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After witnessing four nights of incited mayhem on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, I made a personal declaration on Twitter that I would no longer retweet or tweet at members of the media in Ferguson who were sensationalizing the standoff between the police and the rioters. It’s become clear they have inserted themselves into the story and made it more about a political ideology (the man putting us all down) than about the facts of the investigation of Michael Brown’s death.
To publicize a problem is to suggest someone must do something about it. There’s not a lot of support to do anything meaningful to ISIS, especially within the MSM. So what’s the point?
I have no interest in seeing the latest ISIS video or the graphic photos associated with it. But I’m also fine with them being distributed far and wide. I, like most Ricochetti, understand the threat posed by radical Islam and the pure evil of its latest incarnation in Syria and Iraq. Having seen previous atrocities, I don’t need additional evidence.
The press wants to hide these pictures because they don’t tell the “right” story to the American people. Ferguson tells a better story for the left, showcasing America’s evil, racist ways to her citizens and the world. But ISIS might make us silly provincials believe that we, warts and all, are the good guys after all. And that Islamists are the bad guys, raping, pillaging, crucifying their way into power.
The press wants to treat ISIS terror videos like they treated 9-11 footage two weeks after the attack. Seal them away in a locked box so the press can get back to lecturing us about how terrible we all are.
I hate to point out the obvious, but they apparently are having it both ways.
I’m reading the president’s remarks today. This is from a WSJ online article under World News:
I know this sounds like the right thing to be saying, but I key on the word ‘when’ and it grates on me that there seems to be this sense of inevitability to it, that it will happen, and we can’t prevent it. ‘Be that as it may, we will do the appropriate necessary (unspecified) things when people harm Americans.’ This kind of statement doesn’t make me feel that we are doing what’s necessary to prevent people from harming Americans.