Jason Zengerle reacts to my morning Corner post with the shrillness that is, unfortunately, becoming common staple at The New Republic. He misses, though, the difference between coverage and outrage. Jason, do you not see any difference in the coverage of Abu Ghraib and the coverage of the kidnapping today? If the treatment is similar, I hope you will be out there next week and next month pressing the international community to investigate the perpetrators and their supporters and, while you tailored my report to falsely accuse me of blaming the media (no, Jason, I blame the terrorists), I hope you will also argue that the Arab League, the European Union, and various human rights groups treat the kidnapping as a more seriousness incident. I am outside the U.S. right now, but when I heard CNN reports this morning, there was an undertone of admiration for the sheer audacity of the operation rather than an outright condemnation.