CNN Refers To Fort Hood Shooter As A “Conservative”
Right. Because things like sharia law and global jihad have so much in common with the limited government movement.
From Rush Limbaugh:
RUSH: The media is twisting itself into pretzels — pretzels! — doing everything they can to deny the obvious reality of Fort Hood. Last night, CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, Special Investigations Correspondent Drew Griffin reported this about the Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan.
GRIFFIN: Hasan made NO attempt to hide his religion or his conservative Muslim ideology, which is exactly why some experts are convinced Nidal Hasan is NOT a terrorist.
RUSH: Outrageous on two counts! There is nothing “conservative” about Islamofascism. These people in the media continue to refer to anything they think is evil as “conservative.”
This is about on par with people like Bill Maher referring to the 9/11 attacks as a “faith based initiative.” The comparison is entirely stupid, like comparing oranges to skyscrapers, but the point here isn’t insight or fairness. The point is to demonize the people they disagree with.
And, clearly, the narrative the media wants on the conservative, limited government movement is that they’re a bunch of radicals and extremists. That’s why Pelosi and Obama and the rest of the liberals have been suggesting that the tea party and town hall movements were populated with Nazi sympathizers and Hitler impersonators. That’s why McVeigh, despite his decidedly non-limited government views, was described by the media/left (redundant) as though he were some sort of dues-paying, rank-and-file member of the GOP who’d been radicalized down at his local party meeting.
As far as I’m concerned, terrorists are beyond the routine left/right comparisons. They are beyond ideology. What motivates them is important and worth talking about, but pretending as though they’re the product of any of the mainstream political movements in this country is just plain stupid.
