An Inter Press Service piece (9/24/08) on the U.S.-press-distributed anti-Muslim video Obsession gives kudos to
major metropolitan newspapers solicited to insert the paid advertisement into their product [that] have refused to do so…. “Despite the perilous state of American newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch advertising department took an ethical stand and refused to distribute the DVD of a film that… has troubled American Muslims.”
Reporters Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton then go beyond “initial press reports about the mass distribution [that] focused on the Clarion Fund‘s financing role,” pointing out that it was the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a nonprofit that opposes what it calls “the common threats facing Israel and the United States,” that “organized and oversaw the distribution.” Among the “notable members of the advisory board” for EMET , Gharib and Clifton spot none other than Daniel Pipes–prominently featured in FAIR’s latest report; listen to our radio show CounterSpin: Isabel MacDonald & Steve Rendall on ‘Smearcasting,’ FAIR’s Islamophobia Report (10/10/08)
Don’t you find it interesting (read “sickening”) that the corpress help spread this bile while striving mightily to present McCain’s and Palin’s parallel hatemongering as somehow unintentional … that they’re trying to carry out an “aggressive” campaign without inciting the rabid racists in their base?
That’s precisely what they want to do … that’s their desperate strategy … they simply don’t want to be *perceived* as doing so.
And the mainstream media will be sure to amplify every bogus plea to “respect our opponents” in service to that end, won’t they?