Well, at least how the imaginary world inside the MSM’s cocoon works. Found via William A. Jacobson’s post on “Another Failed Eliminationist Narrative,” Jim Treacher writes:
When 19 Muslim terrorists fly planes into buildings and murder thousands of people, it’s not a reflection on all Muslims. Or any Muslims besides those 19, for that matter. But when a drunk A-hole in the same neighborhood yells “As-salaam alaikum! Consider this a checkpoint!” and stabs a Muslim cabbie, it’s a reflection on all opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque.
The MSM really has really gone all in on the paranoid style in last couple years, haven’t they?