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Dubious Distinction: Al-Qaeda Names Sy Hersh Its Favorite US Journalist
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 09/04/2006 6:35:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
September 4, 2006 - 09:11
Talk about your Dubious Distinction Awards. In his recently-released videotape, Adam Gadahn, né Pearlman, a nice boy from California turned Al-Qaeda spokesman, names Sy Hersh as a sympathetic personality, along with British MP George Galloway and Brit journalist Robert Fisk. As per the Counterrorism Blog, Gadahn "asks . . . Hersh to 'reveal more' than what was published in a New Yorker article on the war."
The New Yorker article in question was one of a series Hersh has written, critical of the Bush adminstration's Iraq policy. In a speech last year he claimed that the US government is being taken over by a "cult":
"We are being taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government."
Pulitzer Prizes are nice, and Hersh has won his share. But when it comes to boosting its circulation in far-left reaches, it's going to be hard for the New Yorker to top: "Sy Hersh, Winner of the 2006 Al-Qaeda Prize for Sympathetic Journalism."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: adamgadahn; adampearlman; alqaeda; award; dhimmis; georgegalloway; hersh; journalist; mediajihad; newyorker; robertfisk; seymourhersh; terrsymps
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:35:40 AM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The Sympathy for the Devil crowd.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:36:43 AM PDT
by
veronica
(NEW LITERARY AND ARTS JOURNAL offers free advertising for writers, bloggers, artists. FRmail me...)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
well that just about says it all...the useful idiots list...
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:39:19 AM PDT
by
Irishguy
(How do ya LIKE THOSE APPLES!!!!)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:39:27 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: veronica
Ask the American public who bin Laden wants to win the November mid-terms. Who do the terrorists support? You guessed it.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:39:30 AM PDT
by
Pitmaster
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Has it ever seemed strange to these people that the aforementioned are still alive and able to write and say what they want?
And they aren't hiding in some cave-like edifice either. They walk free among the rest of us.
Try that in Kabul or Baghdad.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:41:29 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
the only thing he ever wrote that leftists didn't like was Darker Side of Camelot ( which might have a new meaning with regard to Iran)
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:41:39 AM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Hmmmm... are "boys from California" becoming a pattern?
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:41:56 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Sy Hersh, Winner of the 2006 Al-Qaeda Prize for Sympathetic Journalism."Good lord. NOW I've heard it all.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:42:36 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(One presidential visit to Baghdad is worth 1000 pathetic declarations of defeat from the left)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's a mutual relationship between the MSM and terrorist. The MSM wants the terrorist to succeed and the terrorist wants the MSM to succeed in order to keep the propaganda and gossip rolling out on the front pages and "Breaking News" reports. The Rats have chose their side and allied with their MSM friends in support of the terrorist.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:43:23 AM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:45:13 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: Irishguy
Useful Idiot Hall of Fame, more like.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:47:35 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
No surprise that Hersh and Fisk should be Al Queda faves. They've certainly earned it with their anti-American screeds.
To: kittymyrib
History will get the last word.
Can only hope they get what they deserve.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:52:38 AM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:54:13 AM PDT
by
LRS
To: DCPatriot
Has it ever seemed strange to these people that the aforementioned are still alive and able to write and say what they want? They don't see it as strange at all, simply as evidence of our corruption and weakness. Al-Qa'ida praises people like this to deepen our own divides, and turn us against each other. It's a divide and conquer strategy that's as old as the hills, and fools like Hersh, by not denying and decrying this praise, only add to it.
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:57:48 AM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(- Islam will never survive being laughed at. -)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Are you sure that this video by the nice boy from California isn't from the Onion!!!
Waiting for reaction by Sy Hersh---
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posted on
09/04/2006 6:58:34 AM PDT
by
maica
(9/11 was not “the day everything changed”, but the day that revealed how much had already changed.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It must have been a tough decision. There are so many worthy candidates.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:03:15 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President George Bush.)
To: tobyhill
" The MSM wants the terrorist to succeed and the terrorist wants the MSM to succeed in order to keep the propaganda and gossip rolling out on the front pages and 'Breaking News' reports. "That's exactly why the ACLU filed suit against the federal government over the "Illegal Wiretapping Scandal" (that nobody but the media cared about) - media clients complained that the wiretapping put their terrorist sources in jeopardy, thus interfering with journalists' right to freedom of private conversations with terrorists.
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posted on
09/04/2006 7:06:18 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(One presidential visit to Baghdad is worth 1000 pathetic declarations of defeat from the left)
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