The Media Bias/Incompetence Thread

Once long time White House correspondent Helen Thomas( pictured below) goes on yet another paranoid psychotic anti-Semitic rant during an interview with Playboy magazine....


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PLAYBOY: In the wake of your anti-Israel comments, a blogger from The *Atlantic argued there’s really no distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. He wrote, “Thomas was fired for saying that the Jews of Israel should move to Europe, where their relatives had been slaughtered in the most devastating act of genocide in history. She believes that once the Jews are evacuated from their ancestral homeland, the world’s only Jewish country should be replaced by what would be the world’s 23rd Arab country. She believes that Palestinians deserve a country of their own but that the Jews are undeserving of a nation-state in their homeland, which has had a continuous Jewish presence for 3,000 years.…”

THOMAS: [Interrupts] Did a Jew write this? [Editor’s note: The writer is Jeffrey Goldberg.]


PLAYBOY: “…and has been the location of two previous Jewish states. This sounds like a very anti-Jewish position to me, not merely an anti-Zionist position.”

THOMAS: This is a rotten piece. I mean it’s absolutely biased and totally—who are these people? Why do they think they’re so deserving? The slaughter of Jews stopped with World War II. I had two brothers and many relatives who fought in that war against Hitler. We believed in it. Every American family was in that fight. But they were liberated since then. And yet they carry on the victimization. American people do not know that the Israeli lobbyists have intimidated them into believing every Jew is a persecuted victim forever—while they are victimizing Palestinians.

"American people do not know that the Israeli lobbyists have intimidated them into believing every Jew is a persecuted victim forever—while they are victimizing Palestinians." Wow!

Readers are advised to please fasten their seatbelts for the next lengthy anti-Semitic exchange:

PLAYBOY: In a speech in Detroit last December, you told an Arab group, “We are owned by the propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that. Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is. We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.” Do you stand by that statement?

THOMAS: Yes, I do. I know it was horrendous, but I know it’s true. Tell me it’s not true and I’ll be happy to be contradicted. I’m just saying they’re using their power, and they have power in every direction.

PLAYBOY: That stereotype of Jewish control has been around for more than a century. Do you actually think there’s a secret Jewish conspiracy at work in this country?

THOMAS: Not a secret. It’s very open. What do you mean secret?

PLAYBOY: Well, for instance, explain the connection between Hollywood and what’s happening with the Palestinians.

THOMAS: Power over the White House, power over Congress.

PLAYBOY: By way of contributions?

THOMAS: Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies, which are funded by wealthy supporters, including those from Hollywood. Same thing with the financial markets. There’s total control.

PLAYBOY: Who are you thinking about specifically? Who are the Jews with the most influence?

THOMAS: I’m not going to name names. What, am I going to name the Ponzi guy on Wall Street [Bernard Madoff] or the others? No.

PLAYBOY: Then how do you make the claim that Jews are running the country?

THOMAS: I want you to look at the Congress that just came in. Do you think [New York Democratic senator Charles] Schumer and Lehtinen—whatever her name is—in Florida [Republican representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a strong supporter of Israel] are going to be pro-Arab? No. But they’re going to be very influential. Eric Cantor, the majority leader of the Republicans, do you think he’s going to be for the Arabs? Hell no! I’m telling you, you cannot get 330 votes in Congress for anything that’s pro-Arab. Nothing.


PLAYBOY: Do you begrudge people like Steven Spielberg? He created the Shoah Foundation to chronicle the life stories of Holocaust survivors. What’s your feeling about him?

THOMAS: There’s nothing wrong with remembering it, but why do we have to constantly remember? We’re not at fault. I mean, if they’re going to put a Holocaust museum in every city in Germany, that’s fine with me. But we didn’t do this to the Jews. Why do we have to keep paying the price and why do they keep oppressing the Palestinians? Do the Jews ever look at themselves? Why are they always right? Because they have been oppressed throughout history, I know. And they have this persecution. That’s true, but they shouldn’t use that to dominate.

PLAYBOY: In America you’re talking about a relatively small community. Jews make up roughly two percent of the U.S. population. On a worldwide level, the percentage is well under one percent. Those numbers don’t exactly spell domination.

