Shining City Not Media Coffin
by Lisa Fabrizio

When I was young, some thousands of our countrymen fled to Canada in order to avoid fighting the evils of communism in a distant land. More than thirty years later, some thousands of liberals are reported to be planning to ascend to the Great White North to avoid fighting the evils of conservatism in their own back yard.

It seems that horror is sweeping the country, to paraphrase Dan Rather, like a big wheel through a Delta cotton field. The report—from the media itself--that moral values trumped all other issues in the campaign, was the liberals worst nightmare realized: character does count.

The media elite also learned that, like our Founding Fathers, a great many Americans link religion with morality and resent attempts to strip that concept from our national politics. With John Kerry's presidential dreams not yet cold in the grave, media harpies were quick to divide the blame for his demise between the conniving genius of Karl Rove and those who Paul Krugman calls "a coalition that deeply dislikes America as it is."

To his credit, Mr. Krugman finally gets it right. Too many people in this country remember how this country was before the media and the courts decreed how it should be. Too many have actually read the Constitution and can find in it no right to abortion, nor special rights for those who embrace certain sexual proclivities and certainly no directive to favor one race over another.

Before correcting himself, Newsweek's Evan Thomas predicted in July that media bias in favor of Kerry would be worth about fifteen points in the presidential race, and it says here that he was probably right. But the CBS Rathergate fiasco and revelations of further media mischief will erode that margin in future elections. This new wall of separation between media and state will cast a long shadow of despair along its left flank.

As liberal pundits struggle to interpret this, their third consecutive general election loss, they will cite the hateful intolerance of the religious right without realizing who is doing the actual hating; decrying the ignorance of rural, red-state hicks while ignoring the fact that President Bush equaled or increased his winning percentage in all fifty states save Vermont.

If this is too difficult to comprehend, remember there is always the Ottawa option.

Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.

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