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Wednesday August 27, 2008 02:18 |
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 For those of you who may not know her, Brigitte Gabriel is a Lebanese-American journalist and an opponent of radical Islam. She grew up in Lebanon and experienced close calls with radical Islamists. She learned what they are all about and she has made it her mission to inform the rest of us. Apparently though, if you tell the truth about a small portion of the Islamic world that makes you an Islamophobe in the opinion of the New York Times. I've heard Gabriel speak on several occasions and I can detect no hate in her towards average law-abiding Muslims. But for telling the truth about the other Muslims, the radical terrorist types she is called a Muslim Hater by the New York Times.
This from Newsbusters.org: In her weekly Q&A session for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, reporter Deborah Solomon conducted a strongly hostile interview with Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese-American journalist and opponent of radical Islam, while the headline blurb referred to Gabriel as a "radical Islamophobe."
The blurb:
The best-selling author and radical Islamophobe talks about why moderate Muslims are irrelevant, the lessons we should have learned from Lebanon and dressing like a French woman.
Is the Times calling Gabriel radical because she has an irrational fear ("phobia" or "-phobe") of Islam in general, or is "radical Islamophobe" a too-cute way of saying Gabriel has an irrational fear of radical Islam? Either way, the incredibly suspicious, hostile tone of Solomon's questioning is clear.
Here are some of the questions Solomon poses to Gabriel: - As a Lebanese-Christian immigrant who spent her girlhood amid the bloody devastation of the Lebanese civil war, you have lately emerged as one of the most vehement critics of radical Islam in this country.
- Are you concerned that your new book, "They Must Be Stopped," will feed animosity toward Muslims?
- What about all the moderate Muslims who represent our hope for the future? Why don't you write about them?
- Are you an agent of the U.S. government?
- Are you underwritten by the C.I.A.?
When Gabriel said no, Solomon followed up:
But I see that R. James Woolsey, a former director of the C.I.A., serves on the board of American Congress for Truth, your educational foundation.
The pro-Israel media watchdog CAMERA argued:
Apparently in Deborah Solomon's world, one must be on the U.S. government payroll to want to sound the alarm about militant Muslim supremacists.
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Wednesday July 23, 2008 19:19 |
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Thought I would document this in real time. The ABC News with Charles Gibson gave a 6 minute 13 second segment to Sen. Obama covering his mideast trip as well as an interview with Gibson. Sen. McCain was given 2 minutes 49 seconds for an interview with some no-name reporter. That comes to 2.2 as much time for Obama as for McCain. To give credit where it's due, Gibson did put Obama through a pretty hard-hitting interview insinuating that he had made a rookie mistake in his speech before AIPAC where he said Jerusalm must remain the undivided capital of Israel. Gibson asked him if he didn't realize that would be highly offensive to much of the Arab world. He knocked Obama off his balance a couple of times. The interview with McCain started off pretty hostile, then the reporter backed off a bit towards the end. 7/24/08: ABC covered Obama's speech in Germany for 5 minutes 30 seconds, and it devoted an entire 1 minute and 2 seconds to the McCain campaign. For anyone who's counting, that's five times more exposure for Obama on this newscast. I should point out that a record of two or three newscasts does not make for a full picture of what ABC News is doing. They may well devote most of next week to McCain for all I know. But for now they're leaning heavily in favor of Obama. Personally, if I ran a news organization I wouldn't let either candidate "steal" a whole week's worth of coverage without giving equal time each and every night to the other candidate. |
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Tuesday July 22, 2008 16:38 |
RasmussenReports.com releases a poll showing that Americans "get" that there is liberal bias in the mainstream media.
Voters Give Media Failing Grades in Objectivity for Election 2008 Poll released July 8, 2008 Just 17% of voters nationwide believe that most reporters try to offer unbiased coverage of election campaigns. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that four times as many—68%--believe most reporters try to help the candidate that they want to win. The perception that reporters are advocates rather than observers is held by 82% of Republicans, 56% of Democrats, and 69% of voters not affiliated with either major party. The skepticism about reporters cuts across income, racial, gender, and age barriers. |
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Tuesday July 22, 2008 16:30 |
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Barack Obama has been in the middle east for the last several days. The three major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC have sent their anchors as well as full news teams to cover every breaking moment of this well-choreographed "story". John McCain in has been to Europe, Colombia and Iraq in the last couple of months and it was hardly covered. NO ANCHORS WENT with him.
The New York Times just rejected an op-ed piece that McCain submitted to them on Iraq - one week after it ran an op-ed by Obama on the same subject. Can you imagine a paper rejecting an op-ed piece from a presidential candidate? How can they possibly continue to maintain the facade that they're "objective" when they won't allow an op-ed piece from the Republican candidate?
CNN just reported that Obama has received an average of 141 minutes of coverage on the three networks' nightly news cast each week, while McCain has received just 48 minutes a week. That's almost three times as much coverage for Obama. How can they even begin to claim they're not biased when they've practically shut out one of the two candidates? RasmussenReports.com reports that the public is acknowledging this media bias. Click the Read More link to see the results of that survey. |
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Monday July 24, 2006 15:02 |
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 July 24, 2006 - Tonight on the CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer, a CBS reporter in Lebanon was standing in a crowd of people who had allegedly just become refugees in the wake of Israeli bombing of Hezbollah positions. In the background you could see only the shells that remained of bombed out buildings - it looked like Armageddon. Then they cut to a shot of the sky where you could see thousands of little leaflets falling through the air.
CBS reporter, Lee Cowan says this over the video:
"They didn't need a reminder of the danger, but the Israelis gave them one anyway. High over head two explosions, and leaflets filled the sky. The message fluttering down was as simple - as it was cold: THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING - it said."
This made it sound as if Israel's only intention was to crush and massacre the Lebanese people. The tone of the report could only leave one thinking Israel is cruel and evil.
The leaflet shown on CBS was several paragraphs long in Arabic. The more I thought about it the more I realized there was no way it could have said what the CBS reporter said it said. Why? Because I knew that Israel doesn't drop these leaflets to scare people, it drops them to warn them and save their lives.
So I did some internet searching and found the correct translation for the leaflets. THEY, IN FACT, DO NOT EVEN CONTAIN THE PHRASE "this is just the beginning".
Here is what the leaflets really said:
----------To The Lebanese People---------
The Israeli army will increase their bombings in Lebanon against the terrorist actions of Hezbollah in order to defend the state of Israel and its citizens.
For your own safety, and so as not to harm any civilians that are not implicated, you are advised to stay away from the locations where Hezbollah are present and acting against Israel.
This Includes: · The Locations where missiles are fired in the direction of Israel · The Locations of Hezbollah’s military equipment and arsenals · Hezbollah’s centers located in south of Beirut and other areas under its control in the south of Lebanon. · The Southern suburbs of Beirut. The location of terrorism.
The Israeli Defense Forces call on the Lebanese people and Lebanese army to refrain from aiding, either directly or indirectly, any Hezbollah member. Anyone who does will be putting his life in possible danger.
You should know that the continuing acts of terrorism against Israel are keeping you from having a better future.
State of Israel
http://www.lebanonlinks.com/special/...s_dropped.html
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