Thursday, June 28, 2012


The media's Niagara Falls Tightrope

Nik Wallenda's recent, amazing tightrope trek across Niagara Falls was a powerful testament to his obvious faith in God and belief in the importance of family values, as evidenced by his frequent, unceasing references to both before, during, and after the successful effort. However, what was almost as obvious as Wallenda's foundation in faith and family was ABC's awkward attempts to ignore his references to Jesus clearly heard throughout the event, thanks to a microphone fitted on Wallenda to capture his comments during the crossing.

Given the mainstream media's distaste for such references, and ABC's failure to mention or comment on these references neither during its broadcast nor in its blog otherwise fully documenting the event, it is abundantly clear that Nik Wallenda was a lot more relaxed crossing the mighty falls on an often soaked wire 200 feet above peril amid treacherous sprays of mist than ABC was uttering the words "God", "Jesus", or "Father" in reference to the Almighty.

One wonders if ABC would have been so reluctant to reference Wallenda's words if he referenced Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, the Right's so-called war on women, Obamacare, or a myriad of the Left's other treasured agendas and topics.  One can almost see the headline "Nik Says Crossing Inspired by Obama" splashed across every paper and screen in the nation.

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14 comments:

Anonymous said...

If he was truly to be encouraged by Obama he would have jumped halfway across when he found out that he didn't qualify for as a socialist minority.

Bird of Paradise said...

More liberals going over Niagra Falls ina barrrel.NIAGRA FALLS!,SLOWLY I TURN STEP BY STEP INCH BY INCH

Anonymous said...

A three stooges reference is appropriate coming from BoP.

Anonymous said...

"Political correctness is a far greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..."

Anonymous said...

Is this what they call the "silly season" of news reporting. Not a good advert for serious religion when obvious publicity stunts like this are carried out.

Dman said...

And... cue the comments of "If he really had faith, he wouldn't have used a safety line" in 3, 2, 1...

(Yes, the Left is that predictable.)

I'll reply ahead of time: This post was about ABC's coverage, not Nik's display of, or lack of, faith.

Go Away Bird said...

Political Correcrtness just another word for SOCIALISM Annon 1:57

Anonymous said...

They've been trying to eliminate Jesus for centuries, they will always fail. He still lives and they will pass on.

Anonymous said...

Jesus lives on as a meme only, just like Mohammed!

Anonymous said...

3:40, that isn't true or you wouldn't be so offended at the name of Jesus.

Anonymous said...

3:59 Do you know what a meme is? And why do you suppose that the name of Jesus offends me? It certainly doesn't, and I can't see why it ever should, it's just a name of a supposed charismatic rabbi who wanted to reform the corrupt religion practised in the Jerusalem region circa 2000 ago.

Anonymous said...

That Jesus also thought the world would end within the lifetime of his current generation, which proved not to be true, so some confused Christians have had to invent reasons why it takes so much longer to end, or it has some other conveniently vague spiritual meaning.

Anonymous said...

11:07 Of course people are free to believe whatever nonsense they like, but should not try to impose their religious beliefs on other people in any imperious way.
The concept of "Jesus" (the name and the meme) is the mind-virus that is indeed very virulent, but it has a strong competitor in the fellow middle-eastener, Mohammed.

Anonymous said...

No good comes out of the Middle-East : the 3 major mono-theistic religions born there have blighted world history to this very day!