We’ve all be captivated by the events that
transpired in Boston since the Marathon bombings took place. I know it sounds cliché but it was like
something out of a movie. Almost
immediately news outlets like MSNBC were leaning toward a right-wing nut
theory. After all, it was tax day and,
to be sure, this was the work of some government-hating tea party type.
One commentator even went so far as to publicly wish it would turn out to be a tea
partier. As the week unfolded and the
pictures of the two suspects were released speculation began to swirl. They were young white males. Could it be the left-wing media’s dream was
coming true?
But soon those dreams were dashed with the
revelation that the two brothers were Muslim.
I happened to be traveling from Washington, DC to Pennsylvania by car as
the dramatic events were breaking. The
only source of news I could find was NPR.
The hosts were constantly reminding us that just because we had learned
they were Muslim didn’t mean their religion had anything to do with the
bombings. Of course, common sense told
us otherwise.
NPR invited on various experts and reporters who had
discovered more and more details about the brothers. The older one, we learned from his aunt, had
become deeply religious over the last four or five years. We learned they were both Chechen. We learned
the older brother had traveled to Russia, specifically Dagestan, which is known
as a hot bed of radical Muslims, for six months.
Then there were the details of his domestic abuse
charge for slapping around a girlfriend.
We were told he had posted anti-American and pro-radical Muslim videos
to YouTube. Still the commentators
warned us not to jump to any conclusions about his religion.
Had the two brothers been middle-aged white guys
from the South and had ever voted for a Republican and even taken a sip of sweet
tea they would immediately have been labeled as tea party terrorists yet we
were constantly urged not to connect the dots between their religion and the
terrorist acts they committed in Boston.
There was plenty of misinformation during the course
of the week. CNN at one point reported
that an arrest had been made. Later,
red-faced, they were forced to retract.
NPR was reporting the two held up a 7-Eleven in Cambridge. That, too, turned out to be false. The left-wing news outlets had no problem
going to air with flimsy intelligence about breaking news – or what their
sources were telling them was news – but they could never bring themselves to
state the obvious: This was the work of Muslim terrorists.
Even after the younger brother was captured hiding
in a boat, CNN continued the search for a motive. It seems the network, that had desperately
tried to regain relevance with a breaking news story that ended up being false,
couldn’t even bring itself to report the one piece of news that, by then, was
obvious to everyone.
Even as of this writing, some are still feigning an
attempt to “understand” why these brothers did what they did. Even as the FBI was raiding terrorist sleeper
cells some news outlets were still begging us to believe the two acted alone
and we still don’t know why.
What go unreported are the stories of immigrants –
legal and illegal – who have no business in America. There are people sent here to kill us and
still some news outlets are in denial.
The trouble with media bias is not so much what they
tell you, it’s what they don’t.
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