Liberalism and totalitarianism

City Magazine's Bruce Thornton reviews Showdown with Evil,  by Front Page magazine's Jamie Glazov here.  The book, a series of interviews with 30 "astute" commentators, discusses the reason for the left media's inability to come to grips with the threat of Jihadism.  Based on these interviews it seems the Muslims are seen through the prism of the left's world view that if a people are not western, christian or white, then they are victims and need defending from those oppressive groups.  This attitude accounts for the refusal of the MSM to connect the dots on the Muslim Jihadist Major who killed 13 people at Ft. Hood in 2009 despite the evidence.  It's hard to conceive how a reporter could miss the fact that the Major was heard screaming "Allah Akbur" while he went on his shooting spree and yet not connect that act with that of a Jihadist.  And yet no MSM news story made that connection. But it did make a connection between  the murder attempt on Gabrielle Giffords and the climate of hate promoted by right wing extremists without  any confirming evidence.  The obvious point here is that if the presentation of the news is influenced by given assumptions it is bound to be distorted and usually wrong.  What we must be seeing is the influence of  liberal, left wing professors in colleges and graduate journalism schools who have dominated those institutions for well over 50 years now successfully brainwashing a generation or two of students.  Jonah Goldberg of National Review has written an extremely successful book on this subject: Liberal Fascism.  Here is Jonah writing about the book and subject in a post from NR.  Jonah is one of the major talents in the conservative movement.