Talk radio host and blogger Hugh Hewitt picked up on a MSM attempt to make the London bombings seem the result of our overthrow of Saddam. Here's part of what Hugh said:
Too bad MSM news organizations won't examine what they're doing to imflame people inclined toward sympathy with the terrorists.The (Washington)Post report tries to cover for the inane "Iraq is at fault" caucus by noting that:
"Still, the profile of the suspects suggested by investigators fit long-standing warnings by security experts that the greatest potential threat to Britain could come from second-generation Muslims, born here but alienated from British society and perhaps from their own families, and inflamed by Britain's participation in the Iraq war." (This and other bolds by Hewitt)
There is no evidence offered for this astonishing assertion that the Iraq war has anything to do with the massacre. Zero! And none is needed for the true-believers in the MSM. Is this "reporting?" Or cheerleading for an alternative reality where writers feel free to ascribe to murderers their motives?
On Monday, when he was undressing Ron Reagan as the dilettante that young RR is, Christopher Hitchings scolded him:
"I thought I heard you making just before we came on the air, of attributing rationality or a motive to this, and to say that it's about anything but itself, you make a great mistake, and you end up where you ended up, saying that the cause of terrorism is fighting against it, the root cause, I mean." (emphasis added)
Until the MSM grasp this point, they are worse than useless in the GWOT.
Hewitt's July 13 post provides links to the Post and Reagan/Hitchings pieces.
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