Dear Politico: WTF is THIS besides RACIST Bullcrap?

[kpete]

Last edited Sun Jul 26, 2015, 11:14 AM - Edit history (2)

Politico Finds ‘Capital of American Jihad’–Based on 2 Cases, 6 Years and 268 Miles Apart
Roughly 10 hours after another white, apparently racist Christian senselessly opened fire in a public place in the American South, Politico (7/23/15) published what has to be one of the worst pieces of Islamophobic pseudo-journalism this side of Pam Geller.

In his piece “Tennessee Is the Capital of American Jihad,” author and “War on Terror” think-tanker James Kitfield sets out to draw a connection between the the recent Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez and the case of Carlos Bledsoe, who shot up a recruiting station in Arkansas in 2009. The fact that both attacked recruiting stations, both lived in Tennessee and both were Muslim is apparently enough to make Tennessee the “Capital of American Jihad.”

Yes. There is no other evidence provided. That is all.

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/624606134310039552
https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/624693733083230208/photo/1
http://fair.org/home/politico-finds-capital-of-american-jihad-based-on-2-cases-6-years-and-268-miles-apart/


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& Why was THIS not your cover????????????




Do we still need to ask if the media is complicit?

[Fawke Em]

1. As a Tennessean, both those images are offensive to me.

Kitfield is an idiot and whoever designed that second image is pushing the mistaken belief that the South is the only place in this country where there is bigotry.

[kpete]

2. the second issue

is a photoshopped image
meant ONLY to show the Hypocrisy


peace,
kp

[noiretextatique]

13. +1000 racism and bigotry are not now, and have never been

confided to the south.

[Euphoria]

3. thank you, kpete, for highlighting Politico's selective racist spin - - which has

consequences, deadly ones, for all of us.

[marble falls]

5. Good job, kp. Truth and facts and don't back down.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Quit with "the media". DU, as a news aggregator and opinion host, is "the media" too. nt

Careful about stepping on your main point, which is an important one, the racism of that right wing site Politico.

[kpete]

8. you are right

thank you Bernardo de La Paz

for providing me with a "teaching moment"

even the media shouldn't be stereotyped

i sometimes too get blind to the grey spots


peace,
kp

[JayhawkSD]

7. Not to mention that the events were six years apart. nt

[L0oniX]

9. Politico ...it's so easy even a cave man could do (publish) it.

[carla]

10. Politico.com

is the emptyhead of racist profiling and absurd bullshit. The KKK of websites?

[Enthusiast]

11. Kicked and recommended to the Max! I don't need to ask if the media is complicit.

[Stellar]

12. As Malcolm X would say...

[progressoid]

14. Sooo...we should be sending drones to Tennessee then.