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At Last, One Man’s Terrorist Is No Longer a Fredom Fighter

July 24, 2011 - 5:40 pm - by Ed Driscoll

That was then…

Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters, the British wire service, has ordered his scribes not to use the word terror to refer to the Sept. 11 atrocity, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reports (second item). “We all know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist,” Jukes writes in an internal memo. “To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack.”

This is now: “Reuters Labels Norway Terror Suspect as ‘Right-Wing’ 25 Times.”

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More from Glenn Reynolds and Ben Shapiro, guest-blogging at Ricochet, who explores “The Oslo Monster and the Rules of Violent Ideology.”

Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Liberal Fascism, Oh, That Liberal Media!, Radical Chic, The Future and its Enemies, The Newspeak Dictionary, The Return of the Primitive, War And Anti-War

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  1. 1. whiskey

    This guy is a lunatic like Cho, Sodini, Loughner, with no discernible ideology. He according to the LAT has copied and pasted the Unabomber’s Manifesto into his own. Copying Ted Kaczynski is the definition of insane. According to his Facebook page, he’s a fan of Tru Blood, the Shield, Dexter, Caprica, and Stargate Universe. Also of George Orwell and Franz Kafka. Funny I missed that part in the Trial (one the guy’s favorite books) where the protagonist … goes off and kills about a hundred helpless kids on an island.

    There’s no sense to crazy, other than deranged personal grievances that society either picks up (and locks away, quick) or at least channels into the usual targets (political leaders, celebrities). This guy makes about as much sense as Lee Harvey Oswald killing Alexander Gromyko, or John Wilkes Booth assassinating Robert E. Lee. Because he’s crazy, and crazy doesn’t make sense.

    Like Loughner, the media will attempt to smear conservatives with this one. I recall assertions that (Jewish) Loughner was a neo-nazi, a follower of Rush Limbaugh (his parents were local AZ Dem bigwigs), and all the rest. Loughner was and is a literally giggling lunatic, who everyone knew was crazy but did nothing to lock up. Same with this lunatic. Crazy never makes sense.

    July 24, 2011 - 7:29 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. Buck O'Fama

    In case anyone’s not convinced yet, the MSM provides yet one more reason why it’s a waste of time to bother with them.

    July 24, 2011 - 8:11 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. cubanbob

    A Palestinian militant kills an Israeli family and a right wing terrorist slaughters the children of Norwegian socialists.
    Thats Reuter’s for you. Its not the act that defines terrorism but the actors so sayeth Reuters.

    July 25, 2011 - 9:04 am   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. TGGP

    I’ve heard other people complaining that Anders is now being referred to as the “shooter”, “gunman”, “killer” etc rather than “terrorist”.

    July 30, 2011 - 1:42 pm   Link to this Comment