ACLU/Media Bias?

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DasBoot

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Bill O'Reilly, in todays Florida Sun-Sentinel, has a story none of you have probably heard about:

Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the ACLU in Virginia, was arrested on Feb. 23 and charged with the purchase and possession of child pornography.
He downloaded images from a child porn site onto CD-rom disks, which were later found in his home.
One image showed a little girl tied up and screaming as she was being violently raped.
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Not a peep of this anywhere that I know of.
The Left protecting it's own?
And how shocking that someone connected with the ACLU should behave in such a manner!:eek: .......:rolleyes:
 
ABC has it on its website. Good!
but if this were an ex-head of some conservative organization, you know it would be blasted on front pages, tv and radio across the country.
ABC:
Rust Tierney coaches various youth sports teams in and around Arlington, Virginia, according to court documents.
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Those of you in the "It doesn't matter what he does in his private life" school of thought, would you still want him coaching YOUR kid?:mad:
 
Funny thing is most ACLU actions seem to dictate that it is ok if you want to molest kids or rape women. I mean it's all based on you personal moral standing isn't it? (unless you're a priest) :barf:
 
It's all part of that "moral relevence" mindset.
"It's only wrong if YOU think it is."
Throw out all the laws and any type of morality.
If you think it's ok, do it!
:rolleyes:
 
Well, it has been on the local news channels a few times up here (D.C. metropolitan area), and in the newspapers, too, I believe. Can't say if it's been on network news broadcasts as I normally don't watch.
 
I don't belong to the ACLU, nor will I ever join. However, just because a dirtbag is a dirtbag has no bearing on the organization he belongs to. There are dirty cops, but not all cops are dirty. Troops raped women in Iraq, but not all troops are rapists.
This piece of **** should be locked up at the very least, but you can't hold the ACLU or its backers responsible.
We, as shooters, don't like being equated to the Columbine massacre, so "Do unto others"
 
Thats not right. Noone is saying everyone in the ACLU is a child rapist, what we are saying is that this reflects poorly on the organization, and that the media would probably be harping on this day and night if it was, for example, the president of the NRA caught with this stuff.

Can you even imagine the harm that would do?
 
Actually I'm saying it's funny they scream and yell at others for somthing and keep quiet when one of their own does the same thing :rolleyes:
 
Actually I'm saying it's funny they scream and yell at others for somthing and keep quiet when one of their own does the same thing
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Actually, that's what they have been defending. Sickening, but at least Charles Rust-Tierney was consistent :barf:
 
I don't belong to the ACLU, nor will I ever join. However, just because a dirtbag is a dirtbag has no bearing on the organization he belongs to. There are dirty cops, but not all cops are dirty. Troops raped women in Iraq, but not all troops are rapists.
This piece of **** should be locked up at the very least, but you can't hold the ACLU or its backers responsible.
We, as shooters, don't like being equated to the Columbine massacre, so "Do unto others"
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Pretty much.

As far as media attention goes, I'd say there are a couple reasons. One may be the whole "leftist media bias" thing. I have little doubt this is a contributing factor...but a larger one, I'm guessing, is lack of perceived hypocrisy. That's what gets a good scandal going, mediawise. Congressman who has drafted legislation to protect children from predators turns out to be trolling the high school tail (gay tail, no less)? Check. Powerful evangelical church leader turns out to be doing drugs and calling up gay prostitutes? Check. Man from organization long reviled for defending people who are fans of underage sexual activity has child porn? Who cares. It's expected, to some extent.

Not that the legal system shouldn't care, of course. But it just doesn't seem like a shocker that somebody from an organization that often defends those on the fringes of our culture turns out to be on (or beyond) those fringes. And aside from new that actually "matters" and celebrity gossip, generally the only other news that catches much attention is that with shock value.
 
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