Opinion- Editorial
Sharon HowarthThursday December 6, 2012
Today, in a video segment on CNN, Senator John Kerry prosecuted his personal agenda saying that former Senator Rick Santorum was "not factual" about the far-reaching negative effects of ratification of the UN CRPD 'disability rights' treaty when in actuality Kerry was engaging in his own fallacy promotion by rendering an ignorant position on constitutional and public international law.
Alex Newman, foreign correspondent for The New American,
described the treaty in his December 3, 2012 piece as “a deeply controversial
United Nations treaty on disabled people, dubbed the UN “Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities” (UN CRPD), which critics say represents a
serious threat to American sovereignty and certain unalienable rights.” The New American
Excerpt of Kerry's statements below --
December 5th, 2012
08:35 PM ET
4 hours ago
Kerry blasts Santorum's opposition to disability treaty
(CNN) - Sen. John Kerry fired back Wednesday at former Sen. Rick Santorum's strong opposition to a U.N. treaty promoting the rights of the disabled that failed in the Senate this week.
"Rick Santorum was just not factual," Kerry said on CNN's "The Situation Room."
Kerry 'co -chaired' the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations' evidentiary proceedings -- ummmm, actually he was ABSENT for much of the hearing, stating his apologies for such, as he wielded his gavel to convene the proceedings and then divulged that he had pre-arranged a substitute co-chair due to a "prior commitment"!
However, Senator Kerry WAS present during the expert testimony of Dr. Michael Harris, Chancellor of Patrick Henry College, where Harris also teaches constitutional and public international law. Kerry's presence and verbal exchanges with the constitutional law expert, leaves him with no excuse for his deliberate attempts to mislead the public during his statements on the CNN video clip, as he opposed Dr. Harris' position on the legal precedents of the treaty's potential to usurp U.S. sovereignty, states' and individual citizens' rights.
Compounding the Orwellian 'new-speak', CNN talking head, Ashleigh Banfield, ate Kerry's video bait and then regurgitated it as she metaphorically pointed her boney finger at the camera, aiming her own potentially career-boosting op-ed shot toward viewers, on the subject of disability rights.
The only thing missing was a "tisk-tisk" from blonde-highlighted Banfield's glossy lips, who in my opinion, possesses the journalistic integrity and sincerity of a Madison Avenue ad-exec.
For just one moment, gun-control sounded like a good idea to me, as Ms. Banfield ignorantly shot her mouth off, presumably with CNN's blessing.
In contrast to this latest CNN media debacle, Bob Costas made a tactical mistake and at worst, he misused his position to promote the political elite's agenda. Costas, at least, had a genuinely earned position from which to speak during his NBC broadcast, 90-second diatribe on gun-control.
C'mon CNN! Ashleigh Banfield providing commentary on disability and constitutional rights and public international law? I seriously doubt that this pretty talking head was actually elucidating her own statements on the subject. Instead, her teleprompter words were likely composed for her segment by producers and writers sanctioned to perform such scripted editorial positing from the powers-that-be at CNN. She proved in her segment this morning, that she is nothing more than a CNN lackey.
Banfield might do better for herself, pursuing her acting career in Hollywood, rather than in the television journalism field. Does anyone recall her embarrassing and ludicrous portrayal of Christiane Amanpour during Ashleigh's Middle East coverage, in a pastel-toned burka?
Well, John Q. Public, I guess Ashleigh's just glad she's got the job and can pay for all those designer glasses she wears. I bet they're tax deductible too.
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