"Fox News" has been elevated to generic status as a synonym for "extreme conservatism" by a growing number of left-wing elitist groups. Few ad hominem slurs are slung with such lacerating ill will as the various incarnations of "[insert name] must be watching too much Fox News."
Frankly, it's surprising Dianne Feinstein was spared the accusation as part of her resounding repudiation by the off-the-deep-left California party hounds.
From the entertainment glitterati to the DNC haut monde, "Fox News" are the preferred weaponized words of malignant association used to machine-gun conservative messengers bearing inconvenient facts.
Conservatives need a counterbalance term, and maybe the new nickname for left-leaning MSM outlets ought to be "Loxy News." Oxymorons are contradictions in terms, and "Loxy" represents an abbreviated contraction for the liberal oxymorons that permeate and pervade political news.
Loxy News tells us, for instance, that some national interest is served by an expensive and exhaustive investigation that results in indictments of 13 Russians for trying to influence American election outcomes. But if we're really interested in protecting our national election apparatus from foreign meddling, why does the worry of a literal handful of Russkies outweigh the risk of ballot-box mischief presented by 11 million illegal immigrants?
Even if they're not all voting fraudulently, they march and protest and otherwise apply improper political pressure. As unlawful residents consuming benefits reserved for lawful citizens, their conflict of interest is absolute--and discounted absolutely by Loxy News.
Indeed, keeping with its namesake, Loxy News gives favorable headlines to "sanctuary" efforts by various states and cities.
Consider the concept behind sanctuary laws in a broader sense. Suppose a metropolitan city council somewhere decided that federal self-employment tax law was unfair to entrepreneurs and small businesses within its confines. After all, the self-employment tax is peculiarly punitive. A sole proprietor who makes $50,000 one year and loses $50,000 the next has a net income for the two-year period of zero. Her self-employment tax bill for that two-year period is $7,650, however, even though she literally made no money.
Back to our enterprising council example. Because it wants to support entrepreneurs who provide local jobs to support the municipal economy, the council declares itself a sanctuary city against the self-employment tax. Municipal employees, funds and resources are prohibited, by city ordinance, from assisting with IRS agents or efforts seeking to enforce the law, which penalizes good, hardworking small-business owners. The mayor volunteers to help people evade the tax authorities.
Maybe council members hope entrepreneurs will flock to their city, bringing jobs with them; maybe they would if this ever actually happened.
In a couple of more polarizing hypotheses, imagine (1) a local ordinance announcing a sanctuary city against the federal age requirement for handgun purchases because council members view it as an affront against law-abiding citizens who are old enough at 18 to be conscripted for battle in foreign wars; or (2) a sanctuary state whose legislature decreeing that unborn children within its borders warrant protection from federal court rulings and case law that allow their destruction.
If sanctuary strategies are a good (i.e., politically effective) thing, who died and left immigration as the holy grail of safe haven issues?
Maybe conservatives need to tune in and learn a thing or two from Loxy News, and form some strong sanctuary movements around their own sacred causes in select states and localities!
If only it weren't for those pesky law and order instincts.
In a nation of laws, sanctuary statutes and ordinances weaken the republic because respect for the law is a requisite for the preservation of liberty under the law. They also make a mockery of officials sworn to uphold the law, and deliver a truly damnable indignity on individual immigrants who obeyed it.
What does it say to someone who endures personal difficulties and trying circumstances in order to do the "right thing" and follow the law, when a city or state turns around and gives sanctuary to all the "wrong thing" doers?
It hardly sends a high-road message consistent with lofty American ideals.
Rewarding those who take the crooked path over those who walk the straight line is one of the cruelest oppressions a government can inflict.
How Loxy News has led so many to misfocus on the issue is puzzling. Redeeming behavior has never been accepted as a justification for tolerating lawlessness. Otherwise we'd happily look the other way if white-collar frauds also donated generously to charity, or petty thieves used their ill-gotten proceeds to pay tutors for their kids.
Loxy News is a superior moniker to Fake News, too, which isn't typically fake so much as hypocritical. For a textbook dissection of the latter, research the real facts behind the story claiming "18 School Shootings in 2018." That kind of bunk withers under the most rudimentary scrutiny for journalistic integrity, but it warrants recurring airtime on Loxy News.
So unless you enjoy special-interest sound bites being substituted for substance, don't fall prey to watching too much Loxy News.
Don't watch anything. Read more.
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Dana D. Kelley is a freelance writer from Jonesboro.
Editorial on 03/09/2018