Many in the MSM have objectively chosen the side of Islamic fundamentalists in this war. From the doctored and staged photos of broken bodies and broken ambulances, to their taking video direction from Hamas scene directors and Hezbollah’s Green Helmet Guy, to made-for-TV conversions to Islam, the MSM have shown that they will always be the pawns of those who are willing to kill them. Is there any better definition of “submission” than that?

We’ll let Mark Steyn speak for a while. He provides examples of what objectively must be seen as submission to the Islamist enemy. The enemy understands well that it takes almost nothing at all to obtain the eager cooperation of the Western MSM:

Consider, for example, the bizarre behavior of Reuters, the once globally respected news agency now reduced to putting out laughably inept terrorist propaganda. A few days ago, it made a big hoo-ha about the Israelis intentionally firing a missile at its press vehicle and wounding its cameraman Fadel Shana. Shana was posed in an artful sprawl in a blood-spattered shirt. But it had ridden up and underneath his undershirt was spotlessly white, like a summer-stock Julius Caesar revealing the boxers under his toga. What’s stunning is not that almost all Western media organizations reporting from the Middle East are reliant on local staff overwhelmingly sympathetic to one side in the conflict — that’s been known for some time — but the amateurish level of fakery that head office is willing to go along with.

Down at the other end of the news business, meanwhile, one finds items like this snippet from the Sydney Morning Herald: “A 16-year-old girl was tailed by a car full of men before being dragged inside and assaulted in Sydney’s west last night, police say…”The three men involved in the attack were described to police as having dark ‘mullet-style’ haircuts.”

Three men with “mullet-style” hair, huh? Not much to go on there. Bit of a head scratcher. But, as it turned out, the indefatigable Sydney Morning Herald typist had faithfully copied out every salient detail of the police report except one. Here’s the statement the coppers themselves issued: “Police are seeking three men described as being of Middle Eastern/Mediterranean appearance, with dark ‘mullet-style’ hair cuts.” That additional detail narrows it down a bit, wouldn’t you say?…

[F]or the Fox journalists and the Western media who reported their release, what’s the big deal? Wear robes, change your name to Khaled, go on camera and drop Allah’s name hither and yon: If that’s your ticket out, seize it. Everyone’ll know it’s just a sham.

But that’s not how the al-Jazeera audience sees it. If you’re a Muslim, the video is anything but meaningless. Not even the dumbest jihadist believes these infidels are suddenly true believers. Rather, it confirms the central truth Osama and the mullahs have been peddling — that the West is weak, that there’s nothing — no core, no bedrock — nothing it’s not willing to trade.

We think that our Islamist enemies are drawing a very fair conclusion that the West is weak and worthless when they see the craven behavior of the MSM. If you were a jihadist, would you draw another conclusion? On what basis?

With the MSM, the situation is actually much worse than their giving passive submission to the Islamic fundamentalists with a knife to their throats. We observe that many in the MSM have a distinct of anti-Christian bias. For example, the Islamists go on all day about how we should all convert to Islam — that was of course the point of Ahmadinejad’s smarmy dawa to President Bush. The MSM express no outrage over this. But what would be the reaction of the MSM to the following response, if it had been given by Bush to Ahmadienjad: “Convert to Islam? Rubbish! Mohammed is not the messenger of God. His Koran is a potpourri made up of Arab lore, Bible stories, and imagination. Convert to Islam? Ridiculous. Perhaps when Islam recognizes the divinity of Christ, sir!”

Imagine the outrage of the MSM if the Christian Bush had responded tit-for-tat in religious terms to the Muslim Ahmadinejad’s religious appeal. Thus, it is not just that the MSM are craven and are willing to sidle up to whomever is the biggest threat to their safety. Many of them have an anti-Christian bias as well. It is only rational to expect the enemy to interpret the anti-Christian, pro-Islam bias of the MSM as indicative of Western society’s potential receptivity to their doctrine, and to be encouraged to ever bolder actions. The submission of the MSM puts us all in even greater danger than we already face.

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