In FrontPage today I explain why mainstream media reporters don’t even need to show up for work. They can file their stories beforehand.
The San Bernardino jihad massacre is the latest jihad atrocity, but it’s just like the last one, and just like the next one: it has played out in exactly the same way that the last jihad atrocity did, and in just the same way that the next one will play out as well. Mass killings by “radicalized” Muslims are followed by earnest statements from the President and the mainstream media that we must not rush to judgment, that the motive of the shooters was unclear, that we need gun control, that we need to address the real threat of climate change, that Muslims fear “Islamophobia,” and so on. It’s always a new massacre, but it’s always the same story.
Surely by now mainstream media reporters don’t even need to roll out of bed to file their stories. How much legwork does it take to write, “Syed Farook and Tashfeen Melik murdered 14 people at a Christmas party in San Bernardino; yes, Farook was a devout Muslim, but authorities are searching for a motive; moderate Muslims condemned the attack and said they feared anti-Muslim backlash”? Change the names and date, change the number of victims and the place, and they’ve filed that story dozens of times. They can just take out their last New York Times or CNN piece on the Paris jihad attack, change the details, hit send, and pour a cold one.
A few years ago, a couple of writers for Salon.com showed up at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on which I was speaking, and were deservedly ridiculed after they were caught writing their story before the panel had even begun. But you can’t really blame them for trying to save some time: their story was going to be the same “Racist Bigoted Islamophobes Say Egregiously Evil Things” no matter what anyone on the panel really did say, so why not get a head start on the writing?
With San Bernardino, and every jihad attack, it works the same way. The media trims the facts to fit the Procrustean bed of their narrative, such that, in this case, most of the American public will likely never hear that San Bernardino jihad murderer Syed Farook had been “radicalized”; or that he had been in touch with Muslims being investigated for jihad terror activity; or that he spent his free time in the mosque, memorizing the Qur’an.
If they do hear about such things at all from the mainstream media, their significance won’t be explained: no one on CBS or NBC or ABC or PBS or NPR or in the New York Times or the Washington Post will remind his or her audience that the Islamic State and other jihad groups consider themselves to be at war with the United States, and have explicitly and repeatedly called upon Muslims in the U.S. to commit mass murder of American civilians. Would anyone have wondered about the motive of a German national who slaughtered fourteen Americans on U.S. soil in 1943? Of course no one would have, but that was a long time ago. Now we are engaged in a great ignored war, a war that only one side is fighting, a war in which enemy combatants are tried in civilian courts – as if they were criminals, not enemy soldiers — by a government that desperately wishes to maintain the illusion that there is no war at all.
This play has played to rapt audiences in Boston and Fort Hood, and all over the country. It is so familiar that all the players hit their marks with the nonchalant and unthinking precision of the overtrained. But it needs to close. The endless proclamations after every jihad attack, that it has nothing to do with Islam, and that Muslims are the real victims, are not only ludicrous; they’re offensive. The mainstream media and the Obama Administration have insulted the intelligence of Americans long enough. Their denial and willful ignorance are endangering us all, as they continue to behave after every jihad attack that their primary duty is not protecting Americans, but protecting Islam’s image.
San Bernardino has so far been just another production of this dreary little play, but it still has a chance to be much more than that. If Americans see the real lessons of San Bernardino and no longer accept this nonsense we are being fed; if we demand of our elected officials and presidential candidates that they must speak the truth about this threat we are facing, and formulate realistic ways to counter it, or their political careers will be over; if we no longer accept this endless portrayal of Muslims as beleaguered victims of “Islamophobia” after every murder of non-Muslims by Muslims – then San Bernardino could be a defining moment.
But for that to happen, people would have to be informed as to the true parameters of this issue, and those who are charged with informing them are instead doing all they can to spread disinformation. So San Bernardino will fade in memory once it is replaced by the next jihad carnage. And that one won’t have anything to do with Islam, either. Journalists can get their stories ready now, so that when that carnage comes, they can just fill in the requisite blanks and be the first to file. In fact, they better have five or ten jihad attack story templates ready. They’re going to need them.

Renee says
Of course it is islam inspired violence.
But some will claim that the pipe bombs were meant to be Christmas crackers to lighten up the Christmas party.
svesse says
Please stop!!! I have pissed my pants from laughing at that comment now for 5 whole minutes!!
You are THE lord of commentators!
Amen
gonzales27 says
That won’t work since Muslims don’t believe in Christmas.
Pig Jizya says
I also notice they never fail to trot out Ahmadiyya Muslims as they did during your appearance on Hannity last night, Robert. Even though Ahmadiyyas are a tiny minority and are considered apostates in most Muslim countries and persecuted as such.
On KTLA in LA I saw a 15 minute report from an Ahmadiyya mosque about how they all denounce the attacks. I where’s the report from the Sunni mosques?
