The trumped—up Danish cartoon crisis in which three vicious and pornographic cartoons were secretly spread around the Islamic world, claiming that they were published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands—Posten, throws a harsh light on the moral cowardice of our mainstream media. We have learned in the last few years that the media have no problem with spreading obviously forged documents, as in the Rathergate affair. We have discovered from CNN's Eason Jordan that his media company was in bed with Saddam Hussein for a decade, broadcasting Baathist propaganda to keep its Baghdad office running. And now, when a brave Danish newspaper tested the extent of European self—censorship by publishing a dozen mild cartoons of Mohammed, we see our media falling all over themselves not to publish these harmless cartoons. Instead, they are falling for a planted slander against Jyllands—Posten: that it published three viciously pornographic cartoons of Mohammed, one showing a...(Read Full Post)