The Media Never Ceases to Amaze Me

Muslim Children Gassed
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/28/203016/697/536/613742

On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail -- were distributed by mail in Ohio, a "chemical irritant" was sprayed through a window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. The room that the chemical was sprayed into was the room where babies and children were being kept while their mothers were engaged in prayers. This, apparently, is what the scare tactic political campaigning of John McCain's supporters has led to -- Americans perpetrating a terrorist attack against innocent children on American soil.

This act is despicable. But what enrages me even more is that I spent an entire workday looking for news to publish other than the stupid bailout, and the only thing I got was the Alberto Gonzalez trial. In no mainstream media outlet was there mention of this hate crime.

I searched in google news, and only a handful of news outlets reported it. It happened Friday and I got wind of it Tuesday. Even in Dayton, Ohio's local paper, where it took place, it was somewhat hidden. It was on the Huffington Post, but hidden as well. I had to enter Dayton Ohio in the search engine to find it. Couldn't this take the spot of one of the many inane Sarah Palin posts on the front page? There was an article questioning whether she had lip liner tattooed, for God's sake.

This election season has shown me the absurdity and stupidity of the U.S. mainstream media, but this takes the cake. I am actually inclined to write a letter to the New York Times about this.