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Brooks Mourns People Don't Differentiate Fatah, Hamas Terrorism
November 11th, 2023 1:45 PM
As the Biden Administration starts to go wobbly on the Israel-Hamas War with its efforts to turn four-hour temporary pauses to multiday pauses, New York Times columnist and PBS NewsHour’s supposedly conservative Friday pundit praised Biden, saying “he’s done quite well.” At the same time, Brooks mourned people don’t differentiate between the types of terrorism Hamas and Fatah…
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‘More Divisions’; ABC Reporter Lobbies Israel AGAINST Assault on Hamas
October 11th, 2023 3:14 PM
A longtime foreign correspondent with BBC prior to joining ABC, chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell sought to peddle pro-Palestinian/pro-Hamas propaganda on Wednesday’s Good Morning America as he sought to elicit sympathy for the side of terrorists and warn Israel of there being “a real danger” of forcefully responding to Saturday’s Hamas terror attacks. And what would that be?…
Former Reporters: AP Suppressed Story on 2008 Israeli Peace Offer
November 30th, 2015 12:23 PM
In predictably disingenuous fashion, the Associated Press claimed in a November 18 story that "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has shined new light on the breakdown of a potentially history-altering round of 2008 peace talks." Abbas acknowledged that Israel offered Palestinians 93.5 percent of the West Bank and other significant concessions.
The "light" isn't "new" at all. The wire service…
Rest In Whitewash: Networks Set to Ignore Mandela's Communist Party Ti
December 7th, 2013 7:07 PM
At the Daily Beast, Michael Moynihan attempted to overcome the tendency of journalists and celebrities to make Nelson Mandela a secular saint. Moynihan recalled that when Margaret Thatcher died, these same people denounced her for here "indulgence" of right-wing dictators like Agosto Pinochet in Chile, who allowed his country to become a democracy.
ABC called her reign an “elective…
NBC Pushes Line That Death of 'Sacred' Yasser Arafat Was Poisoning, Ig
November 9th, 2013 9:33 PM
On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News and Thursday’s Today, NBC hyped the notion that Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat “may have” been assassinated by poisoning. They let Palestinians accuse Israel, and bizarrely suggested only Israel “considered” Arafat a terrorist (forgetting decades where the U.S. officially agreed).
There was no NBC update Friday when NPR’s All Things Considered…
Al Arabiya Reports That Obama Admin Has Sent $500 Million to Palestini
March 24th, 2013 11:42 PM
Al Arabiya is a Saudi-owned television news channel launched in March 2003 the channel is based in Dubai. It claims to have conducted the first media interview of Barack Obama after he became President.
As I noted earlier this evening, Obama spoke last week under a banner of Yasser Arafat, "the father of modern terrorism." That move is being seen as a gaffe by the very few, almost none of…
Shhh! Don't Tell Anyone Obama Spoke in the Shadow of a Huge Yasser Ara
March 24th, 2013 10:31 PM
Searches at the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times done at 9:30 p.m. on "Obama Arafat" (not in quotes) returned nothing relevant to the matter I am about to note. A Google News search on the same term (sorted by date) returns only about a half-dozen relevant items (another very recent one is missing, and I'll get that one in a later post this evening).
On…
Yasser Arafat's Grave Dug Up In West Bank
November 17th, 2012 5:46 PM
Former Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat's grave was dug up in Israel's West Bank Saturday.
This was part of a planned exhumation to examine his remains for exposure to a deadly radioactive isotope.
Dan Savage on HBO's 'Real Time': 'I Wish [Republicans] Were All F--kin
July 16th, 2011 12:16 PM
As NewsBusters previously reported, Friday's "Real Time" on HBO contained some of the most vile political talk ever broadcast on national television.
In one panel segment, gay sex advice columnist Dan Savage said of Republicans, "I wish they were all f--king dead" (video follows with transcript and commentary, extreme vulgarity warning):
CSMonitor: '94 Peace Prize Winners All 'Have Blood on Their Hands
October 9th, 2009 3:30 PM
The Christian Science Monitor’s Dan Murphy and Tom Sullivan examined the politics behind the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, and while looking back at past winners, the two equally blamed the 1994 Prize winners- Yithak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat- for the ultimate failure of their peace efforts: “All three men could be said to have blood on their hands from that conflict.”…
NBC’s Mitchell Recounts Hillary Clinton Kissing Arafat’s Wife
January 5th, 2009 6:34 PM
On Friday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell filed a report that reminded viewers of an embarrassing political episode from Hillary Clinton’s past: the controversial hug and kiss she shared with Yasser Arafat’s wife, Suha, during a trip to the West Bank. The NBC correspondent related that Clinton had taken a position favoring a Palestinian state early on, but, after her…
Zbig Brzezinski to Scarborough: 'So Stunningly Superficial, It's Almos
December 30th, 2008 9:17 AM
Could this be the most unvarnished insult to someone's intelligence in the recent annals of major network television? Here was Zbigniew Brzezinski, speaking to Joe Scarborough on today's "Morning Joe." [H/t reader Melody.]You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it's almost embarrassing to listen to you.It was Scarborough's exposition of the widely accepted…
