Media bias and murder in Iraq, part doux

Judith Apner Klinghoffer:

Bomber hits Iraq old age home reports news 24, a South African news outlet.

The headline above is the only one I could find by Googling Basra, bomber, old age home.

The BBC hid the information in the last sentence of the article about the two American servicemen tortured to death by their Al Qaeda Iraq abductors. The rest of MSM followed the same pattern.

How is it that the champions of the Third World underdogs show so much interest in the death of two American soldiers but so little interest in the fate of Basra's elderly victims?

Just imagine how different the response would have been if an Israeli or American artillery shell had been the culprit. Actually, you do not need to imagine. The extreme rush to judgment by both MSM and HRW is there for all to see as is their extreme disinterest in the mendacity of Islamist terror.

Indeed, it would be accurate to say that both MSM and the Human Rights community is involved in a major struggle to convince the world of the essential moral equivalence between democracies and terrorist organizations(tyrannies are presented as morally superior put upon "moderates.") They do so by focusing on the imagined or real transgressions of democracies and by covering up the purposeful viciousness of the terrorists.

Think. When was the last time you saw the NYT show a picture of a summary executions in the public square of Palestinian or Iraqi "collaborators?"

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Probably never. Sometimes it is hard to decide if they just feign neutrality in a war where the enemy wants to cut their throats, or they just do not get it. There is much more in this thoughtful piece.