The Worst News Media in the World

My old friend, Bryan Fischer has moved up from the world. He’s gone from being attacked by the denizens of the Idaho leftosphere to being attacked by Keith Olbermann who named Fischer, “The Worst Person in the World’ for a post reacting to the Fort Hood attack in which he stated:

“It’s time we all got over the nonsense that all cultures and religions are equally valid or worthy. They most certainly are not. While Christianity is a religion of peace, founded by the Prince of Peace, Islam is a religion of war and violence, founded by a man who routinely chopped the heads off his enemies, had sex with nine-year old girls, and made his wealth plundering merchant caravans.

Interestingly enough, while Olbermann named Fischer the “worst person in the world” for writing the above comment in reaction to the attack on Fort Hood, in Olbermann’s own coverage of the attack on Fort Hood, the shooter didn’t make Mr. Olbermann’s Worst person in the world list. 

So according to Keith Olbermann, it’s better to go out and kill 14 people (not 13 like the liberal media calls but 14 when one counts the unborn child of one of the victims) then it is to make an insensitive remark. 

Now before someone suggests that you’d be less likely to make Olbermann’s list if you attacked a mosque rather than writing an insensitive blog post, you’re dead wrong. You see Mr. Olbermann’s got a sliding rule for the value of Human Life.

When one abortionist was killed back in June, it dominated Mr. Olbermann’s entire show, with him blaming the whole thing on Fox News. In this case, Mr. Olbermann’s priorities made the death of 13 serviceman the subject of one segment.

So, stated mathamatically, Mr. Olbermann’s sliding scale works something like this:

1 Abortionist > 13 U.S. Soldiers

Of course, Mr. Olbermann spent 1 segment on the 13 dead U.S. Soldiers, and six on the abortionist. If one assumed that the death of six times as many soldiers would merit six times as many segments (a dubious assumption, but we’ll make it), then on Mr. Olbermann’s sliding scale of the value of Human life, the death of one abortion doctor is more outrageous than the death of 78 soldiers.

And as Newsbusters pointed out, Mr. Olbermann used several words in his abortion statement that he didn’t use in his Fort Hood coverage:

Here are words that Olbermann did not use on that first night last week: jihad, fundamentalist, crusaders, extremists, terrorism, zealot, Taliban, Hamas, al-Qaeda. All of these, however, were used in the first seconds of the Tiller show in June. That began this way:

Domestic terrorism: Dr. George Tiller — women’s health physician, performer of legal abortions — is assassinated in his church. And in the very same sentence, anti-choice zealots wash their hands of his murder and say he had it coming. 

After all the promotional lingo, Olbermann grew even hotter:

A religious jihad by fundamentalist crusaders who believe that murder is justified, their acts of violence having the intended effect of changing behavior. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Not the Taliban, not Hamas, not al Qaeda. If the brutal murder of Dr. George Tiller — the Wichita OB/GYN who, among many other things, provided.

Tara Rowe at the Political Game didn’t have anything to say about Olbermann’s (in my opinion) rightful conclusion that George Tiller’s death was an act of domestic terrorism, but she does disagree, but she does think we’re all rushing to judgment with our commentary on the Fort Hood shooting:

the premature conclusion that what happened at Fort Hood was in fact an act of terrorism (rather than an act carried out by a man who wanted nothing more than to be released from the United States military).

I mean just because a guy stands up and shout, “Allahu Akbar” before he starts shooting and he’d said that “infidels” should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats and that non-Muslims should be set on fire doesn’t mean he’s a terrorist.  It also doesn’t mean he was a terrorist just because he justified suicide bombings.  In fact, you read Tara’s comments that he “wanted nothing more than to be released from the U.S. Military.” Yeah, forget all that pouring oil down the throats of the infidels stuff, he just wanted to get out of the military and start a little hardware shop, but the military wouldn’t let him leave.

This was just like when the shooting of James Pouillon occurred, William Scoreldis of Examiner. com explained why this wasn’t terrorism:

The senseless killing of James Pouillon, disabled retiree with strong enough political conviction to spend his days on the side of a road holding a protest sign, was not an act of violence against Pouillon’s political views, but an act of first degree murder in protest against the grotesquely graphic nature of the sign he held.

See, the killer was just a victim of a really graphic sign, and if Pouillon hadn’t carried such a graphic sign, he wouldn’t have gotten himself killed. The victim did it!  Strangely, no one considered the possibility that George Tiller’s murderer had any motive that wasn’t terroristic such as not appreciating the protestors Tiller drew to the neighborhood, but I digress.

Why wasn’t Hasan’s classroom antics reported, particularly his support for terrorism, the Ynet story explains in the 21st graph:

But Finnell said no one filed a formal, written complaint about Hasan’s comments out of fear of appearing discriminatory

In other words, Political correctness did it. Yet, that’s what Olbermann, and Tara, and Kevin Richert are doing is contributing to the same atmosphere of political correctness that made sure that rather than being Section 8ed out of the military, he got to go on a killing spree.  If you read through these posts, they don’t say where Fischer is wrong on the substance in any type of rational debate, rather they say, “How dare Fischer make this argument!”  

And it’s the fear of that type of response that led people to keep their heads down rather than reporting that we had someone dangerous in the military. The left doesn’t want to face reality, because reality is somewhat unkind. Rather they want to walk around, whistling and pretending that there’s no terrorism problem. The media as a whole ignores Islamic human rights violations the world over because to give voice to these victims would do too much to hurt leftist ideology.

Richert was worried that Idaho might get embarassed if Fischer’s Idaho Connections came up. Right now, I’m far more embarassed that at least two people in the state watch Keith Olbermann.

Tomorrow, I’ll discuss Fischer’s thoughts on the military and add my own.