Little League Eunuchs running a Bordello

If being powerless relative to other people makes the male of the human species feel castrated, the editors of the New York Times would be a perfect example of that. Like little league eunuchs, they built themselves a journalistic bordello to compensate for the vanishing symbol of their prowess. Their latest foray into this murky world has been the editorial they published on June 24, 2014 under the title: “More Egyptian Injustice” and the subtitle: “Alarming Convictions of Al Jazeera Journalists in Egypt.”

In the country of America where they snatch people from half way around the globe and imprison them without trial for ten years or even indefinitely – nearly 13 years after a terrorist incident they call 9/11, the eunuchs of the New York Times wave their fictitious erection at a country like Egypt for trying and convicting people they caught during a revolutionary time doing what amounts to inciting people to commit acts of violence against symbols of the government. Mind you, the Egyptians did not send drones to kill their own citizens in a foreign country; they only gave those they caught a stiff sentence subject to appeal.

Imagine if on September 11, 2001 – while the twin towers of the Trade Center were coming down – the 19 hijackers were not alone but had al-Qaeda collaborators dispersed throughout the country, letting people out of jail and inciting them to set ablaze every government installation they see. Imagine if some of those doing the inciting were people wearing the hat of journalists, working for a television network owned by a Taliban government that repeatedly chided the U.S. for not implementing the strict religious laws demanded of it. Imagine America being bombarded 24 hours a day with propaganda material being produced by al-Qaeda and broadcast on the Taliban network.

Well, Egypt was going through a situation similar to that, not during an incident that lasted one day but an incident that lasted 2 years. Another difference is that the network laboring against the interests of Egypt was not owned by the Taliban; it was Aljazeera which is owned by the government of Qatar. It is the very network that was banned from obtaining a license to broadcast in America; the network that regularly obtains al-Qaeda material which the Bush Administration told the U.S. broadcasters not to put on the air – precisely because they amount to incitement.

Egypt caught three journalists from Aljazeera, which had set-up an illegal operation in the country, doing what amounts to aiding and abating the efforts of the country's number one enemy: the religious extremists. These have been the ones to commit acts of terror that caught the attention of the world, inflicting maximum pain on the country by drying up the inflow of tourists and foreign investments. They killed tourists in cold blood, and they set ablaze many of the country's churches, acts they knew will be rewarded with sickly and glowing coverage in the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of the American media: the New York Times and Fox News.

What's wrong with these two? Well, the New York Times is one of the oldest publications in the country; one that was so respected, it wielded enormous powers. As to Fox News, it is one of the newest, but not necessarily a baby. This is because it was born a giant with lots of money behind it. But given that the means to gather and purvey information has proliferated enormously, neither of them has the power to influence events the way things used to be in the old days. And so, the people who run these outlets go out of their way to compensate for their powerlessness.

They do it with something like this: “The United States would soon resume most of its annual $1.3 billion in military aid that was suspended … The United States has interests in maintaining a relationship with Egypt. But Egypt benefits from ties with America too.” It is a subtle way to grab the scepter of power from the hand of its legitimate wielder, and wave it in the face of Egypt.

Repeated performances such as that have turned American journalism into a bordello run by the little eunuchs who wish to feel they can still get big and stiff.