Posted on 01/29/2005 7:06:01 AM PST by Brian Mosely
Activist's Arrest
At President Bush's press conference yesterday, ABC News (search) reporter Terry Moran (search) described the case of a Jordanian activist, Ali Hattar, who Moran said had been arrested and charged with slander for promoting a boycott of U.S. goods. Moran called it an "abuse of human rights," and invited the President to condemn it, saying, "If you won't, sir, then what ... do your fine words [about freedom] mean?"
President Bush said he was unaware of the case. He was in good company. The Hattar case appears never to have been mentioned by any news outlet in the U.S., including Moran's own network, that is, until Moran asked his question.
Oh, and one more thing. Jordanian officials claim Hattar was not arrested for encouraging a boycott of U.S. goods, but for claiming that Jordan was buying weapons from the U.S. and using them against the Jordanian people.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Moran was an uninformed puppet.
Although it is certainly none of my business, I would love to know more about the sad, untimely death of his son.
Terry Moron
Our President must be quite a bozo not to keep up on these indignities being heaped upon obscure Jordanian activists...he has nothing else to do, being the leader of the Free World, fighting terra and managing the greatest country on earth...
maybe during one of his "547 vacation days in the last four years", he could read up on THIS guy, so that Terry Moron can get his questions answered during a globally televised news conference on the eve of Iraq's voting for peace...
/s
Where do we go to give TM a piece of our minds?
I was so glad that Brit got the word out the other night on his show about this *Moron* and the stunt he pulled. Was hoping that the news of it would spread. Thanks for the post, Brian.
Dan Rathers woodshed, maybe?
I thought the President did an excellent job -- he said something like "I hope you all will give my proposals a fair hearing -- sure you will."
abcnews.com, for starters....
Moran is your Metrosexual's metrosexual.
Actually, I think he's just homosexual.
Terry Mor(o)n = Useful Idiot.
Moran was playing "gotcha" and he lost!
Moran is blatantly anti-Bush, much in the same way Rather was anti-Nixon when he was on the White House beat.
The question is whether Moran is simply copying Rather to ge a name for himself or whether his anti-Bush bias is his own.
Bush should ask him a question about his question at the very next opportunity: Terry, if the Mr. Hattar's jailing was so important, why didn't you and your network cover it?
George Stephanopoulos may not be the ABC News connection to the Chavez hit. Another ABC News reporter, the same one whose biased reporting against another Bush nominee was detailed in item #2 above today, just happens to be the brother of the former neighbor who probably betrayed Chavez, FNC’s Brit Hume revealed Thursday night. Hume explained during the "Political Grapevine" segment on the January 11 Special Report with Brit Hume:
"ABC News broke the story of Linda Chavez's sheltering an illegal immigrant for two years a decade ago, a story that led to her withdrawing as the Bush nominee for Labor Secretary. Some have detected the fine hands of former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, now with ABC News, and former Clinton White House lawyer Neil Eggleston, who represents a Chavez neighbor named Margaret Zwisler, for whom the immigrant worked. Zwisler, a Democrat and a trial lawyer, is thought to be the likely source of the Chavez story. And it turns out that Zwisler is also the sister of ABC News correspondent Terry Moran."
It really is a small world.
This guy has been up to no good for a good long while:
ABC's Terry Moran:
Character Assassin
05/06/2002
http://www.fairpress.org/mbow02/outragearchive0506.htm
Here is the ultimate example of twisting words! ABC's Terry Moran has made House Majority Leader Dick Armey into the equivalent of Slobodan Milosevic! Wednesday evening, 05/01/2002, on MSNBC's Hardball, Rep. Armey made the statement that "there are many Arab nations that have many hundreds of thousands of acres of land and soil and property and opportunity to create a Palestinian state." He further explained:
"I am content to have Israel occupy that land that it now occupies and to have those people who have been aggressors against Israel retire to some other arena and I would be happy to have them make a home. I would be happy to have all of these Arab nations that have been so Hell-bent to drive Israel out of the Middle East, to get together, find some land and make a home for the Palestinians. I think it can be done."
As I read it, this is simply Dick Armey's opinion, an idea tossed out on the table. Yet look what this idea becomes in the liberal mind of Terry Moran. At the White House briefing Thursday, 05/02//2002, he initiated the following exchange with Ari Fleischer:
Moran: "One more on a different subject, the House Majority Leader, Mr. Armey, suggested on an appearance on Hardball that it would be preferable for Israel to keep the West Bank and for the Palestinian people there to be transferred, ethnically cleansed. What does the President think of this? He [Armey] didn't use those words."
Fleischer: "Yeah. Did the Majority Leader use those words?"
Moran: "He said that they should leave."
Fleischer, answering his own question: "He did not."
Moran: "That's the way Milosevic said it, he never said ethnic cleansing either. And I wondered what the President felt about this high official of the United States government calling for the forcible transfer of -"
Fleischer: "Well, Terry, given your characterization of it I think it's only fair to go back and read the words with precision before I would give you a comment on something based on the way you've asked the question."
We all know what kind of ethnic cleansing Milosevic practiced! Certainly Rep. Armey was not suggesting the mass murder of the Palestinian people. And it seems unlikely his idea would ever get off the ground. Perhaps it is most accurately described as an expression of frustration with the so-called "Middle East peace process" and the lack of positive involvement from Islamic countries that claim to care.
Yet common sense will never deter a reporter from ABC News from attempting to place a Republican, a conservative, in a bad light. Even so, the Milosevic comparison is truly an outrageous stretch. As NewsMax.com asked, "How about a forcible transfer of Terry Moran from the White House?" You could call it "Ethical cleansing."
If you would like to express your disgust with Moran's distortion, the contact information is below:
ABC News
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Phone 212-456-7777
FAX 212-456-4292
An inelligence failure! Will he resign?
I would love to see a senior Republican (not the President himself though) start fighting back against the media. Pointing out and publicly mocking their absurd bias. The blatant mocking would not be appropriate for the President himself to do, but maybe from now on he should call on 'Ali Hattar, from ABC news' when he points to Moran. Everyone knows that the President is fond of nicknames.
LOL. I love it.
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