Bill Whittle talks about how policies of appeasement encouraged our enemies in the years leading up to World War II. Are modern policies of appeasement encouraging Islamic extremists? Will we pay the price for Obama’s cowardice? Find out as Bill Whittle gets fired up on this edition of Afterburner.
Reporters may think they’re being objective and balanced when they first report and then write a story, but those of us who know the racket can spot a rigged stuss game every time. It’s not just a matter of what you put in and what you leave out, whom you talk to and whom you don’t bother to ask for comment.
It’s also the way the story is structured, and the little semiotic signals the writer (and/or editor) send to the reader that say this is what is important. This is whom you should believe.
For Exhibit A of this process, please consider the following story:
According to news reports from around the world, two top jihadists are now in custody. Such news should be the cause for celebration by the United States and the rest of the Free World. The Obama administration, however, is likely instead to see them as inconvenient.
News of the first apprehension actually broke weeks ago at our sister site, BigGovernment.com, thanks to intrepid reporting by contributor and best-selling author Brad Thor. The Chinese news service Xinhua yesterday confirmed Thor’s revelation: “An Afghan popular television channel Tolo, citing Pakistani media, reported Tuesday that Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has been arrested in Pakistan. Tolo also showed a picture of the one-eyed Mullah Omar without giving more details.”
The second arrest took place closer to home when Mexican authorities arrested a senior operative of the Lebanese terrorist group, Hezbollah, named Jameel Nasr. The story was first broken Tuesday by the Kuwaiti daily Al-Seyassah, which — in the words of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz – credited Mexico with “foil[ing] an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in South America.”
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