Kill the Messenger

Gotta love the right-wing “thinkers” who blame journalists for all the ills of the world. “Heidi” spends paragraphs pretending to be intimately familiar with how journalists think, spewing a huge load of psychobabble about how they “imagine” this and “HATE” that (quite the telepath, is our Heidi). She ends with:

Journalists are small-minded, intolerant peripheral players in history, each yearning to be and yet incapable of being a hero.

The point? All of this, apparently, is supposed to justify the bombing of two Al-Jazeera offices by US planes. This is, apparently, her answer to most disagreements: If you don’t like what the other fellow has to say, kill hm.

Sorry, Heidi. There are Americans who don’t think that out-and-out murder is a viable component of US foreign policy. Not that anyone expects you to understand what’s wrong with murder…