In follow-up to the post yesterday about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan,

“Was This Tragedy An Act Of Cowardice?”

an interesting note from the mainstream media:

CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC’s Raddatz Relays: ‘I Wish His Name was Smith’

Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn’t cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in a shooting spree…” Introducing his first story, Gibson referred to how Major Nidal Malik Hasan “an army officer, a Muslim, opened fire with handguns…” (With a range of frequency, during late afternoon/early evening coverage, CNN, FNC and MSNBC all identified Hasan as a Muslim.) Cryptically, ABC’s senior foreign affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz, concluded a story on reaction at Fort Hood: “As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer’s wife told me, ‘I wish his name was Smith.’” So, a concern this will lead to groundless fear of Muslims?

And then Our Dear Leader, President Obama warns that we should not jump to conclusions about Hasan! And just why shouldn’t Americans at least think that a life long Muslum could be a terrorist? Who exploded a truck inside the World Trade Towers? Who blew up American embassies in Africa? Who killed American sailors aboard the U.S.S. Cole? Who beheaded an American journalist? Who hijacked multiple aircraft on 9-11-2001 killing thousands of Americans? MUSLIMS! WAKE UP DEAR LEADER, they are our enemies! They want to kill Americans and to destroy the American way of life.

When is this idiot of a president going to wake up and realize we are at war. A war for our very existence. These are a people who have wanted to destroy every Christian since their religion was founded. Using nice polite terms is not going to win this war. Terms like collateral damage, persons of interest and overly restrictive rules of engagement are not helping our cause. They are getting Americas killed. It is time to drop this PC crap and call a spade a spade. A terrorist is an evil person who wants to kill as many Americans as possible. Let the military do what it was trained to do… kill our enemies! If a few civilians are killed, that is the price of war.

There is also the problem with what the doctor was reported yelling while on his killing spree, soldiers reported that the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — an Arabic phrase for “God is great!” Is this not a “battle cry of radical Islamic terrorist?

There is much that needs to be explained, both by the local police and the military regarding this killer. Could it be possible that Hasan was a sleeper agent? How many more possible Islamic terrorist could just be sitting out there time in the military, waiting to unleash terror?

Another case where some people just have to change history, no matter how correct it is!

Black Students Asked To Act As Slaves In Civil War Lesson

Reporter, by Mark Becker.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Some parents from Union County say a history lesson at Mecklenburg County’s Latta Plantation went too far when black children were picked out to play the roles of slaves.

The students from Rea View Elementary in Waxhaw were touring the plantation Wednesday when Ian Campbell, who is a historian at the site, chose the three children from a group of mostly white children to portray slaves in the 1850s.

The children were given shoulder bags to carry the cotton they would have picked.

Campbell, who is black, told Eyewitness News he was simply trying to make the presentation as realistic as possible, but the mother of one of the children called the selection outrageous.

A spokeswoman for the Union County school district said administrators were “surprised by the lack of sensitivity” of the presentation. Parents plan to meet with school administrators Friday morning to address their concerns.

Campbell said he will ask for volunteers in future presentations. He suggested he’s surprised by the uproar.

“I chose to be historically correct instead of politically correct,” he said Thursday.

Once again we are not allowed to reenact history as it really happened. We have to be Oh So Politically Correct! It makes my stomach turn. This is similar to the case where ONE person objected to historic newspapers hanging in a V.A. Hospital declaring the end of World War II with the words “Japs Surrender”! That was the terminology of the time. Get with it people, you can’t change history because you object to historical facts! Live with it. It is called history. I’m sure Mr. Campbell is not a racist. He is a gentleman who knows history. I don’t think I have a ever seen a picture of a White, Native American, Chinese or any other race than Blacks as slave. Yes it was wrong, yes it was a terrible chapter of American history, but it happened. LIVE WITH IT!

12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Base Shootings

Was This Tragedy An Act Of Cowardice?

Why would an Army trained psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, MD, U.S. Army, MD  turn out to be a cold blooded killer? How could a physician who was trained at the the military’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, completed a residency in psychiatry and worked at Walter Reed Medical Center, the Army’s show case medical facility perform such a horrendous act on his fellow soldiers?

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, MD, U.S. Army

Was this a man who already suffered from PTSD due to his work with returning warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan even before he saw the horrors of war? Or, was this the act of a man who saw an easy way to get a medical degree for free? Then when the reality that he might be sent into harm’s way, he snapped, going on a killing rampage.

What ever the answer, it is a true tragedy for the Army and civilians who were exposed to this event. At last total, there are 12 dead and 31 wounded at the sprawling U.S. Army Base at Fort Hood, TX. My heart goes out to all of the killed, wounded and their families.

Only time will tell the story.

If George Bush was an Idiot…..

THIS SUMS UP OUR CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE I HAVE SEEN. STRONG FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent of thousands of tax payer dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced iembarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 10 months — so you’ll have three more years to come up with an answer.

WE FIGURED HIM OUT! By Ben Stein

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.

They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.

They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.

They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East , way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future. The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill — a great idea in theory — was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times.. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.