I love this article as it has a lot of simple hard facts in it.....
I had the same reaction to the image I saw of the thing yet its the facts that win the day.
The Obama culture is very sick
Moslems are sick.
A big thanks to Anthony for writing this article. We at FR have very educated and experienced people with many skills in many areas.
To have them take the time to explain how things work is a blessing for those of us who don’t know electronics, etc.
I wonder how many newspapers and TV/radio stations/networks are going to find, read and present to their readers and listeners what he has written.
Right now I’m thinking about ZERO, even most of the conservative ones whose news gathering/dissecting abilities seem to be on a summer’s mental hold.
I had a long discussion on FR concerning how Trump should have replied to the man in the New Hampshire audience who said that Obama was a Muslim, etc.
My position was that if the man had made the statement as his opinion, things would have been fine, but he made a declarative statement as though he knew what he was saying was the “truth”, not his opinion. That is where the danger lies for conservative candidates and even elected officials.
You will be sandbagged from all sides and you need to be ready to sink those unannounced opinion statements at the start.
In the case of little Achmed Mohammed, serious conservative writers should consult electronics experts such as Anthony to get some real background on the device in question, before making declarative or unsubstantiated characterizations of the boy and the device. Their reputation for accuracy rests on this type of professionalism.
The first rule of journalism is to always wait 24 hours to allow the smoke of an event to clear but making statements that will come back to bite you in the ass.
Long-time Communist sympathizer writer Mark Lane’s book “Rush to Judgment” on the JFK assassination, got away with his wildly off target claims about a conspiracy to kill the president, because people needed a lot of time to read the Warren Commission Report/Summary, which debunked Lane’s fantasies.
We cannot allow that kind of “rush to judgment” mentally cloud our thinking and investigative reporting.
“Accuracy” is what will help us win in the present and in the future. Make one major mistake (or even a minor one), and the leftist media will crucify you like ISIS does to Christians they capture.
So, thank you Anthony. You have put sanity, knowledge and the need for a clear look at events back into the question of how the media reacts to events, how the President is such a leftist media vulture, and how gullible too many Americans are on all sides of the political spectrum.
If Leonard Nimoy, “Mr. Spock”, were still alive, he would say about Anthony’s article, “That is Logical”.