ABC News: It's the Anti-Semitism, Stupid

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[Cobra64]

Don't get me started on people who confuse voila ("here it is") and viola ("big fiddle").

And those that do not know the difference between a verb and a noun.

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[kcvl]

We few who have been covering this story have come to understand the natural denial that editors and public have had about the realities of global warming. The other frustrations of covering this story are more familiar to journalism - how to explain the unfamiliar science, how to get our arms around the many parts of this story with its financial, political, biological and epidemiological impacts.

These frustrations are of the sort we professional journalists enjoy overcoming - it’s our craft and solving such difficulties of communication is what we enjoy doing.

Bill Blakemore has spearheaded ABC's coverage of global warming, traveling from the tropics to polar regions to report on the impacts and dangers of climate change, as well as possible solutions for it.

global warming and other narratives involving the love-hate relationship between nature and man.

After filing from the Iraqi capital during the 1991 Gulf War, he published a Law Review article entitled "Reporting From Baghdad During The Gulf War: Principles for Judgment."

(anchoring ABC's special, "Alcohol and Cocaine: The secret of Addiction")

the persistent problems of earthquake rescue, the global extinction of montane amphibians, and the unseen obliteration of ocean life.

papers on the art of filmmaker Stanley Kubric.

In addition to his regular coverage of global warming, his current interests, as seen in his "Nightline" report on new discoveries about the mental health of refugees around the world, include the "psychological literacy" of today's journalism.

[kcvl]

This grim story of media bias includes some real horror stories, for example, the "favored technique" of ABC's Bill Blakemore, who regularly "took a classic Israeli symbol and either debunked its traditional meaning or used it to create a visual false analogy." Thus, he contrasted the living conditions of the Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip with those of the local populace in one of the most miserable and oppressed corners of the world. And he revealed that "Israel's `redemption of the land' was predicated on the destruction of Arab villages and the dislocation of Arabs from their homes" 40 years earlier (not to speak of massacres). "One must question whether the intent was not to delegitimize the entity for which these symbols collectively stood -- in this case, the State of Israel." Such journalistic dishonesty illustrates the inveterate hatred of the media for the State of Israel, and their long-standing sympathy for the oppressed victims.

[BIGZ]

"And now, if we can walk him through to an epiphany, that's important," Foxman says.

How about walking Hillary through an epiphany for calling Paul Fray a F-CKIG Jew Bastard?

Different strokes for different folks.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep, Mel is a bad bad man. The MSM has told me so.

Funny, there are a number of groups that are firing missiles into Israel at this very minute, killing Israelis as we speak, and that same media can't find the gumption to call that evil.

F'm

I don't approve of Mel's latest act, but I am confident his heart is in a better place than the hears of the members of the MSM are.

[Pharmboy]

"That's the great news about America," says Joel Kaplan, president of B'Nai Brith International, "not just the good news, the great news. Jews are for the most part treated well in America. Every time I travel abroad I thank God I am American."

Ahhh...a mainstrem Jew that sounds like he gets it. From General Washington on (an actually, before him) there has NEVER been a better country than this for for EVERYONE, including the Jews.

In 1902, this country let in my ignorant, peasant, Ukrainian Jew grandfather. Why? Because this is America...and great Christians like Washington, Adams and Hamilton set the tone.

[RFEngineer]

' "I think we are dealing here with classic anti-Semitism," he says. "He seems to think we run everything." '


This comment strikes me as a hilariously true observation, but then again, maybe it isn't as funny in Hollywood.

[bereanway]

Wow, evangelicals only mustered about a 68% favorable rating among Americans. Thats leaves about a third of the country that would have an unfavorable view.

I'd imagine that third is made up to a great degree by hard left dims. And they're trying to figure out how to woo the "religious" voter back. We'll see how well that works with the base.

[Medicine Warrior]

Perhaps also they are terrified of his talent. The Christian, Jew hostility keeps a lot of bottom feeders going on both sides.

With A gift that can produce "Braveheart" and "Passion" Mel's talent could lay this to rest and allow Western Civilization to truly unite in the face of a merciless and fearsom foe.

Strangly enough both sides fear him, yet Mel Gibson is potentially their greatest benefactor. On the down side, ancient institutions will crumble.

Mel knows what must be done, we are in the embarrassing position of having to watch him build the courage to do it, If you truly have compassion, he could use your prayers.

