L.A.Times Still Calling it the ‘So-Called War on Terror’

By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive)
July 23, 2009 - 06:05 ET
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In the L.A. Times on July 22, writer Catherine Lyons again revealed a bit of her Bush Derangement Syndrome by calling the war on terror a “so-called war on terror.” What is with these people that simply cannot accept terms of reality? It’s like this every time they use the word terrorism, or “terrorism” as the Old Media so often terms it, and the war on terror. The Old Media simply refuses to understand that terrorism exists, that it is a problem, and that we are at war with terrorists.

This usage of the “so-called” remark was doubly amusing because Lyons threw in her “so-called war on terror” comment into a story about U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s visit to a closed meeting of Muslims held in Los Angeles on July 18. Her scoffing at the war on terror seemed geared to let Muslim readers in on the fact that she didn’t believe there was terrorism or that Bush was really fighting a war on terror… wink, wink.

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The closed meeting was part of the attorney general's jam-packed trip to Los Angeles, where he also met with local leaders in South Los Angeles to talk about gang prevention and intervention. At his mosque "summit," Holder addressed immigration, racial profiling and demands to hold the Bush administration accountable for alleged abuses in its so-called war on terror, as well as employment opportunities with the Department of Justice.

What is so hard for the Old Media to understand? We are in a war against Islamist terror. We did have a surge in Iraq, not a “surge” or a so-called surge… nor was it a “as the administration calls it, a surge.” It was a surge.

Furthermore, it is terror or terrorism. Not “terrorism,” not militants, not religious conservatives, and not so-called terrorism. It exists and not in a pseudo, or supposed, or assumed form.

One has to wonder if the Old Media ever called the Pearl Harbor attack the so-called sneak attack, or the militant strike, or the “attack” on Peal Harbor?

Somehow I doubt it.


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I don't mind.

July 23, 2009 - 06:30 ET by cjbreisch

They can call it the "so-called war on terror" if they wish.

 I'll continue to call them a "so-called reliable source of information".

THE LA SLIMES...

July 23, 2009 - 06:48 ET by danybhoy

 cjbreisch,

 Don't worry, this so-called newspaper will be a defunct newspaper soon enough. Same with the NYSlimes, & the Washington ComPost. People are sick of their crap reporting, & they are finding other places for their news.

 

"It's still "We the people", right?"   megadeth

oo oo oo

July 23, 2009 - 06:53 ET by AJB

don't forget the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation!

"so-called"

July 23, 2009 - 06:37 ET by Blonde

Will it be "so-called" after the next attack?  Because the jihadis are at war with us...it is their be-all and end-all.

These people in the old media are dangerous, truly.

 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

"Ms." Lyons

July 23, 2009 - 06:37 ET by jacktheripper

 Tell that nonsense to our Boys in Iraq and Afganistan...see how far that gets you, you twit! As a side note during the "BushYears" there was a group of war "protesters" at the local Post Office just about everyday. Have not seen them since late January. Must be the so-called war on terror is over,eh?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I LOVE DEAD KENNEDY'S"

What's good for the goose...

July 23, 2009 - 06:52 ET by AJB

We need to pack them up and send them to Afghanistan for about a week (maybe less). Their 'friendly, kum-bah-ya singing' captors will reeducate them in a matter of hours. Their heads will look glorious on the end of a stick leading to their village.

pity LA

July 23, 2009 - 08:56 ET by txteacher

Ask her after LA gets hit. Its only a matter of time.

 Who pays serious

July 23, 2009 - 08:59 ET by celator

 Who pays serious attention to this so-called newspaper? They've been a lap dog for left wing radicals for years.

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

            If

July 23, 2009 - 12:07 ET by jessieH

            If they investigate Bush, then investigate congress & senate too. They were right there with Bush. Pelosi lied. Frank lied. Dodd lied. They all lied. So, go ahead & investigate Bush. WE will judge the others, in due time.

You've Come A Long Way, Baby

July 23, 2009 - 12:27 ET by sic721

Eric Holder has sure come a long way since he played Detective Ron Harris on "Barney Miller".

"The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire."-Robert A. Heinlein

That was some so-called attack that might have..

July 23, 2009 - 14:12 ET by Gary Hall

That was some "so-called attack" that might have..  killed that "so-called Al Qaeda leader's" son, in Obama's "so-called war" on these "so-called terrorists."

By the way, how's Obama's "so-called war on the American health care system," playing out?

(;~/ gary 

 

Catherine dear

July 23, 2009 - 14:48 ET by okiehawk44

Some of us call your Messiah the "so-called president."

LOL okie44... I Second

July 23, 2009 - 18:00 ET by bigtimer

LOL okie44...

I Second That!

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Warner wrote: "One has to wonder if the Old Media ever called

July 23, 2009 - 15:15 ET by Rush Fan

the Pearl Harbor attack the so-called sneak attack, or the militant strike, or the “attack” on Peal Harbor?"

The answer is a resounding NO then, and YES if the Pearl Harbor attacks happened today. Your parents liberal media is not the liberal media of today. If we define patriotism as love and pride for our country, then todays liberal mainstream media is no longer patriotic. To this end they even practice revisionist history.

Back in 2008 Rush Limbaugh said this:

RUSH: World War II, I read today, those of you from the greatest generation, you World War II vets still alive, apparently Monday night PBS is going to run a documentary on World War II in which the whole notion that we were the good guys is going to be turned upside down, that we used totalitarian dictatorship tactics to win World War II, that all we did was bomb the innocent in Dresden and Hamburg and, of course, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that we were not the valiant and valorous victors that we were made out to be, that we couldn't have done what we did had we not partnered up with another dictator and mass murderer named Stalin....

So we are going to have a PBS documentary on Monday night that is going to evoke sympathy for the innocent people that we bombed to smithereens, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Hamburg, Dresden, and so forth. We're no different than the Nazis. And where is this airing, and who paid for this to be done?....

Now we're into appeasement. Now we're into the political correct way to fight wars, and we're going to win 'em, but look at what's going to happen. It's going to take a long time and it's going to give the left who oppose this country every opportunity to rip the country as being immoral or what have you. Of course that story makes me mad, but it's just the latest opportunity for the left to bash this country. Make no mistake how much they hate it. Make no mistake whatsoever.

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By the way, I see nothing wrong with the words "so-called". I use those words quite often to describe our so-called President Barack Obama.

WTH.... Thank you for

July 23, 2009 - 15:55 ET by bigtimer

WTH....

Thank you for this blog post....I see red every-time I hear the term 'So-Called' used by the leftists of all venues...

There is nothing so-called about it.

Period...

...they do not know how much people like me despise them, it is obvious what they are trying to pull....what is sad to me, is what these words have to do to our military men and women who are fighting the terrorists, shedding blood, and giving the ultimate sacrifice...let alone their families too...

To top if off the people and families involved on 9-11.

It is beyond a disgrace with what the leftists try to imply all the time...they are the very people with the agenda, they are the very people who are given their freedom to print or spew their BS all over the place 24/7 because of these men from the beginning of our country...to the present.

They really are simple little arrogant creatures...who think we all don't know better out here in the real world.

Backfire is what I hope happens... sooner rather than later.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

allied

July 24, 2009 - 04:40 ET by GeronL

The liberal media and the terrorists are so ideologically aligned its sickening