The Rush to Therapy

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.

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

"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?

An evil Muslim! Only possible if we distinguish between the man as evil, because for the left, who is in sympathy with Muslim violence unconsciously, Islam cannot be evil.

Yes, Christianity can not only be evil, but IS EVIL in their minds. So, to realize that Islam either can be evil or is evil makes them just like Christians who think that good and evil are real.

So, to avoid being evil in their own minds, these immature toadies of Political Correctness condemn condemnation of Islam while they condemn Christianity.

This is so bad as to be insane. These idiots remind me of the worst kinds of mothers I had to deal with as a child, the kind that punished you for hitting back in self-defense because we were at a party!

Yes, these are the castrating Big Nurses of a "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" mentality that is a substantive piece of the "mind", if it can be called that, of the post-sixties radical left that has hi-jacked the democratic party from its working class, populist point of view and turned it into an academic's exercise in secularist ideals.

They hate real reason, real meritocracy, real authority because of their commitment to subversion of the system. Their entire political and social philosophy is a flight from life, using the mind as a defense structure. That is Wilhelm Reich's argument and I agree.

Or... Perhaps he just went a bit mad !

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