Dubious Distinction: Al-Qaeda Names Sy Hersh Its Favorite US Journalist

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

September 4, 2006 - 09:11

Talk about your Dubious Distinction Awards. In his recently-released videotape, Adam Gadahn, né Pearlman, a nice boy from California turned Al-Qaeda spokesman, names Sy Hersh as a “sympathetic” personality, along with British MP George Galloway and Brit journalist Robert Fisk. As per the Counterrorism Blog, Gadahn "asks . . . Hersh to 'reveal more' than what was published in a New Yorker article on the war."

The New Yorker article in question was one of a series Hersh has written, critical of the Bush adminstration's Iraq policy. In a speech last year he claimed that the US government is being taken over by a "cult":

"We are being taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government."

Pulitzer Prizes are nice, and Hersh has won his share. But when it comes to boosting its circulation in far-left reaches, it's going to be hard for the New Yorker to top: "Sy Hersh, Winner of the 2006 Al-Qaeda Prize for Sympathetic Journalism."

[governsleastgovernsbest]

NewsBusters Al-Qaeda 'Pulitzer' ping to Today show list.

[veronica]

The Sympathy for the Devil crowd.

[Irishguy]

well that just about says it all...the useful idiots list...

[nuconvert]

bump

[Pitmaster]

Ask the American public who bin Laden wants to win the November mid-terms. Who do the terrorists support? You guessed it.

[DCPatriot]

Has it ever seemed strange to these people that the aforementioned are still alive and able to write and say what they want?

And they aren't hiding in some cave-like edifice either. They walk free among the rest of us.

Try that in Kabul or Baghdad.

[gusopol3]

the only thing he ever wrote that leftists didn't like was Darker Side of Camelot ( which might have a new meaning with regard to Iran)

[xcamel]

Hmmmm... are "boys from California" becoming a pattern?

[cake_crumb]

"Sy Hersh, Winner of the 2006 Al-Qaeda Prize for Sympathetic Journalism."

Good lord. NOW I've heard it all.

[tobyhill]

It's a mutual relationship between the MSM and terrorist. The MSM wants the terrorist to succeed and the terrorist wants the MSM to succeed in order to keep the propaganda and gossip rolling out on the front pages and "Breaking News" reports. The Rats have chose their side and allied with their MSM friends in support of the terrorist.

[cripplecreek]

He must be very proud.

[LIConFem]

Useful Idiot Hall of Fame, more like.

[kittymyrib]

No surprise that Hersh and Fisk should be Al Queda faves. They've certainly earned it with their anti-American screeds.

[DB]

History will get the last word.

Can only hope they get what they deserve.

[LRS]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Steel Wolf]

Has it ever seemed strange to these people that the aforementioned are still alive and able to write and say what they want?

They don't see it as strange at all, simply as evidence of our corruption and weakness. Al-Qa'ida praises people like this to deepen our own divides, and turn us against each other. It's a divide and conquer strategy that's as old as the hills, and fools like Hersh, by not denying and decrying this praise, only add to it.

[maica]

Are you sure that this video by the nice boy from California isn't from the Onion!!!

Waiting for reaction by Sy Hersh---

[Savage Beast]

It must have been a tough decision. There are so many worthy candidates.

[cake_crumb]

" The MSM wants the terrorist to succeed and the terrorist wants the MSM to succeed in order to keep the propaganda and gossip rolling out on the front pages and 'Breaking News' reports. "

That's exactly why the ACLU filed suit against the federal government over the "Illegal Wiretapping Scandal" (that nobody but the media cared about) - media clients complained that the wiretapping put their terrorist sources in jeopardy, thus interfering with journalists' right to freedom of private conversations with terrorists.