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September 27, 2005
Journalistic Integrity...Don't Make Me Laugh
Christopher Hitchens once again illuminates for us the rotten family tree of the two groups responsible for the recent "anti-war" demonstrations in Washington (thanks: Mark Coffey at Decision '08). The lineage of International ANSWER and people like Clark Clifford and Ramsey Clark should be well enough known by now (as Hitchens points out, even David Corn has written on their Stalinist roots). But the MSM is nothing if not tenacious, and Hitch takes a sledgehammer to their stone wall:
To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as "antiwar" when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, "No to Jihad"? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, "Yes to Kurdish self-determination" or "We support Afghan women's struggle"? Don't make me laugh. And this in a week when Afghans went back to the polls, and when Iraqis were preparing to do so, under a hail of fire from those who blow up mosques and U.N. buildings, behead aid workers and journalists, proclaim fatwahs against the wrong kind of Muslim, and utter hysterical diatribes against Jews and Hindus.
That's perfectly framed--there was not a single placard saying "No to jihad".
If a dedicated man of the Left such as David Corn (not to mention reformed Leftist Hitchens) can summon up the integrity to expose and question these people, what is the problem with our mainstream media?
How transparently biased can this get?
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