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Alan Keyes Deserves Better
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| June 17, 2002
| Reuven Koret
Posted on 06/17/2002 2:44:31 PM PDT by Paul Ross
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By Reuven Koret June 17, 2002
There are unconfirmed reports that the American cable network MSNBC, apparently buckling to heavy pressure from anti-Israel groups, is planning not to renew next season its evening current affairs program, "Alan Keyes is Making Sense." Watch his show tonight to find out why. The truth will shock you.
Keyes, who ran in the last U.S. election as a Republican candidate for President, speaks fearlessly about Mideast history, reminding viewers of the oft-forgotten truths that, in 1948, the fledgling Jewish State was attacked by five Arab armies at the moment it declared independence, and that, in 1967, Israel was threatened with annihilation before thwarting its enemies' genocidal plans, seizing territory in a self-defensive war. He speaks knowledgeably about international law and the right of a nation to retain lands from which it was attacked until conditions of a secure, negotiated peace can prevail.
Alan Keyes is an advocate for the political equivalent of parental tough love. He harbors the Palestinian people no ill will. In a recent column, he wrote this: "I have long supported the legitimate demand for Palestinian self-government. But the first prerequisite of self-government is to govern one's own passions, resentment and anger. Martin Luther King made the 20th century's racial progress possible by teaching us that even the victims of terrible oppression still are responsible for not contributing to the very culture of violence that oppresses them."
The Palestinian people, he writes, have been pitifully under-served by their leadership. "Suicide bombing," Keyes writes, "symbolizes all that such leadership offers. It accomplishes nothing except national immolation on the altar of prideful leaders preaching the martyrdom of despair." Israel, he notes, has kept its commitments, and can be expected to fulfill the terms of any bargain negotiated in good faith. "The Palestinians can have reasonable hope that such offers will be met with honorable reply from Israel. But this can't happen until the Palestinians reject the leadership now pushing them over the desperate precipice of revenge and self-destruction."
But unlike those who repeat the mantra that Israel must accept the failed Palestinian leadership, because there is supposedly no other choice, Keyes calls on Americans to support the Israeli refusal to deal with the compulsive liar who has condemned his people to a self-fulfilling wish of death and self-destruction. "If we have the toughness to join Israel in refusing to deal with such leadership, we will open the door to hope. We will help spark the Palestinian people to turn away from the cult of revenge, and to look for leaders willing to offer something better than the pointless destruction of the innocent."
The first half-hour of Keyes' groundbreaking show, which begins at 10 p.m. ET, will feature clips from "Israel and the War of Images" and "The Trojan Horse." These explosive tapes, produced by French filmmaker Pierre Rehov, contain actual footage from Palestinian Authority television documenting Yasser Arafat's call for the destruction of the Jewish people and the annihilation of Israel. They also document the brainwashing of Arab children to hate, attack, and murder Jews.
Unique to these films is that they offer no analysis or opinion, but merely show what is aired on Palestinian TV with translations in both French and English. Both tapes reportedly have been banned by French television, and never before screened in the U.S.
Keyes will also screen a third videotape, provided by Middle East Media Research Institute, documenting the training of Muslim men on how to "properly" beat their wives. Here, too, the tape merely presents actual footage from Arab television stations.
The truth of these broadcast images speaks for itself, but it takes a man of great moral courage to show them, despite the threats of apologists for the cruel and autocratic regimes that financed and cheered the 9/11 attacks on America and continue to support the elimination of the Jewish nation.
If one contrasts the moral clarity that characterizes the voice of Alan Keyes with the mealy-mouthed equivocation that bleats from Foggy Bottom, one longs for Secretary of State Colin Powell to do the right thing and resign himself to the lecture circuit, or perhaps a late night talk show of his own.
If MSNBC executives are so foolish or so cowardly as to turn out their network's clearest voice of reason, a man unafraid to stand strong against the moral relativism and the outright lies of the oil-slick Arab lobby, then it will be not only their loss. It will be a setback for America and a victory for those who seek to rationalize the 9/11 massacre as an understandable act of desperation of "oppressed" Muslims.
Alan Keyes makes no apology for broadcasting the ugly truth about the leadership of the Arab world. He just makes sense. He challenges those who try to distort the facts or to create moral equivalence between terrorists and their victims. He speaks truth to power. He tells it like it is, and to hell with political correctness.