THOMAS: I get where you’re leading with this. You know damn well the power they have. It isn’t the two percent. It’s real power when you own the White House, when you own these other places in terms of your political persuasion. Of course they have power. You don’t deny that. You’re Jewish, aren’t you?

PLAYBOY: Yes.

THOMAS: That’s what I thought.


THOMAS: Nobody, really. I like the liberal press. I like E.J. Dionne Jr. in The *Washington Post. I like Sam Donaldson. I believe he’s an honest man. I loved Walter Cronkite. I certainly loved Ed Murrow. But I don’t see replicas around.

"I like the liberal press."
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Yeah outstanding idea for a thread Alan. Well done and keep it going.
 
BBC's Katty Kay seems to be living on another planet....

KATTY KAY, BBC: Chris, we spend a lot of time on the program talking about Libya, but what’s happening in Bahrain is more violent and of much more strategic interest to the United States.

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Because of oil.

KAY: Because of oil, and because of the 5th Fleet is stationed there. What happens in Bahrain is really critical to America, but it’s in Washington’s interest and the White House’s interest that we don’t report this story very much. They would like that one to go away because there’s no real upside for them in supporting the rebellion by the Shiites.

MATTHEWS: And not reporting it helps how? How does not reporting it help?

KAY: Because they just don’t want too much attention focused on what’s happening there because they don’t want to be having to be pushed into a position of helping the Shiite rebels there.
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More violent? I haven't noticed any artillery barrages and bombing runs in Bahrain......
 
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Here's a classic...

Ted Turner founder of CNN....

[video=youtube;UA2UVgmydZc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA2UVgmydZc[/video]


Wolf Blitzer: “We want to talk a little bit more about today's developments involving North Korea with CNN founder and Chairman of Turner Enterprises, Ted Turner. He's joining us once again from New York. You spent some time recently in North Korea, Ted. Did this agreement come to you as a surprise?"

Ted Turner: "No. No. I talked with quite a few of the North Korean leaders and South Korean leaders, too, and spent really the most time with the head negotiator for North Korea. And I was really over there to try and persuade North and South Korea to make the DMZ into an international peace park when, when they sign a peace treaty, which I anticipate will be fairly soon, now that we have the six-party talks, we have agreement there. But I had a great time. I am absolutely convinced that the North Koreans are absolutely sincere. There's really no reason -- no reason for them to cheat or do anything to violate this very forward agreement. I mean, I think we can put the North Korea and East Asia problems behind us and concentrate on Iran and Iraq, where, where we still have some ongoing difficulties."

Blitzer: "I've got to tell you, Ted, given the record of North Korea, especially the fact that, in the Clinton administration in '93-'94, they made a similar pledge, which they violated and they backed out of, I'm not exactly sure that I accept all your optimism."

Turner: "Well, you know, I was optimistic about the Cold War when I got to Russia, too. But I looked them right in the eyes. And they looked like they meant the truth. I mean, you know, just because somebody's done something wrong in the past doesn't mean they can't do right in the future or in the present. That happens all the, all the time."

Blitzer: "But this is one of the most despotic regimes and Kim Jong Il is one of the worst men on Earth. Isn't that a fair assessment?"

Turner: "Well, I didn't get, I didn't get to meet him, but he didn't look, in the pictures that I've seen of him on CNN, he didn't look too much different than most other people."

Blitzer: "But look at the way, look at the way he's, look at the way he's treating his own people."

Turner asserted: "Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but ah-"
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Seems Reuters has a different definition for terrorism than sane rational people....


A bomb planted in a bag exploded near a bus stop in a Jewish district of Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a woman and injuring at least 30 people, in an attack police blamed on Palestinian militants.

No one claimed responsibility for the blast, which coincided with an upsurge of violence on the Gaza border that has led to fears of a new war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, after months of relative quiet.

Medics said three people were seriously hurt by the explosion, which hit one of the main routes into central Jerusalem in the afternoon, shattering the windows of a nearby bus. A woman in her 60s died in hospital.

Police said it was a "terrorist attack" -- Israel's term for a Palestinian strike. It was the first time Jerusalem had been hit by such a bomb since 2004.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel would take action against those groups who he said are testing the Jewish state's will to defend itself.

"Israel will act aggressively, responsibly and wisely to preserve the quiet and security that prevailed here over the past two years," Netanyahu said.

