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Fredo · 06-05-2009, 08:59 AM

Michelle Malkin Mapping the “climate of hate”

Climate of hate, world of double standards

by Michelle Malkin

Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

When a right-wing Christian vigilante kills, millions of fingers pull the trigger. When a left-wing Muslim vigilante kills, he kills alone. These are the instantly ossifying narratives in the Sunday shooting death of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller versus the Monday shootings of two Arkansas military recruiters.

Tiller’s suspected murderer, Scott Roeder, was white, Christian, anti-government, and anti-abortion. The gunman in the military recruiting center attack, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, was black, a Muslim convert, anti-military, and anti-American. Both crimes are despicable, cowardly acts of domestic terrorism. But the disparate treatment of the two brutal cases by both the White House and the media is striking.

President Obama issued a statement condemning “heinous acts of violence” within hours of Tiller’s death. The Justice Department issued its own statement and sent federal marshals to protect abortion clinics. News anchors and headline writers abandoned all qualms about labeling the gunman a terrorist. An almost gleeful excess of mainstream commentary poured forth on the climates of hate and fear created by conservative talk radio, blogs, and Fox News for reporting Tiller’s activities.

By contrast, President Obama was silent about the military recruiter attacks that left 24-year-old Private William Long dead and 18-year-old Private Quinton Ezeagwula gravely wounded. On Tuesday afternoon – more than 24 hours after the attack on the military recruiting center in Little Rock – President Obama held a press conference to announce his pick for Army Secretary. It would have been exactly the right moment to express condolences for the families of the targeted Army recruiters and to condemn heinous acts of violence against our troops.

But President Obama said nothing. The Justice Department was mum. And so were the legions of finger-pointing pundits happily convicting the pro-life movement and every right-leaning writer on the planet of contributing to the murder of George Tiller. Obama’s omission, it should be noted, comes just a few weeks after he failed to mention the Bronx jihadi plot to bomb synagogues and a National Guard airbase during his speech on homeland security.

Why the silence? Politically and religiously-motivated violence, it seems, is only worth lamenting when it demonizes opponents. Which also helps explain why the phrase “lone shooter” is ubiquitous in media coverage of jihadi shooters gone wild – think convicted Jeep Jihadi Mohammed Taheri-Azar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill or Israel-bashing gunman Naveed Haq who targeted a Seattle Jewish charity or Los Angeles International Airport shooter Hesham Hedayet who opened fire at the El Al Israeli airline ticket counter– but not in cases involving rare acts of anti-abortion violence.

Even Jeffrey Goldberg of the left-leaning Atlantic magazine noticed the double standards. He called attention to a National Public Radio report on the military recruiter attack that failed to mention the religion and anti-military animus of the suspect. Wrote Goldberg: “Why not tell people what is actually happening in the world? We saw this a couple of weeks ago, when the press only gingerly acknowledged that the malevolent though incompetent suspects in the synagogue bombing-conspiracy case in New York were converts to Islam. How is the public served by this kind of silence? The extremist Christian beliefs of George Tiller’s alleged murderer are certainly relevant to that case, and no one in my profession is hesitant to discuss them. Why the hesitancy to talk about the motivations of the man who allegedly killed Pvt. William Long?”

The truth is that the “climate of hate” doesn’t have just one hemisphere. But you won’t hear the Council on American Islamic Relations acknowledging the national security risks of jihadi infiltrators who despise our military and have plotted against our troops from within the ranks – including convicted fragging killer Hasan Akbar and terror plotters Ali Mohamed, Jeffrey Battle, and Semi Osman.

You won’t hear about the escalating war on military recruitment centers on the op-ed pages of the New York Times – from vandalism to obstruction to Molotov cocktail attacks on campus stations across the country; to the shutdown of a Pittsburgh military recruitment office by zealots holding signs that read “Recruiters are Child Predators;” to the prolonged harassment campaign against the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley, where Code Pink protesters called America soldiers assassins; to the bomb blast at the Times Square recruiting center last March.

And you’ll certainly hear little about the most recent left-wing calls to violence by a Playboy magazine writer who published a vulgar list of conservative female writers and commentators he said he’d like to rape (the obscene slang word he used is not printable). The list was hyped by the magazine’s publicity team and light-heartedly promoted by mainstream publications such as Politico.com (founded by Washington Post reporters).
Is it too much to ask the media cartographers in charge of mapping the “climate of hate” to do their jobs with both eyes open?

