My subject header is a line from Ann Coulter’s latest column, now in our Columnist section. She’s on about the ridiculous assumptions supposedly smart people are making about the media and how it is reacting to the smashing success of Fox News Channel and other forms of media which are exposing liberals for what they are, and allowing conservatives to actually “say things”.
The lesson has yet to be learned in Canada, which often lags behind the United States in learning common sense.
Here’s a snippet from Ann Coulter’s column:
[…] Posner’s description of the media, then and now, leaves the impression that he does not himself consume the news. Contrary to evidence, he says: “The rise of the conservative Fox News Channel caused CNN to shift to the left. CNN was going to lose many of its conservative viewers to Fox anyway, so it made sense to increase its appeal to its remaining viewers by catering more assiduously to their political preferences.”
Now that’s what I call a business model: American news consumers are moving to the right. Quick, let’s move to the left! […]
Meanwhile, Anthony Oluwatoyin speaks in our Columnist section with a heretofore missing dose of good clear-headedness—on the issue of the much ballyhooed new maximum sentences for methamphetamine offenders. Liberals talk the talk (to much media suckup coverage), but, as usual, fail to walk the walk (which the media consistently fail to cover).
Here’s a snippet:
[…] The late great actor, Carroll O’Connor, of Archie Bunker fame, whose real life son committed suicide after a lifetime of struggling with addiction, did a public service ad in which he would say, “Get between your kids and drugs any way you can.”
Conservatives need to realize that for the loony-left, the matter of governments coming between individual addicts and their drugs has become just another twisted substitute for the old alliance between Church and State. The civil liberties even of vandalizing, thieving, mugging crackheads are the new sacraments of secular selfhood. […]
Also today, Salim Mansur explains with his usual clarity a little bit of history and perspective surrounding the Islamic terrorists that threaten all of us daily.
Here’s a snippet:
Nine days after the London bombings of July 7, Tony Blair gave a clear-headed speech about the threat to the West. “What we are confronting here is an evil ideology,” he said. “This ideology and the violence that is inherent in it did not start a few years ago in response to a particular policy. Over the past 12 years, al-Qaeda and its associates have attacked 26 countries, killed thousands of people, many of them Muslims. Their cause is not founded on an injustice. It is founded on a belief, one whose fanaticism is such it can’t be moderated. It can’t be remedied. It has to be stood up to.”
What Blair did not say, however, is that al-Qaeda’s ideology is deeply entrenched in the Muslim tradition and reaches far back, into the earliest years of Islam.
Al-Qaeda’s terrorists are a throwback to those Muslims in the first decades of Islam who believed their faith was the purest, while doubting the belief of others around them, and approved of violence as the right way to advance their views of faith and power. They are known as khwarij (meaning those who secede) or Kharijites.
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