Nightmare Terror Conspiracy Via MSM
Belmont Club has an excellent post up that investigates the political rational of those who lean left of center and their conviction that terrorism is an imaginary political tool of the right and the terrorists, used by both to strengthen their standing and power:
BBC - Lay Me Down
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, is based on a BBC piece that basically promotes:
In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organized terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamic. ... Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organized terror network. ...
Now the fact that a supposed "legitimate" news organization, could come up with such a looney and reality departed thesis, is scary enough. However, when you start holding up the theory to the reporting of most MSM based organizations, you see the exact same reflection that the BBC gives in "nightmares"...................
The BBC goes on:
But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this al-Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the "sleeper cells" in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy.
The BBC offering is from January 14th, 2005, and the events in Britain over the past few weeks certainly should make the absurd basis of this offering even more crazy to even the ultra-left who believed and followed such a theory. But I don't know, I think that a great deal of the left of center population, will develop a rationalization sub-theory that places the recent London bombings neatly into the "nightmare theory".............
Belmont has a great summary of how the left leaning media has embraced the 'nightmare' theory and how it manifests itself in their daily coverage:
Although the proposition that organized international terrorism does not exist may seem funny, many writers on the Left seriously believe that terrorism is a derivative phenomenon with no independent existence of its own. It is simply a reaction to Western, and particularly American oppression. It is the shadow, as it were, of the USA, which would cease to exist once the solid being that gave rise to it vanished. According to this point of view, it is entirely correct to refer to terrorists as 'insurgents', 'resistance', 'militants' or even 'freedom fighters', because they have no actual violent goals arising from their consciousness except as are suggested to them by their oppressor; entirely correct refer to them as 'phantoms' because they do not exist of themselves, except as emergent phenomenon in relation to the United States.
Scary logic, from a scary MSM. No wonder only 28% of Americans believe or trust the MSM.........................
BBC - Lay Me Down
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, is based on a BBC piece that basically promotes:
In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organized terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamic. ... Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organized terror network. ...
Now the fact that a supposed "legitimate" news organization, could come up with such a looney and reality departed thesis, is scary enough. However, when you start holding up the theory to the reporting of most MSM based organizations, you see the exact same reflection that the BBC gives in "nightmares"...................
The BBC goes on:
But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this al-Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the "sleeper cells" in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy.
The BBC offering is from January 14th, 2005, and the events in Britain over the past few weeks certainly should make the absurd basis of this offering even more crazy to even the ultra-left who believed and followed such a theory. But I don't know, I think that a great deal of the left of center population, will develop a rationalization sub-theory that places the recent London bombings neatly into the "nightmare theory".............
Belmont has a great summary of how the left leaning media has embraced the 'nightmare' theory and how it manifests itself in their daily coverage:
Although the proposition that organized international terrorism does not exist may seem funny, many writers on the Left seriously believe that terrorism is a derivative phenomenon with no independent existence of its own. It is simply a reaction to Western, and particularly American oppression. It is the shadow, as it were, of the USA, which would cease to exist once the solid being that gave rise to it vanished. According to this point of view, it is entirely correct to refer to terrorists as 'insurgents', 'resistance', 'militants' or even 'freedom fighters', because they have no actual violent goals arising from their consciousness except as are suggested to them by their oppressor; entirely correct refer to them as 'phantoms' because they do not exist of themselves, except as emergent phenomenon in relation to the United States.
Scary logic, from a scary MSM. No wonder only 28% of Americans believe or trust the MSM.........................
posted by Steve at 8:30 PM
