Fort Hood under attack

Your first sentence says "some schools". Your second sentence says "we make every effort". You are comparing a subset to its whole set. That's why it's baffling.

 

News coverage this morning is unbelievable. 13 KIA, 30 more WIA at Fort Hood and we're talking about heath care?? No doubt, the word has come down from the top...ignore, minimize, tap down the attack. This attack gets reported as it should be and heath care goes down the drain. I've seen more thorough coverage for a school shooting.

 

Obama Gives Shout Out to 'Congressional Medal of Honor Winner' Who Isn't
By Mike Bates
November 6, 2009 - 01:18 ET

The Washington Post this afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins:

• SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
  OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.
  
  I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you.

Ah, the dangers of giving shout outs without a teleprompter. Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient. As noted by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society:

• The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force which can be bestowed upon an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress, it is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Crow's name is not included on the Society's Medal of Honor recipient list. He was, however, awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in August.

Obama, often described as "cerebral" by the mainstream media, should know the difference between the Medal of Honor and the Medal of Freedom, especially since he personally awarded the latter to Crow. Don't expect his blunder to receive wide coverage. It's not something he can blame George Bush for.

 

We have created an entire radical Islamic School funded by tax payers right here in the states. Surely you can see thats baffling under any subset. Merely pointing out the hypocrisy often found on the left.

 

CBS & NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'
By Brent Baker
November 5, 2009 - 20:28 ET

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?

The CBS Evening News avoided any mention of Islam or Muslim faith as Katie Couric provided this benign description: “Today, according to the Army, a soldier opened fire....He's identified tonight as Army Major Nadal Malik Hasan, a licensed psychiatrist and drug and rehab specialist from Bethesda, Maryland.” NBC anchor Brian Williams: “The soldier, identified as the initial gunman here, is an Army psychiatrist, Nadal Malik Hasan. He's an officer, a Major, and he was apparently armed with two handguns.” NBC's Pete Williams insisted, the MRC's Brad Wilmouth noticed, “everything about his background is rock solid, and nothing extraordinary stands out about his background.”

(At another moment on ABC, Gibson he pointed out there's “confusion” over whether Hasan was convert or was born a Muslim. Brian Ross then offered that he “attended Damascus University in Syria and may be Jordanian -- likely not a convert if that's the case.”)

From the latter part of the story narrated from Washington, DC by Raddatz on the Thursday, November 5 World News on ABC:

• MARTHA RADDATZ: Fort Hood's 1st Cavalry Division is currently deployed to Iraq, making this all the more tragic. This woman's husband is among the soldiers in Iraq.
  
  WOMAN: He's really upset. He's freaking out. Yeah, it says [reading from PDA], “I'm freaking out here. I have no idea what's going on. The guys keep asking questions. Can someone please tell us something?” I don't believe for a second that a soldier could do this to another soldier at Fort Hood. I just, I don't believe it.
  
  SECOND WOMAN: It's very, very stressful and we don't know what's going on.
  
  RADDATZ: And on Capitol Hill late today, a moment of silence. Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said the shooter was about to be deployed.
  
  SENATOR HUTCHISON: The shooters were military people. And of course that's very troubling.
  
  RADDATZ, ON SCREEN AT ANCHOR DESK: As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, "I wish his name was Smith." Charlie.

 

Well, we're off on a tangent for this thread now, and that's unfortunate since it started as a discussion of a tragedy. But, since the chronic anger around here is now changing target anyway...

I had to reread your linked article because I missed the "radical" part the first time. I still don't see it.

And it's really not baffling that this public school has fallen through a crack when you consider the statement that the DOE works on a complaint basis, and have previously received none. That model is what the taxpayer is bound to get when they demand smaller government. At any rate, the school is now under formal investigation and will no doubt be compelled to change its practices.

 

WOW.

AP is reporting that the shooter said Allahu Akbar before he started killing everybody he could.

Yes. Associated Press. Showing islam in less than a perfect light. Holy moly. I would not have believed it if I hadn't seen it. What's next, The One saying "There is a slight possibility that higher taxes could cause a barely perceptible slowdown in the economy"?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting

 

Nadal Malik Hasan, Suspected Fort Hood Shooter, Was Called "Camel Jockey"
Fort Hood Shooting Suspect Harassed By Others In Military and Wanted Out, Family Said

Fort Hood shooting suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, wanted out of the Army after being constantly harassed by others in the military and was called a "camel jockey," his family said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nadal-malik-hasan-wanted-army-family/story?id=9008184

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/nidal-hasan-cousin-of-mal_n_347850.html

video of family member interview.

 

It's always been that way, you're just noticing it now since you're eating crow on motive.