Trump does his Goebbels thing
Now Trump is accusing the news media of concealing Islamist attacks.
Speaking to the U.S. Central Command on Monday, President Trump went off his prepared remarks to make a truly stunning claim: The media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks.
“You’ve seen what happened in Paris, and Nice. All over Europe, it’s happening,” he said to the assembled military leaders. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.”
What reasons? A secret hope to see Sharia become the law of the land?
It’s true, Philip Bump points out, that not ever terrorist attack gets extensive coverage – because the news media can’t cover everything that happens, so they select. But hey, guess what – Trump himself ignored a terrorist attack just last week. It was an attack not all that far away, too – the one in Quebec – the attack on Muslims as opposed to by Islamists.
Trump has consistently seen attacks like that in Quebec — committed by a young man who espoused anti-Muslim politics and defended Trump online — as isolated incidents from mentally disturbed individuals, while attacks by Muslims are part of a broader pattern spurred by radical Islamism. He sees an institution behind attacks by Muslims that he doesn’t see behind attacks like that in Quebec or in Charleston in 2015. That helps explain why he is willing to focus the country’s anti-terrorism efforts solely on terrorism committed in the name of Islam: He doesn’t see how other threats are systemic.
Or to put it another way, he doesn’t see how other threats are rooted in poisonous ideas. I suppose that could be because he shares the poisonous ideas.
Well, did you see any coverage of the Bowling Green Massacre?
#Alternative atrocities..
The Post also reported Trump gets his conspiracy theories from InfoWars.
So long as police shootings were just local news, no pattern was really recognized. There is a problem with news covering/not covering events for dubious reasons.
Decades of not reporting Catholic clergy’s child abuse, while running screaming headlines about imaginary Satanic conspiracies?
The arrest of two Islamist mooks in Kentucky is worth reporting…oh, it WAS reported. Is anti-abortion terrorism receiving equivalent attention?
Dealing with religious terror in real life would mean addressing the Sincerely Held Beliefs of the lunatic fringe, domestic and imported.
Now now! This administration is deeply committed to the relentless addressing of Sincerely Held Beliefs.
The Sincerely Held Beliefs of (some) Christians are to be given absolute protection to be applied to anyone else, as a long-deferred fulfilment of the defense of freedom of religion that is the heart of our national dream.
The Sincerely Held Beliefs of (other) Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, believers in any native religion, agnostics, atheists, and humanists are markers of un-American, hateful, murderous attitudes and must, at long last, be persecuted fully in defense of Freedom. Freedom of religion doesn’t enter into it – somehow.