Pajamas Media » Fort Hood Massacre: A Day of Courage and Cowardice
Most of the people in the mainstream media, I suspect, could also see early on exactly what was going on — but to an outrageous degree, they, too, spent Thursday evening doing their best to turn away from the obvious truth. Throughout the evening military and other authorities kept saying, and the talking heads on CNN kept repeating, that there was no sign that this was “a terrorist act” — as if Nidal Malik Hasan had to be officially connected to al-Qaeda to be a jihadist, a pious Muslim who saw the infidel as his enemy.
You know, sometimes I get out of bed in the morning, take a quick look at or listen to the headlines, and I just feel a depressing wave of “What’s the use?”
Today I got up and as usual, turned on the local CBS radio channel while I shaved and did my situps. I listen to this to get the conventional pundit wisdom, which the aptly-snarked Commie Broadcasting System delivers by the honeybucket load.
First thing up: A blabbering bimbette broadcaster telling us how awful it was that a soldier (unnamed) was forced into murderous insanity by the prospect of being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. She then played a tape of an army wife and mother saying, “I’d almost rather hear that he was a terrorist than that he killed ten of his fellow soldiers because he didn’t want to be deployed to Iraq.”
Lady, don’t listen to the blabbering, America-hating bimbettes of broadcasting. He was a terrorist, a jihadi who committed mass slaughter on behalf of his religion.
And I thought, What’s the use? The mainstream media is completely in the camp of America’s enemies, from leftists, socialist, liberalfascists, and communists, to Islamofascist barbarian savages dedicated to the subjugation and/or destruction of every American in the country.
This is why, when I hear respectable, measured commentators like Glenn Reynolds wisely reminding us that we need the professional media, I respond, What the hell for?
This?
These bastards can’t go broke and collapse soon enough for me.
People say, “Well, what good is a free press that only cheerleads for America?” I respond, “What good is a free press that only cheerleads for America’s enemies, and has done so for sixty years?”
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