Christopher Ruddy
Monday, Oct. 7, 2002

When I tuned in to see the latest breaking news about the Maryland school shooting, I watched CNN.

CNN reporters and anchors were mystified about the shootings, but despite having no knowledge of who committed these acts, CNN was still able to pull together from their "profiler” the likely description of the killer.

A graphic shot up on the screen courtesy of CNN, and Bill Hemmer read the bullet points from the profiler’s sketch: the killer was likely a "white male, 18-30 years of age, who had difficulty maintaining relationships.”

Excuse me!

What would happen if CNN said it was a black male who did this? Now I realize, black males don’t kill people and they don’t do serial, random shootings. OK, Colin Ferguson’s 1993 multiple killings on the Long Island Railroad was, well, a figment of my imagination.

No, the new killer is probably a transsexual angry about their sex change.

Maybe I’m wrong, the serial killer is an angry, militant feminist who had just failed out of Marine boot camp, and she is taking her revenge by showing her stuff.

No, CNN would never say what I just wrote because that would be insensitive.

And, of course, it would be. It would be also wrong to lay blame on any one person, or group, or people of a specific religion, until we know all the evidence and the facts and can make a case one way or another.

But CNN thinks differently. Blame it on the white males!

In all fairness, CNN is not the only culprit. This disgusting display of media political correctness has been at work at almost every other media outlet.

Since the random shootings last week, the media has not dared mention the obvious potential culprit. No mention of the "t” word at all.

No, it couldn’t be a "terrorist” doing these random shootings around Washington, which might be considered the logical next ground zero for our enemies in our ongoing war on terrorism.

We shouldn’t be bothered by the fact that after 9/11, some press reports suggested shopping malls could be hit by terrorists.

Or that just last week, raw information provided to the FBI from al-Qaeda detainees suggested schools might be the next target.

Perhaps CNN and other media allies should just come out with it: Steve Hatfill is behind the attacks!

After all, the FBI had no shred of evidence he was behind the anthrax attacks, yet he has been tarred and feathered.

And since Steve lives in the Washington area, and is a white male, why don’t we just nail him!

Of course, I speak with deep sarcasm. Change that: deep contempt – contempt for what is going on with this country.

I am deeply disturbed by officials at the FBI who have targeted Hatfill and the big media cartel that can’t allow for a fair and honest discussion of this and other controversial cases.

I have no idea that terrorists were behind the random shootings, but I would not exclude that possibility. I would also not censor any discussion of that possibility from the airwaves.

But our Orwellian, mind-control media will have no mention of the "t” word.

Consider that a year after the anthrax attacks, Steve Hatfill is still the scapegoat, while almost all the evidence points to foreign terrorism.

Recently both Yossef Bodansky, an international terrorism expert, and Dr. Ken Alibek, a biowarfare expert, both told NewsMax that most of the evidence points to a "foreign”, not "domestic” source, for the anthrax attacks.

Yet, the FBI, whose profilers determined that the anthrax attacker was a "patriotic American” have set their sights on Hatfill. And the media gleefully reports this stuff without criticism.

And there has been little or no discussion of the evidence and experts that point to a foreign source.

If these were isolated examples, I wouldn’t be so bothered.

But what about the West Nile virus? Here again the evidence is overwhelming this was the first bio-weapon deployed against America. Even Sen. Patrick Leahy says that conclusion is "credible.”

And Dr. Alibek says, again, the evidence that West Nile is a bio weapon is compelling.

And yet and yet and yet - we never hear a peep about this evidence and conclusion from any of the major media.

America has a kept media.

It didn’t start with 9/11. In fact I would argue that it began well before 9/11.

The media have been providing the American people a very selective and distorted view of reality. This is what really made America vulnerable to 9/11 and continues to leave us in such a precarious position.