pigs fly
The Los Angeles Times op-ed page, the editors, in an unsigned editorial, say:
AMEN TO FIGHTING AIDS (print version)
CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES VS. AIDS (online version)
Bush and the evangelical movement have done more than they get credit for in efforts to stem the disease
man. flying. pig. moment.
I just didn’t expect the L.A. Times editorial page to print anything like this as in unsigned editorial. I’ve been trying to hard to not give in to knee-jerk responses to the “MSM,” especially after hanging out with some great mainstream media types a few weeks back in Miami. MSM is not a “they,” it’s real people doing very good professional work in most cases, and working hard to either be fair or to be transparent about their biases. The MSM still leans left, unfairly left in many cases, though I’m sure that many out there think the MSM is a tool of corporations and full of reactionary right-wingers (I kid you not; just read the koskids some day).
I want to go on the record as applauding and giving credit to the folks at the Times for publishing paragraphs like this:
Yet these troublesome policy issues are also relatively minor. Bush and his Christian supporters seldom get the credit they deserve for their role in the global fight against AIDS. U.S. spending on the disease overseas has risen more than tenfold under Bush, while Christian groups have given unselfishly to the cause. Churches, in fact, run health clinics in much of rural Africa; without them, stemming AIDS would be all but impossible. So praise the Lord and pass the antiretrovirals.
posted Nov 30, 2006, 12:24pm by Rodolpho Carrasco
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