Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 11/06/2009 7:31:09 PM PST by phrogphlyer
First, let me say that I have hated the media for some time now, but today was a new low. I was driving through Des Moines this afternoon, and heard an NPR story on the Ft Hood shooting. It started out surprisingly balanced - a little too much "one the one hand, on the other hand," but better than I expected from NPR. Something along the lines of, (paraphrasing, obviously) "this event may have happened because the shooter was stressed out from counseling PTSD soldiers, or it may be because he's a muslim." Then they played a clip of Gen Cone on CBS, stating that some Soldiers reported that the shooter said "allahu ackbar" before or during the attack. Then it got interesting.
First, the reporter (I wish I had caught his name) had to explain that "allahu ackbar" means god is greater, and it's a phrase often uttered by terrorists as they execute their attacks. Then he said (and I quote), "But did the Soldiers really hear that?" I honestly didn't hear any more of the report, because I was screaming at the radio at the top of my lungs. I almost put my fist through my dashboard. That was four hours ago, and I'm still mad about it.
I recently got back from a year in Afghanistan. When I first got there, Gen Cone was the Commanding General of CSTC-A, my boss several echelons up. I mention this because I know he has done his time over there, and he knows this enemy. He understands the significance of the phrase "allahu ackbar." It's a pretty safe assumption that the majority of Soldiers in that readiness center have already deployed in support of the GWOT, so they would also understand the significance of that phrase. It's a very distinctive, unforgettable sound, much like incoming rounds. For this pansy-ass, whiny-voiced reporter to question the on-scene accounts of these Warriors just because it didn't fit his predetermined template really pissed me off. Every one of the people who were targeted in this attack have sworn an oath to protect the Constitution, including the First Amendment, which protects the rights of this idiot to question them in such a condescending manner. But I guess he's just too intelligent to understand that.
OK, I'm done ranting.
These media elites are despicable.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
I have stopped listening to all radio and watch all TV. Even Fox and the conservative talk shows are irritating in what they consistently choose to ignore.
I am tired. Too many times I have wanted to put my fist through the radio.
You have no one to blame but yourself for listening to NPR. I know Iowa is a tough place to find something to listen to, but clog dancing on the radio is better than NPR!
So I’m not the only one driven to road rage by these pinheads. If you can’t do, teach, if you can’t teach, report the news.
Your not alone, I can’t even watch the NFL anymore the commentators are all biased, put a fork in me I am done. Thank God for Talk Radio.
I have to agree with you. The lengths to which the media will go to avoid talking about the man’s religious beliefs and how they might have led to these murders is appalling. There’s something wrong if people are so compelled to be in denial about the reality of the thing.
Okay if other Americans choose to be comatose, but I choose not to be.
Mike Miklawceshikiyeeey, was the worst last nigt (or early this morning) on MSNBC (surprise!). His whole schpiel was that somehow, the Army was resposible for setting this guy off.
If you can’t do, teach, if you can’t teach, report the news.
But if you do report the news, never go on jepordy and prove what we already know...you can’t learn!
They will forget his online postings. His discipline for preaching Islam to his patients. His reported words to the effect that infidels need beheading.
“Compassion Fatigue” will become the accepted reason for the most uncompassionate act ever on a US military base.
Probably the most insulting thing they could do, sort of like turning a 9-11 memorial site into a Crescent.
I used to think of the media as dogs. Now I think they are more like what I can find on the bottom of my shoe after I walk my dog.
Obviously the spin talking points have been issued to the MSN by Axelrod from the heady precincts of the White House.
We need to change the language. I laugh about all the descriptions of this incident.
Words are used like shootings , killings , ( couched in terms as if the victims could shoot back.)
This happened at a med facility where there was a long cue for flu shots and other medical processing.The perpetrator calmly got to his feet , reached into his jacket, drew his 5.7 mm FN pistol and calmly started walking down the rows of people , pointing his weapon and shooting them calmly, point blank, in cold blood.
This was not “shootings” This was not “killings.” This was genocidal execution. These human beings were dispatched as if they were animals.One woman was 6 months pregnant.
TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH. GENOCIDAL EXECUTION is what this was.
The same sort that happened in Kenya , courtesy of Obama’s tinkering there, in 2007.
OBAMA’S FAULT!!!!!!!
THIS WAS AN ACT OF RELIGIOUS GENOCIDE.
THIS WAS A WAR CRIME.
I don’t listen to the media any more. I don’t watch their stupid television shows. I did listen to the NPR story for a few minutes on my way home from work this evening. I made up my mind that I’d listen to it to hear how they were spinning the Ft. Hood Massacre. Two minutes was all I could take; they telling us how this was probably caused by stress and isolation. Incidents like this show the media for what they have become, and what they have become is the reason I haven’t watched them in 20 years.
The media is not America, and America is not the media. The media consists of people who believe themselves to be the elite of the world. In their minds, they transcent international borders and cultures. They are their own alpha and omega.
They spend most of their time preening for each other. If you want to waste your time watching, knock yourself out.
Most Americans are not fooled for a minute.
The shooter was killed at the scene.
The shooter who was killed was one of three shooters.
The shooter is a Muslim convert, not a born Muslim, and anyway his being a Muslim is irrelevant.
See, only the crack journalists of the “mainstream” newsrooms are qualified to investigate and report the news. Only they can be trusted to get it right. The internet is filled with nothing but rumor-mongers and fabricators. (cough)
By the way, can you imagine if the shooter had handed out Bibles the morning of the massacre?
I listen to npr and I’ve noticed they are moving to the center because Obama is something of a smelly fish—donations are plunging with Obama’s poll numbers.
Welcome to the club.
So that’s how you spell his name.;-)
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