Distortion

One of the things that the MSM can do is distort history. It is sometimes unintentional. Newspapers and their wholly-owned wire service hire 20-Somethings right out of college. The new hires are usually idealistic and highly motivated to make a change in the world with absolutely no experience of the real world or any knowledge of the past. It's understandable that a 20-Something would not know that Yassir Arafat was a miserable murdering sod who systematically killed off any opposition for twenty years. This lack of world view is less understandable on current history when the American media-owned Associated Press sends a story around the world that affects surprise that Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein was not invited to the White House for St. Patrick's Day.

Yesterday marked the first St. Patrick's Day in years in which Mr. Adams and other leaders from Northern Ireland were not invited to celebrate at the White House. Since the days of former president Bill Clinton, who was active in negotiating the 1998 Good Friday peace accord, the province's political leaders have been frequent guests there.

The Clinton years were the only time in history that Sinn Fein was welcome to the White House. The Irish Republican Army has been on the State Department's Terrorist List for decades and not even the Clintonistas dared remove the name. The pretext of the Peace Accords was the thin excuse for the invitation. The result was that to no one's suprise the IRA did not give up their weapons and soon they were teaching new bomb-making techiques to Columbian Marxist terrorists, only stopping in Cuba on the way, presumably to pick up the new bomb materials for delivery.