Author's Note: This article was co-authored by Buckley Carlson
Here’s a seemingly simple question: What is scarier? A loosely organized group of American citizens, expressing their peaceful – if passionate – discontent with their representative government by congregating en masse in a public place? OR, a well-funded, smartly organized, subversive, fearless and deeply militant, ruthlessly committed group of freedom-hating, America-despising, radical Jihadists, plotting further destruction and the violent death of innocent men, women and children?
If you say the latter – and how could you not? – then you must NOT be a member of the so called “mainstream media.”
Ponder that for a moment. And before you dismiss it as a gratuitously incendiary conversation-starter, ask yourself these Five Salient Questions:
1. When was the last time you saw a network or cable news interviewer (Fox, the lone exception) display any skepticism when a self-described “peaceful” Muslim declined to condemn terrorist activity?
2. Why is the term “Radical Islam” disappearing from news accounts (earning only 336 Google News hits at press time) when there is zero evidence that Islamic Jihad or Islamic-sponsored terrorism is on the wane? To the contrary. [Incidentally, the terms “racist” and “tea party,” when mated, garner some 7,050 Google News hits…over just the past ten days.]
3. Who is a more frequent recipient of overt media-scorn in contemporary America? Sarah Palin…or Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the “alleged” 911 mastermind? [“Who?” you say. Is this even a contest?]
4. When was the last time that you heard someone on TV describe Christianity as a “peaceful” religion?
5. What is the death toll in America – and around the World – from the vast and “smelly” [see Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) “Constituent Guide to a Blissfully Brief DC Visit”] hordes of Tea Party Activists? And from Radical Islam?!?!
Reality these days appears to have been so perverted by a “mainstream media” determined to influence, shape and mold the “news” so that it conforms to its own narcissistic pursuits and ideology, that “facts” aren’t just secondary. Now they’re downright inconvenient.
How else does one account for the dogged, and mostly nasty, pursuit of the Tea Party by members of the so-called, “mainstream media”?