'This is going to get ugly'
It already is. Hours after news broke of the Fort Hood tragedy, Jay Severin last evening was slowly pronouncing the suspect’s name over the air …
Nidal …
Malik …
Hasan. … Of course he and callers were already in preemptive MSM-bashing mode, suggesting a forthcoming media conspiracy to cover up Hasan’s Muslim background and Obama et gang's alleged horrid response.
Michelle Malkin is already there and more blunt:
Business as usual: The whitewashing of jihad by the MSM …I’ve said it many times over the years and it bears repeating again as cable TV talking heads ask in bewilderment how all the red flags Hasan raised could have been ignored: Political correctness is the handmaiden of terror.
Here's a challenge to conservatives: What specifically would they do to prevent these types of attacks in the future? It's put up or shut up time. By far, the ugliest solution that I've heard so far came last night from a bar waiter, who mumbled how we should round ‘them’ up and put them in ‘internment camps.’ After the initial shock of the comment wore off, I became strangely grateful for the crackpot idea, because at least he was honest and it pointed out the logical direction of unchannelled anger. Some hard-core conservatives are going to pat themselves on the back over coming days for their own silly version of speaking truth to power, pointing out how they're not afraid to talk about Hasan's Muslim background, blah blah blah. But this is what you won't hear from them: Effective and acceptable non-PC solutions. They'll just content themselves with whipping up emotions. ...