That's what the TV newsies are talking about. They are saying those three school girls who ran away from home to join ISIS, and were arrested in Germany, had been watching ISIS video's on the 'net and thought the ISIS fighters were way cool, and would marry them. And those two Canadian shooters were "self radicalized" by watching ISIS recruitment videos on the 'net. And the ax murderer who whacked a pair of NY cops got that way by too much websurfing.
Is this really true? What I see of ISIS is a bunch of repulsive terrorists. The TV newsies are telling us that ISIS is as cool as Rudolf Valentino in Son of the Sheik. Used to be that America defined what was cool for the entire world. Blue jeans, hot rods, rock 'n roll, Elvis, Humphrey Bogart, CB radio, Jimmy Dean, Hollywood westerns, Marilyn Monroe, America defined cool.
Let's make that work for us again. Some Hollywood output showing America as hard working, virtuous, and successful and Islamic terrorists as dirtbags would help. Some good pop music, even country and western, about young lovers, separated by deployment to Iraq. Some consistency from the political leadership, even just calling terrorism terrorism, rather than workplace violence. America is the land of Madison Avenue, lets put some flacks to work.
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