Media abuse of "al Qaeda" connections reaches new low
Here's a headline from ABC News today (commentary below):
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...mb-found-.html
Car Bomb Found in London 20 Days After al Qaeda Suicide Bomber 'Graduation Ceremony'
June 29, 2007 7:02 AM
Don't you see? The existence of these two events means they must be related.
The discovery of a massive car bomb set to detonate in central London comes just three weeks after what was described as an al Qaeda graduation ceremony of suicide bomb teams to be dispatched to Europe and the United States.
Why not also report that the car bomb came "just three weeks" after the G8 summit in Germany?
A videotape obtained by ABC News from a Pakistani journalist shows groups of dozens of men al Qaeda says have gone through a terror training camp somewhere in Pakistan.
This amazing transition defies all rules of respectable journalism. Without offering any details of the car bomb, ABC then treats us to several paragraphs about the unrelated Al Qaeda camp.
Photos: Inside the al Qaeda 'Graduation'
Teams of 50 to 60 men were supposedly dispatched to the United States, Canada, Germany and Great Britain.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...o_070618_s.jpg On the tape, the leader of the British team speaks of the mission in broken English, "Let me say something about why we are going along with my team to tell a suicide attack in Britain."
Don't you see? That guy said he would attack Britain, so it must have been him in the car! It's just like when Oral Roberts said God would kill him if he didn't raise $8 million. Look what happened to him! Oh wait...
That was just 20 days ago, and the existence of the tape first reported by ABC News put British and German security experts on edge.
THE BLOTTER RECOMMENDS
"The Blotter" recommends some more fear-mongering tripe that is surely a pretext for the bombing of Iran.
It was also just last year that al Qaeda operative, Dhiren Barot, was convicted in a London court of planning suicide attacks in London and the U.S., using limousines and other vehicles, not unlike the bomb-rigged silver Mercedes discovered in London this morning.
Based on the early sketchy details, the car bomb was potentially powerful but relatively crude.
"Relatively crude" is code for "must have been built by one of those barbarians in the sand."
The great concern now is that if it is an al Qaeda operation, something that is still not known, but if it is, there would likely be other vehicle bombs in the works.
Wow! We move from a completely unsubstantiated claim to unsubstantiated speculation about the ramifications of the previous unsubstantiated claim.
Today British officials are continuing a program begun earlier this month to check gas and chemical trucks, cement trucks and limousines and all vehicles coming and going from the famed Wimbledon tennis tournament now underway outside London.
Terrorism: The New Communism
Remember when everyone who opposed the excesses of corporatism was a "communist"? Meet the new communism.
What's really beginning to gnaw at me is how the Left is accepting this linguistic shell game, even after they've lost the game about a million times over.
The label doesn't matter so much
The label means less than what it represents, I guess.
I'm simply referring to the people who, at least on the surface, oppose the twin towers of market capitalism and runaway militarism.
Strangely, in the War on Terra, the libertarian right seems to be doing more to oppose it, because of their disdain for big government.
I'm more opposed to bad government than big government. The libertarians, like Ron Paul, oppose even the good things governments can do (universal health care, for example). That just hands over everything to predatory capitalism, and I don't see that as a solution to anything.
Anyhoo, if you are "just an American," that's cool. ;-)
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