Domestic Terrorism By Any Other Name

Putting aside the kind of terror that comes from listening to Liberals, they're still trying to find out why Sulejman Talovic gunned down several people in a Salt Lake City mall this week.

Although he was a loner and withdrawn, Sulejman Talovic seemed normal and "nice" to the few people who knew him. On Wednesday - two days after Talovic shot and killed five people and injured four others at Trolley Square - there were no good answers as to why he would do it. There were no signs that the 18-year-old was in trouble, family members said.

Gateway Pundit has video of the Father in which he suggests some outside influence on his son. In listening to it, it's impossible to determine if there's anything to it, or just a parent trying to convince themselves not my kid. I think it's common for parents to want to look for an outside influence in cases like this. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be suggesting a specific individual like Omar down at the local mosque.

In sound recordings of the vent I've listened to carefully it sounds as if he may have been speaking in his native language at some point in the confrontation, but I can't make out what it is.

Meanwhile the Guardian is going after bloggers for even questioning the event.

Comments

[Purple Avenger]

It would take a half dozen vest bombers at malls to wake the media up.

[templar knight]

I don't think a nuclear bomb detonation in downtown Chicago would wake the media up, PA. Frankly, they are buried so deep into PC that they are now a danger to the country they live in. I now doubt whether they would disclose a major attack even if they knew about it. Facilitators of the truth, they are, PA, not journalists in the classical sense. They are now in a class of citizen above the masses. That's how they see themselves. Most lawyers also suffer from the same disease.

During my college days, I was the sports, then news, and finally managing editor of a small daily(5,000 circ.), and I was taught by an old newspaperman to ask what, why, when, and where, not, do they really need to know this, or is this going to upset the masses, etc. See the difference. I was taught, report the facts, let the reader decide how he or she wants to interpret them.

Now, newspapers hire stringers from among the enemy, and allow them to both photograph and interpret news stories with little or no editing, or worse, take the side of the enemy itself. I can see Ernie Pyle spinning in his grave.

[seekeronos]

Yup. Just look at how easily the "fauxtography" bit during last summer's flare up that had Israel inside of Lebanon, with the "green helmet safety vest guy" appearing in half a dozen places.

We are well past just dubious reporting, we now have outright lies and propaganda being disseminated.

[Phoenix]

All three good comments. I'll just add that I think the media is beyond help. PA's suggestion might bring a few around, but what bothers me the most is the complacency of the viewers to accept everything they hear without question. And it's worse than that with anyone capaple of thinking because they are inured to it all. I don't know which is worse: Blind acceptance or willful disdain.