Posted on 11/02/2017 7:55:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On Wednesday night I kept my midweek date with Tucker Carlson on Fox News to discuss the politico-media framing of the latest Islamic terror attack. From Media-ite:
On Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson and Mark Steyn slammed NBC News for a headline they put out hours after the terrorist attack in New York City.
That's because their stupid headline was ringing twelve-year-old bells. But Media-ite pretended to be shocked by my objection to it:
"NBC's headline is actually saying, 'We care more about a hypothetical attack on Muslims that never comes, we care more about that than, say, for example the five dead Argentines being scraped off the pavement in lower Manhattan,'" Steyn said. "And that is actually a narcissistic and decadent intrusion upon the real news story...
"I don't know where they are having dinner tonight, but let's say Cuomo and De Blasio, whatever restaurant you are in- if you walked in and yelled "Allahu akbar," they would dive under the table like everybody else," Steyn insisted. "They understand the distinction but they are committed to framing this issue in a way that assures there will never be strategic clarity about what is going on."
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Mark is great...great article...
As predictable as the sun rising in the East.
Me too.
As a Law Abiding American Gun Owner, I feared backlash after that nutcase killed those people in Las Vegas.
I remember the sympathetic Headlines talking about my fears.
Long over-due for Americans to take forceful action to eliminate all the actors and their supporting cast...
It is like the issue of eliminating termites...It's not just the ones you can see that need to be eliminated...The floors and walls may have to be ripped up to get all the rest.
Absolutely right. There is no "backlash", and most likely will not happen against muslims here. Until someone bombs a large gathering of them, or otherwise does harm to them in a horrific way. Ain't happening, we don't have the cultural mentality of muslims. They are essentially evil in large percentages of their culture; while our culture has tiny percentages of miscreants in our culture. They deserve a backlash, but it is a myth.
Mark is our times’ Mark Twain and HL Mencken rolled into one. The only person who approaches him is PJ O’Rourke.
As to his headline, it riffs on this joke -—
Announcement
The Al Ahya Mosque wishes to assure
Americans that we had neither hand in,
nor knowledge of tomorrow’s attack on
the Madison Square Garden.
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