Michelle Malkin: "About that Israeli strike on the UN "school" Updated"

The link: http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/06/about-that-israeli-strike-on-the-un-school/

I'm going to quote from one sentence of her article (which is a must read, by the way.) Be sure to follow the links to the video clips that she gives for context; and you'll see more of those "...poor, disenfranchised, Palestinians..." firing mortars from schools - in deliberate violation of International Law!!

"Hamas and other terror organizations in Gaza make deliberate use of civilians living in populated areas as human shields." (emphasis added)

Yes, this is one of those "duh" moments. But the question is this: why does the mainstream media continue to allow itself to be used as a Palestinian propaganda machine?

Remember what that brilliant writer Mr Malone wrote??

"The hotel I was staying at in Windhoek, Namibia, only carried CNN, a network I'd already learned to approach with skepticism. But this was CNN International, which is even worse.

I sat there, first with my jaw hanging down, then actually shouting at the TV, as one field reporter after another reported the carnage of the Israeli attacks on Beirut, with almost no corresponding coverage of the Hezbollah missiles raining down on northern Israel. The reporting was so utterly and shamelessly biased that I sat there for hours watching, assuming that eventually CNNi would get around to telling the rest of the story … but it never happened. " *1

"...utterly and shamelessly biased..." That's Mr Malone's opinion, and in my opinion, he's right on the money.

"But ... but ... but ... we're not biased! Nobody in the media is biased!"

Really?

"In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election." *2

Really? "...some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election."

And let's not forget "Rathergate" ... the controversy over the authenticity of the "documents" that Dan Rather used in his story. *3 Indeed, some people have referred to Rathergate as "... [an] all-but-obvious and rather (pun intended) poorly-orchestrated attempt to throw the 2004 election." *4

But to get back on topic, it could be argued that the mainstream media is cheering the Palestinians on. Neither Ms. Malkin nor myself are the only people to question the apparent bias in the media. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who is by her own admission a liberal, said that MSNBC was "...out of control." I would assume that she's meaning their "...lopsidedly liberal..." coverage of the election. In fact, she and her husband worked on short promotional films for General Wesley Clarke and for Hillary Rodham Clinton! *5

And if she, as a liberal, says that MSNBC was "...out of control" that really doesn't leave too much doubt, does it?

So we know the press is liberal in their coverage of certain stories. Study after study has shown this. Some would say that Dan Rather proved it. And now we have the "unbiased" (just ask them!) media blaring that the Israelis are killing children, yet somehow forgetting to report that the rockets were fired from within residential areas. And according to International Law, if you're fired upon from an asset within a residential area, you are permitted to return fire.

But the mainstream media won't report on where the rockets are fired from. No liberal bias here. Move along, please.

*1 - Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=6099188&page=2
*2 - Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i28df3fc9f6707d1478700b7bc78273ae
*3 - Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathergate
*4 - Source: Personal email sent to me. Quoted with permission.
*5 - Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Bloodworth-Thomason