Outrage Fatigue

Ed Driscoll comments upon, and links to Prof. Reynolds comments regarding Bill Keller's defense of the NYT's publication of their piece, over administration objections, on the use of financial information against terrorist.

I have long since given up on LAT, and the NYT, and know to the marrow of my bones that they both are actively rooting for another terror attack within the borders of the United States. It must sicken them every time a Bush Administration member defends their aggressive war on terror with the line, 'We fight there, so as not to fight them here, and the proof is, no attacks in almost 5 years'.

So whether it's a conscious policy, or unconscious, it doesn't matter. What is clear is that they are actively pursuing every story they can to do all they can do within their limited power to create the conditions for another attack on US soil.

Tony Snow said it best, they act as if the 'right to know' trumps the 'right not to get killed'.

But as far as outrage, nope, no outrage from me, just resigned to the knowledge that we have major media outlets who actively root for the enemy, are allied with the enemy, and won't be satisfied until there is another mass casualty attack within our borders.

There's no way that an Operation Overlord could have been successful in this media environment. War is hell. Right now many media outlets are trying to make it even worse. Let's hope their campaign against the Bush Administration fails and despite the best efforts of the NYT and LAT terrorists won't have the satisfaction of watching shocked and horrified Americans in the wake of another attack on Al-Jazeera or CNNi (who must be pissed that they didn't get this scoop themselves, they're slacking in their anti-American jihads)

Like I said, I'm not outraged at all, I've been conditioned to expect this behavior from certain media outlets.