#ncpol: From Greensboro N&R driveby to Blinkin’ Chris groupie
Those of you in The Triad may know Joe Killian. He’s covered politics for aeons with The Greensboro News & Record. His “reporting” during the 2014 US Senate race looked and sounded a lot like an audition to be Kay Hagan’s mouthpiece — if she survived ‘Hurricane Thom’.
Well, it looks like Scowlin’ Rob and Blinkin’ Chris have pulled Killian into their fold. You’ve got to give the guy credit. He’s not like Binky and Miss Leslie — out there still trying to pretend to be unbiased and without an agenda. His alliance with Chris and Rob is still so new that he hasn’t had time to update his LinkedIn profile.
Joe seems to be fitting in well at his new home. His writing style is almost as Marxist and mean as PolicyWatch’s two den-daddies. Get a load of what Joe finds to be “extremist”:
Yesterday we published a story about the state’s reliance on the vice president of the American College of Pediatricians for expert testimony in the lawsuit over HB2.
The group’s name certainly makes them sound like an above-board and by-the-book group of physicians concerned with sound science.
But scratch the surface and you find the group is actually a relatively small conservative advocacy group well outside the mainstream of modern medicine whose dedication to science takes a backseat to their anti-LGBT political agenda.
Sound like an unfair characterization?
Take it from the group itself.
Can any pediatrician join the American College of Pediatricians? Not quite.
“Membership is open to qualifying healthcare professionals who share the College’s Mission, Vision and Values.”
What mission, vision and values might those be?
“The Mission of the American College of Pediatricians is to enable all children to reach their optimal physical and emotional health and well-being. To this end, we recognize the basic father-mother family unit, within the context of marriage, to be the optimal setting for childhood development, but pledge our support to all children, regardless of their circumstances.”
Huh. So, what about children from families with gay and lesbian parents?
“[…W]e recognize the basic father-mother family unit, within the context of marriage, to be the optimal setting for childhood development.” THAT is EXTREME ????
Of course, ol’ Joe ignored the part after the word “but”. *You know, the whole part about pledging support to all children, regardless of their circumstances.*
Oh, brace yourself. Killian has MORE examples of “extremism”:
“The American College of Pediatricians:
- Recognizes that there are absolutes and scientific truths that transcend relative social considerations of the day.
- Recognizes that good medical science cannot exist in a moral vacuum and pledges to promote such science.
- Recognizes the fundamental mother-father family unit, within the context of marriage, to be the optimal setting for the development and nurturing of children and pledges to promote this unit. Recognizes the unique value of every human life from the time of conception to natural death and pledges to promote research and clinical practice that provides for the healthiest outcome of the child from conception to adulthood.
- Recognizes the essential role parents play in encouraging and correcting the child and pledges to protect and promote this role. Recognizes the physical and emotional benefits of sexual abstinence until marriage and pledges to promote this behavior as the ideal for adolescence.
- Recognizes that health professionals caring for children must maintain high ethical and scientific standards and pledges to promote such practice.
- Recognizes the vital role the College has in promoting quality education for parents, physicians, and other health professionals.” \
Oh, the horror
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Remember, folks. This crap is underwritten by the same folks who finance the crap you get served up on WRAL every day. And this guy Killian? He didn’t magically transform into a leftist weenie LAST MONTH. He had to fake it with the N&R. Now, he’s in weenie heaven — with Chris and Rob.
It’s sad that there is actually debate about having kids raised by a mom AND dad as the optimal scenario in child development. It’s also sad that you can be rebuked for daring to suggest that modern political thought be weeded out of science.
Groups like this form because “mainstream” medical and scientific organizations stifle, censor and run off any of its members who dare to back off the Marxist line. The same thing happens in the media. “Mainstream” drive by organizations stifle and run-off anything or anyone that dares not champion the statist gospel. So, alternative media — like this site — rise to the challenge.
Good for Joe. I’m glad he’s come out and exposed his true self. Just remember there are a lot more like him embedded in the ranks of your local driveby media outlets.
I love it, this guy writes a story that is the perfection of reflection. Blinky and Scowlfield’s whole schtick is based on points similar to what Killian wrote
1. The fact that narrative always is greater than science or common sense
2. There should be no consideration of morals
3. Human life has no value unless it fits within the whacko narrative
4. Parents are not needed, it is only the government that can raise a child
5. See number 1, science is not needed only narrative or something called “consensus”.
6. This is the only one they probably agree with…but for the fact that college should be somehow free.
Actually, considering he is at the Whacko Watch this is pretty tame. Once he gets Scowly’s list of scary adjectives then it is Katy bar the door on hysterical headlines. Then he can participate in deleting comments and blocking IP’s from posting in the first place…you know…what is called open discussion in radical leftist circles.
I also wonder what all the leftist-weenies are going to do when the N&R and their ilk no longer employ “journalists”. Does goodmon have the means to hire ALL of them?
This is a prime example of what far left Marxist hacks we have in our news media. They are propagandists, not journalists. They give journalism a bad name.