"Does the media report that there are ZERO deaths at Gitmo, before launching into another 'the guard touched the Koran, so that's torture' story? No."This particular sentiment was the coup de grâce of a trifecta of allegations about the bias of the mainstream media, and how they didn't report on "good" news out of Iraq or Afghanistan. Now, unless I'm missing something, his point appears to be that not killing the prisoners in our custody is some of the "good" we're doing that's being marginalized by the MSM.
Say, huh?
Isn't that a bit like making someone employee of the month just because he/she didn't steal from the till? Last I checked, prisoners were usually expected to survive their incarceration. That's not a reason to give credit where credit is due, that's people doing their damn job. If the absence of murder in U.S.-run detention centers becomes what's newsworthy, then we're in some pretty dire straits.
The worst part of this is, if one person feels this way, it's a sure thing that any number of others concur. This is the type of person that's been cultivated through the "support for troops = support for leadership" propaganda. Through fear. Through denouncing dissent. Through labeling different philosophies as all but traitorous.
The presence of bad news gets explained away by the apologists while the lack of good news is blamed on the media conspiracies they conjure out of the ether. And otherwise decent Americans are left convinced that refraining from killing unarmed prisoners is an exercise in restraint worth a hearty clap on the back.
The bar isn't even set low, anymore; it's been thrown in the dirt.
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