Media's Bizarre Embrace of Terrorists in Paradise Program

Fox Forum Blog ^ | Joel Mowbray

[Ooh-Ah]

It did not come with the promise of 72 virgins, but newly released Guantanamo Bay detainees managed to make it to paradise after all. What the fawning media neglected to mention was that these supposedly friendly lads all trained at an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist camp in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Not that you’ll hear any such inconvenient facts from the mainstream media, of course.

While many in the mainstream media are not-so-privately cheering Obama’s planned closure of Guantanamo Bay, does their fervor excuse them from meeting even minimal journalistic standards?/

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Assuming that the facts are actually as they appear, though, paying countries to take terrorists could result in quite a tab. If Obama wants to release an additional 70 Gitmo detainees, a fairly conservative estimate in order to minimize the number of suspects held after the base’s scheduled shuttering early next year, the total cost would be over $1 billion in taxpayer money—assuming no inflation.

While many in the mainstream media are not-so-privately cheering Obama’s planned closure of Guantanamo Bay, does their fervor excuse them from meeting even minimal journalistic standards?

Here’s the key question: Would they maintain their superficial coverage if the Gitmo detainees were going to move into their neighborhoods?

[JaneNC]

What minimal journalistic standards???
ROFL ROFL

Journalism is dead. PERIOD

[shalom aleichem]

The biggest problem is the “Muslim communities” there andnin Palau are welcoming them with open arms. These guys will be bad apples ready to spoil the barrel. Also like “green berets” fresh from Al Qaida training camps and full of Jihad to train the heretofore peaceful Muslims in these paradise places.

These clowns should stay locked up, returned to their native land (i.e. China) or liquidated.

[Lurker]

If George Bush had proposed this madness the Legacy media would have hounded him unmercifully for it.

But because it's being done by our current idiot CINC there's nary a peep from them.

[Spok]

And when these terrorists shed more blood, the MSM will likewise remain completely silent. If it wasn’t for Fox, Drudge, the Washington Times and talk radio, the blackout on this kind of news would be absolutely total.

[Cicero]

What minimal journalistic standards???

Not being so stoned out of your mind that you lose the DNC talking points when transferring them from your email box into the typeset compositor program?

[norraad]

Journalism is dead. PERIOD . . . .however, Presstitution is running wild!

Eewwww, what a bunch of whores!