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The needs of Obama outweigh the need for the truth!

Like many I'm sure, you may have watched some of the coverage surrounding the Fort Hood shooter, Major Hasan, and marveled at the apparent need of the legacy media and some blogs to find any motivation for that shooting other than what has become known about his zealous committment to Islamic extremist points of view.  In spite of the emerging facts about Hasan's past, his disturbing behavior, and his association with suspicious individuals, the media has instead done it's best to make him out to be a victim of sorts. We've heard about him suffering insults, ridicule, and derision, without being provided the proper "context"; that this happened after he became a vocal apologist for jihadist acts, outspoken against American foreign policy, and the actions his army brethren in pursuing that policy.  We've also been shown interviews with hand-wringing psychologists who assert that Hassan contracted a form of post traumatic stress disorder, even though he had yet to deploy to a war zone, simply through listening to the experiences of the soldiers he counseled-as if it were like being adversley affected by second-hand-smoke.  This risible notion of some form of derivitive affectation set my mind awhirl wondering why the liberal media outlets would go out of their way trying to attribute Hasan's actions to anything but the Jihadist mindset he had adopted.

And then it occurred to me why they had to find some reason, any reason, other than Hasan's decision to be a jihadi.  If the liberal media were to acquiesce and report the facts-that he was enamoured of the teachings of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, that he was described by other Muslims as being a "radical fundamentalist", and that the FBI knew that Hasan had tried to contact Al Queda-then the public might rightly begin to associate his acts as being jihadist, or the acts of an Islamic extremist; in other words an act of terrorism.  And that is an admission they are loathe to make, because of the possible repercussions.

Should the headlines and ledes broadcast the fact that Hasan was a jihadist and therefore his rampage in effect a terrorist act, such a shocking revelation would surely cement itself into the minds of even low information voters.  And, naturally questions would arise in individual psyches, at dinner tables, in barrooms, at cocktail parties, and all across the nation: why was this allowed to happen?  How is it that the FBI knew of it for 6 months, and didn't act?  And perhaps the question most feared in the White House, and the Congressional halls of power; "How come incidents like this never happened when Bush was President"?

During the campaign we, as a nation, were told to ignore Obama's inexperience and instead concentrate on his Brilliance!, Judgement!, and the way that the rest of the world would instantly love America once that reckless cowboy, the certifiable dolt Chimperor McBusHitlerBurton had vacated the White House; that when Americans were reminded of the fact that Mr. Bush had kept the country safe from terror attack since 9/11, an astonishing and herculean feat in and of itself, that those eeeeeevvvolll Rethugs! were simply playing the fear card, that it was no real accomplishment, and in fact the nation had nothing to fear from the Islamists who didn't pose any real threat to our country ! 

If the media told the truth about Hasan's motivations and the nature of his killing spree, as well as that act's acclaim by his revered cleric, then not only would the lie be put to many of the assertions made during the campaign, but a huge majority of independant voters might forever come to associate Obama and the Democrats as being unacceptably soft on national security-an potentially toxic label in post 9/11 America.  Add to that the public's dissatisfaction with the economy, Obamacare, his handling of Afghanistan, and what may eventually be a nuclear Iran and it all adds up to a possible electoral armageddon for the Democrats and Obama; both in 2010, 2012, and maybe beyond.

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need", is a quote by Karl Marx that I'm sure, in varying degrees, is secretly popular amongst many of the members of the legacy media, nutroot blogs, and White House denizens.  Right now, Obama desperately needs this episode to not be seen as a terrorist attack in the eyes of the public, and the media has the ability to make that happen-or so they think.  Unless Senator Lieberman's hearing can command the attention necessary to get the real story out, the needs of the public for the truth may just be sacrificed to serve the electoral need of Mr. Obama and the Democrats.

Must be more of that new kind of politics...But is that the Change! America voted for?  Is it Change! we can believe in..?

UPDATE: Darleen at Protein Wisdom weighs in on the media's willful disregard for the facts in their lame attempts to spin the Fort Hood shootings in any direction but towards the truth.

Rocketman