Looking under rocks...
Earlier today I was watching this channel on the tail end of Dish Network called LINK and a show called "Democracy Now". Suffice to say the show is the 21st century TV version of Pravda. Stalin would love the show and the producer which I think is Pacifica (which has a faaar left radio station here in SoCal too).
Anyway I watch the show every now and then to check up on the tinfoil hat crowd and because they do have interesting stories at times on some obscure corners of the world. The unexamined life... right? The show is hosted by a woman named Amy Goodman. Her disdain for Bush is beautiful to watch. Her demeanor is very low key yet she exudes this mixture of hatred for Bush and a near "run for the hills" panic. It's really quite unique on television.
Today's show was about the war on Lebanon by the Zionist entity. OK, they actually called it "Israel", but nary a mention -- not a whiff of Hizbollah rockets fired, Israeli casualties, or anything even remotely balanced. For a good 30 minutes there was a laundry list of Israeli wrongs -- the founders of Israel were terrorists you know. There was an Ambassador named Edward Peck who actually says this. He was the CHief of the Iraq mission under Reagan. I hope to God Reagan didn't actually know this guy. No history of Israel here, but it is disingenuous to the maximum degree to suggest terrorists founded Israel -- just as it would be to say that Israel is always lily-white in its actions.
Anyway... There is absolutely nothing wrong with disagreeing with the the way the war on terror is being prosecuted or with how Bush or Clinton handles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc. but to hear of the outright vitriole against Israel and the complete soft-selling of Hizbollah is shocking. This Peck fellow actually used the "Terrorism is in the eye of the beholder" line. Amy Goodman actually believes there is no difference the Minutemen of the 1775-76 and Hizbollah. I know this breaks no new ground, but it is disheartening to hear so many so out of touch. It borders on the anti-Semitic (and I don't throw around racial politics at ALL) -- only because it is so irrational that it leaves almost no other explanation other than mental illness. Ay Caramba! as Bart Simpson would say.
Anyway I watch the show every now and then to check up on the tinfoil hat crowd and because they do have interesting stories at times on some obscure corners of the world. The unexamined life... right? The show is hosted by a woman named Amy Goodman. Her disdain for Bush is beautiful to watch. Her demeanor is very low key yet she exudes this mixture of hatred for Bush and a near "run for the hills" panic. It's really quite unique on television.
Today's show was about the war on Lebanon by the Zionist entity. OK, they actually called it "Israel", but nary a mention -- not a whiff of Hizbollah rockets fired, Israeli casualties, or anything even remotely balanced. For a good 30 minutes there was a laundry list of Israeli wrongs -- the founders of Israel were terrorists you know. There was an Ambassador named Edward Peck who actually says this. He was the CHief of the Iraq mission under Reagan. I hope to God Reagan didn't actually know this guy. No history of Israel here, but it is disingenuous to the maximum degree to suggest terrorists founded Israel -- just as it would be to say that Israel is always lily-white in its actions.
Anyway... There is absolutely nothing wrong with disagreeing with the the way the war on terror is being prosecuted or with how Bush or Clinton handles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc. but to hear of the outright vitriole against Israel and the complete soft-selling of Hizbollah is shocking. This Peck fellow actually used the "Terrorism is in the eye of the beholder" line. Amy Goodman actually believes there is no difference the Minutemen of the 1775-76 and Hizbollah. I know this breaks no new ground, but it is disheartening to hear so many so out of touch. It borders on the anti-Semitic (and I don't throw around racial politics at ALL) -- only because it is so irrational that it leaves almost no other explanation other than mental illness. Ay Caramba! as Bart Simpson would say.
posted by Troy at 9:37 PM
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My ex-girlfriend's mother watches LINK TV...tin foil hat crowd, indeed.
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