hard to do, when you think of it, since impeachment takes place in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Republicans elected by U.S. citizens control that body.   Unlike the Senate, which was stolen by Democrat bribes, the House is an elective assembly.)  

Now, this second item, at least, was  “balanced” by inclusion of conservative Republican responses, right?  I mean, if a conservative suggests the planet is an oblate sphere, we are automatically subjected to hours of response from Democrat flat-Earthers, right?

Dream on, Oregon Magazine fans.  The liberal definition of “balance” is when a brick is in the dish on the left-hand side of the scale.  Bi-partisanship, to Tom Daschle, means agreeing completely with the liberal Democrat position.  Partisan politics, to Daschle, is any time you disagree with anything he says so softly and gently.  (What a nice man.  Reminds you of that famous film clip of Adolf greeting the local Hitler Youth brigade at Eagle’s Nest. Uses the word "concerned" about fifty times an interview.)

No, dear readers, there was no “balance” offered in either case.  This one-sided presentation of an outrageous act and an outrageous charge went unchallenged.   

If a conservative suggested shooting or impeaching a liberal icon,  Miss Marmion’s screen would be livid with liberal response.  (When she speaks of JFK, who actually did steal the presidency, it is with admiration and respect.  Clinton, who bought his two terms with illegal foreign campaign donations, urban voter fraud by unions and the rabid support of her flaming fellow mainstream “journalists,” must have made her knees itch.) 

Bush, though, is so evil that blatant portrayals of his execution or suicide by political fellow travelers of hers don’t even call for an on-air comment by Oregon’s conservative faction.  And,  after six (count ‘em) counts of the Broward and Miami-Dade ballots – each time using a different set of rules demanded by Gore campaign officials – and six (count ‘em) wins by George W. Bush, Natalie Marmion reports Democrat claims of a stolen election without  Republican reaction, as though they were established fact?

Having interviewed, for another publication, another empty-headed blonde KATU news dish some years back, I am not surprised at all this.  (When I told Blond “A” to use the week before she went on the air to look over Oregon so she could get to know the people and the lay of the land, she said, “Why?”)  No, this doesn’t surprise me.  I am merely disgusted, and beginning to wonder what it costs to buy a famous journalism award.  (JFK’s father bought his son a Pulitzer)

But, then, Edward R. Murrow didn’t much care for Ronald Reagan’s politics, did he?  Neither did the recently-departed-and-loudly-lamented  Mrs. Graham of the second worst newspaper in the nation, the Washington Compost..  Perhaps to perpetrate her name and hideous influence on American journalism, Natalie Marmion will soon have a chance to win the annual “Graham Award” for meritorious liberal bias.

This morning’s early KATU broadcast should get an award of some kind.  “Journalism” like I just saw deserves recognition.  Wait!  I’ve got it!  Oregon Magazine will give Miss Marmion an award.  She will be the first recipient of the Golden Rearview Mirror with Crossed Silver Kneepads!

(LL)