Jaladhi says
And Muslims(Sunnis) don’t even consider Ahmadiyas as Muslims. In Pakistan they are treated as apostates and other minorities, Hindus and Christians. But our TV media, Fox and CNN, never fail to bring this clown who will first pay tribute to his sects leader and then proclaim Islam is peaceful. When will they talk to a real Muslim?? Even Fox talking heads are behaving like morons and they don’t understand Islam. I was surprised last night that Robert didn’t expose this phony Muslim!!
RichardL says
I am waiting for a story that says that it is the fault of the office he worked in that they had a “holiday” party too close to Christmas and that this amounts to aggressive islamophobia.
Pig Jizya says
Here you go! CNN courtesy of Pam Geller. http://pamelageller.com/2015/12/cnn-san-bernardino-office-holiday-party-may-have-been-offensive-to-muslim-gunman.html/
Read it and weep.
mortimer says
Message from this attack:
DO NOT HOLD A CHRISTMAS PARTY AT YOUR OFFICE OR MUSLIMS WILL SHOOT YOU.
Message of Paris attacks:
DO NOT ATTEND A ROCK CONCERT OR ANY EVENT WHERE MEN AND WOMEN MIX…or Muslims will SHOOT YOU.
DO NOT ATTEND A SPORTS EVENTS WITH WESTERN POLITICIANS (Crusaders)…or Muslims will SHOOT YOU.
ThisObamaNation says
I doubt this attack will change the knee jerk narrative on the left. It wasn’t big enough to grab their attention. It will soon be forgotten, and those that call for drastic measures such as mosque surveillance and deportation will continue to be labeled Isamophobes.
dumbledoresarmy says
What I’m seeing is that it is getting obfuscated by being lumped in with “other mass shootings” carried out by Infidels for reasons (or non-reasons) entirely different from the very specific, ideologically defined paradigm that drives Muslims to kill infidels. It’s not being compared with other *Muslim* attacks on Infidels on American soil in recent years, such as the Boston Bombing or the Fort Hood massacre, nor with the many, many, many plotted but fortunately failed or foiled jihad attacks, such as the attempted Times Square bombing, but with things such as the Planned Parenthood shooting, or Columbine or the Sandy Hook school massacre, that were carried out by random Infidels (of disturbed mind) upon other Infidels.
People are forgetting that if these two jihadis had not had ready access to guns they could just as easily have planted *bombs* in the party hall, or **poisoned the punch**, or run amok among the guests with kitchen knives (as is happening day after day after day in Israel at the moment). Or exploded a truck bomb just outside. Or blown themselves up with suicide vests.
This is NOT the same sort of thing as Columbine or Sandy Hook (or the Port Arthur massacre, longer ago, in Australia).
This is Jihad; an act of war, not the act of a random madman or freelance criminal/ psycho. This particular act of Jihad/ ghazi raid *happened* to have been carried out with guns…but in fact, given Farook’s line of work, everybody should be thanking heaven devoutly that he chose to use guns and pipe bombs rather than making use of his access and professional knowledge to sow anthrax spores or thallium or something else similarly nasty across restaurant and hotel and nursing home premises all over San Bernardino county.
Wellington says
On point again, dda. And yes, non-Muslim mass murderers create huge criminal tragedies but such criminal actions are just that——criminal actions which are not done in the name of an ideology that has a following of well more than a billion people and which ideology is actually a mortal threat to the continued existence of a free society. I wish more people would get this, though I think more and more are with each passing year. It really comes down to the difference between crime and war.
Hope you and your family are doing well. Take care.
VRWC member77 says
Hello from across the pond dda. Best wishes from America. All of your points are very well made. If I may, I’d also like to add that California has very strict gun laws. That state infringes upon the 2nd Amendment rights off Americans much more than most other states. If a few people had been carrying a concealed firearm, the carnage may have been mitigated.
It is interesting that the Garland Texas – Texas, a state that whole heartedly respects the 2nd Amendment – terrorist attack in May of this year saw the right people get killed….the terrorists themselves. Though in no small way, Pamela and Roger rightfully and intelligently took the correct security precautions.
Wolfgang says
DDA you blame the guns and then claim he had easy access to guns ?….sorry wont wash, bullshit …..,thats just misinformation and bias on your part. The long guns used in the attack are banned in California, both by description of their configuration. Farook most certainly did not just walk into a California gun shop or a gun show and buy them in that configuration. ALL long guns less than 50 years old are banned from private party sales in California, and to legally possess a banned-configuration “grandfathered” semi-auto rifle in California, it would have had to have been registered to Farook on or before December 31, 1999. But he was 13 years old in 1999, so that is impossible.Under California law again YOU CANNOT BUY THE GUNS HE USED, I thought you were smarter than that seems not , you really hate ordinary people having arms for their self defence dont you ?..
