Today's Los Angeles Times (Mon. 12/20/04) featured a front-page photo and article on the latest events in Iraq. The previous day, terrorist thugs ambushed and executed three innocent members of the Iraqi Electoral Commission in broad daylight. Oops, did I say "terrorist thugs"? Because the Los Angeles Times sure didn't. The caption to the front-page photo stated, "A gunman kills an electoral worker on Baghdad's Haifa Street ..." (emphasis added). A "gunman"?!? That's the equivalent of saying a "theatergoer" killed Abraham Lincoln. The accompanying article ("Car Bombings in Iraqi Holy Cities Kill 62") then referred to the lawless hoodlums as "militants" and "insurgents," labels that would make any al-Qaeda member proud. The Times only left the word "terrorists" to those in the article who were quoted directly about the savage attacks.

AP photo that calls the heinous villain simply a "gunman."

 

        Unfortunately, this "sugarcoating" of these violent barbarians - our enemy - is nothing new in the mass media. Back in September 2004, Daniel Pipes, in his article "They're Terrorists, Not Activists or Victims," illustrated this point excellently.

 

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