The liberal media continues to run interference for Hamas and its atrocity campaign in Israel.
Witness MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asking an Israeli mother of two children taken hostage during Friday’s terror raids, “What are your feelings about the attacks against Gaza right now?”
The lefty host was clearly looking for her guest to echo Mitchell’s own equivocation on the issue.
But the mother responded, with justifiable anger: “You’re looking for a symmetrical situation. I can’t be sympathetic to animal human beings — well, they’re not really human beings — who came into my house, broke everything, stole everything, took my children from their bedrooms and took them to the Gaza Strip. Israel has never done that, and it will never do. So there is no symmetry!”
Precisely correct: Between Israel and Hamas there is no symmetry.
And there never will be, no matter how hard the US left tries to pretend otherwise.
On Monday, NewsNation’s Dan Abrams rightly slammed Mitchell’s fellow MSNBCers Ayman Mohyeldin, Mehdi Hasan and Ali Velshi for their claim that the Hamas attacks — planned and perpetrated solely by Hamas’ leadership in concert with Iran — were the result of “failed policies” by the United States and Israel.
“This is not a both-sides story, period,” thundered Abrams. No “failed policies” could “somehow justify or even explain the slaughter, rapes, and kidnapping of innocent civilians.”
But the false equivalence drawn by MSNBC — which has called Hamas terrorists “militants” or “fighters” hundreds of times since Saturday — is common among legacy outlets.
Like The New York Times, which unforgivably was referring to Hamas killers as “militants” as late as Monday; the Grey Lady went so far as to briefly use the correct word, “terrorists,” and then stealth-edit it to read “gunmen.”
The BBC, meanwhile, openly refuses to use the t-word, with a veteran reporter arguing that doing so “means you’re taking sides and ceasing to treat the situation with due impartiality.”
Impartiality is impossible in the face of pure savagery.
And for what it’s worth, there are plenty of recent examples of the BBC using the word descriptively.
CNN? Still using “militant.” As are many other outlets.
It’s impossible to defeat evil unless you name it. It’s beyond shameful that these crucial institutions refuse to do so.