Austin Bay suggests that OBL is made by the MSM (and by inference Al-Jazeera). So once again the liberal modus operandi is what creates the success of OBL's war on America.
The aspects that can make any liberal or conservative a great American is villified by OBL: equality of women, freedom of speech, freedom of religion (including but not limited to Islam), respect for differences of opinion, respect for the rule of law, democratic republican administration and creation of laws, equality before the law, investigation of criminal behavior based on probable cause, etc.
Yet one is the image cast to the world about America's ideals? The images in gut rot movies, poorly sourced and reported news reports (let alone knee-jerk, anti-American reporting: condemnation in the press without probable cause), elevation to rights' status of behaviour historically condemned in America even if tolerated, etc. These are the images that are OBL's stock in trade.
The lack of these images and poor reporting would make America much more difficult to use as the strawman in OBL's publicity campaigns.
Imagine a self-motivated MSM that would participate on the American side of the war on Islamofacism! This same media that justifies local news stories of missing women as national news only because it generates ratings but that won't cover national news advantageous to conservatives, even though it generates huge ratings, too (see Limbaugh, FNC, blogs, etc.).
The MSM is already selective on what ratings interest them. Why is it that they always tend to choose in a way that helps OBL?
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