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White House Tweets Attack on Bibi Using Noted Plagiarist
Washingotn Free Beacon ^ | March 6, 2015 12:09 pm | Daniel Bassali

Posted on 03/06/2015 3:05:22 PM PST by Dave346

The White House used an article written by a known plagiarist to attack the credibility of the leader of America’s closest ally in the Middle East.

Even though the president insisted the U.S. and Israel were strong, the White House National Security tweeted “Interesting take from @FareedZakaria on why PM Netanyahu’s predictions on #Iran have been wrong for 25 years,” and included a link to the article.

In a stunningly political and petty move, the White House essentially accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of fear mongering for more than two decades.

The White House’s use of Zakaria raises red flags. CNN and Time magazine suspended the embattled pundit and editor for plagiarism on a gun control article he wrote in 2012. He was accused, again, of plagiarism in August 2014. Afterwards, Our Bad Media delivered a crushing report detailing 26 examples of Zakaria continuously plagiarizing in dozens of episodes of his CNN show by ripping off other sources.

Beyond credibility as a journalist, it was foolish for the White House to use Zakarie because he has been a puppet of the Obama administration since Obama came into the national fold in 2007.

Zakaria has long been an outspoken Obama backer. In 2008, in an interview with Playboy magazine, Zakaria even went so far as to say Obama is never wrong about anything.

“I think he’s right about every issue he’s been criticized on,” Zakaria said.

Even the left-leaning Salon bashed Zakaria for his “neoliberal know-it-all-ism.”

The article itself also took a number of cheap shots at Netanyahu.

“When describing the alternative to it (Iran deal), Netanyahu entered never-never land, painting a scenario utterly divorced from reality,” Zakaria wrote.

Zakaria mocked the Prime Minister by comparing his “wishful thinking” to Peter Pan in his article.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; fareedzakaria; iran; israel; javadzarif; marieharf; nuclear; terror; war

1 posted on 03/06/2015 3:05:22 PM PST by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Biden probably picked him.


2 posted on 03/06/2015 3:06:57 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Dave346

You can tell what kind of people they are by their behavior. They behave like no class street scum ergo......!


3 posted on 03/06/2015 3:20:04 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Dave346
..and ISIS is the "JV team".

WHO'S WRONG NOW, BARRY?

4 posted on 03/06/2015 3:26:48 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Dave346

If Biden had a son...


5 posted on 03/06/2015 3:29:55 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: dead

That retard is married to an English teacher too.


6 posted on 03/06/2015 3:31:22 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Dave346

There’s something really disconcerting when both the White House and Iran are tweeting out attacks against Israel in the same week.

The lunatics are running the asylum!


7 posted on 03/06/2015 3:33:17 PM PST by Dave346
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To: Dave346
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

..................

Saw the headline, figured it was Biden.

8 posted on 03/06/2015 4:17:20 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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To: Dave346

“There’s something really disconcerting when both the White House and Iran are tweeting out attacks against Israel in the same week.”

It’s as if the White House is getting their talking points from TEHRAN!!

(Should I expect some kind of an indictment, now?)


9 posted on 03/06/2015 4:18:05 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Dave346

Listening to Zakaria on foreign affairs is like listening to John Hinckley on Jody Foster.


10 posted on 03/06/2015 6:02:08 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: Dave346
The lunatics are running the asylum!

The lunatics are running Iran. The traitors are running D.C.

11 posted on 03/06/2015 7:10:23 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Dave346

No one watches skeletor. No one cares what Obama says. Everything is a lie, or he splits the hairs so thin on the truth they might just as well be lies.

What happened to the Presidencies that listened to criticism and did not jump at every opportunity to respond.

Just STFU, Obama. You simply sound petulant.


12 posted on 03/06/2015 7:29:33 PM PST by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: Dave346

I have always disliked Fareed Zakaria after seeing his IBD editorial portrait. To say nothing of his writing.


13 posted on 03/06/2015 10:24:39 PM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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