They would not survive the treatment the press gives Trump’s anecdotes
Hillary and Bernie talk wildly inflated numbers as gospel all the time about matters of policy, not mere anecdotes. To the extent the falsities and exaggerations are reported they are not stories in themselves or in the tone of questioning Clinton’s and Sanders grasp of issues. The liberal media’s latest multiple news cycle riff on Trump is explained in this Gary Bauer post at Campaign for Working Families:
Muslim Celebrations
Donald Trump is being lambasted by the left-wing media for comments he made about Muslims in New Jersey celebrating as the 9/11 attacks unfolded. Trump is perfectly capable of defending himself. But his claim of seeing “thousands” does not square with anything that I recall. Here’s an excerpt from our “End of Day” report from September 19, 2001:
“In Jersey City, New Jersey where there has been a great deal of activity by followers of radical Islam, people were reportedly on the roofs of their apartment buildings, celebrating the attacks in New York. The FBI is following up on these leads.”
Certainly there were videos of large groups of people celebrating in the Middle East, including in the Palestinian territories.
But what is most telling about the Trump controversy is the effort of big media to create the impression that there is virtually no evidence of radicalism among American Muslims and that Trump simply pulled this out of thin air.
While the Washington Post fact checker says it couldn’t find anything to confirm Trump’s recollection of events, there were articles similar to my report in the fact checker’s own Washington Post. Other reports referencing Muslim celebrations during the 9/11 attacks appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Regardless, that’s all ancient history now. The left-wing media are totally committed to the theme that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam and they are constantly doubling down on this denial.
But I’ll concede this: One of the most notorious reactions to 9/11 wasn’t in a mosque, but in a church in Chicago that just happened to be the church that Barack Obama attended for 20 years.
It was from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ that Jeremiah Wright stood the Sunday after 9/11 and condemned the United States for supporting terrorism against the Palestinians. He then shouted, “America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” meaning that the attack was something we caused.
Terrorist Sympathies
As the debate continues to rage over America’s refugee policy, the media continue to portray conservatives as hysterical bigots afraid of “widows and orphans” as Obama put it. But what do the Muslim refugees really believe?
One survey of Syrian refugees, conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, found that 13% of them have a positive view of the Islamic State. Keep in mind that these aren’t Syrians fighting the Assad regime, but refugees attempting to relocate to another country.
A new Pew survey finds that ISIS enjoys double-digit support in some large Muslim nations. Running the numbers on these figures suggests that nearly 60 million Muslims support ISIS.
Now why would these Muslims possibly support the Islamic State? I’ll revisit this issue in the days ahead.
