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On Monday morning a reporter contacted me to remonstrate with me for my treatment of the reporter in this video, in which I respond to a biased and misleading question by the Swedish reporter Per Gudmundson. The reporter thought I was too hard on Gudmundson, despite the "when did you stop beating your wife" quality of his question; however, I am finished with playing along with the grand pretense that reporters are objective, neutral observers of events, and not the relentless and viciously unfair ideologues that they are. Also on Monday, a minor Associated Press piece about some minor jihadists in Toledo, Ohio, offered a case in point as to why mainstream media journalists deserve no professional respect whatsoever.
Look first at the headline: "Federal judge in Toledo sentences 2 terror plotters." Two "terror plotters" were sentenced. So far they could be anyone. Islamic jihadists? Maybe. Could also be "Christian extremists" (who will surely be along in a minute to bear out every well-indoctrinated schoolgirl's desperate and paranoid fear of them). Or maybe Tamil Tigers. Maoist fanatics. You never know. So let's read on.
TOLEDO — Two Chicago-area cousins who pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to attack American soldiers overseas have been sentenced to prison terms by a federal judge in Ohio.