David Gelernter makes an excellent point over at the Weekly Standard while discussing the media messaging around jihadist terror. Third: If reporters ever read their own words or listened to their own voices, they would stop repeating the ugly cliché (as they did yet again post-Times Square) that the Taliban (or gang X) has “claimed credit” for some revolting crime or attempted crime. Do we say that “The jury assigned credit to Joe Shmoe for beating up an old lady and kicking her dog down the stairs”? The word reporters are looking for is guilt. The Taliban have admitted guilt, once again, for an attempted mass murder. Do liberals ever listen to what they are saying? Yes they do, and then they praise themselves for their inaccurate feelings of moral superiority. His point about guilt v. credit couldn't be more apt.
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