On CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck has transmitted a notable hour-long show which broadcasts images of violent jihadism which the mainstream media have never revealed to the public. This show does two very important things. Like the film Obsesssion (see earlier post) which is essential viewing, it reveals the utterly shocking and sickening nature and extent of what we are up against. It is much harder, having seen this footage, to maintain the fiction that Islamic terrorism is caused by geopolitical grievances such as Iraq or Palestine; it is clear from this footage that it is driven instead by pathological delusions of bigotry, paranoia and demented hatred that have indoctrinated millions of people in the Arab and Muslim world. Second, it reveals what Glenn Beck himself refers to at the beginning of the show: that the mainstream media has simply failed or refused to make this information known, thus ensuring that the west is crippled in its response to the threat that it faces because the media has ensured that it does not even understand what it is. All credit therefore to CNN, of all stations, for transmitting this show — can you imagine the BBC doing such a thing? — and maybe one might dare hope that the high ratings which it appears to have had will switch a lightbulb on for CNN’s hierarchy, so that this is not merely a one-off aberration in the cause of journalistic objectivity and a return to sanity.