There’s a pretty common refrain among some of my friends: Why would you blog? I wouldn’t even read those things! They don’t have editors! They can say whatever they want! I generally respond that, of course, editors do not perfect……

Don’t forget Beslan. This is the Russian school which was taken over by islamic terrorist and all those children died. In that case the MSM bent over backwards to avoid calling them ‘terrorists’ using such terms as ‘hostage-takers’ ‘gangsters’ etc… And they never-ever-ever mentioned that the ‘hostage-takers’ were, to a person, Muslims or that some of them wore suicide belts. They also went out of their way to avoid even mentioning the gang-rapes of children and (excuse me) bayonetted babies.

The same way they avoid mentioning hizbollah’s use of human shields, firing from civilian areas, use of illegal combatants (no uniforms or badges to clearly identify them) or pallywood-style staged events.

No, them MSM is *not* on our side. Personally I think they are knowing and willing enablers of the terrorists. What they are doing goes beyond simply ‘disagreeing’ with the Government. Just look at the actions of the New York Times.

I’m not saying one way or another because I am not there to witness it, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised that the Qana bombing and the “rescue” attempts after sunrise turned out to be a complete and utter fabrication by Hezbol…

Well said! Great post.

Rule 2: MSM serves an agenda. They will openly lie if it serves their agenda and if they think they can get away with it.

Rule 3: I’m starting to think that maybe Ann Coulter has a point about the NYTimes. God help me for having such terrible thoughts about domestic terrorism.

Most people are unaware that in WWII, FDR imposed strict censorship of war news or domestic news that could affect the war.

There were good and solid reasons for this, as FDR *KNEW* that uncensored news of the war would result in America losing heart because the media would naturally undercut morale and the war effort. He had the historical record, particularly the Civil War coverage, as an example.

So starting shortly after Pearl Harbor, the President ordered strict censorship about the war, especially concerning casualties during combat operations. It worked. And after the war was wib, the censorship was abolished.

In Vietnam, the government imposed no censorship and we ended up with “Uncle Walter” Cronkite lying about the ‘68 Tet offensive, calling it a victory for the communists when in fact it was their biggest single defeat. That’s not my ignorant opinion, BTW, that was Gen. Giap’s.

In Desert Storm, we imposed no censorship and we ended up with Dan Rather (another See-BS employee) interviewing the enemy (Saddam) who, in a propaganda stunt worthy of Joseph Goebbels, predicted defeat for the US’s airwar, giving ammo to liberal Democrats against the war in 1991.

In 2003’s invasion of Iraq, again no censorship (and again Rather became Saddam’s propaganda enabler), and even though we allowed embedded newmen with the troops, the media still slanted the news of the war against the USA every chance they got. If you remember, the invasion was only 1 week old and the leftist morons of the MSM were already calling it a “quagmire.”

And they are still at it. Most of what passes for “news” about Iraq, even now, is little more than a recitation of our KIAs, without context as to mission, whether the mission was a success, and how many of the enemy we killed or captured.

We are given the impression by the MSM, that the enemy is simply picking us off, one by one, and we are helpless to do anything about it — when in fact, the suppression of the insurgency, the reconstruction efforts, the political vigor of Iraq and the destruction of Al Qaeda (and it’s myth of “invincibility”) are success stories that are simply suppressed and ignored.

As an example, the recent announcement by 2 Senators and the DOD that ~500 WMD had been found in Iraqi weapon dumps since the invasion was almost completely spiked and suppressed by the MSM. Imagine that, the most important political story of the decade — the VINDICATION of the President that he was RIGHT about Iraq’s WMD — was not “newsworthy.”

And they are doing it again in covering the war started by Hizbollah.

Qana is just the most recent example of how the media carries the enemy’s water through slanted, biased coverage.

Ernie Pyle, America’s best-known WWII correspondent, said “every reporter is a citizen of somewhere and a believer in something.”

It has become a truism that modern American reporters believe that America and her allies should alway lose whatever war we are fighting at the time, and that terrorists and their cause should always prevail.

My 2 cents.

Despite the ratings numbers for news programs, I am finding a lot of people tuning out. I mentioned the missile strikes in Israel and some people respond: are they fighting? People who used to read headlines are tuning out.

I can’t tell if this negative overload is creating an anti-Israel mood. Like the recent ‘Imagine a World without Israel’ aricle, is bad propaganda working simply to make people so sick of the play they wish to shoot the actor and end it all?

I know I am getting tired of the eternally angry islamist.

If I seemed annoyed tonight on The O’Reilly Factor when Mr. O. said it doesn’t matter what really happened at Qana, well, yes, I was annoyed. The truth matters. Thank God for persistent bloggers and non-dhimmis digging and scrutinizing and……

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Update: Looks like more manipulation. If you check in at lgf and HotAir, you’ll find a CNN story talking about the rotting corpses from a mass burial in Tyre. Yet, as I point out below, bodies from that burial were stored in refri…

Update: Looks like more manipulation. If you check in at lgf and HotAir, you’ll find a CNN story talking about the rotting corpses from a mass burial in Tyre. Yet, as I point out below, bodies from that burial were…

and more HERE

Caution: many of the images will be very disturbing to many people.

Apparently some of those have a history of parading childrens bodies around before cameras.

The disinformation is so thick I cannot even make a decent guess with the slanted information garnered by the liberal media.

The MSM would be having fits if American armed forces made them to report in this manner.

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The next most likely scenario is that after the strike, Hezbollah noted a chance to wage a PR war and raided the overflowing morgue at nearby Tyre. With seven hours to work with, they could easily get back and put the bodies in a shallow hole or near the building (remember, the media were never allowed to even get close to the building, and have only Hezbollah’s word that these children were dug out).

They could also have moved the bodies into the damaged structure and then finished the demolition themselves. 7 hours is a lot of time, and they’ve certainly got the explosives.

Question: Is there ethically any difference between what Hitler did to whip up anti-Semitism in the 1930’s and what the MSM (such as the picture on the Independent’s front page) is doing? I don’t see any difference. The MSM is trying to inflame sentiment against the Jews in Israel so that the public will support a people (Hezbollah) that would be perfectly content to commit genocide.

And forget about any self imposed ceasefire by Israel since the Hizbullah rockets continue flying into Israel. Israel says that the cessation of airstrikes will not include imminent threats. In other words, if they see rocket launchers firing, they w…..

And has anybody noticed that the conspiracy-mongers are quite silent about the seven/eight hour gap? I mean, the twin towers fell in, what, two/three hours? This is at least twice as long, maybe four times as long. Surely long enough to rig a controlled demolition (or even just an extra charge or two to finish the building off)… where are the cries of “conspiracy!!!”??

chirp chirp chirp.

RH