Rocky Mountain Liar Resigns

Rocky Mountain News | 5/4/2002 | John Temple

[5by5]

Excerpted from John Temples's "From the Publisher" in the Rocky Mountain News (May 4, 2002):

One final note about our staff.

Holger Jensen has resigned his position as International Editor to pursue other interests. We appreciate his contributions over the past 11 1/2 years at the Rocky, and we wish him well in his future endeavors.

For background see "Rocky Mountain Lie" in Opinion Journal which calls Holger Jensen to task for falsely attributing an anonymous interview to Ariel Sharon. (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=105001944)

Jensen's original piece ("Obsessed Sharon Applies Brutal Philosophy to Advance Zionism.") is apparently no longer available on the Rocky Mountain News website.

[5by5]

Kudos to the Rocky for (finally) canning this guy. I wonder if his "future endeavors" will include becoming press secretary for the Palestinians?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The linked article talks about the guy's "retraction" of his article's flat-out lies. I guess "retraction" is more politically correct than "lying sack of sh--".

[PatrioticAmerican]

bttt Good news for Colorado. That nut made us all look bad.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Here's another dirtball reporter caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He's now "spending more time with the kids" -- translation: "I'm job hunting because I just got canned."

[PatrioticAmerican]

Click to read about the Liar's Story

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Jensen and Peter Boyles used to have regular love fests on Boyles' radio program. I'm sure Mike Rosen will have a field day with this.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the good news!

If the NY Slimes, LA Slimes, DC Compost, Atlanta Urinal, SF Garrhonice, Boston Globe and other left wing maggot infested fishwraps applied this standard:

They would not have a single reporter, oped writer, editor nor publisher left working for them. Then, their boards would have to fire themselves, turn out the lights and lock the doors as they left the premises.

[gaspar]

Does anyone remember Jensen's reporting on Viet Nam? As I recall it was so far left that he and Peter Arnett were often seen holding hands.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

This doesn't have the same pub date as his piece in the Rocky, but it might be the same column.

HOLGER JENSEN: Sharon's brutal philosophy

Rocky Mountain News of Colorado
Copyright © 2002 Nando Media Copyright © 2002 Star Tribune

(April 12, 11:21 a.m. CDT) - Nicknamed "The Bulldozer," Israel's prime minister is a soldier-politician whose career has been dogged by persistent accusations of war crimes.

But what kind of man is Secretary of State Colin Powell trying to persuade to make peace with the Palestinians?

At 74, Sharon may be the last Israeli leader who fought for the Haganah, politely described as part of the "underground" that helped create the Jewish state in 1948.

Often overlooked is that the Haganah and its offshoots, Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang, once were considered terrorist organizations that bombed Arab bus stops, attacked Arab villages and killed quite a few Britons in fighting to end the British Mandate of Palestine.

It also should be noted that two other former prime ministers of Israel, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, were leaders of the Irgun and the Stern Gang respectively. Among the atrocities these groups were responsible for was bombing the King David Hotel and massacring 250 Arab villagers in Deir Yassin.

So it can safely be said that some of Israel's earliest patriots were no different from the Palestinians they call terrorists today.

The Haganah, which Sharon joined at age 14, formed the nucleus of Israel's new army when the Jewish state came into being, and the Israeli Defense Force, as it is called, is now the world's fourth-strongest military machine.

Besides an awesome array of American-supplied weapons, it has the largest and most sophisticated nuclear arsenal outside the five declared nuclear powers - the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain - estimated at up to 2,000 warheads. These include nuclear artillery shells and nuclear-tipped medium-range ballistic missiles (the Jericho 1 and 2).

The man who now controls those nukes has devoted his entire life to Israel's security - and ruthlessly so.

Sharon earned a bloody reputation in the 1950s when he led retaliatory attacks against Jordanian villages accused of harboring Palestinians who mounted cross-border raids on Israel. After the 1967 war, when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Sharon pursued a ruthless hunt for guerrillas that destroyed hundreds of Palestinian homes.

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, Sharon was held indirectly responsible for a massacre of Palestinian refugees by Israel's Christian Phalange allies. Eyewitness accounts by journalists and relief workers in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps, including a Dutch doctor and a Jewish American nurse, said Israeli army bulldozers helped dig mass graves for more than 800 dead.

That cost Sharon his job as Israel's defense minister and is the basis of war crimes charges filed by 29 survivors in a Belgian court.

