DEMONSTRATIONS AND SHOES GREET HILLARY IN INDONESIA

It's 3:00 am and your friendly neighborhood Hippie can not sleep. Maybe it's the stress of following all that goes on in this world , but occasionally I find myself wide awake in the middle of the night scanning through the news channels brought to me by my satellite dish. While flipping threw the stations, I caught the very end of a story on Hillary Clinton's trip to Obama's boyhood home of Jakarta, Indonesia. Like most people, I haven't paid much attention to Hill's trip because it was assumed that it would be a friendly venue. After all, it's Barack's boyhood home and the people over there celebrated Obama's victory as much as the American Democrats did. Surely this would be just a lovefest.

But that wasn't the case.

Much to my surprise, there were demonstrations and a small riot. I was blown away. Then they showed a group of people pelting a effigy of Hillary with shoes. Not just one or two, but a cache of shoes that would make Emelda Marcos proud. I sat up and my jaw dropped, "Wow, the press is going to have a field day with this!" I thought to myself. quickly I scanned the other networks. Nothing, nothing, and nothing. "Well," I thought, "Tomorrow I'll catch up on all the details."

The next morning I went to work trying to find out why they were throwing shoes at President Obama's Secretary of State. Through the Web I surfed, to no avail. "What the Hell?" I began to ponder. I couldn't find anything anywhere. Finally, I found a story out of Jakarta itself. With the help of Babelfish (a great site for translating and one of my little tricks) I managed to find the story. I wasn't dreaming, they really were throwing shoes! A little more work and I unearthed a story out of Canada on it but still no major network out of the U.S.. Now a couple of questions occurred. If it was such a big story when G.W. Bush had two shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi Journalist, why is it a non-story when Hillary has demonstrations and a cache of shoes thrown at her effigy in a country that is supposed to be a friendly venue? And why were they throwing shoes at her effigy, (supposedly a huge insult in Muslim countries)?

The first question is easy. Our media has been on a day and night quest to destroy G.W. for at least the past 6 years. Not that he didn't help them by being one of the worst Presidents in history. They used the shoethrowing occasion to further slander Bush in a way that only the Left-bias media can. Hillary on the other hand, is the left's female martyr and they are not going to say one negative thing about her unless forced to. But why did the demonstrators hurl the shoes? I have to thank my friend Andre for the answer. Andre reminded me that the U.S. press, while doing Hillary's dirtywork, had released a photo of Barack in Kenya dressed in Muslim regalia. Another story had also been leaked about his attending a Madrassa (school) in Indonesia as a child. Hillary had tried to make the connection between Barack's Muslim ties in Indonesia with his being a closet Muslim. Which she made sound like a very bad thing. For the law-abiding, peaceful Muslims in Indonesia, this must have been quite an insult.

For all of my readers; This is a good example of the kind of bias our media demonstrates nearly every day. I though this would be a great time for all of you to ask yourself a question that you should be asking yourself a lot. Why are some stories huge while others are ignored? Is my media fair? The real lesson here is that even if your one of the few people who has a broad range of media outlets, you never have enough. H.C.