Fox News journalists were freed for $2 million ransom

update November 15:Fox denies the story. (via TVNewser) We’ll see.

Via Memeorandum:WorldNet Daily reports that Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the Fox journalists who were kidnapped in Gaza this past summer and forced to convert to Islam on pain of death, were ransomed:

The terror leader, from the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees, said his organization’s share of the money was used to purchase weapons, which he said would be utilized “to hit the Zionists.”

He said he expects the payments for Centanni and Wiig’s freedom will encourage Palestinian groups to carry out further kidnappings.

Officials associated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and its security organization, the Preventative Security Services, confirmed to WND money was paid for the release of the Fox News reporters.

The world has moved on, but I haven’t. Along with Jill Carroll’s abduction, I consider this incident—the kidnapping, the photo op for Ismail Haniyeh that accompanied the journalists’ release, and the victims’ total silence about their abductors and the sick situation in Gaza after the fact—to be one of the most shameful things that the American media has been involved in since 9/11. (And I include Fox News in this condemnation.)

Corrupt, agenda-laden news organizations regularly hide the truth from the American people about jihadists and Islamists; in exchange for a good story, they give the same jihadists and Islamists an opportunity to make themselves look like heroes on American television. I wrote about this at length here, and nothing has changed in the interim.

Where’s the election where we can throw our disgraceful media bums out?