I love this guy... Evan Coyne Maloney's blog Brain Terminal was one of the first political blogs I ever started reading. His film Brainwashing 101 is one of the best pieces of good interesting conservative documentary i've ever seen. He has even been dubbed in some circles as the "Michael Moore" of conservativsm -- I personally can't see him as being it that extreme.

On his blog today, he wrote a response to the cartoon scandal going on recently. In response to Andrew Sullivan's article in the London Sunday tines he said one of the most bold statements I've heard about Western media not running the cartoons. He said..

The fact that the cartoons are so mild is a huge part of the story. After all, if people are threatening death over these cartoons, what else will set them into a murderous rage? Wouldn't this information be helpful?

Apparently not, in the view of our media. It is quite easy to stand up as a noble defender of press freedoms when the only people on the other side are finger-wagging octogenarian letter writers complaining about an errant nipple during a Superbowl half-time show. But the pitiful reaction of the press in this instance shows that they are nothing more than bloviating pushovers who will hand over their freedoms as readily as the French in 1940 the first minute they're faced with anything more dangerous than a pile of letters to the editor. But they're worse than just being cowards, because they've just reinforced the only lesson that radical Islamists seem to understand: the best way to achieve their goals is through mob violence.

Well there you go.  ¶ 1:09 AM