Posted on 02/14/2011 9:19:53 AM PST by jazusamo
Why would the person who Barack Obama appointed to be the Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, Juliette Kayyem, advocate American cable companies carry the channel-a channel that cannot help but inflame tensions and anger and one that is not known for unbiased accuracy.
From an op-ed by Kayyem in the Boston Globe:
FOR THE past few weeks, a parallel plot line to the revolutions in the Arab world has been playing out in the media. With rare exceptions, the largest American cable and satellite providers simply do not provide viewers access to Al Jazeera English, the cousin to the powerful Qatar-based world news network. AJE has launched a full-fledged campaign - including advertisements quoting, of all people, major US news figures - to convince cable carriers to open their programming. But most have declined: Burlington, Vt., is the closest city to Boston where viewers can see the network on television.
AJE's battle with the cable carriers is major news in the Middle East. Not carrying the network sends a message to the Arab world about America's willingness to accept information, unfiltered, from the very region we spend so much time talking about. These television wars began not in Tunisia or Egypt, but in Iraq.
We have enough terror apologists in the media already without an entire station devoted to obscuring the truth being beamed into America's homes.
I thought Mike Medved said Obama loves America. Or something.
I watched the live feed of Egypt’s demonstrations on al-Jazeera. It’s available on the internet for those who want it. Cable companies should not carry it, because that creates a situation in which those who do not want it are then forced to pay for it anyway.
Wanna watch AJE? Go to their website.
Al Jazeera? Hell, I can’t get my Cable providor (Mediacom) to carry Fox Business Channel.
Do you really have to ask why?
One more reason (as if one were needed) to ditch your cable company.
I never cease wondering, “Why?”
He’s doing this for the same reason the government is offering special money to school districts that will make Arabic their mandatory second language. To spread Islam and Arabicize the US.
So then the overseas contingency operation is officially unofficially over.
Bring our troops home, then.
Prepare for the next attack. There is nothing between you and those that want to cut your throat and broadcast it on this sh** “network”.
The thing that blows my mind is our government trying to tell cable companies what programming to carry. We already have publicly funded programming and now they’re trying to tell private companies what to do.
If he were a Christian, he would urge muslim countries to carry Christian programing.
Nope, and Kayyem doesn’t sound like an Amish name to me.
Well since she is of Lebanese decent........
This is disgusting. If this happens, viewers will subsidize it, just as they now subsidize minor channels. How? Cable companies sell you a package. Take it or leave it. No alla cart! By paying for the package, you pay for all the channels in it, even the ones you don’t want.
LOL! Another reason for the dumb sheep to pull the plug on Obama TV. ALL TV supports him including Prince Al Waleed’s Fox.
PBS already does.
Exactly! There can't be any other reason, IMO.
They know better than we do. Isn’t that obvious?
The Arab revolution will be here soon. Thanks, Mr. President.
That’s what I did too. I gave up subscription teevee a long time ago.
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