**amandaorange** · 06-05-2009, 09:52 AM

Wow, there are a lot of things I don't agree with, but I have never read an article that made me so angry. Obama's failure to acknowledge the violence committed against military members, among other things, just pisses me off. Instead of the slogan being "hope and change" he should rewrite it as "God D*mn America", it would be more fitting.

DWARREN123 · 06-05-2009, 10:03 AM

It's telling on how Obama thinks. A white guy is an extreme terrorist but a Muslim is not or at least he does not sound off about it.

**ForTehNguyen** · 06-05-2009, 10:14 AM

black muslim

Etta Place · 06-05-2009, 10:37 AM

Michelle Malkin is a hate-stirring, divisive ass. She and Rush Limbaugh and people like them have done more harm to this country than anyone I can think of in recent memory.

M-Roadster Fan · 06-05-2009, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Etta Place

Michelle Malkin is a hate-stirring, divisive ass. She and Rush Limbaugh and people like them have done more harm to this country than anyone I can think of in recent memory.

(Other than Coulter, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rumsfield, Rove, and Rice, of course.)

bowl443 · 06-05-2009, 11:05 AM

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Is it too much to ask the media cartographers in charge of mapping the “climate of hate” to do their jobs with both eyes open?

Apparently it is...

Is liberal money better than conservative money?

Etta Place · 06-05-2009, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by M-Roadster Fan

(Other than Coulter, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rumsfield, Rove, and Rice, of course.)

I'm not fond of Keith Olbermann either. I think he accentuates the divisions for ratings and material gain - just like Limbaugh and Malkin do.

**psc** · 06-05-2009, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Etta Place

Michelle Malkin is a hate-stirring, divisive ass. She and Rush Limbaugh and people like them have done more harm to this country than anyone I can think of in recent memory.

I agree on Olbermann, can't stand him....they all make an incredible living off of it (hate-stirring) as well.

Here's the statement released yesterday by the WH:

White House statement released on Little Rock recruiting center shooting
Examiner ^| 6/4/2009 | Bryan Myrick

Posted on Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:52:02 PM by Ben Mugged

The White House released the following statement Wednesday in response to the shooting at Little Rock, Arkansas of a military recruiting center that resulted in the death of Private William Long. I am deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence against two brave young soldiers who were doing their part to strengthen our armed forces and keep our country safe. I would like to wish Quinton Ezeagwula a speedy recovery, and to offer my condolences and prayers to William Long’s family as they mourn the loss of their son.

-- So as opposed to no statement...the venom slingers will say it's wasn't meaningful enough, fast enough, long enough...and the POTUS was strong armed into releasing the statement because Michelle Malkin forced the hand of the administration....and the wheels on the bus of hatred go round and round. Can't wait till 2012!!!

Turtledude · 06-05-2009, 11:19 AM

Just wondering.

These young soldiers were (allegedley) shot by a guy who was specifically targeting soldiers and considers himself to be (assumed) a warrior and commited a terrorist act.

Wiill the two soldiers be elgible for a Purple Heart as a result of this incident? Or will this be considered a violent crime, rather than enemy gunfire in the war on "terrorism?"

