The passing of David Horowitz and now Michael Ledeen once again showed the media at its worst. Obituaries used to be sacred, now they’re just another means of media character assassination. A way for the media to reinforce the negative image of a public figure that its operatives created and intend to fix in the public consciousness through ceaseless historical revisionism. The same media that could dub the head of ISIS an austere religious scholar doubles down on hating its opponents. These posthumous campaigns of defamation don’t and can’t harm the dead, they only show the media for what it is, a propaganda hate machine dedicated to the total destruction of the living, the dead and anyone who stands in its way.