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There has been a rising criticism of the media coverage of the Fort Hood massacre. There is much ridiculing of headlines and columns about the psychological stress from which the shooter suffered, the commonplace nature of merciless teasing in the military, the problem of easy access to guns, and similar rationales that focus on anything but the autonomous decision of the shooter and the shooter’s Islam-centered motives.
Out of a sense of public service, Iowahawk has collected a number of such headlines from some of the premier media establishments that this country can boast, such as MSNBC and NPR.
Scrappleface has tapped into a fundraising on behalf of the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, by journalists who see his action as a First Amendment issue: “As a disadvantaged Muslim American, and captive of the U.S. military, Hasan’s options for speaking truth to power were quite limited. He did what he could within his means, and now he’s being punished for this expression of free speech.”
Michael Ramirez takes aim at the keystone of cluelessness not only in the media, but also in the military, the civilian agencies, and the universities: Political correctness.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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