Hollywood’s war on America may have claimed its first two casualties with the murder of two US airmen in Germany by a Muslim terrorist who was inspired by the Koran, and apparently by a clip from Brian DePalma’s movie, Redacted.
This isn’t the first time the news-entertainment complex has manufactured its own fake atrocity porn with ugly results. In 2005, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff ran a fake report about Gitmo personnel flushing a Koran down the toilet. Muslims reacted with their usual violent restraint, rioting, burning and generally running amok. One of the perpetrators of the 2005 London bombing was reportedly influenced by that story. That would make it the first news article to have killed over 50 people.
In 2004, the Boston Globe was so desperate for anti-war porn in the wake of Abu Ghraib, that it published photos of US soldiers raping Iraqi women that they got from the Nation of Islam. In reality the photos were pornographic fakes, but the Globe went ahead and ran them even though they had already been exposed as fakes.
And before Piers Morgan was picked by CNN as Larry King’s replacement, he was working as the editor of the Daily Mirror, and in that capacity he published more fake photos of UK soldiers torturing Iraqis. That got him fired from the Daily Mirror, but made him amply qualified for a high profile hosting gig at CNN, which suffers from even lower standards than the UK’s trashiest tabloid.
The rash of fake abuse photos in 2004-2005, in the wake of Abu Ghraib, showed the media’s greed for defamatory materials aimed at Coalition soldiers. While the media was busy reproducing enemy propaganda, the men they were targeting were dying in record numbers. While the Globe, Newsweek and the Mirror were fishing for smears, in those two years alone over 1,600 soldiers died in attacks. And while there is no way to measure the impact that the media’s fake news stories had on casualties, there is no serious doubt that terrorist recruiters found such stories useful. While the media made a great show of outrage over Terry Jones’ plan to burn a Koran, charging him with having the blood of soldiers on his hands, the media has always been eager to sell true or fake atrocity porn, without regard for how much blood they have on their hands.
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