If the MSNBC network execs are too intimidated by Arab boycott-mongers to keep him on their team, President Bush should consider eliminating the weak links in his own current diplomatic line-up and invite Alan Keyes to restore the integrity and credibility of America's war against Islamic terrorism. Even if MSNBC does not appreciate him, the American people deserve him at State.
Until the call from the White House comes, Keyes deserves the outspoken support of viewers who demand that his voice of morality and reason continue to be heard, loud and clear. Tune in tonight to find out why.
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By Reuven Koret June 17, 2002
There are unconfirmed reports that the American cable network MSNBC, apparently buckling to heavy pressure from anti-Israel groups, is planning not to renew next season its evening current affairs program, "Alan Keyes is Making Sense." Watch his show tonight to find out why. The truth will shock you.
Keyes, who ran in the last U.S. election as a Republican candidate for President, speaks fearlessly about Mideast history, reminding viewers of the oft-forgotten truths that, in 1948, the fledgling Jewish State was attacked by five Arab armies at the moment it declared independence, and that, in 1967, Israel was threatened with annihilation before thwarting its enemies' genocidal plans, seizing territory in a self-defensive war. He speaks knowledgeably about international law and the right of a nation to retain lands from which it was attacked until conditions of a secure, negotiated peace can prevail.
Alan Keyes is an advocate for the political equivalent of parental tough love. He harbors the Palestinian people no ill will. In a recent column, he wrote this: "I have long supported the legitimate demand for Palestinian self-government. But the first prerequisite of self-government is to govern one's own passions, resentment and anger. Martin Luther King made the 20th century's racial progress possible by teaching us that even the victims of terrible oppression still are responsible for not contributing to the very culture of violence that oppresses them."
The Palestinian people, he writes, have been pitifully under-served by their leadership. "Suicide bombing," Keyes writes, "symbolizes all that such leadership offers. It accomplishes nothing except national immolation on the altar of prideful leaders preaching the martyrdom of despair." Israel, he notes, has kept its commitments, and can be expected to fulfill the terms of any bargain negotiated in good faith. "The Palestinians can have reasonable hope that such offers will be met with honorable reply from Israel. But this can't happen until the Palestinians reject the leadership now pushing them over the desperate precipice of revenge and self-destruction."
But unlike those who repeat the mantra that Israel must accept the failed Palestinian leadership, because there is supposedly no other choice, Keyes calls on Americans to support the Israeli refusal to deal with the compulsive liar who has condemned his people to a self-fulfilling wish of death and self-destruction. "If we have the toughness to join Israel in refusing to deal with such leadership, we will open the door to hope. We will help spark the Palestinian people to turn away from the cult of revenge, and to look for leaders willing to offer something better than the pointless destruction of the innocent."
The first half-hour of Keyes' groundbreaking show, which begins at 10 p.m. ET, will feature clips from "Israel and the War of Images" and "The Trojan Horse." These explosive tapes, produced by French filmmaker Pierre Rehov, contain actual footage from Palestinian Authority television documenting Yasser Arafat's call for the destruction of the Jewish people and the annihilation of Israel. They also document the brainwashing of Arab children to hate, attack, and murder Jews.
Unique to these films is that they offer no analysis or opinion, but merely show what is aired on Palestinian TV with translations in both French and English. Both tapes reportedly have been banned by French television, and never before screened in the U.S.
Keyes will also screen a third videotape, provided by Middle East Media Research Institute, documenting the training of Muslim men on how to "properly" beat their wives. Here, too, the tape merely presents actual footage from Arab television stations.
The truth of these broadcast images speaks for itself, but it takes a man of great moral courage to show them, despite the threats of apologists for the cruel and autocratic regimes that financed and cheered the 9/11 attacks on America and continue to support the elimination of the Jewish nation.
If one contrasts the moral clarity that characterizes the voice of Alan Keyes with the mealy-mouthed equivocation that bleats from Foggy Bottom, one longs for Secretary of State Colin Powell to do the right thing and resign himself to the lecture circuit, or perhaps a late night talk show of his own.