Oddly, he also knows the correct decision will more that double his fortune, and that is not even a factor in his dillema, can you imagine?

[Medicine Warrior]

Love your gimmick, wish I had the talent. Uh, but wasn't that Scarlet?

[Cobra64]

Uh, but wasn't that Scarlet?

Damn. Shame on me. I be gettin' old. Wasn't Brett Butler played by Glark Cable?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

The Commonly Confused Words Test, continued

You've answered 40 of 40, by the way.

I didn't cheat. I swear it!

(Yes, I actually made it through the sixth grade.)

The one that kills me is:

"My cousin went to the movies with Carol and I."

Yesterday, on the Yankees' broadcast, one of the announcers (Jim Kaat) was discussing two of the opposing players (let's call them Smith and Jones.) With Smith at the plate, Kaat said, "Between he and Jones, they've got a nice one-two combination."

How anyone who makes his living in broadcasting (I know he's an ex-jock) can say the word "between" and follow it with "he" is beyond me. The misuse of "he" for "him" and "I" for "me" is very prevalent among those who aspire to sound educated. They choose the subject form over the object form of the pronoun because they think it sounds more refined. To me, it just sounds wrong. If it's the object of a verb or a prepositon, you are supposed to use the object form of the pronoun. What part of third grade did these people miss?

They would never say, "Give the books to I." Yet, they have no trouble uttering the phrase: "Give the books to Carol and I." It's real-world evidence of our misspent tax dollars. We spend upwards of ten grand a year per pupil and they are clueless about the basics.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Don't get me started on people who confuse voila ("here it is") and viola ("big fiddle").

On the old sit-com, "Married With Children," Christina Applegate's character, the slutty and brainless teenage sex kitten, would often utter such malapropisms. I distinctly remember her saying "Viola!" in one of the episodes. Maybe the people are kidding when they say it, imitating the young Ms. Bundy. (On the other hand, the show has been off the year for about a decade. Maybe people who say "viola!" when they mean "voila!" are just not too smart.)

[Medicine Warrior]

You Sir vindicate the founders.

[Cobra64]

They would never say, "Give the books to I." Yet, they have no trouble uttering the phrase: "Give the books to Carol and I."

Bingo! That is the same methodology I use when correcting our children's grammar. Or leave the third person out of the sentence... "Give the books to I." And listen to what makes sense.

When I was in grammar school, we had to dissect sentences and memorize prepositions.

A split infinitive was grounds to really get into trouble ending a sentence with.

(I'm dizzy).

[Slings and Arrows]

Maybe the people are kidding when they say it, imitating the young Ms. Bundy. (On the other hand, the show has been off the year for about a decade. Maybe people who say "viola!" when they mean "voila!" are just not too smart.)

I'll go with what's behind Door #2, Monty.

[Medicine Warrior]

You are getting old? I turned 70 on June 6th. Am I really supposed to bite on the Rhett/Brett bit?

[Hartmann]

The media is just as prejudice as Mel, but know how to articulate it in a less offensive way. Rather than saying, "the Jews start all the wars," they talk about all the suffering the Lebanese face by Israelis while downplaying the fact that Hezbollah is causing much of it by using people as human shields for propaganda purposes.

Yes. Mel wasn't "nuanced" enough. Maybe it makes them feel better to go all sanctimonious over Mel because that distracts attention from their own biased reporting.

[Slings and Arrows]

Well, how do you like "Eye-talians" as an oddball pronunciation?

Not at all. :^)

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I remember the episode in which Al Bundy caught his daughter, Kelly, in, shall we say, a rather compromising position in the back seat of the family car. She came up with some long-winded, ridiculously far-fetched explanation, which was not going over too well. When she was finished, younger brother Bud announced, "The prostitution rests!"

I've used some of the malapropisms (deliberately) in an attempt at humor. Now, I'm starting to wonder if people don't know that I'm kidding and just think that I'm an idiot (or, perhaps, both.) My family and I have been saying "Viola" for years (no, not when referring to a big fiddle) but we know that we're kidding. We even pronounce "wheat germ" the same way Kelly Bundy did, with a hard "g" (like the "g" in "good.") No one with an IQ over 85 has ever done the opposite--pronouncing the "G" in Genghis Khan as if it were a "J."