Fighting Terrorism Through Words
Michelle Malkin alerts us to the following important technological breakthrough:
"KILLER APP" GETS A WHOLE NEW MEANING!
By Michelle Malkin · September 22, 2004 12:18 PM
Via one of my blog heroines, Michele Catalano, there is good news for bloggers who use Movable Type and are sick of Reuters' penchant for sanitizing Islamofascist killers (which I vented about here). A blogger in Brussels has invented a killer app that substitutes the word "terrorist" for every weasel word used by terrorist-sympathizing news organizations (e.g. "militant," "gunmen," etc.).
Well, I don't use Movable Type so the killer app wouldn't work for me -- but since I'm sick of terrorist-sympathizing news organizations using weasel words, I did the next-best thing. Yes, I did a Google News search for the weasel words, and manually replaced them with the more exact "terrorist." Lets look at some of my newly unsanitized results for the word "gunmen," and discuss what they teach us about Bush's war on terrorism:
Police Searching For Terrorists Who Entered Irving Supermarket
NBC5i.com, TX - 15 hours ago
... holdup attempt. Two workers were tied up but managed slip their bonds and make it out safely, leaving the terrorists alone. Tull says ...
Terrorists Shoot, Kill Security Guard
Click10.com, FL - Sep 20, 2004
LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. -- Terrorists shot and killed a security guard at a Lauderdale Lakes adult gaming center Saturday, police say. ...
Okay, thanks to the new technology we learn that terrorists are striking in the heartland, and even convenience stores in small towns in Illinois aren't safe. We must reelect George Bush, so he can continue to protect us from such attacks.
Now, here's some of what you get when you use the technique for the word "militant":
Changes at NCC
KVAL, OR - Aug 26, 2004
... Beacons. Poetzl says this is because the Crusaders represent a terrorist Christianity and the school wanted something more peaceful.
Thus, we learn that the crusades were terrorist attacks on Muslims -- sure, we guessed as much, but the terrorist-sympathizing media would never come right out an say it.
But even more shocking is the news that Marvin Olasky's World Journalism Institute advocates terrorism.
Now that we have broken the media's code and learned of WJI's secret terrorist charter, note how sinister this passage from the news story seems:
The students, here in New York from as far away as Lookout Mountain, Georgia (population: 1,581) and schools like Vision Bible College in Marsing, Idaho, are mostly in their early twenties, clean cut, earnest, and deeply religious. They laugh at the notion that they are a cadre of religious zealots being trained to infiltrate the newsroom and violate the sacred doctrine of dispassionate, objective journalism. Yet the students themselves aren’t entirely clear just how the journalistic and spiritual parts of their identity fit together. Are they evangelical journalists, or just journalists who happen to be evangelicals?
Is WJI a madras, training religious zealots for secret missions within our country, or is it something even more sinister?
I don't know, but I find the following passage quite chilling:
Case would not be happy to hear his students sounding like missionaries. Earlier this year, Jack Kelley, the disgraced USA Today reporter, brought some unwanted attention to the World Journalism Institute that made its mission look more fanatical than Case would like it to appear. Kelley, a Pulitzer finalist in 2002 for coverage of international terrorism, was arguably the highest-profile evangelical journalist in the country.
So, if the WJI advocates terrorism, and Jack Kelley, who was scheduled to be a lecturer at the institute, fabricated stories about terrorism, then ... um, well, I don't know what it means, but it's something that Homeland Security should probably investigate.
Our Google search also revealed that people besides Michelle are upset by the weasely media, and they give us some more examples of words the cowards use instead of "terrorist":
The militant Islamic ducks are quacking
WorldNetDaily, OR - Sep 5, 2004
... So why do so many in our media persist in calling the killers "rebels" or "insurgents." They've no guts to call them what they are: militant Islamic terrorists ...
So, "The Babe In the Bunker" would probably buy a copy of this new word-replacement application. And then there's this nationally-known pundit:
Michelle Malkin | MURDERED BY MERE 'ACTIVISTS'
Philadelphia Daily News (subscription), PA - Sep 13, 2004
... attacks perpetrated not by Muslim terrorists, but by generic "militants" or "guerrillas" or "rebels" or, as ... noted the Pakistan Times called them, "activists"? ...
