Michael Oren, The New Republic:
"CNN International's coverage of yesterday's fighting in Gaza concluded at midnight with a rush of images: mangled civilians writhing in the rubble, primitive hospitals overflowing with the wounded, fireballs mushrooming between apartment complexes, the funeral of a Palestinian child. Missing from the montage, however, was even a fleeting glimpse of the tens of thousands of Israelis who spent last night and much of last week in bomb shelters; of the house in Netivot, where a man was killed by a Grad missile; or indeed any of the hundreds of rockets, mortar shells, and other projectiles fired by Hamas since the breakdown of the so-called ceasefire. This was CNN at its unprincipled worst, grossly skewering its coverage of a complex event and deceiving its viewers. Yet Israel should not have been surprised."
Of course not. It's not like dead jews have ever meant anything to people like CNN. Then, too, the "news" organization who admitted covering up Saddam's atrocities in order to keep their media "access" going can be expected to be hiring themselves out as paid propagandists to Hamas, in return for a similar favor.
"skewering" ?
1 : to fasten or pierce with or as if with a skewer
2 : to criticize or ridicule sharply and effectively
The second definition might fit, but I have a hard time thinking CNN did it to their own news coverage.
Methinks Oren meant "skewing". One more reminder that spellcheck is not sense-check.
Unfortunately, Fox News wasn't much better yesterday. There was some newsbabe on the ground severely criticizing Israel and excusing the Hamas rockets. Made me want to throw things at the TV.
"It's not like dead jews have ever meant anything to people like CNN."
Joe,
This sort of rhetoric is plain offensive and I would have thought that it would be beneath you.
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#1, #2: Looks like they corrected the wording, after it was pointed out to them by someone. :)
There, I feel much better now.
Of course it's an idiotic statement based purely on my own prejudices rather than fact and does nothing whatsoever to work towards a solution. But who cares? It's all about me venting right?
#4 from toc:
Sometimes the offensive is true. That is reality. Get used to it.
Watching the Fox News coverage of the 'car swarm' of 'victims' can be enlightening. (And before you get your panties in a knot, just realize there were people killed, I am talking about the 'news' stringer coverage.) Many 'victims'/wounded were seen being carried in front of the camera willy-nilly in all directions, but if they were going somewhere like the through the door of an emergency room it was not clear. Also, almost all of them showed no signs of blood. One man was 'helping' a man walk by - the 'helper' held a shirt to the 'wounded victims' head. If the guy really had a head wound, even superficial, anyone with much real world experience would know that the shirt would be soaked in blood but the shirt was clean.
Pallywood at it's "best".
News today is that the new missiles in Hamas' hands can now reach Ashdod. Before they could just reach the parking lot of my apartment on the beach road in Ashkelon. Things are new and improved.
I recall Shelby Foote writing somewhere about the New Orleans regiment that arrived at Shiloh, only to be fired on by their own side because of their navy blue dress uniforms. They immediately returned the volley, and when a horrified officer rode up and begged them to stop they said, "We shoot at everybody who shoots at us!"
Sorry, just waxing nostalgic about better times. We can all go back to being hand-wringing pussy assholes on a dying and bankrupt planet now. Oh, the humanity. Oh, when will we have another Oslo accord? Blah, blah, blah.
#8 from robohobo at 6:17 pm on Dec 29, 2008
#4 from toc:
"It's not like dead jews have ever meant anything to people like CNN."
Sometimes the offensive is true. That is reality. Get used to it.
1. When someone lumps anybody in a group as vile as that, the statement is vile and nothing more.
2. It is not reality and it has forfeited any right the person writing has it to claim that it has any reality.
3. I will not get used to it. Thank you very much.
Watching the Fox News coverage of the 'car swarm' of 'victims' can be enlightening. (And before you get your panties in a knot, just realize there were people killed, I am talking about the 'news' stringer coverage.)
I guess the attempt at effeminizing my opinions goes with tough guy image you have of yourself, that you display in the "get used to it remark" further back.
What ever Fox News or stringers or CNN or anybody else presented, it doesn't justify a pretty vile statement on Joe's part. Although it might let off some steam, it does nothing for his opinions.
Many 'victims'/wounded were seen being carried in front of the camera willy-nilly in all directions, but if they were going somewhere like the through the door of an emergency room it was not clear. Also, almost all of them showed no signs of blood. One man was 'helping' a man walk by - the 'helper' held a shirt to the 'wounded victims' head. If the guy really had a head wound, even superficial, anyone with much real world experience would know that the shirt would be soaked in blood but the shirt was clean.
Pallywood at it's "best".
News today is that the new missiles in Hamas' hands can now reach Ashdod. Before they could just reach the parking lot of my apartment on the beach road in Ashkelon. Things are new and improved.
I guess following you brilliant defense of the statement, you feel that this proves the statement, "It's not like dead jews have ever meant anything to people like CNN."
Flawless logic. Keep it up and the tough guy stance as well. It makes my knees shake.
It's not like dead jews have ever meant anything to people like CNN.
Very careless, Joe. CNN isn't a person.
Ah, but isn't CNN people?
Obviously CNN wants Israel to conduct an appropriately proportionate response.
I can only assume this means that they want some Israeli Air Force officer to throw darts at a map of Gaza and drop a bomb where the dart hits. One dart per rocket fired into Israel.
That would be proportionate, right?
Or are we doing this by casualty count? Palestinians kill 3 Israelis yesterday, so today Israeli commandos grab 3 random Palestinians off the street and kill them?
I'm getting visions of that old Star Trek episode where the war was fought by computer with the 'casualties' selected based on the simulation.
The news coverage started with biased, moved through inane, and is now settling into bizarre. I just saw a commentator on MSNBC basically state the argument that sure, Hamas is trying to indiscriminately kill Israelis, but they're really not very good at it, and only succeed occasionally, so shouldn't we give them a pass?
The Palestinians have apparently devolved on the world media stage from an oppressed people with a legitimate cassus belli against Israel to some sort of deranged psychotic toddlers. 'Oh look dear, he's trying to stab you again, isn't he soooo cute???'
What are the numbers so far, of Palestinians dead, to Israelis dead?
Something like 300 Palestinians to 5 Israelis?
Joe, you know that violence sells, and that's what is happening here.
I'm curious, however - what would be YOUR solution for Hebron?