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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 ::

MSM Fuels Insurgency--And They Know it.

What if main-stream-media told the truth about Iraq? What if the UN denounced the Iraqi "insugency" led by former Baathists and Islamofascists and supported the movement toward Democracy in the middle east? What if Jacques Chirac sent troops to Iraq to assist the US in election security? What if the Canadians made an appeal to the leaders of the Arab world to denounce homicide Bombings? What if Al Jazeera aired a few stories about how the US is attempting to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and that every time they succeed, a terrorist blows up yet ANOTHER water treatment plant?

It is becomming quite clear the media is fueling the insurgency through an insideous form of selective journalism that is killing US troops and jeaprodizing stability in the region--and they are shameless in their utter disregard for the facts of the Iraq reconstruction. History, should it be told honestly, will implicate MSM in the lag of stability and progress for the embattered Iraqi people. This is the crux of it from Greyhawk - an eyewitness to the situation in Iraq--via The Corner:

"Somewhere in central Iraq an aircraft lands delivering goods that aren't made in country. Nothing unusual in that; go to any bazaar in this land and you'll find imported items outnumber those manufactured locally. Years of brutal dictatorship, UN sanctions, and ultimately war to end both have left this nation's manufacturing infrastructure less than intact, to say the least. The task of rebuilding is a daunting one, made more so by factions that would see to it that success is limited, that progress isn't made."

"That's the future, at least the future as those with any sense of optimism see it. For now forklifts scurry quickly up the lowered cargo door and hoist pallets of material then return to their starting points, unload and climb for more. A forest of pallets forms on the pavement, soon to be loaded on trucks for transport away from the relative safety of the airbase. Now empty, the plane taxis away to retrieve another load. Now full, a convoy of trucks departs for other locations around the country, the drivers will quite literally risk their lives to get this material to its intended destination."

"The forklifts stand by as in the distance the drone of another approaching aircraft signals their job is far from over."

"The scene is repeated in various locations around the country. The payload? The material thought worth dying for by hundreds of men determined to move their nation forward? Election material, of course. The future history of free Iraq is being written. Across the country the people express a commitment to democracy, a determination to vote. Should they see the reports from America they must be stunned; stories of "disenfranchisement" from here and there where the weather was bad and many voters felt the wait in line was just too long, thanks. This is America? Could these people actually be somehow related to the men and women in uniform here in Iraq? Those who are shoulder to shoulder with the people of Baghdad, Mosul, Basra... delivering the ballots, manning the checkpoints, ever vigilant for the appearance of the "former regime loyalist" and the "foreign insurgent" determined to inflict the rule of the knife on a population that has never known anything but?"

"Bloody days are in store. These elections will be like nothing before witnessed. In most areas of the country all will be well, but elsewhere a shredded remnant of the anti-Iraqi forces will make their presence known. Their efforts are nearly impotent; on a recent day five separate car bomb attacks failed to reach their intended targets. Yet even as their failures mount, even as their ranks are diminished and their slaughterhouses are shut down they know one thing that brings them a glimmer of hope: their allies in the world media will not let them down. Whether to simply sell papers, lure advertisers, or to support a cause they firmly believe in, many in the media are the insurgent’s final hope.

I tuned in to NPR three times today - randomly, - to hear what they were discussing. All three times, at random times of the day they were discussing the "torture" at Abu Grhaib. The solipsistic phoneys that pose as "journalists" at NPR don't have a clue--they really don't understand "torture" - that is until one of their pretentious, smug little "reporters" has his head sawed-off by Zarqawi and his Luditte band of Islamofacist butchers. But that is unlikely to happen because NPR doesn't have anybody in harms way--like say the three brothers at Iraq the Model. NPR, like Dan Rather and his ilk, are reminiscent of the little clatch of highschool girls, grouped around the drinking fountian, fabricating salacious, cruel and deadly rumors at the expense of an innocent victim.

I really don't think that anyone wants a media that cheerleads US foreign policy but what MSM is passing off for journalism these days is nothing less than transparent and easily debunked propaganda. I can't believe my tax dollars pay the salaries of the NPR staff. They are truly lazy and dispicable ideologues and I'm thrilled nealy all the main-stream sources like "public" radio and TV are losing listeners, viewers, readership, marketshare at a fantastic pace. Can't happen fast enough for me.

Update: Instapundit has this and - no- you won't hear it on NPR: "INTERESTING NEW POLL RESULTS from Iraq. The Iraqis' views on security are especially interesting: "75% of Iraqis say security where they live is either 'good' or 'average.' Not exactly the impression you would get from the American press."

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