Wolfgang says
@DDA will you also rely soley upon the Police there to come to your aid ? what will YOU do to protect yourself and your family from harm? from Jihadi’s ?…the 2nd Amendment gives us the ability to STOP active shooters BEFORE the police arrive. .
even Police Chiefs are saying the same DEFEND YOURSELF
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/dc-police-chief-encourages-citizens-to-take-out-terrorists_112015
Police Chief Lanier said…….
“Your options are run, hide or fight,” before adding that even the best police departments wouldn’t be able to arrive on the scene until after most victims have been killed. She then encouraged citizens to fight back against the gunmen if they are in a good position to do so. “If you’re in a position to try and take the gunman down, to take the gunman out [ kill ], it’s the best option for saving lives before police can get there.”
As much as you hate the 2nd Amendment….it will take GOOD people [ civilians as well as Police ] with guns to STOP bad people with guns., till then its a fools utopia to believe otherwise, am I saying you are a fool ? I don’t know ! are you ?
Dr. Divinity says
We don’t need gun control…..we need Islamic terrorist control! and we can do it IF WE ACT SOON! Investigate Islam find the problem then destroy the problem…Is Islam itself the problem? Sure it is! Maybe all Muslims are not terrorist …but so far as I can see most terrorist are Muslim. Nuf !said! Act now “So Called” Leaders
Dr. Divinity says
Is it going to take a nuke in the middle of Manhattan to get our attention?….Wake up”so called” leaders…It’s way past time to act.
Bezelel says
The MSM is very predictable.
vluk says
Muslims can justify lying because because their Koran says they can but how do liberals justify lying? Is it because they are naturally so rotten?
Dean says
The excuses provided by the media become crazier with every attack. We are a nation on drugs to believe the nonsense. I heard a psychiatrist woman on CNN say that the terrorist couple had a “Bonnie and Clyde” complex. Media keep repeating the term “hybrid attack” to water it down the painful truth. Media and the Islamist elites in America will do everything to deny the truth
The funniest comment I heard from several sources is that the terrorist couple were good “conservative” Muslims so how could they possibly carry out such atrocities!!!
In a moment of truth that probably went unnoticed, I also heard one of the the lawyers for the family on CNN, a Muslim, say that there was nothing unusual about the beliefs of the terrorist couple and that they were just “good Muslims”….that was the most truthful and revealing answer to stupid questions that were trying to establish cause and to pin blame on one incident or on some insult to “normal” people who would just mow down as many as possible at a Christmas party just because they felt insulted or excluded as our Canadian PM Trudeau has characterized terrorists (excluded people, apparently, collect a huge stash of arms in preparation for their assault on humanity and the “insulterers” of their beliefs).
Jaladhi says
I think all these psychiatrists should be banned from coming on TV and offering their kooky explanations. They think that people are too stupid to believe them!! From the news reports the common man can draw more intelligent conclusions than these morons who have this tremendous urge to explain every thing based on their text books!! Does anyone care if it was Bonnie and Clyde complex or more simply the evil to the core religious teachings!! They can never see the obvious!!
Dean says
There is a trickle-down effect from Obama to the CIA to the State Department to police forces to the military nationwide. When it pains the President to say “Islamic terrorists” to the point where he cannot put observations into words, then we know where his allegiances happen to be. This denial will prevent all effective remedies to discredit the ideology, defend ourselves against it and demand that it be dropped in Mosques and schools in our western countries. At the present we are pretending to fight and that gives us all a feeling of security and that something is being done when, in reality, the enemy has free reign to carry out attacks against civilization with impunity.
Jaladhi says
The cover up started the moment the news of mass murder got out and blame was assigned to the governments usual suspects the right wingers. When the name of the murderer came out to be a Muslim still the lies about enacting new guns laws to prevent citizens from getting guns was in the media. These morons can never see the elephant in the room – Islam and its followers in spite what these people are doing all over the world.
Let’s see what does FBI say whether SB massacre was work place violence or Muslim terrorism!! Nobody will be surprised if the former is blamed, after all they have a precedent of Fort Hood!1
John Alexander says
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were good Muslims.
Murdering infidels is what some good Muslims do.
Syed and Tashfeen are in Muslim heaven now if what Muslims believe about allah is true.
That’s the key point that is always missed in the coverage.
That’s the start of a pretty good piece on this odd religion. It’s at :
http://www.pewforum.org/files/2013/04/worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-full-report.pdf
gildedtumbril says
All munitions including those used by police must be smeared with pork fat. This ensures the moderate muzloids do not meet alah and instead meet a chap with horns, cloven feet and a tail. Their superstition is our greatest weapon.
Bela Csakany says
The “chap with horns, cloven feet and a tail” is who they’re going meet anyway, “allah”(the greatest of deceivers), is satan.
“Zlozcie Kopie!”
