Fort Hood Massacre Reveals Paper's Politically Correct Priorities

Fort Hood Massacre Reveals Paper's Politically Correct Priorities: "The Times’ coverage of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the radical Muslim U.S. Army major who killed 13 people and left dozens hospitalized at Fort Hood in Texas, has been fairly direct and forthright, compared to previous coverage of Muslim terror plotters. Yet the paper’s speculation about Hasan’s motives trod such familiar liberal paths as combat stress and anti-Muslim discrimination.

On May 14, 2007, after a Muslim terror plot was uncovered at Fort Dix in New Jersey, Times reporter Alan Feuer ignored clear evidence to claim: 'It is unclear what role, if any, religion played in the attack Mr. Shnewer and the five other men are charged with planning.' A May 26, 2009 Times story on synagogue bombing plots in The Bronx also denied the obvious: “In fact, it is uncertain just how much of a role their faith played in their motivation.”

Perhaps the most offensive passage from the paper’s Fort Hood coverage was when White House reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg bizarrely pondered, in a story filed Saturday that didn’t make the print edition, what the massacre meant for President Obama -- 'Obama Offers Sympathy and Urges No ‘Jump to Conclusions.''"