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Hezbollah dupes willing journalists & liberals

Posted 02 Aug 2006 in liberals, media bias, military, terrorism

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There’s no bias in the media, that saying is just paranoid neocon rightwing blathering. Or is it? How these “journalists” sleep at night is beyond me.

CNN’s Robertson Now Admits: Hezbollah ‘Had Control’ of His Anti-Israel Piece
Posted by Rich Noyes on July 24, 2006 – 15:32.
Better late than never? On CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday, CNN’s senior international correspondent Nic Robertson added all of the caveats and disclaimers that he should have included in his story last week that amounted to his giving an uncritical forum for the terrorist group Hezbollah to spout unverifiable anti-Israeli propaganda.

Back on July 18, Hezbollah took Robertson and his crew on a tour of a heavily damaged south Beirut neighborhood. The Hezbollah “press officer” even instructed the CNN camera: “Just look. Shoot. Look at this building. Is it a military base? Is it a military base, or just civilians living in this building?”

In his original story, Robertson had no complaints about the journalistic limitations of a story put together under such tight controls, and Robertson himself at one point seemed to agree with the Hezbollah propaganda claim that Israeli jets had targeted a civilian area: “As we run past the rubble, we see much that points to civilian life, no evidence apparent of military equipment.”

Challenged by Reliable Sources host (and Washington Post media writer) Howard Kurtz on Sunday, Robertson suggested Hezbollah has “very, very sophisticated and slick media operations,” that the terrorist group “had control of the situation. They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn’t have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath,” and he even contradicted Hezbollah’s self-serving spin: “There’s no doubt that the [Israeli] bombs there are hitting Hezbollah facilities.”

Read the whole article, there’s more good stuff there.

Just whose side is Robertson on, anyway? Oh wait, I’m not supposed to question a liberal’s patriotism. I almost forgot!

Those who keep making excuses for Hezbollah really need to pull their heads out of their turd cutters and understand that they’re being manipulated by monsters who have no trouble blowing up women and children for the purpose of sensationalistic news/propaganda, whether they do it themselves with a bomb vest or by placing them in a position to be killed by their Israel’s retaliations.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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