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February 16, 2006
Treason and Hypocrisy, the MSM's Stock in Trade
Surprise! The same insufferable MSM moonbats who wouldn't publish the tepid Danish cartoons lest they offend Muslims are running with the opportunity to shove more Abu Ghraib pictures in everyone's face — knowing full well that such pictures have minimal news value at this point but continue to constitute a valuable recruitment tool for Islamic terrorists.
The Australian television network SBS's Dateline program has gone public with newly uncovered (though 3 years old) video and still images from Abu Ghraib, the scandal the Left will not let die.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman observed the obvious: that dredging up more Abu Ghraib pictures could "possibly incite unnecessary violence in the world" and of course, endanger US troops. He also noted that the situation has been dealt with. The scandal led to a comprehensive review of detention operations by the Defense Department that resulted in 600 criminal investigations and 200 prosecutions.
As General John Abizaid pointed out last September:
When we continue to pick at the wound and show the pictures over and over again, it just creates the image — which is a false image — like this is the sort of stuff that is happening anew, and it's not.
But of course, creating false images is the whole point of propaganda — and creating the kind that encourage Islamic terrorism is a specialty of the mainstream media.
Naturally Al-Jazeera picked up the newly publicized images and ran with them, as did its twin sister CNN, which offers a whole "gallery" of Abu Ghraib stills, as well as a video clip.
When reporting on the Danish cartoons, CNN runs a note that it is not showing the cartoons themselves so that it can avoid "adding fuel to the controversy."
Their hypocrisy is almost as staggering as their eagerness to betray their own civilization.
The sniveling weasels at the Washington Post are also running one of the SBS pictures. They would not run the Danish cartoons at all, because they "have standards about language, religious sensitivity, racial sensitivity and general good taste."
The list of traitors and hypocrites goes on and on. Naturally it includes the New York Times.
Obviously this is not a matter of not wanting to anger Muslim savages. It is a matter of cowardly siding with the enemies of Western Civilization. If any institution on earth is more profoundly contemptible than the left-liberal mainstream media, I hope I never find out about it. I would die of disgust.
Just so that Moonbattery can do its part to ensure that the Gray Lady et al. are not successful in leaving people to believe that the Danish cartoons somehow warrant a violent reaction, here they are once again:
Posted by Van Helsing at February 16, 2006 9:37 PM
Comments
And CNN wonders why Cheney choose to go with Fox News for his interview to explain the shooting accident?
The lamestream media is showing that on it's way to total irrelevancy, it is still capable of damaging this countries foreign policy and undermining our national security.
Did CNN cover Al Gores treasonous speech in Saudi Arabia?
Posted by: Mike's America at February 17, 2006 2:35 AM
I guess it's similar to the reason Kofi Annan calls for closing down Club Gitmo, but has never EVER criticized China, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba, or Iran for running real death camp and committing real torture (not the Andrew-Sullivan-gets-hysterical-because the-air-conditioning-was-too-high kind). If you criticize Muslims or commies, your life is in danger. If you criticize Republicans, you get a six-figure book deal, an interview with Katie Couric, and all your left-wing friends will clap you on the back and tell you how courageous you are for "speaking truth to power."
Posted by: V the K at February 17, 2006 5:54 AM
Beyond contemptable....
Posted by: nikko at February 17, 2006 11:52 AM
Err, van Helsing, the editor in me feels compelled to tell you that the phrase is actually "stock in trade" - i.e. what one sells in the daily course of doing business.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at February 17, 2006 12:26 PM
Thank you, Cato. All fixed.
Posted by: Van Helsing at February 17, 2006 7:52 PM
