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by snuffysmith | November 14, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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David Brooks of the New York Times has written a scathing oped critique of all the press commentary concerning Hasan's state of mind in the Fort Hood rampage. He likens the media punditry to kindergarten teachers need to protect their children from thinking impermissible and intolerant thoughts. Worse, if media coverage weren't carefully "policed," "then the great mass of unwashed yahoos in Middle America would go off on a racist rampage." He writes:
The conversation in the first few days after the massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality. It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy. It ignored the fact that this narrative can be embraced by a self-radicalizing individual in the U.S. as much as by groups in Tehran, Gaza or Kandahar.
It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment. It wasn’t the reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.
It strikes me that all of the corporate media need therapy.
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at 06:25 on November 15th, 2009
Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists
Cinnamon Stillwell
The media has turned to Middle East studies "experts" for enlightenment on Major Hasan...if by "enlightenment," you mean moral relativism and obfuscation. More
at 06:31 on November 15th, 2009
The Media's Silly Fort Hood Coverage
by Mark Benjamin
at 12:28 on November 15th, 2009
"It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment."
Something from the NYT of some import? Astounding!
And they allowed it to be printed? The ice age comes next, what?
at 20:45 on November 15th, 2009
The Anything-but-Islam Pundits Strike Out
Edmond D. Smith
Not long after Major Nidal Malik Hasan pulled the trigger for the last time at Ft. Hood, the mainstream media began assembling their preposterous, anything-but-Islam narratives. More