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For Media, Lying About Islam A Hard Habit To Break

The malfunctioning Media must have gotten something of a fright at the horrific events unfolding in Paris, where France’s top cartoonists and satirists were taken out by their French compatriots, practitioners of Islam. Living in a parallel reality as the media do has its price. The Fourth Estate (media) has moved the country into the Third Dimension. They lie so much that when shit happens that scares them; they no longer know where to turn for the truth.

But desperate times call for desperate measures. Truth tellers who seldom get a hearing on the idiot’s lantern, Fox News included, have been called upon to shed light where media and their cyphers in skirts have shed only darkness.

Thus, yesterday Megyn Kelly’s “expert” on Islam was Brooke Goldstein; she is generally Kelly’s choice on matters Muslim. Unless good looks qualify one to expatiate on Islam, Goldstein is gormless; she knows next to nothing meaningful about Islam. Yet she and her ilk are fixtures on TV talking about the topic.

Today, however, Megyn Kelly traded Goldstein for Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom Kelly had only ever interviewed, in the past, about women in Islam and not about Islam.

Ayaan is valuable in what she says about Islam, not in the cures she advocates (intellectual outreach):

“All that violence you can no longer divorce from the religion of Islam,” she told Kelly.

Like Kelly, Anderson Cooper had also decided to quit beating about the bush. He was treated to tougher words from Ayaan:

the most important bit of it is to face the grim reality that this is embedded in the religion that we were brought up in. I happen to have left the religion, … but at some point we have to face the grim fact, it is an ugly fact, it’s a fact we want to turn away from, no one wants to turn away that fact more from than I am.
This is embedded in Islam, and the best way to fix this is to acknowledge that, and when you talk about attitudes and our mindsets, the first thing comes to my mind is it is an attitude toward the Qur’an. These individuals who committed this crime and all of these people who are committing this crime, they treat the Qur’an like a driver’s manual. They look at their Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide for today, and if they look at the Prophet Muhammad as a moral guide on some instances, that would be OK, but in some instances, he cannot be a moral guide.
And that’s … the rest of us who are brought in the house of Islam, we need to stand up and to say in many ways the Prophet Muhammad cannot be a moral guide. That is what Charlie Hebdo was doing. If we want to be a part of civilized society, we have to say that the Prophet Muhammad, especially in his years after Medina, he cannot be a moral guide for good. He was from our 21st century perspective absolutely immoral. We have to satirize that…

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch would have bested Ayaan Hirsi Ali by far.

We Know Whodunit

Crime, Islam, Media, Terrorism

Just as some media still pretend the phrase “radical Islam,” deployed by Megyn Kelly again today, is not a redundancy—Islam is radical—others make believe that when individuals shoot up a place of business yelling praise for their vampiric godhead, “the motive … of the perpetrators [is] still unknown.” How many journalists like Ms. Krule of Slate still pretend, with each Islam-inspired atrocity, the we have a Whodunit to unravel?

Beavis (Obama) & Butthead (Steve Inskeep) Do National Public Radio (NPR)

Barack Obama, Critique, Journalism, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media

Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio “interviewed” President Obama in the Oval Office. Inskeep’s interview is really a non-probing, lighthearted quiz that can be paraphrased as follows:

* So glad you were able to pass two major executive actions. Did the fact that elections had just passed liberate you to perform so liberating a service?

* I hope you continue to do the things you want to do, Mr. president. I’m with you, Bro.

* Pretend the following is a question, when in fact it is but a way for me to “cleverly” show you the degree to which I’m down with you. Here goes: Bloody Congress! How do you, Great Leader, intend to get those rube-hicks on board with your enlightened executive orders?

* Republicans are nativists. I’m so smart. We both are. (The two laugh like Beavis and Butthead.)

* Finally, and before I suggest my own flattering explanation of how wickedly smart your foreign policy is—outwitting enemies with empathy—I’m going to get really tough and give you a chance to convince me America has not been further divided racially by yourself.

* Have I told you how awesome you are for bringing the price of oil down? Consider it said.

Each and every question posed by Steve Inskeep suggests its own, most-flattering reply.

Repulsive.

Read with vomit bag handy.

The Fourth Estate (Media) Moving Country Into Third Dimension

Hollywood, Journalism, Media, Neoconservatism, Objectivism, Technology

Being part of major US media—the Fourth Estate—means moving into a Third Dimension of your own making and taking the country with you. What was it that the Bush neoconservative Karl Rove once asserted at the heights of that regime’s manipulation of reality?

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

As was suggested over these pixelated pages, the “Hollywood hack hysteria” was a media event, not a journalistic investigation, as all news reporting should be. Accordingly, “the moron media shared speculations but not much credible evidence as to the source of the hack.”

It was left to an unconventional citizen-journalist-cum-blogger using conventional journalistic methods to uncover Jonathan Gruber’s utterances. Ditto the Sony hack attack. A blog called North Korea Tech by Martyn Williams did the digging. It

details inconsistencies in the Sony attack and past attacks by North Korea.
“Computers at Sony displayed a message threatening the release of internal documents if undisclosed demands were not met. North Korean hackers have never made such public demands,” Williams writes.
He also notes that little is known about Guardians of Peace, the group that claimed responsibility for the attack. No group has claimed credit in past North Korean hacks.
Williams said that the hackers stole sensitive information about movie stars, staff, and Sony management. In an apparently personal attack, the hackers posted a message on the Twitter accounts of Sony employees. This gives credence to the growing theory that the attack was an inside job.
Tommy Stiansen, the chief technology officer for Norse, a hacker-tracking company, told Bloomberg that he plans to approach the FBI and Mandiant, the private company researching the attack, with information that implicates a disgruntled Sony employee in Japan in the attack.

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