In the Gaza, a Hamas spokesman said the group, which does not recognise Israel's right to exist, was seeking to reverse the recent rise in violence and "to protect stability and to work in order to restore the conditions on ground."

World leaders condemned the bombing, as well as a flurry of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel in recent days.

"The United States calls on the groups responsible to end these attacks at once and we underscore that Israel, like all nations, has a right to self-defence," U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement released in Washington.

Palestinian Authority leaders in the West Bank, who are opposed to Hamas, also denounced the attack.

"I condemn this terrorist operation in the strongest possible terms, regardless of who was behind it," Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said in a statement.

At the height of a Palestinian uprising that began in 2000, but which died out in recent years, militants carried out dozens of often deadly bombings in Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem.

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said the bomb weighed about one or two kilos (2 or 4 pounds). "It exploded in a small suitcase on the sidewalk next to the bus stop," he told Israel's Channel Two television.

Blood stained the pavement and many people had to be treated for shock. Israeli television broke into normal programming to show scores of ambulances converging on the scene, taking the injured to nearby hospitals.

"I saw two women lying on the ground, unconscious and covered in blood," medic Motti Bukchi, who arrived swiftly on the scene, told Channel Two.
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Of course there's always this PC term.....

In her first testimony before Congress back in March of this year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano laid the groundwork for the Obama administration's new "politically correct" Homeland Security doctrine. Without ever mentioning "terrorist" or "terrorism" during her testimony, Secretary Napolitano put forth the politically correct term for those two words: "man-caused disaster." Defining the term as "nuance" to the German news site Spiegel Online, Secretary Napolitano further stated, "...it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/obamas_mancaused_disaster_chic.html
 
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Surprise, surprise the BBC excluding a story that shows Palestinians in a bad light. I would never have guessed:

Who is Tamar Fogel? The chances are that you will have no idea. She is a 12-year-old girl who arrived home late on Friday, March 11, to discover her family had been slaughtered. Her parents had been stabbed to death; the throat of her 11-year-old brother, Yoav, had been slit. Her four-year-old brother, Elad, whose throat had also been cut, was still alive, with a faint pulse, but medics were unable to save him. Tamar's sister, Hadas, three months old, had also been killed. Her head had been sawn off.

There were two other Fogel brothers sleeping in an adjacent room. When woken by their big sister trying to get into a locked house, Roi, aged six, let her in. After Tamar discovered the bodies, her screaming alerted their neighbour who rushed in to help and described finding two-year-old Yishai desperately shaking his parents' blood-soaked corpses, trying to wake them up.

I found out about the barbaric attack not on BBC news, but via Twitter on Monday. I followed a link there to a piece by Mark Steyn entitled "Dead Jews is no news'. Horrified, I went to the BBC website to find out more. There I discovered only two stories: one a cursory description of the incident in Itamar, a West Bank settlement, and another focusing on Israel's decision to build more settlements, which mentioned the killings in passing.

As the mother of three children, one the same age as little Elad, who had lain bleeding to death, I was stunned at the BBC's seeming lack of care. All the most heart-wrenching details were omitted. The second story, suggesting that the construction announcement was an act of antagonism following the massacre, also omitted key facts and failed to mention the subsequent celebrations in Gaza, and the statement by a Hamas spokesman that "five dead Israelis is not enough to punish anybody".

There were more details elsewhere on the net: the pain and hurt, for example, of the British Jewish community at the BBC's apparent indifference to the fate of the Fogels. The more I read, the more the BBC's broadcast silence amazed me. What if a settler had entered a Palestinian home and sawn off a baby's head? Might we have heard about it then? On Twitter, I attacked the UK media in general, and the BBC in particular. I considered filing a complaint.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...laughtered-in-Israel-doesnt-the-BBC-care.html
 
Just read some NYT moron claiming Muslims face a "wall of hatred" in the U.S.

Strange then that the name of the operations commander at the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, an intercontinental ballistic missile unit, is one Colonel Mohammed Khan....
 
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Just read some NYT moron claiming Muslims face a "wall of hatred" in the U.S.

Strange then that the name of the operations commander at the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, an intercontinental ballistic missile unit, is one Colonel Mohammed Khan....
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The fact that there is one commander with an Islamic/Arabic sounding name in charge of one of the many Imperial Death Star Units does not preclude discrimination from occurring in the United States. Discrimination happens to visible minorities in every country, the U.S.A is better than some places and worse than others. Big deal. The precept called "racism" is just a justification for thought-crime persecution, in my opinion.
 