If MSNBC executives are so foolish or so cowardly as to turn out their network's clearest voice of reason, a man unafraid to stand strong against the moral relativism and the outright lies of the oil-slick Arab lobby, then it will be not only their loss. It will be a setback for America and a victory for those who seek to rationalize the 9/11 massacre as an understandable act of desperation of "oppressed" Muslims.
Alan Keyes makes no apology for broadcasting the ugly truth about the leadership of the Arab world. He just makes sense. He challenges those who try to distort the facts or to create moral equivalence between terrorists and their victims. He speaks truth to power. He tells it like it is, and to hell with political correctness.
If the MSNBC network execs are too intimidated by Arab boycott-mongers to keep him on their team, President Bush should consider eliminating the weak links in his own current diplomatic line-up and invite Alan Keyes to restore the integrity and credibility of America's war against Islamic terrorism. Even if MSNBC does not appreciate him, the American people deserve him at State.
Until the call from the White House comes, Keyes deserves the outspoken support of viewers who demand that his voice of morality and reason continue to be heard, loud and clear. Tune in tonight to find out why.
Views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of israelinsider.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alankeyes; antijewishhatred; antiwomenbeating; palestiniantv; yasserarafat
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To: Paul Ross
Because Keyes doesn't pre-digest and regurgitate material for consumption, he is too difficult for the average viewer, who apparently needs everything reduced to a "..For Dummies" level to maintain the illusion that he or she is of the same intellectual caliber.
The popular demand for unconditional positive reinforcement and the resulting avacado brain blandness is going to be the death of the country. If folks aren't deeply disturbed by the reality of our enemies, then they are in need of serious help.
Alan Keyes and killer bong hits just don't go well together, and successful TeeVee requires that the audience be stoned or act and think as if it were.
The situation is appalling.
To: Mortimer Snavely
avacado = avocado, or mild guacamole, if you prefer.
To: LarryLied
Alan is in the running for worst because of his stance on abortion alone
???
Do Jews support abortion en masse? If so, why?
To: Dave S
Keyes is preachy. I hope this didn't come as a shock to anybody. As for the rest of your post,I agree. The writer is a "one-note band",and that note is Israel. Keyes could say aliens from another solar system speak to him through his toaster,and this would be ok with him,as long as Keyes remained a Israel supporter.
To: Doc On The Bay
Dr Keyes speaks to the "Best & the Brightest!!" ROFLMAO! He also speaks to zoo monkeys,if there is a tv on next to their cage.
To: sneakypete
Right you are, dear. LOL
To: Doc On The Bay
Ummmmmm ... Keyes was canned because only his sycophants tuned in and , frankly, there just aren't enough of you.
" THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST " , is it now? You like purloining JFK / lefty Liberal speak , as your own ? Not a wee bit arrogant, pompous, and self delusional , are you, dear ?
If and it's a mighty BIG if Alan Keyes is " all that " , then WHY, ask yourself, has he NEVER held any important job ( his only appointed jb was as Ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson held that job too, dear , so have a LOT of other failed president wannabes. ) / cabinet post in any Republican administration ? Constitutional " authority ? Why was Clarence Thomas, instead of Keyes, nominated for the SCOTUS ?
Keyes if the flip side of the coin of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackso, with a few ( not many ) smarts. That's all he is; a bloviator , who thinks that he and he alone knows everything and all defference is de to him. T'aint the truth, but .... LOL
To: CounterCounterCulture
To: Paul Ross
This is complete, unadultertaed codswallop ! Keyes got canned, by MSNBC for one reason and one reason only. HIS RATINGS STINK !
To: Mortimer Snavely
Gee, stoners , with avacado brains watch Conservative talk shows on cable networks ? REALLY ?
To: nopardons
They certainly infest this forum like crabgrass.
To: Dave S
Keyes' ratings have been about average compared to MSNBC's average ratings.But Keyes ratings were one forth of what Greta had in her show on Fox at the same time period. Ratings a lot lower than CNN as well.
This is true, Keyes just wasn't performing, but I think a lot of that had to do with his style and the fact that MSNBC is such a terrible network. The fact that they tried this "conservative experiment" and are now going back to the huge liberal push (I mean Donahue!), means that Fox News is still the only place where all sorts of views are being shown.
Let MSNBC and CNN duke it out for the Ted Turner crowd.
