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Um, I dunno...

Rush said that everyone was screaming that the killer was a white, Southern male. And that ended up being the description of the person who caught the sniper. How many white, Southern males here will be expecting an apology anytime soon for being painted with a broad brush?

I enjoyed watching our so-called criminal profilers on TV the morning after the suspects were caught. They all looked like they were about ready to cry. (or had already) They looked so sheepish as they tried to back-peddle on their original theories. Let's face it, these guys couldn't profile a shadow of Alfred Hitchcock at 10 feet.

Shame on them for jumping to conclusions. I wonder how many lives could have been saved if these jokers weren't spreading bad information? I'm really curious.....did these profilers use "Ouija Boards" or "Magic 8 Balls" to generate their sniper profiles?

But then again, I must admit that I watched the whole thing day after day like a mindless zombie. I feel so dirty now. Here's the real sad thing......these media jokers can't even get the profile right after the suspects are caught.

And I'm still waiting for the NY Times and Washington Post to even mention that Muhammad's most recent business venture was smuggling in illegal aliens from the Carribean. The are, as usual, studiously avoiding any mention of the out-of-control borders/alien-smuggling/illegal alien/foreign-Muslim terrorist aspect to the sniper story. Instead, look for their focus to be on "the need for gun control."

Journalists have a duty to uncover the latest information, especially when its audience is feeling very literally under the gun. Their sniper reporting kept the public aware, and ultimately helped nab the bad guys. It's too bad that the relief at the sniper story's end had to be matched by the tried and false conventions of liberal spin.

Journalism is show business. Journalism's next deadline is simply "the show must go on" translated to print.
How many people died of other causes, in the area psychologically affected by that sniper, over the period of time he was operating? (Note: the smaller that number, the better we have things; the more good health we are taking for granted!) Journalism did not merely play to the public's burning curiousity about the sniper, journalism created that curiosity in the first place.
Journalism, let's face it, profits for an episode of danger. And if one looks at the coverage of the Rodney King verdict and subsequent riot it should be obvious that journalism has the ability to create episodes of danger quite legally. But somehow the person who writes a meladrama never makes his own profession, or those peculiarly likely to enter it, the villain of the piece.
The villain of the piece will always be someone upon whom the other characters in the play must and do depend. A natural candidate, IOW, for membership in the Republican Party.
Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate.

So, CNN was doing its usual, pathetic best to sell the liberal line, regardless of the facts. This is unusual in what way?
Let's just call the lamestream media a "half-enemy" in the war against Islamo-fascists. Will they take up weapons against America? Of course not. But will they, through their bigoted reporting, make it more difficult for Americans to know what to do and to do it? Absolutely. The press is performing that task even as we speak.
I took up the same subject concerning the bigoted coverage last weekend of our Rally, as opposed to the Rally for the pro-Saddam crowd. See the first link, below.

Congressman Billybob

A Dispatch from the Front, Plus Some Comments on Norwegian Charisma

Click for "to Restore Trust in America"