“Miseducational Television” is becoming as warped as “Mein Kampf”
(PBS’s program, “Frontline,” claimed that Putin was responsible for the Beslan massacre without mentioning that the slaughter was the work of Muslim terrorists)
By
David Gottfried
I don’t have a video to accompany this essay. Do you need pictures before you can stomach all these big, bad words. Fine, then let me spank your bottom, really hard, and demote you to kindergarten.
In any event, here is the essay:
Do you remember Beslan. Back in September 2004, a gang of Muslim terrorists captured an elementary school there and held the children hostage. Russia tried to save its children. The Russians and the Muslim terrorists fought. Many children
died.
(I remember that some political scientists thought that Bush beat Kerry in November 2O04, in part, because the cruelty of those Muslim terrorists made some Americans, particularly Mothers, realize the value of strong, fighting leaders who aren’t afraid of killing the bad guys.)
That’s not the way Educational Television saw it. Tonight, they aired a program to make Russia look bad. In New York City, in the 10 to 11 PM time slot on April 12, Public Television, also known as Educational Television, aired a program called Frontline. It was such a toxic concoction of lies and insinuations reeking of the gutter that it seemed to have been cut from the same cloth as Adolf Hitler’s, “Mein Kampf.”
Somehow, amazing as it sounds, the program managed to discuss the Beslan massacre without using the word “Muslim.” Had they used the word Muslim, its viewers would have an entirely different take on things. They may have remembered that Muslims, in quite a few places, all over the world, have a pretty big track record of blowing things up: Whether killing innocent Hindus in India, or killing innocent Jews in Israel, or killing innocent Serbs in Kosovo, or killing innocent blacks in Darfur or Biafra, or killing innocent Brits in England, they have had a predilection for salivating for Holy War and dynamiting people they don’t like. (Unless of course they decide not to use dynamite because dynamite was not used at the time of the prophet. About 10 years ago, “The New Yorker” reported that a Muslim gang in Iraq was engaged in killing ice vendors and makers of refrigerators. The reason: Refrigeration did not exist at the time of the prophet Muhammed. Fine, neither did Polio vaccines. Let’s let them have polio. )
That disgusting news program told its stupid viewers that Russia was deranged and demonic because it wanted to fight terrorists when in fact most people in the world believe that once one gives into terrorism one invites more terrorism. Putin wouldn’t stand it, and neither did Maggy Thatcher. Russia won’t stand it, and neither will any good old boys in the US of A. And that’s one of the reasons why Michel Flynn, Trump’s first national security advisor, saw the possibility of a new global arrangement: Flynn was looking forward to a North v. South global paradigm. He thought that the United States, Russia and Europe could resolve their differences and join together to clamp down on the intemperate, volatile and violent Muslim world. (Yes, I know he arguably broke the law because his receipt of Russian money required him to register as a foreign agent.)
In any event, I found the show so revolting I had to shut off the set, and I ran to my computer keyboard to write this note.
But maybe the fault is mine: As I have aged, I have watched more television, but I must remember that television is the refuge of fat, frightened, impotent simpletons and there is perhaps nothing dumber than watching “educational” television to learn anything at all.