Steyn: It’s Easy to Be Tough About Nothing
Charles Johnson
Mon Feb 20, 2006 at 7:43 am PST • Views: 216
Mark Steyn on the craven cowardice of Western media: Cheering tidbits lighten otherwise grim week.
It’s easy to be tough about nothing. The press corps that noisily champions “the public’s right to know” about a minor hunting accident simultaneously assures the public that they’ve no need to see these Danish cartoons that have caused riots, arson and death around the world. On CNN, out of “sensitivity” to Islam, they show the cartoons but with the Prophet’s face pixilated so that he looks as if Cheney’s ventilated him with birdshot and it turned puffy and gangrenous. C’mon, guys, these are interesting times. Anyone can unload the umpteenth round of blanks into the bulletproof Chimpy Hallibushitler, but why not take a shot at something that matters?
Or perhaps it would just be easier to change the term “free press” to the “Roses of the Prophet Muhammed press.”
Frank says: