WorldNetDaily: John Allen Muhammad: Hating America
Larry Elder is one of the better thinkers in America right now, and happens to be black. Unfortunately, you have to be born with the right skin color to criticise certain protected groups in front of the general public.Of course, as he points out in the column, even that exception is disappearing. Political Corectness is starting to impose the same kind of totalitarianism of thought in America that Islamic states currently enjoy.
The New News Hour Game
A while ago, one of the more insightful Chris Rock routines (and they are all pretty insightful) was when he talked about the different ways white and black people watched the news.When white people watched the news, they would always wait to see the film of the criminal being walked out for the cameras, saying, "Betcha it's a black buy, bet it's a black guy, betcha betcha SEE! I told you it was a black guy!" The black guy watches the news and says to himself, "God, I hope it isn't a black guy -- I want to go to work in peace tommorow."
Well, now, it isn't the film that people wait for. They wait for the news that gives the criminal's name, and they are betting on whether or not his name contains a "Mohammed", an "Al" or maybe a "Bin".
The point of this one, though, isn't this phenonmenon -- it is the denial of the major media outlined in this National Post article. The news is afraid to simply tell people many knew and were betting on all along. (Mostly white people, but hey, that's how the game works.)
More Arab Half-truths
I don't know that this will ever get old for me. I am actually entertained by going to an Arab paper, reading a story about Israel, and then saying, "I bet there is more to this" and then finding it in an Israeli or Western paper.Try the one for today. In an Arabnews.com story (3 Israeli soldiers killed in attack on settlement) they add this blurb:
In Jenin, 15-year-old Palestinian Ahmed Abu Ghali was killed when an Israeli sniper shot him in the head after he stepped outside his house. The latest deaths bring the toll of two years of the Palestinian uprising to 2,622 people killed as a direct result of the violence, including 1,940 Palestinians.Those damned Jews! Shooting teenagers in the head! I bet they wanted to put his blood in some pastries or a pizza or something!
Oh, wait, take a look at the same story in the Jerusalem Post:
In Jenin, Fuad Abu Ghali, 15, was shot and killed by soldiers and two other Palestinians wounded. According to security officials, Abu Ghali was armed.In one story, we have a murderous sniper lying in wait to shoot Arab teenagers in the head. In another, we have an Arab teenager out after curfew with a rifle. I think the second view is a little more credible.