06-05-2009, 08:59 AM	#1
Fredo XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: FOB Lion, Panjshir, Afghanistan Posts: 464	Climate of hate, world of double standards Michelle Malkin Mapping the “climate of hate” Climate of hate, world of double standards by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 When a right-wing Christian vigilante kills, millions of fingers pull the trigger. When a left-wing Muslim vigilante kills, he kills alone. These are the instantly ossifying narratives in the Sunday shooting death of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller versus the Monday shootings of two Arkansas military recruiters. Tiller’s suspected murderer, Scott Roeder, was white, Christian, anti-government, and anti-abortion. The gunman in the military recruiting center attack, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, was black, a Muslim convert, anti-military, and anti-American. Both crimes are despicable, cowardly acts of domestic terrorism. But the disparate treatment of the two brutal cases by both the White House and the media is striking. President Obama issued a statement condemning “heinous acts of violence” within hours of Tiller’s death. The Justice Department issued its own statement and sent federal marshals to protect abortion clinics. News anchors and headline writers abandoned all qualms about labeling the gunman a terrorist. An almost gleeful excess of mainstream commentary poured forth on the climates of hate and fear created by conservative talk radio, blogs, and Fox News for reporting Tiller’s activities. By contrast, President Obama was silent about the military recruiter attacks that left 24-year-old Private William Long dead and 18-year-old Private Quinton Ezeagwula gravely wounded. On Tuesday afternoon – more than 24 hours after the attack on the military recruiting center in Little Rock – President Obama held a press conference to announce his pick for Army Secretary. It would have been exactly the right moment to express condolences for the families of the targeted Army recruiters and to condemn heinous acts of violence against our troops. But President Obama said nothing. The Justice Department was mum. And so were the legions of finger-pointing pundits happily convicting the pro-life movement and every right-leaning writer on the planet of contributing to the murder of George Tiller. Obama’s omission, it should be noted, comes just a few weeks after he failed to mention the Bronx jihadi plot to bomb synagogues and a National Guard airbase during his speech on homeland security. Why the silence? Politically and religiously-motivated violence, it seems, is only worth lamenting when it demonizes opponents. Which also helps explain why the phrase “lone shooter” is ubiquitous in media coverage of jihadi shooters gone wild – think convicted Jeep Jihadi Mohammed Taheri-Azar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill or Israel-bashing gunman Naveed Haq who targeted a Seattle Jewish charity or Los Angeles International Airport shooter Hesham Hedayet who opened fire at the El Al Israeli airline ticket counter– but not in cases involving rare acts of anti-abortion violence. Even Jeffrey Goldberg of the left-leaning Atlantic magazine noticed the double standards. He called attention to a National Public Radio report on the military recruiter attack that failed to mention the religion and anti-military animus of the suspect. Wrote Goldberg: “Why not tell people what is actually happening in the world? We saw this a couple of weeks ago, when the press only gingerly acknowledged that the malevolent though incompetent suspects in the synagogue bombing-conspiracy case in New York were converts to Islam. How is the public served by this kind of silence? The extremist Christian beliefs of George Tiller’s alleged murderer are certainly relevant to that case, and no one in my profession is hesitant to discuss them. Why the hesitancy to talk about the motivations of the man who allegedly killed Pvt. William Long?” The truth is that the “climate of hate” doesn’t have just one hemisphere. But you won’t hear the Council on American Islamic Relations acknowledging the national security risks of jihadi infiltrators who despise our military and have plotted against our troops from within the ranks – including convicted fragging killer Hasan Akbar and terror plotters Ali Mohamed, Jeffrey Battle, and Semi Osman. You won’t hear about the escalating war on military recruitment centers on the op-ed pages of the New York Times – from vandalism to obstruction to Molotov cocktail attacks on campus stations across the country; to the shutdown of a Pittsburgh military recruitment office by zealots holding signs that read “Recruiters are Child Predators;” to the prolonged harassment campaign against the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley, where Code Pink protesters called America soldiers assassins; to the bomb blast at the Times Square recruiting center last March. And you’ll certainly hear little about the most recent left-wing calls to violence by a Playboy magazine writer who published a vulgar list of conservative female writers and commentators he said he’d like to rape (the obscene slang word he used is not printable). The list was hyped by the magazine’s publicity team and light-heartedly promoted by mainstream publications such as Politico.com (founded by Washington Post reporters). Is it too much to ask the media cartographers in charge of mapping the “climate of hate” to do their jobs with both eyes open? __________________ The problem with Christianity is not that it has be tried and found wanting, but that it has been found difficult, and so left untried. -G.K.Chesterton
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06-05-2009, 09:52 AM	#2
amandaorange XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Idaho Posts: 824	Wow, there are a lot of things I don't agree with, but I have never read an article that made me so angry. Obama's failure to acknowledge the violence committed against military members, among other things, just pisses me off. Instead of the slogan being "hope and change" he should rewrite it as "God D*mn America", it would be more fitting. __________________ I poke badgers with spoons.
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06-05-2009, 10:03 AM	#3
DWARREN123 XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Clarksville TN Posts: 1,351	It's telling on how Obama thinks. A white guy is an extreme terrorist but a Muslim is not or at least he does not sound off about it. __________________ HAVE A NICE DAY!
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Etta Place XDTalk 15K Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 15,593	Michelle Malkin is a hate-stirring, divisive ass. She and Rush Limbaugh and people like them have done more harm to this country than anyone I can think of in recent memory.
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06-05-2009, 11:19 AM	#10
Turtledude XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Eastern USA Posts: 261	Just wondering. These young soldiers were (allegedley) shot by a guy who was specifically targeting soldiers and considers himself to be (assumed) a warrior and commited a terrorist act. Wiill the two soldiers be elgible for a Purple Heart as a result of this incident? Or will this be considered a violent crime, rather than enemy gunfire in the war on "terrorism?"
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