Piss On You

Gateway Pundit notes that the mainstream media seems less willing to discuss important symbols of American society being desecrated...

It is interesting how the news media today will jump on a story if it denigrates our military or our country. The media may get their facts from an anonymous source and rush to print it in a major newspaper or weekly magazine. The story may turn out to be inaccurate. The original accuser may even retract his accusations. But, the damage is already done and our media moves on to their next anonymous sourced Anti-American story.

Yet, here tonight there is actual footage of Muslims burning, spitting on, and making urinals out off our American Flag. And, as US citizens we are supposed to get immuned to a lot of this. Many people believe that we even deserve this! We constantly see Muslims spit on and burn effigies of our president, threaten our country with the words (in English) on their posters, spit on the symbols of our nation, and now today, piss on our flag and our president!

Perhaps this is another example of the soft bigotry of low expectations. American apparently denigrate the Qu'ran, the press deems it offensive enough to report and riots break out in Muslim countries, some violent, followed by revelations that the reports were inaccurate, followed by a report that the acts of desceration were less severe than one thought, followed by more protests (though thankfully not violent in this case). Yet it's apparently not worthy to note that the violent riots and counter-protests feature people actively and openly buring the American flag and pissing on it. We don't expect "those people" to live up to standards as high as our own -- or anywhere close to them.

Yes, I know that our military should be held to a higher standard than idiot street protestors. But if American citizens decided to hold a rally where the burned the pictures of imams along with copis of the Qu'ran, while also having children piss on the holy book of Allah... well, I'm guessing the mainstream media might not react with a yawn. Maybe they're just afraid for their safety -- after all, radical religion defilers have been threatening those who publicize their actions to denigrate the American flag.

Apparently these guys lack the courage of college kids who willingly show themselves on camera burning the flag, since they want to preserve anonymity. Then again, maybe they're just planning to run for President someday.