Posted by Jed Lewison on Tue Jun 19, 2007 at 5:06 PM Pacific

Video: ABC World News is Al Qaeda's YouTube

I've come to the conclusion that the mainstream media is Al Qaeda's YouTube. Terrorism sells (or at least the MSM thinks it does), so anytime Al Qaeda wants to reach out and scare someone, all they need to do is a "upload" a video to the lapdogs in the American press corps.

Last night, ABC became the latest network to subject Americans to terrorist propaganda when Charlie Gibson warned us of this "sobering development" in Afghanistan:

ABC News has obtained pictures from Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan of a Taliban graduation -- young foot soldiers being sent into battle against the U.S. and other western nations.

Gibson said the video showed "pictures of terrorist recruits being sent off on suicide missions around the world."

The video turned out to be a terrorist propaganda film.

The strange part? ABC knew it was terrorist propaganda all along -- yet still hyped the video, offering virtually no evidence supporting its central claims.

After Brian Ross finished reading his "report" on the video, Gibson asked an important question:

Is it released for any other purpose than to try to scare people, I guess, in the west?

Ross replied:

Clearly, Charlie, it's a propaganda event. We can see on the tape other camera men roaming around from the Al Qaeda propaganda operation.

If it's a propaganda event, why show it?

Video: ABC World News is Al Qaeda's YouTube

I've come to the conclusion that the mainstream media is Al Qaeda's YouTube. Terrorism sells (or at least the MSM thinks it does), so anytime Al Qaeda wants to reach out and scare someone, all they need to do is a "upload" a video to the lapdogs in the American press corps.

Last night, ABC became the latest network to subject Americans to terrorist propaganda when Charlie Gibson warned us of this "sobering development" in Afghanistan:

ABC News has obtained pictures from Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan of a Taliban graduation -- young foot soldiers being sent into battle against the U.S. and other western nations.

Gibson said the video showed "pictures of terrorist recruits being sent off on suicide missions around the world."

The video turned out to be a terrorist propaganda film.

The strange part? ABC knew it was terrorist propaganda all along -- yet still hyped the video, offering virtually no evidence supporting its central claims.

After Brian Ross finished reading his "report" on the video, Gibson asked an important question:

Is it released for any other purpose than to try to scare people, I guess, in the west?

Ross replied:

Clearly, Charlie, it's a propaganda event. We can see on the tape other camera men roaming around from the Al Qaeda propaganda operation.

If it's a propaganda event, why show it?

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