Wait, that's Michelle -- so maybe there's not as widespread a demand for this killer ap as we believed at first.
Anyway, when we search for "activist" and then replace that generic word with "terrorist," we get results like the following:
Terrorist pushes for school air cleanliness
Boston Globe, MA - 20 hours ago
By Joan Millman, Globe Correspondent | September 23, 2004. Many parents have turned to Ellie Goldberg, founder of Healthy Kids: The Key to Basics.
Those damned terrorists, trying to get to our kids through better air quality!
This story is even more alarming:
GOP Terrorist Made Allegations on CBS Memos
Los Angeles Times (subscription), CA - Sep 18, 2004
An Atlanta lawyer who helped get Clinton disbarred is the blogger who called them fakes. By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON ...
Yes, it seems that "Buckhead," the guy who first posted about the Killian memos possibly being fakes, is a GOP terrorist! And, he was involved in getting Clinton disbarred! So, did terrorists fabricate the Killian memos in an effort to influence the results of a Presidential election? And was the Clinton impeachment effort led by terrorists, perhaps to prepare the way for their candidate, George W. Bush? All these issues seem to warrant several congressional hearings!
And then there's this item about a member of a terrorist group which seeks to recruit our young people -- and trains them to conduct attacks on our elected leaders:
GOP terrorist says he regrets calling congresswoman a 'witch'
San Jose Mercury News (subscription), CA - Sep 18, 2004
SIOUX FALLS, SD - The chairman of the Young Republicans at the University of South Dakota says it was wrong for him to refer to US Rep. ...
The Young Republicans is on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, I believe.
And by replacing "activist" with the more exact "terrorist" in the following story, we learn a little more about how terrorists are working against us here at home:
GOP terrorist alleges assault on daughter, 3, by union member
Charleston Gazette, WV - Sep 17, 2004
Phil Parlock, a Huntington real estate agent and Republican terrorist, said a union member yanked a Bush-Cheney sign from the hands of his 3-year-old daughter ...
I find it reprehensible that a terrorist would take his 3-year-old daughter along on a mission to spread disruption and chaos! This GOP terrorist group apparently uses methods similar to some of the Palestinian ones. We learned from Bill O'Reilly that terrorists share resources and generally pal around together (which is why invading Iraq was part of the vengeance against the perpetrators of 9/11) -- so, to help our good friend Israel, I think it's time for a preemptive strike on RNC Headquaters.
Oh, and when we search for news stories using the word "rebel," and then replace that term with "terrorist," we uncover the hideous truth of where Terrorist Central is situated: Mississippi!
Just look at this story, and see if you don't agree:
Terrorist Rifle Program To Christen Brand New Facility This Weekend
OldMissSports.com - 2 hours ago
Ole Miss will be one of five teams competiting at the Patricia C. Lamar National Guard Readiness Center this weekend. OXFORD, Miss. ...
I can't believe that they dare announce such things on the internet! It's like they believe the FBI isn't even paying attention -- and maybe it isn't, since their computers are known to be outdated and inefficients, so they presumably don't have the killer ap.
And there are scores of stories about the Old Miss Terrorist football team, Terrorist volleyball, etc. (presumably they hold playoffs against Hammas, the IRA, and the rest of the World Wide Terrorism League). When you think about it, it's not surprising that Mississippians seem drawn to terrorism -- after all, their forebears were known for being terrorists during the American Civil War, and that heritage is proudly celebrated to this day. Still, I find it shocking that they are so cavalier about their loyalties, and suggest that we intern the whole state -- you know, to keep the rest of us safe.
One last Google citation:
Be a terrorist -- read a banned book
The Marshall Democrat-News, MO - Sep 21, 2004
Banned Books Week starts on Saturday, Sept. 25. The theme this year is "Elect to Read a Banned Book: Ban No More in 2004." There ...
No wonder the Patriot Act included that section on library records!
Anyway, I want to thank Michelle and her cohorts for helping me to see things more clearly. By eliminating namby-pamby words from news stories and replacing them with more precise terms, I have learned a lot, and feel much better prepared to fight the terrorists around me. I'm leading a raid against the World Institute of Journalism first thing next week.
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