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June 12, 2008

More Media Bias: 'Reporters Spewing Enemy Talking Points' On Court's Gitmo Ruling:

As Noel Sheppard notes at NewsBusters, in case you missed it, the Supreme Court Thursday bestowed Constitutional rights to terrorists currently held at Guantanamo Bay and the broadcast evening news programs predictably - quickly saw this decision as "a stinging defeat for the Bush administration that could prove tremendously embarrassing to the president."

Needless to say, Mark Levin, a constitutional lawyer, lawyer, and radio talk show host, is to say the least, mad as hell, and stated earlier in the day that reporters making such statements "are lying through they're teeth. They are propagandists, spewing the talking points of the enemy."

And in light of the spirited "defense" of ABC by a commenter here on a post that, although the key source of the info is anonymous, nonetheless models the overwhelming bias of ABC in favor of America's enemy (note that "ABC Finds Soldiers in Iraq Backing Candidates: Obama and Clinton" seems to back up the info in the post - via a 5 second Google search), here's a well-sourced story on the very same ABC reporter:

The broadcast network evening newscasts gave as much emphasis Thursday night to the biting dissent as the majority opinion in the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling on behalf of the Guantanamo detainees, but told the story through the prism of the Bush administration getting rebuked by the decision characterized as "historic" and "landmark" -- with ABC's Martha Raddatz ominously warning "it could be very embarrassing for the administration." CBS avoided any label for the majority while tagging the dissenters as "conservative" and only NBC noted how some of those already released have committed atrocities.

This is now what the world will witness during the trials of the al Qaeda detainees in Guantanamo, Cuba. Both the inmates on the inside and the Jihadi-mates on the outside were waiting for this moment to strike, politically and psychologically, using the media as their weapon. To the well-trained and -indoctrinated five standing trial, the objective is not to gain as many rights and freedoms as possible under current U.S. and international law; rather it is to resume what they began before 9/11 which they deeply wish to fulfill - as they said in their own words - using the trial as a global media opportunity.

The goal of these other free Jihadists is to deter Washington - and other Western countries - from trying the incarcerated Jihadists. Their thinking is that if the U.S. gets condemned in the global media for prosecuting and trying and eventually sentencing the worst of the worst, America will be intimidated when it tries to prosecute non-al Qaeda Jihadists. In addition, other "hidden forces" sympathetic to the goals, but not the methods, of Bin Laden will support the campaign against the trial by enlisting their resources in the media to serve the "anti-trial" campaign (even though this is not a pro-al Qaeda trend).

Also: SCOTUS Ruling Proves Liberalism is all Emotion, No Brains

Surely, this post awaits Althor's exuberant input!

Posted by Richard at June 12, 2008 11:58 PM

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