KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'...........

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Maybe I am going too far out on a “conspiratorial” limb with this one but go ahead and read it and decide for yourselves.

For years while President Bush governed the country and terrorists struck out cold-heartedly against innocent civilians in Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, etc. the press tried its damnest to change the terminology from “suicide bombers” and “Islamic terrorists” to simply “freedom fighters” or “militants” or other politically correct terms to distance themselves from the evil that is permeating our world in the name of Islam. After all, who can forget the CNN admission to coddling Saddam Hussein and spreading his propaganda in order to not get kicked out of Iraq?

But……………..now that Barack Obama is elected President, I find NPR beginning to lay the groundwork for a classic “shift of ideology” by all of a sudden questioning why we don’t call these heinous human wastes of skin what they truly are: “EVIL.”

Funny, huh? Under Bush they were simply militants defending their views. Under Obama they are now “evil.” On top of that, you might even expect them to start bringing the Bible into the discussion….as is done in the link I refer to below.

So pay attention in the future to see if this trend continues with the rest of the media joining the fray in order to defend Obama’s having to continue to wage battle against them. Except in this case it will be “justified” because the militants are “evil terrorists.”

Draw your own conclusions and read it all here.

A taste:

I get increasingly uncomfortable with the convention of journalism that requires us to say that so far, we don’t know the motives of the people who carried out this week’s attacks in Mumbai.

A word like “motive” seems to imply there was reason or purpose. It suggests that, however profane their actions, the terrorists had the incentive of some goal in mind.

But after covering too many killings, as a reporter or host, in Bosnia, Kosovo, Oklahoma City or Somalia, I’ve come to the conclusion that the perpetrators of such crimes might just be … evil. (my note: oh, really? After 20 years only NOW you come to this conclusion?)

Evil is a word that many people of my generation shrink from using. It seems so imprecise and uneducated – biblical, rather than cerebral and informed.

But there are times and crimes that remind me how often the Bible gets it right.

Meanwhile, the “evil terrorists” must have gotten word of NPR’s change of tune as one of their cars was bombed yesterday. No one hurt. Good.

Ivan Watkins, a 33 year-old reporter for NPR on temporary assignment in Iraq, said he had gone to interview people in a kebab cafe a few yards from an Iraqi army checkpoint.

Watkins, who is normally based in Istanbul, Turkey, was accompanied by producer and translator Ali Hamdani and two drivers who refused to be named for security reasons.

The group returned to their armored car, which was parked out front, about 45 minutes later but were stopped by Iraqi soldiers who said they had been informed minutes earlier that a bomb was attached to the car, Watkins said.

The bomb, which had been placed underneath the driver’s side, exploded about 15 feet from the NPR journalists. It destroyed the car but nobody was injured, according to NPR.

Iraqi and American soldiers, who cordoned off the area, said the bomb was possibly detonated by remote control.