'I'd like to know what rock the staff at the NYTimes has been hiding under for the last two years. It's a happy place. I'm guessing there are ponies and rainbows there too...'

That's Rusty Shackleford, at Jawa Report, mocking the nation's newspaper of record on its big "scoop" today on the "smuggled" al Qaeda snuff video.

See, "NYT on Syrian Rebels: What an incredible smell you've discovered!"

Here's the report at the Times, "Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West."

And here's the thing: We're to the point where mainstream media outlets are now providing cover for Barack Hussein's disastrous foreign policy by denying massive al Qaeda infiltration among Syria's rebel forces.

Look at the headline at the CNN, clip, for example, "Does execution video prove Syrian rebels to be extremists?"

It's almost embarrassing. The Times' video has blackened out images of the actual executions by gunfire, as if this is something that's unprecedented. But as Rusty notes at My Pet Jawa:

For literally dozens of similar videos of rebels murdering people in Syria, just scroll through our Syria archives. Unfortunately there are so many of these same type of snuff videos coming out of Syria that our archives can't store them all, only the ones from the past 6 months or so.

Here's one right here:



In any case, check Robert Spencer (an expert whether these folks are actually "extremists"), "Brutality of Syrian jihadists shows futility of U.S. intervention." (Via Memeorandum.)