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The fact that there is one commander with an Islamic/Arabic sounding name in charge of one of the many Imperial Death Star Units does not preclude discrimination from occurring in the United States. Discrimination happens to visible minorities in every country, the U.S.A is better than some places and worse than others. Big deal. The precept called "racism" is just a justification for thought-crime persecution, in my opinion.
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Don't worry hard Rain, Alan is only remarking on it because it was written in one of the papers that he considers too liberal.
 
Well if putting troops on ships outside the country and sending planes to enforce a "no fly zone" is not invasion, what is it? I know they aren't storming the beacheads ala Normandy but still, they aren't sitting at home doing nothing.

Perhaps invasion is a bit strong, Obama is still sending troops overseas to ANOTHER country, this one has oil too :)

Peace prize Obama!

Want real peace, emulate the foreign policy of the Swiss!
 
MSNBC lets slip "compassion for Al Qaeda"

MATT LAUER: Going back to my question though, had you been President on that day, March 17th, what would you have done? Would you have done nothing?

MICHELE BACHMANN: I would not have gone in.

LAUER: So would you have called the other leaders of NATO countries and said, "We support you, but we're not coming?"

BACHMANN: Well I think that what, what presidents do is they stay involved and they, they try to get their, the very best intelligence that they can. Because I think, one thing the American people need to know is that we did not know, nor did the intelligence community know who the opposition is. If we are going in - because, remember, there were, there was just testimony yesterday that there are flickers of al Qaeda. We don't know how much al Qaeda is involved in the opposition forces. Why would we want to strengthen al Qaeda's hand in North Africa? That certainly wouldn't be in the interests of the United States.

LAUER: Well, well let me, let me flip that coin on, on its, on its other side. If there are flickers, as you say, of al Qaeda among the rebels, would it not be a sign to them or showing them that the United States has compassion and we are willing to use our military might to help all people?

BACHMANN: Compassion for al Qaeda?

LAUER: No, compassion for civilians in, in Benghazi.
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Now MSNBC jumps on the blame the A Team bandwagon :erm:


RACHEL MADDOW: On that reference you just made to The A-Team: I can tell you, I was born in 1973 and you're a little younger than me, and I can tell you that every reference in the book is something that I emotionally get. I can tell you that I watched every single second of The A-Team that was ever put on television. I was absolutely obsessed with The A-Team. Can you explain to me how that warped my mind?

DAVID SIROTA: Yeah, well you were you like many young people. The A-Team was one of the top-rated shows among pre-teens in the mid-1980s. It had a big effect on people. And think about what the story of The A-Team is, right? The government unduly incarcerates our heroes. They escape, because the government can't even keep them incarcerated. And they solve the problems that the government refuses to solve. In fact, they're solving problems while the government is trying to apprehend them for solving society's problems. Obviously we can see the analogue now. This is how our political culture talks about government. That you can't rely on the government. You have to rely on outsiders, you have to rely on the Blackwaters, the Halliburtons, to solve our society's problems.
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shame her mind was warped by BA and co
 
"This is how our political culture talks about government. That you can't rely on the government. You have to rely on outsiders, you have to rely on the Blackwaters, the Halliburtons, to solve our society's problems."

What the hell!? Halliburton and Blackwater are basically departments of the U.S. government. They’re headed up by government officials and they wouldn't exist without the State's wars or funding. The A-Team's prerogative wasn't to conquer other peoples' lands and to slaughter them. What a completely warped thing for this guy to say.
 
The more I listen to this the more I am reminded of Orwell's classic, 1984.
 
Prominent liberal journalist, paedophile chum and fan of "courageous" John 'cheated on his dying wife' Edwards, Katie Couric is leaving CBS news after reportedly losing more than 3million viewers.....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...g-cbs-news-scott-pelley-leading-replacement/#

oh and Times's Joe Klein claims burning a book equals strapping bombs to yourself and blowing up innocent women and children....

But there should be no confusion about this: Jones's act was murderous as any suicide bomber's. If there is a hell, he's just guaranteed himself an afterlifetime membership.
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Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/01/afghan-massacre/#ixzz1Ie2OEZrM

Dumbass
 
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