Bloggers once again draw the attention of CAIR

The story that started it all.

Now it appears that the St. Louis reporter who reported on it along using a CAIR press release has decided to go after Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs fame.

CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundations charity terror trial, once again is enlisting the aide of the FBI to investigate Charles and others who dared call attention to this huge monstrosity of a cell phone tower, er, prayer tower being erected in St Louis.

This story has its share drama with Mr. Johnson at the center of the storm and the reporter from the St Louis Post-Dispatch now getting personal.

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Now why the reporter decided to single out Little Green Footballs is a mystery (the paper also mentioned Gateway Pundit) This certainly isn't the first time Charles has found himself the center of attention and I am sure he will be fine.

If anything, it only further points to the growing influence blogs are gaining while their Mass Market Media predecessors continue to lose ther audience. The one possible reason for targeting these two is because their names are well-known, unlike somebody like me who tries to protect my identity to a certain degree.

CAIR wants to help the press

CAIR (Council on Arab American-Islamic Relations) wants to help our press get Beyond Stereotypes. As if they need any help carrying the water for the propaganda wing of Hamas and Hezbollah and unindicted co-conspirator in the Homeland Charity case. So let's see what this all about.

Hmmmm can't seem to copy and paste the quotes from the web site directly. I wonder why that is? So here is a portion.

"This guide offers reporters the tools they need to gain a better understanding of Islam and to write informed stories about Muslims. It also offers readers background information about Islam and Muslims, best practices for reporting on the Muslim community and a list of accurate terminology to use when covering issues relating to Islam."

Journalists get a free copy but an everyday person must pay $20 per copy. I DO NOT encourage anybody to buy a copy since any money raised in this effort will no doubt find it's way into the pockets of jihadists. However if you know any journalists maybe they will get a copy for you, the ones that don't already have one that is. I bet they took a beating on the shipping charges to Reuters and the AP.

I prefer to get my information about Islam from places like Little Green Footballs and Jihad Watch myself.

Howard Kurtz: Lazy Media Relic

In typically lazy drive-by media fashion, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post selectively goes after Little Green Footballs for a couple of comments which the commenter himself quickly regretted while minimizing the vile hatred emanating from the Huffington Post.

In recent weeks, some of those who post comments on the conservative blog Little Green Footballs have said they wished that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had succeeded in what the Gitmo prisoner says was a plot to kill Jimmy Carter. And some who posted comments on the liberal Huffington Post have expressed regret that the suicide bomber at a military base in Afghanistan failed to take out the visiting Dick Cheney.

No corner of the Net is safe from this bile. The Washington Post's Web site has been grappling with a surge in offensive and incendiary comments.

The really gruesome stuff represents a tiny minority of those online. But is there a way of policing the worst stuff without shutting down robust debate?

The comments about Cheney at the Huffington Post included: "You can't kill pure evil." "If at first you don't succeed . . . " "Dr. Evil escapes again . . . damn." Founder Arianna Huffington wrote that "no one at HuffPost is defending these comments -- they are unacceptable and were treated as such by being removed."

The comments about Mohammed and Carter at Little Green Footballs included: "Can we furlough him -- just so he can realize the Carter plot? Please?" and "Even this schmuck had some good ideas."

The site's founder, Charles Johnson, wrote on Little Green Footballs that such comments "reflect only the opinions of the individuals who posted them" and doubted that they "rise to the level of hatred that showed up in Arianna's readers' Cheney-related comments."

Read for yourself: Here is the LGF thread Kurtz notes.

Kurtz doesn't even mention more recent comments this past Friday at Huffington Post about Tony Snow.

Pajames Media notes Huffington was sanitizing history.

Michelle Malkin had Assassination chic, Cheney edition.

Just last week, there was yet another deluge of hatred toward Cheney. Does this comment sound rational?

I would like to take a sledge hammer to Cheneys foot......then tell the fucking terrorist bastard ''now you know what if feels like'. Then shove a .45 in his mouth and blow his fucking brains out.

By: PissedoffVietVet on March 20, 2007 at 06:57pm

Why doesn't Howrd Kurtz mention this? Is he too lazy?

Again, I do not minimize the fact that some commenters at LGF have on occasion stepped over the line. But to even make a comparison between commenters there and at the Huffington Post is intellectually dishonest.

UPDATE: Charles Johnson fires back. More also today from Michelle Malkin.