Day: May 24, 2007

Secret story leaks out

Time Mag’s Joe Klein wandered from the anti-war, anti-Bush reservation long enough to report what embedded “warbloggers” such as Michael Yon have been telling us about Anbar province.  Instapundit here is a good place to start with this secret story that can’t quite make it to our Mainstream Media friends.

The good news is success being achieved.  It will kill Pelosi and friends, already reeling as they see themselves losing two wars right now, on Bush and corruption, about which look here.

The bad news is a yawner by now.  MSM is slow, clumsy, and wedded to its prejudices.  Something’s got to give.

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No moderate Muslims?

Wow.  Why didn’t I think of this?  Sensible Muslims are not silent about Mad Muslims, says Stephen Schwartz.  They just aren’t being reported.

The problem is more that of “MSM silence” than of “Muslim silence.” . . .  MSM silence about moderate Islam discourages the recruitment of moderates to anti-terrorist activism, but also deters the solidarity of non-Muslims who could otherwise assist moderate Muslims.

For instance, the Fort Dix Six, four of whom are ethnic Albanians, stimulated an anti-Albanian binge (though with no mention of Mother Teresa, of course).  Not reported was this from “the Presidency of the Albanian Muslim Community in the U.S. and Canada”:

We condemn all acts of terrorism. …  [We] fully support United States Government efforts to end terror. . . .  We are against all those ‘so-called Muslims’ who misuse and humiliate Islam and create ugly images of the Muslim people… We pray to Almighty God to save and protect the United States.”


Does stuff like that not pass the fit-to-print test?

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