Posted on 04/17/2017 3:12:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) responded on Monday night to the publication of Marwan Barghouti's article in The New York Times:
"Barghouti is not a prisoner," Hotovely said. "He is a convicted murderer and a terrorist.
"The New York Times has provided a platform to a terrorist without noting the fact that he planned and carried out the cold blooded murder of Jews simply for having been Jews.
"This is not a matter of freedom of speech. It is anarchy. When a major newspaper with a reputation for responsible journalism becomes a platform for murderers, it provides legitimacy for terrorism. This is a very disappointing decision by the editors which seriously undermines the credibility of The New York Times."
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Hotovely could have been a little wryer.
“Sure he’s a prisoner. That’s because he’s a convicted criminal. Leaving out important details might, you know, give the impression that you are being misleading.”
Well, they have a LITTLE credibility. After all, they were the first to break the story of Obama wiretapping Trump. Before they went back later and revised the headline, that is....
NEVERMIND!
“When a major newspaper with a reputation for responsible journalism”
I needed a good laugh today.
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Well they do, among the eat-um-up Arabs-can-do-no-wrong crowd.
Oh, yeah. Nearly forgot about that. I think they also get the weather right sometimes.
How can they even be called a newspaper if they don’t have a funny page.
Well just to be FAIR... this was the “prisoner” himself. It’s to be expected that his story needs to be double checked.
I take it this wasn’t just an op-ed. That it was presented as a straight news story?
Because all of the pages are funny pages?
And anyhow, somehow it seems that there’s the real world, and then there’s the stories that the New York Times tells. Somehow from a paragon of journalism back in the day, it has descended into the most finely written web of slant (if not also outright lies) one ever did see. It’s the world the sophisticated New York denizen wishes existed, where life reads like an in-flight magazine.
SHAZAM! YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE HEAD!
I’d really be curious what proportion of people reading the New York Times still view it as straight news rather than elitist caricature. Maybe its slant is working a little TOO well now.
Maybe Hotovely didn’t need to get all exercised. It would have been like fuming over the contents of Mad Magazine.
“Back in the day” would have to be in the 1930’s, before they sent a man on the scene to the Ukraine to reassure people in the US that the three million dead Ukrainians were never born, died of tummy aches from overeating, and anyway wanted to starve to death.
Mad Magazine itself had a funny story behind it. It was the collaboration of a pious Jew and a rank atheist who somehow managed to find common ground in satire.
That sure sounds like funny business on their part, but it was unfunny since it actually kept people from caring about the Ukraine.
I’m ashamed that a country that called itself Christian also countenanced this. Last time the bible was checked, Jesus cared about the truth. No wonder God let America take a slow walk to hell.
Oh, and also that Stalin didn’t kill them. It was White Russian counterrevolutionaries who confiscated their wheat crop and left them to starve.
Apparently their secret sauce has quite an ancient formula.
The Old Grey Liar.
I guess Hotovely could have just said “Well, consider the source” rather than delivering a wholly undeserved compliment.
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