Brit journalist Melanie Phillips is disgusted by her industry and her profession both for burgeoning anti-Semitism and the larger campaign to surrender our own civilization. Iraq is the locus.
One of the most sickening features of the current media hysteria is the implication that the appalling atrocities now taking place in Iraq are the fault not of the butchers carrying them out but of Bush and Blair for starting the conflagration. But the reason British and American hostages are being taken and murdered is because the terrorists know that with every such death — and the more barbaric it is — the more the British and American media will not blame them but, obscenely, Blair and Bush and thus ratchet up the pressure upon them to quit Iraq and give up the defence against terror.Posted by Alan at September 22, 2004 09:07 PMThis is, indeed, working like a charm. Such is the media conflagration of lies, distortions, moral bankruptcy, prejudice and foaming hatred and hysteria directed at their own side that it becomes less likely by the day that Bush, let alone Blair, will feel able to take on Iran and Syria. Unless he does that, however, not only will Iraq be lost but the west might as well put its hands up now and wave the white flag. The jihadis are playing the west for suckers; and the arrogant, ignorant, bigoted media are playing their part to perfection.