Speechless (IDF puposely letting Hezbollah kill Israel Citizens???)

Powerline ^ | 8/7/06 | John Hinderaker

[pissant]

Speechless is right. This is the Washington Posts's go to guy, who has been lying for years about the situation in Iraq.

[goldstategop]

They're nuts! I don't understand how ANY ONE could see a scintilla of moral equivalence between Hezbollah and Israel. But there you have it. I confess that rendered me speechless as well.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[Jameison]

Saw that story too.
Can't even finds words to truly do justice to how I feel about this rabid vermin.
And this nutcase works for the Washington Post?
There you have your reason why the drive-by media is dying, right there.

[HawaiianGecko]

Jesus!  What military analysts?  This guy is making this up as he talks.

[Mister Baredog]

IMHO Howie and Rick were stroking each other under the table, LOL.

[pissant]

And this is the guy the Post considers to be their top notch foreign affairs reporter. the bastard is an editorialist and a propagandist, but certainly no reporter.

[Alouette]

Just when you thought MSM couldn't sink any lower, they do.

[LtKerst]

THOMAS RICKS, REPORTER, "THE WASHINGTON POST":

Leftist paper=Biased lies
Ricks=Tool of Washedout Post
Anaylists? bullcrap
NY Times quoted...

These Turds just keep piling up.


And today they admit...40 deaths were realy 1.

It is the Muslim Murderers Hezbolah and the UN and the Leftist Media Who are causing Innocent Deaths.

They are Satanic.

[Shermy]

"Yes, that's what military analysts have told me."

Fictional "analysts"? Nutroots sourcing? Wes Clark?

[Alouette]

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[dighton]

RICKS: Yes, that's what military analysts have told me.

Paul Craig Roberts and Justin Raimondo?

[pissant]

If you use Counterpunch as a source, then you are clueless.

[pissant]

They should be reaching China any moment.

[The Blitherer]

WTF?!? The most telling part of this interview is Rick's assumption that Israel currently does NOT occupy the moral high ground, and must therefore allow bombs to hit its citizens to morally equate itself with Hezbollah. This is a typical example of the MSM and "world-opinion", which automatically starts with the assumption that in any conflict Israel is the guilty party. This assumption will eventually result in ridiculous statements like the one Ricks makes.

[AZLiberty]

Modern warfare is truly perverse, the ultimate endpoint of the "victimhood" mentality. The more of your own civilians you lose, the more you are perceived as the winner. I say, give them the ultimate "victory".

[Shermy]

""Echoes of Iraq, yes. But also the Israelis are very sophisticated in their handling of the media.""

The anti-Israel bias is hilarious. Hezbollah is miles ahead of Israel in handling the media.

""They consider it part of the battlefield, officially. The word "narrative" always comes up with conversations with Israeli national security officials.""

Narrative comes up because that's what Ricks is spinning, narratives dictated by Hezbollah, PLO and their PR firms here.

"They consider shaping the narrative, the battle for the narrative, to be key as part of any war fighting. So they see the media as part of the battlefield."

"So they see" as if it weren't true that the media is self-appointed battlefield referee and arbiter. Here Ricks' takes Hezbollah's side.

[pissant]

ROFL. Yep. Maybe patsy Buchanan too.

[Humbug]

probably Arab military analysts

[afnamvet]

Perhaps a low level IAF leaflet drop over WaPo would give Ricks a message he couldn't refuse.