When the media dreams

Reluctant as I am to rush to judgement as to how the facts will eventually pan out in respect of the recent terrorist killings in France, if the current suspect Mohammed Merah, a 23 year old of Algerian origin, with a lengthy criminal record and numerous Pakistan stamps in his passport, (referred to here in typical BBC speak as a "Frenchman") does turn out to be the killer, we will have seen yet another example of the, now entirely corrupt, Western media rushing to their own judgments and composing a narrative based on their own wishes, rather than upon any rational analysis of the facts.

By this morning (before the news broke) some had even written and published article such as this assuming they had already been gifted with the outcome they so desired.  And as far as this writer was concerned he was so clearly over-excited by his wish fulfillment fantasy that I rather suspect he typed his article with his one free hand. (I bet he cries himself to sleep tonight)

Before virtually any facts were known, the press had declared that these were "racist" killings encouraged by the recent anti-immigrant rhetoric employed by President Sarkosy  and that evil Marine Le Pen.  

The first victims were either black or Muslim, so the killer must be a white man.  The latest victims were Jewish, so it stood to reason, they insisted, that the killer was a Nazi.

The press immediately started pointing their Tofu stained fingers at three rather dumb looking ex-French paratroopers who had been dismissed from the Army some while ago for having links to non-state approved groups.  A photo of the unfortunate trio, making silly Hitler salutes, whilst wrapped in an upside down blood flag, flew round the world.

Some of this morning’s papers, published before today’s events began to unfold, included a report, in small print, and hidden at the far end of the news pages stating that the French police had cleared all three of the now heavily over exposed “Nazi soldiers” of any involvement in the attacks.

The flaws in these assumptions were glaringly obvious to anyone who was not as desperate to believe them as the media was.

The first victims may indeed have been Muslims, or, in one instance a black man of Caribbean origin, however, they were all also soldiers in the French army, part of which has recently deployed in Afghanistan.  Is a right wing white man really the most likely suspect who would wish to punish Muslims who chose to join with the Infidel in attacking their Islamic brothers?

As far as the Jewish school children were concerned, has it escaped the Media’s attention, or do they just not wish to acknowledge the fact that, for the last two generations and more, those primarily responsible for violence against Jews, to an overwhelming degree have been Arabs, not skinheads or even Germans in shiny boots. 

However, the media didn’t even consider the facts, that would have been far too politically incorrect.  The press wanted what they wanted, and that’s how they wrote the story.

The MSM and assorted talking heads were really spoilt by events in Norway last year when all their Christmas’s came together in the Liberal wet dream of Anders Behring Breivik, the blond and blue eyed bogeyman who will be used to terrify impressionable children for years to come.

However, “Man Bites Dog” is a very rare headline, and whatever the media may want to believe, in 99.9% of all case it is the innocent white guy who ends up with teeth marks in his backside.

If events are as they appear to be, then all the hype in the world will not make it the story which the media wanted to report, and, therefore, most likely they will soon cease to report it.

Those clunking sounds you hear are the story being dropped in newsrooms all over the country and replaced by the one about the Hispanic guy in Florida, who the media and US cops insist in calling “white” who shot a black youth making an innocent detour through a gated community clutching a bag of skittles.

Unless anything changes, this story will swiftly follow the aftermath of the ludicrously named  "Arab spring" and the invasion of Libya in the black hole where news stories which didn’t have the politically correct ending the press had hoped for go, and will soon become another of the inconvenient events which the controlled media chooses to forget.  

If we let them.