To: stromsfriend
MSNBC is such a terrible network. The fact that they tried this "conservative experiment" and are now going back to the huge liberal push (I mean Donahue!), means that Fox News is still the only place where all sorts of views are being shown. Guess I dont agree with you on that. I like MSNBC. Brian Williams is more balanced than the network anchors. Hardball has a lot of conservative guests and Matthews used to pillory Hillary and Bill about as much as O'Reilly. Lately he has been getting a little weak kneed about invading Iraq.
Yes Fox is even more conservative but compared to CNN and the on-air networks, MSNBC is middle of the road.
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06/18/2002 8:33:25 AM PDT
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Dave S
To: Dave S
MSNBC is middle of nowhere. I think their National Geographic specials get higher ratings than the news.
And how can you say MSNBC is more middle of the road when they cut Alan Keyes for a line up of Jerry Nachman, Phil Donahue and Ashleigh Banfield? Did I mention Donahue? Williams is going very soon.
Nachman is taking them straight left.
To: nopardons
Prove it. If Keyes were on Fox News, his ratings would go up at least 10-fold, and easily eclipse Greta Van Sustern. And the FNS producers would not have saddled him with that odd format, which hobbled his viewership from the beginning. If you note, its been made more sensible lately, with the chat with 'normal' people deep-sixed.
To: Paul Ross
" PROVE IT " ? No one can " prove " a hypothetical, dear. What I
can do, is explain away your naivete.
Alan, on MSNBC, lost 9 % of his earl ratings. His ratings STANK to begin with. The network didn't saddle him with the makeup of his show; Alan and his producers set it up. The network didn't tell him to wear that stupid sweater. If Keyes were to get a show on FOX, hs ratings would STILL be in the tank. WHY ? HOW CAN I SAY THIS ? Okay, hypothetical questions, as I have already said, can NOT be " proved "; what they can be , is deduced with logic. Alan Keyes has a terrible ( no matter what YOU think ) manner ; abrasive, annoying, arrogant, pompous, pedagogic, and doesn't relate well with a viewership. Even people who used to like him think well of him have now changed their minds, after seeing his show. Just because someone is a Conservative / Republican, does NOT insure that they'll like / watch Alan Keyes ; nor anyone , just because they are on FOX .
Most ( if not all ) FREEPERS, didn't have a good feeling about Greta's move to FOX. The vast majority, who gave her enough of a benefit of the doubt, and watch /ed her show, have decided that she actually does a good job . They watch her ( as I do ) , because she doesn't put her opinions in the forefront, doesn't hog the time, doesn't pontificate, and the show is usually interesting and well done. None of that, can be attributed to Alan Keyes.
You like him ? that's your choice ; even though it's a minority one. The article above, is propaganda / a lie / a distortion of the truth / a hoax / untrue / cdswallop / balderdash / utter garbage !
To: Mortimer Snavely
Oh , and
YOU are one of them ?
I'm not ! : - )
To: nopardons
Just because someone is a Conservative / Republican, does NOT insure that they'll like / watch Alan Keyes ; nor anyone , just because they are on FOX .Exactly. One need only read Keyes threads on FreeRepublic to find evidence that many conservatives do not like Alan Keyes or care to watch him pontificate night after night. Maybe FNC sees that, too.
To: LarryLied
Ok. I was wrong. Gore didn't get 80% of the Jewish vote in 2000. Alan Keyes did. Newt or Jerry Falwell would have split that vote with Alan but they were not running. Alan got 91% of the black vote too and the media mislead us there also.LOL! Ever feel like you're pounding your head against the wall?
To: nopardons
So you admit you can't prove it. And yes, hypotheticals can be dispositive of some propositions.
Alan's opinion is precisely the reason for the existence of the show. Anything which obstructs from Alan detailing said opinion is in fact a negative feature, and undoubtely limits ratings. You fail to grasp this concept.
Your ratings arguments are also, to say the least, suspect in view of your personal animus against Ambassador Keyes. Meanwhile, Van Sustern is supposed to be, in contrast, a pure news show. Yes, she has been laying low with her own opinions, which, as we have seen on CNN are actually unadulterated Ted Turner... and we don't know how much editorial 'help' she is being given in squelching her innate bias. I make a point of not watching her. Next you will be watching Donahue's new show and thinking it is just fine too. H'mm...
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