The Terrorist Media

WaPo national security blogger Bill Arkin compares troops to mercenaries (who by definition fight for anyone for money) in response to our troops asking for our support to defend our country and our way of life. Redstate responds with Kipling:

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.

Michelle Malkin has more.

Tommy's a better man than you are Bill Arkin.

And this is it---Riehl World View calls it---the press has gone to war---against us:

Many on the Right have always been suspect of the MSM media when it came to reporting on the Iraq War. While the first official shot may have been CNN showing video of enemy snipers at work, it seems that open hostilities have been declared now that President Bush has begun the infamous surge.

Within the past two days, the New York Times violated a standard ethical constraint when it broadcast video of an American Marine being shot, also reporting his death without officially contacting his family. They are reported to have suffered greatly in the process of viewing it. If there's any justice, they will sue the Times for the little bit that it's still worth.

Read on. This makes me so angry. Well, now we can equate the MSM with the terrorists. Recall the prospective Birmingham Beheaders, arrested today:

There were plenty of websites instructing new recruits how to stalk then seize their victim. These sites emphasised the need for publicity.

One password-protected al-Qaeda affiliated forum posted in June last year: “It is preferable if you photograph or video the operation so that it can have a bigger set of viewers and can be used by the media.”

The MSM has taken the mask off. They are the terrorist media.