Wednesday, August 04, 2004
A Craven Failure
Monday's edition of NPR's Diane Rehm Show (You know, the knee-jerk liberal lady with the quaveriest voice this side of Kate Hepburn and a half-baked understanding of defense issues) featured an interesting discussion with the Washington Post's Pamela Constable--speaking from Mosul, and Anne Scott Tyson, the Pentagon and military correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.
Sometime during the show, they recieved a call from a Lebanese Muslim listener, who said that his belief was that all the bombings and killings bad things happening in Iraq were not the work of Ba'athist loyalists, quasi-Al Qaeda operatives like Zarqawi, Iraqi nationalists, and garden variety jihadists, but that actually the bombings and terror attacks--presumeably to include the recent church bombings, to be the work of the Israeli Mossad.
Naturally, Diane Rehm, Pamela Constable, and Anne Scott Tyson spoke with one voice to refute and rebuke this bigoted blood libel as just what it is--a racist and enormously destructive lie.
Ooops, I misspoke myself.
Diane Rehm, Pamela Constable, and Anne Scott Tyson listened respectfully and made no counterargument, no rebuttal whatsoever. They didn't even bother to express disagreement. They simply went on as though this caller had as good a claim to the facts as any other. His hatred--as clearly expressed and as vile as anything in Hitler's Mein Kampf--was not confronted. His hatred was not rejected. His hatred was simply tolerated as a matter of course. It was accepted without comment.
These are the tough-minded truth seekers and courageous journalistic crusaders currently in the employ of NPR, the WaPo, and the Christian Science Monitor.
If they can't even confront the antisemetic paranoid delusions of a Jew-hating jihadist, how in the world can we expect them to confront the spin of the Kerry campaign or the Pentagon (or any other campaign for that matter?)
Feh.
I'm sure Leni Reifenstahl would have received a reasonably good film review, too.
Splash, out
Jason
Sometime during the show, they recieved a call from a Lebanese Muslim listener, who said that his belief was that all the bombings and killings bad things happening in Iraq were not the work of Ba'athist loyalists, quasi-Al Qaeda operatives like Zarqawi, Iraqi nationalists, and garden variety jihadists, but that actually the bombings and terror attacks--presumeably to include the recent church bombings, to be the work of the Israeli Mossad.
Ooops, I misspoke myself.
Diane Rehm, Pamela Constable, and Anne Scott Tyson listened respectfully and made no counterargument, no rebuttal whatsoever. They didn't even bother to express disagreement. They simply went on as though this caller had as good a claim to the facts as any other. His hatred--as clearly expressed and as vile as anything in Hitler's Mein Kampf--was not confronted. His hatred was not rejected. His hatred was simply tolerated as a matter of course. It was accepted without comment.
These are the tough-minded truth seekers and courageous journalistic crusaders currently in the employ of NPR, the WaPo, and the Christian Science Monitor.
If they can't even confront the antisemetic paranoid delusions of a Jew-hating jihadist, how in the world can we expect them to confront the spin of the Kerry campaign or the Pentagon (or any other campaign for that matter?)
Feh.
I'm sure Leni Reifenstahl would have received a reasonably good film review, too.
Splash, out
Jason
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