During the Lebanese invasion, Sharon gave a revealing interview to Amos Oz, a leading Israeli author, in which he bluntly explained his military doctrine and railed against pacifist Jews who thought he was being too tough.

It was published in the daily Davar on Dec. 17, 1982. Excerpts:

"You can call me anything you like. Call me a monster or a murderer. ... Better a live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint.

"Even if you prove to me that the present war in Lebanon is a dirty immoral war, I don't care. Even if Galilee is shelled again by Katyushas in a year's time, I don't really care. We shall start another war, kill and destroy more and more, until they will have had enough.

"Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy if one of our children is murdered, just one! If anyone even raises his hand against us we'll take away half his land and burn the other half, including the oil. We might use nuclear arms.

"Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us. ... And I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal.

"What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it."

Twenty years later, Sharon is still applying that brutal philosophy to a captive West Bank. And he is so obsessed with destroying Israel's enemies he won't listen to friends, including the President of the United States.

Holger Jensen is international editor of the Rocky Mountain News.

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[TomB]

It's customary to provide a link to the story.

In this case it's worth a look at the actual article to see how the announcement is buried in the story itself.

[Kermit]

How is what Jensen did, so much different from what most of mainstream journalism is about? Which is lie for a good cause. We can just run down the issue about which the mainstream media routinely lies, because it's the right thing to do:

1. Global warming - doesn't exist
2. Race - black = good, white = evil
3. Poverty is evil and so is wealth
4. anti-abortion folks are knuckle-dragging fanatics
5. Corporations are evil
6. Environment, corporations only lie and enviro-wackos only tell the truth
7. Republicans want to starve children, throw old people in the gutter and feed them dog food.
8. 3 million homeless under Reagan and Bush, zero under Clinton and millions under Dubya.

There is no end to the liberal templates for mainstream media lies, what's the problem here. It's SOP.

[Grampa Dave]

Do you mean, Desert Storm or Nam? With Jensen and Arnett?

Thanks to my screening out of these lying left maggots, I knew little of this lying POS until his used food lies started to come back on him in the past few weeks.

[dennisw]

I have the full version (it's long) of this interview given by Sharon or not. I will freepmail it to anyone interested.

[TopQuark]

Euther that or a side shtick for Bill Clinton on his talk show.

[bleudevil]

Yeah; clever to bury the news under all the warm-and-fuzzy stuff about Gene Arnole. And the author doesn't even mention the fabrication. Boo. Makes journalism look even worse.

[jumpstartme]

I like your nicknames for these papers, but it seems the Globe needs one too.

Perhaps I shouldn't try this at home, but here goes nothing...

The Boston Global Warmer; The Boston Glowing Harbor; The Boston Anti-Globalist; The Boston Left of Globe; The Boston Orbiting Globe; The Boston Globule of Sh*t.

[Grampa Dave]

You are having the same problem that I'm having with the Globe.

Maybe someone in that area knows of a great label for the globe.

BL, is there something that conservatives (both of you) in the Boston Area call the Globe?

[archy]

I do indeed; he was up on the DMZ, and his reporting hardly echoed the *5 o'clock follies* press agentry puff pieces that MACV wanted to see spoonfed to the public back home, but he was only giving the AP what they wanted. But not only the tone of his pieces, but the facts presented between his pieces and those of say Charlie Black from the Columbus GA Enquirer could not have been in greater contrast.

It was Holger's reporting from the Soviet Union that always had me wondering if he was getting a paycheck from the Soviets, or just mouthpiecing for them as a fellow true believer. But I'd bet that when the Berlin Wall came down, he likely wept for what had been, not what was to be.

-archy-/-

[archy]

I do indeed; he was up on the DMZ, and his reporting hardly echoed the *5 o'clock follies* press agentry puff pieces that MACV wanted to see spoonfed to the public back home, but he was only giving the AP what they wanted. But not only the tone of his pieces, but the facts presented between his pieces and those of say Charlie Black from the Columbus GA Enquirer could not have been in greater contrast.

It was Holger's reporting from the Soviet Union that always had me wondering if he was getting a paycheck from the Soviets, or just mouthpiecing for them as a fellow true believer. But I'd bet that when the Berlin Wall came down, he likely wept for what had been, not what was to be.

-archy-/-

[5by5]

Thanks, TomB. I wanted to post the original link but the one from OpinionJournal was dead for me and my search of the Rocky's webpage yielded nothing on Holger Jensen. It made me think that they'd removed all traces of his previous employment! Thanks again for filling in the blanks.