In the battle between the MSM and the Internet, the is more credible.

Mike Lollar (pictured right)
is every reporter that writes for the dying MSM today.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal doesn’t have much on him except his picture … the trendy facial hair, the glasses, the open necked shirt just adds to the archetype.

It appears that Pajamas Media contributor Patrick Poole found that a mosque in Memphis was advertizing an appearance by:

Notorious Hamas fundraiser Mohammed al-Hanooti is set to appear from July 13 through 15 at Masjid Al-Noor, a mosque near the University of Memphis operated by the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis. It is also the home of the university’s Muslim Student Association.

Intrepid MFM reporter Mike Lollar sprung into action and called the mosque board chairman Gous Mohammed who denied the whole thing. Lollar dutifully wrote an article headlined ...

Hamas fundraiser not speaking at mosque

This made it appear as if either Pajamas Media was wrong or that it was a he said-she said story. The problem for Lollar was that he never contacted Poole who could have provided him with a screen shot of the mosque’s announcement, before it was taken down, showing that al-Hanooti was on the schedule.

Which simply verifies why little that appears in the paper can be believed, and often what doesn’t appear is more important than what’s printed.

But that leads us to a question that’s every bit as important as the disappearing Hamas fund raiser. Why is it important that supporters of Islamic terrorism should be given a platform for their hate and why is the typical MSM reporter so anxious to downplay this issue, taking their denial as fact?

Would supporters of the KKK be able to schedule an event and find in Lollar such a ready willingness to deny they ever did? Yet the KKK has killed far fewer people than Hamas and Islamists on Jihad.

The answer is that the followers of Islam are one of the protected classes. If a controversy erupts, such as the one that began with Poole’s report, the politically correct response is to make it go away. Evidence to the contrary never makes it into print. Let me remind people that in the early part of the 20th century, the KKK had the support of much of the media.

This is, to quote myself, “often what doesn’t appear is more important than what’s printed.”