Posted by
ET2 M.J.Adams on Friday, July 06, 2007 11:43:51 AM
by M. J. Adams
I recently signed out of my Hotmail account, and as usual something caught my eye. Very much like those “impulse” items, and magazines at a supermarket checkout line,
A Useful Idiot MSN had a title talking about “Anti-Americanism”.
In the small and incomplete description about the article, it stated that, “a recent poll showed…” and then cut off virtually placing a proverbial gun to my head, coercing me to click on the link.
The story filed by, A Useful Idiot AP can be found at this link, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19466360/.
Then when I got to the article I noticed the next part where they say, “…in Muslim countries…”.
I’m thinking, “Yeah, there are probably a lot of Muslims from other countries that don’t like us. Nothing new there.” After all they are taught ideologically that we are evil. So even when we the United States give more aid than many other nations combined, even though we’ve intervened militarily on the behalf of Muslims like in Kosovo, Muslims still suspect us of trying to thwart their faith.
Reading the rest of the article was equally anti-climatic as it flip-flops back and forth about other countries, what they think about us, and what others think about them.
Then I wondered how many people just scanned the link headline without actually reading the rest, or any of the article for that matter?
After all my experiences of spotting useful idiot’s media bias, here’s another method “they” use to form peoples opinion by sound byte, only it’s with an article headline instead. Masses of the busy, blissfully, ignorant will cruise by and see how global distrust of the United States, our President, and by default, you and I is growing.
While reading through the article, I also noticed that they didn’t mention all the countries polled. So it begs the question, did they ask the Iraqi’s whether they wanted us there, or not? I would be interested to find out since I read all kinds of reports from people actually over there tell us that while most Iraqi’s would rather the US not be there, they are thankful, and understanding that we are there, and not just leaving their country to chaos.
By the way, isn’t it interesting that the Iraqis have better understanding about this issue than most Democrats? I guess what they say about the relationship to clarity, and being faced with your own mortality is true.
If you’re not sure if you agree with my last few statements I refer you Michael Yon’s blog.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/. Mr. Yon is not hiding out in the Green Zone of Baghdad. He is actively searching out the truth of what our forces are doing over there. Nor is he a mouthpiece for Al Jazeera.
It’s also interesting how the rest of the media virtually ignore people like Mr. Yon in their efforts to spin the US’s involvement over there. No, the media would rather publish suggestive headlines that say one obvious thing that agrees, or forwards their agenda than search out the truth.