But I wondered: had those radicals been Muslims, what kind of demonization would mainstream conservative commentators like O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, and Limbaugh have engaged in?
The war in Iraq
As the Bill Moyers Journal's special edition program, "Buying the War," compellingly demonstrated, the mainstream American media uncritically accepted the administration's claims about Saddam Hussein's ambition to acquire nuclear weapons and his links to Al-Qaeda. The five chapter report speaks for itself.
Was their inability to ask the right questions of the administration not a colossal blunder on the part of the mainstream media?
Mike Ghouse is a writer and activist based in Dallas. He runs the blogs Foundation for Pluralism and World Muslim Congress.
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