Email from the MRC
From the Desk of:
David Martin, Executive Vice President, Media Research Center
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MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
6/28/2010
Willard,
Do you feel like you know enough about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to decide if she is fit to serve as a lifetime appointee on the highest court in the land?
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Most people don’t, because the left-wing media have done a good job hiding what little we do know about her.
The Elena Kagan hearings began today, and few Americans are aware of her radical views on the Second Amendment, abortion, crime control, marriage rights, international law and many other critical issues.
Papers released by the William J. Clinton Library reveal Kagan’s belief that partial birth abortion needs to remain legal as the only certain way to protect the “health of women.” This is wildly out of the mainstream, and proves her commitment to a radical pro-abortion position.
Also during her time in the Clinton Administration, Kagan wrote an executive order to overturn nearly 30 years of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) precedent allowing the importation of certain hunting rifles to reclassify them as “assault weapons.” One of her own coworkers in the Clinton White House described this effort by saying “We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.”
All of these questions and more may be raised and should be raised – because they certainly weren’t raised by the so-called “news” media that have been noticeably silent about President Obama’s pick to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Since predicting the Senate confirmation process of Kagan would be a “meat grinder” and a “battle,” the networks have been eerily quiet –the complete opposite of their reporting of the run-up to the confirmation hearings for Bush appointees John Roberts and Samuel Alito hearings.
The Media Research Center has just concluded an important study of the Media Blackout of the Supreme Court “Battle”, where our analysts poured over the broadcast network evening newcasts of ABC, CBS and NBC since Kagan’s May 10 nomination ..
What we discovered is a frighteningly blatant attempt by the Obama-friendly media to remain silent – offering as little information as possible on Kagan’s highly questionable qualifications and disturbing ideology.
Click here to access this exclusive MRC report.
+ + Serious Questions, Concerns … Ignored by the Liberal Media
When Kagan’s Princeton papers and her senior thesis lamenting the demise of the Socialist Party in the early 20th century were released, CNN and FNC offered detailed reports and insightful analysis. The networks did not.
On Kagan’s ban on military recruitment, networks offered scant coverage, while CBS Evening News reporter Jan Crawford took a sympathetic tone: “Kagan, like many law school officials, opposed having military recruiters on campus.”
Last week CNSNews.com filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to get to the bottom of some of the work that Kagan has been doing for this administration. At 4:30 on Friday afternoon we received a letter asking for clarification on two points, first being what we meant by the phrase, “the administration’s healthcare reform plan” and second, what we meant by the word “any.” This is clearly a stalling tactic! We will continue to press ahead to get to the bottom of the Kagan record to ensure that you get the facts that the liberal media are happy to ignore.
Should Kagan be confirmed, her seat on the High Court will profoundly affect generations of Americans – our children and grandchildren will feel the greatest impact of her socialist ideology and her desire to use the court to promote her personal brand of social change.
The liberal media’s decision to go dark throughout this process – of choosing not to do their due diligence in reporting the true nature of Elena Kagan – is an obscene dereliction of duty.
Don’t allow your friends and family to be misled by the network media’s silence on Kagan. Forward our special report to them today.
Urge them also to visit CNSNews.com, and NewsBusters.org to get the side of this story the liberal media don’t want you to know.
Thanks for standing with the MRC!
David
P.S. Our special report on the media’s silence in the Elena Kagan nomination underscores the fact that the liberal media cannot be believed. Click here to receive your FREE “I Don’t Believe the Liberal Media” bumper-sticker and help us take our message nationwide.
