Anti-Palin Republican "elites" ain't really so elite.
Syndicated conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, of whom I have sometimes been a fan, made waves in the 2008 election with her vigorous distaste for Sarah Palin. She went so far as to call on her to drop off the ticket because she was supposedly so ill-qualified.…
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126 - Ruvy
(2) Your second and third instances are about the same incident -
My bad, Glenn. I was having trouble getting that comment posted and thought the URL's were messing things up, so I went to tinyurl.com and fucked up the works in the process.
The third instance is here, how the BBC uses Arab propagandists to spin the story wrong.
As to the rest, the bottom line is that a reporter is supposed to get his facts straight, and the editor is supposed to keep them straight. At the BBC the "facts" are that the Israelis are wrong and the Arabs are right. Everything else is cut and molded to make sure the reader/viewer gets that impression.
Therefore, a neighborhood in Jerusalem, Gilo, is a "settlement". You guys haven'jack shit of an idea of what either look like here, a neighborhood or a small Israeli village or town. And the BBC boys are too damned lazy to learn Hebrew.
éizeh mamzerím 'atzlaním, kus'ómak
Go ahead, Glenn: your first real Hebrew (and Arabic) lesson.
127 - Al Barger
Oh sorry Dreadful, I've not put in enough links back to MoreThings.
Here's one for you
Here's another one for you
If you need more, let me know.
128 - Ruvy
No comments, eh, DD?
I don't usually complain about the bigotry in the MSM. If I did, I'd have three articles a day here. But the truth is, I follow the model of Rav Meir Kahane, z"l, hy"d. He didn't blame the goyim for perfidy, lies and distortions - he didn't expect better from them. I feel the same way. I don't expect better than lies and distortion from the goyim either. After all, they've only spent 2,900 years trying to murder us off. So, perfidy, lies and distortions are the least I should expect.
I only really get upset when Jews, craving approval from their enemies, side with the goyim against their own. Like the pricks on J-Street - or the traitors on Government Hill in Jerusalem. I won't mention names of people who have written here....
I try to be a gentleman.
129 - zingzing
but just end up looking like an..
130 - Ruvy
zing,
It's past your bed-time - already 02:15 in the morning....
131 - Jordan "Boss" Richardson
We feed her live rabbits and the occasional stray Ron Paul supporter.
Is there a sauce you can put on the Ron Paul supporters? I find them stringy.
132 - Clavos
Haven't really looked into it, Jordan.
As a good Democrat, my sister doesn't complain about the stringiness.
She is becoming troublesome, though; she's insisting that after January 20th she wants to move out of the shed and into the house with the rest of us.
133 - Dr Dreadful
@ #128: Sorry, Ruvy, I didn't see it. Got distracted by the riveting Prince discussion...
Your first citation is just hair-splitting. I've read your links to the work of Honest Reporting before, and they're clearly eager to jump on even the slightest thing that they think the BBC may have done or said wrong.
We went over the BBC's reporting of the second incident at some length, as I recall. As Glenn reminded you, the BBC was working with a breaking story and was using the best information it had available at the time. You know how these things go. Just think of all the unsubstantiated stories and rumors that were flying around the media on the morning of 9/11/01.
Thirdly, From Our Own Correspondent is a program in which journalists working for the BBC (they are not necessarily BBC employees) have an opportunity to give their personal reflections on the news they cover. The sympathies of that particular reporter happened to be with the Palestinians. However, I don't see an anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian tone in this report from the same show, for instance.
And I can't really see how reports like this one are nastily anti-Israel.
Lastly, British public opinion is not particularly hostile to Israel. The prevailing view of the region is one of exasperation - WITH BOTH SIDES.
Nevertheless, because Israel holds the UN seat and possesses a wider array of things that go bang in a variety of sophisticated and expensive ways, you will get more of the flak.
134 - Glenn Contrarian
Ruvy - perhaps you missed my comment on that reporter - I had already seen that link:
"Second, okay - so the BBC had ONE bad apple for a reporter...so you're going to blame the whole as a result?"
Just because there's a whole bunch of bad apples in our government, should I condemn the whole? Just because there's a couple criminals who attend some church, should I condemn the whole?
You gave three instances, Ruvy - but the BBC gives that many reports on Israel and the Middle East every hour of every day of every year. You're going to have to come up with something FAR more substantial - a true pattern of prejudice, rather than this or that incident. If you can prove the pattern, then you will find support. But as of yet I see no such pattern.
135 - Ruvy
Glenn, DD,
There are not enough links you could provide me with in any given comment to find the bigoted coverage of the mass media when it comes to Israel. And, I wouldn't have the time. I like honestreporting.com because they do go after every little thing. After being lied about so much in the NYT, the French media, the British media, the European media, the Indian media (should I even bother mentioning the Arab media), the folks who go after falsehood have decided on a take no prisoners policy of chasing every shmuck around. Ane there are no shortage of shmucks to chase.
The BBC, Reuters, AP, NYT, LAT are just a few of the top of my head.
I was just filling in details that Baronius didn't have in chasing the BBC. Truth is, I have better things to do - like going after the traitors on Government Hill here.