They are going to run with this meme...
Posted on 09/10/2013 4:48:12 PM PDT by Third Person
Even before President Barack Obama put his plans to strike the Syrian regime on hold, he was losing the battle of public opinion about military intervention. Part of the credit, no doubt, goes to a successful media blitz by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and its supporters. In an interview aired on Monday night, Assad himself advanced his government's case to Charlie Rose, saying that the United States had not presented "a single shred of evidence" proving the Syrian military had used chemical weapons.
Assad has always been able to skillfully parry Western journalists' criticisms of his regime -- and, at times, it has won him positive international coverage. Before the uprising, the U.S. media often described the Assad family as Westernized leaders who were trying to bring their country into the 21st century. The most infamous example was Vogue's profile of Asma al-Assad, which described Syria's first lady as "a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind ... [with] a killer IQ." But even experts in the field went along: Middle East historian David Lesch wrote a biography of Bashar describing the president as a modernizer, before changing his mind during the uprising.
The carnage over the past two and a half years put an end to much of this praise -- but now pro-Assad media outlets have found a new way to influence the American debate. Assad supporters' claims have repeatedly been republished unquestioningly by right-wing commentators in the United States, who share their hostility toward both Sunni Islamists and the Obama administration. It's a strange alliance between American conservatives and a regime that was one of America's first designated state sponsors of terror, and continues to work closely with Iran and Hezbollah.
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A month ago we were closing embassies in fear of Al Qeada.
Now we want to provide them air cover.
Let’s see: was it the “right wing” who called Assad a “reformer”? Or who dined with him in a swanky Damascus restaurant?
The a$$hat author of this article is just another water-carrier for his hero Bathhouse Barry.
They are going to run with this meme...
The "Syrian propaganda war" was lost by King Zero as soon as he started it. Simply put, we do not believe or trust the current President of the United States; he has lost all credibility with everyone but his most blind, loyal servants (Mostly the "news" media).
This is an inept smear job. Pathetic. Conservatives dont like Assad, in fact, they were the ones pointing out what a criminal he was, all the while the likes of Obama, Kerry, and Pelosi were supporting and wining and dining him.
I guess then 90% of Americans must be on the Right, because that’s the percentage that opposed going into Syria.
B. S.!
I was against this stupidity well before Assad spoke.
I’m tire of the narcissist in Washington.
“And his actions show he serves foreign masters not the interest of the US.”
Well, photos show that Buckwheat can’t get an umbrella through an open gate.
So, did that happen on his foreign master’s orders or did he do that all by himself? :-)
Howya doing, buddy? Best to you and your family, as always.
More info in regards to some of the tactics of Assad & Co.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3065016/posts?page=52#52
And another thing.
Even if Assad DID do it. I’m against intervention.
It has NOTHING to do with us. Let their Allah sort out the dead as he wills.
‘simply copy-and-pasting ‘
What is this “copy-and-pasting”, thingy???
I have no glue...
The writer is so full of manure.
This is a bunch of BS - at least the part about the right supposedly being wooed by Assad.
These libs cannot understand a simple concept - Barack Obama is not smart, he lies, and is an incompetent POTUS. Why would any right-minded individual believe the current occupier of the Oval Office would be able to send any message of value to Syria?
What is there in the leftist mind, I wonder, that it can compose such conspiratorial drivel.
Perhaps, it's because saluting and supporting a brutal dictator is the kind of thing they would do if it served their agenda.
See Iraq War II, Democrats rally round Saddam Hussein...
Assad never wooed me, but neither did Obama. Sad thing that neither is trustworthy. When you have no good options, choose doing nothing.
Americans do not want another war that could escalate. I believe this one would.
Sadly there has been much open adoration of the mass-murdering socialist monster Assad right here on FR, as well as of his loathsome fellow mass-murdering tyrant KGB Putin, America’s worst and most hateful enemy in the world. It’s despicable and it gives conservatives a bad name.
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