Angemon says
Which is a god thing because it means they can work from home and cause less CO2 emissions than if they had to drive to their office or to the actual scene.
Mathew Solo says
Our Political Machine…along with media allies may want to Imply that more Gun Control
can help with gun violence…but more laws won’t help…that dog won’t hunt…we have strict
laws already in place…Our trying to placate Islam or any other violent source will only encourage
not dissuade…just admitting that some sources have that inherent potential is a start.
The Second Amendment allows all law abiding citizens to have and bear arms…
it is a stroke of social genius…it smacks of American…and hinders a dictator.
Over 300 million privately owned legal guns in the U. S. is the SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guise)…
What that estimate would be if the illegal gun population is included…you guise.
Gun Violence is highly concentrated in urban areas and associated with gang violence involving male juveniles or young adult males…Although mass shootings have been covered extensively in the media…mass shootings account for a very small amount of gun-related deaths…so far.
We all know that …Action Produces Results…If any President would act on the overwhelming source of gun violence in this country…this is that very source which Causes Our Numbers To Be So High…by focusing on this one area of the most gun violence…it could be diminished greatly…and A WIDE OPEN REAL SOURCE OF ILLEGAL GUN DISTRIBUTION could be disrupted…these gangs can connect with any means of profit.
We can not stop all Lunacy…yet where we do know we can find it…we could try to affect it there.
There are certainly things this President is just Un-Able to Approach.
Our Present President has made His Statement after this last tragedy:
“As I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough,” President Obama said. “It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America next week or a couple of months from now.”
Actions speak louder than words…I do not know what has been tried…but the results are
that there is major gun violence in these urban areas it’s still going strong…and action can be taken by
any President…this murder rate is shameful and must be recognized finally after all these decades…He could act on this decisively…there Is and Has Been For Far To Long…Heartache…Grief…Anger…that goes un-captured.
Any President can use His Bully Pulpit to address this nonsense…I am sure most of us thought this one might when He got elected…yes there will be severe resistance from so many directions…but someone with real Conviction and garnered support from enough citizens…might get the ball rolling.
It seems we somehow come to view this urban violence as…it is just the way it is there…it is expected…
and let it be there…not here…but…these are major chunks of major cities…
major chunks of our Nation…it is in fact the Nation’s Problem.
If a President wants to unify our people…let them see one law for all…wishing something will change is fine…But it takes action to produce results…wanting to be a leader and leading are different subjects completely…No one in their right mind would blame someone for really trying to do the right thing…even if they failed.
John Johness says
There is a enormous information asymmetry between the West and the Jihadis.
Islamic State know all about us: transport, languages, cities, infrastructure, how we think, media, communication ……. And we know so little about them. And we are not allowed to discuss them. I am certain IS have open and intensive discussions about the West.
The ultimate absurdity is that we can not even say we can’t say anything.
The one weapon that defeated the Islamic hordes in the Renaissance was the West’s ability to discuss, debate, use proof and come to agreed upon conclusions. Europe completely left them behind and there is no way they could invade.
Now the West world revels in its ignorance of the enemy.
Jim Peters says
I heard the attorney general’s spiel last night. We must protect Islam’s image. Really??? We must judge them by what they do, not what they say. Islamic supremacism, the new Nazism is in clear evidence. The master “race” is before us. We are at war, but our sniveling, condescending president thinks we, collectively as a people, are to blame. He, Barry, has created the problem and now he wants to take away our rights as Americans, offering the solution of gun confiscation. We are just fish in a barrel to him, easy pickens’.
gildedtumbril says
Were Thomas Jefferson alive Barry and Mikey would be swinging on yardarms.
Oliver says
not enemy soldiers — by a government that desperately wishes to maintain the illusion that there is no war at all. the above from the article.
HOWEVER, THAT IS BECAUSE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF SUPPORTS-OR SEEMS TO-AS DOES HIS SUBORDINATES- THE ONES THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH.
not only here, but in Canada (now); Sweden; France; etc.
Joey Donuts says
Every news story I have read, save one has called the party that Farook and his wife attacked a “holiday” party. The AP called it a banquet. Most people I have approached about the party assume it was a Christmas party. Seems a little early for that and a little late for Thanksgiving. Since Chanukah begins Dec. 6 and a large temple in SB had a “celebration on Tuesday, I’m guessing (and it is a guess) that the party was a Chanukah party. Calling it a holiday without a full description contributes to the cover up because it prevents others from realizing this religious nature of the attack.
Sam says
Where I work they talk about police cruelty, poor black stories, poor people during Christmas, climate change, gay rights but eerily I have not heard any discussion of Jihad attack in San Bernardino. People are mute when it comes to Islam. They really do not want to talk about it.
My take on this Allah really does not like infidels so he makes us brainless cowards. Disgusting!
No, America won’t wake up in my lifetime. Sorry!