Media Bias Outrage of the Week - ABC's Terry Moran, Character Assassin

Citizens Coalition for Responsible Media (CCRM) ^ | 05/08/2002 | Peacerose

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ABC's Terry Moran:
Character Assassin

05/06/2002
Here is the ultimate example of twisting words! ABC's Terry Moran has made House Majority Leader Dick Armey into the equivalent of Slobodan Milosevic! Wednesday evening, 05/01/2002, on MSNBC's Hardball, Rep. Armey made the statement that "there are many Arab nations that have many hundreds of thousands of acres of land and soil and property and opportunity to create a Palestinian state." He further explained:

"I am content to have Israel occupy that land that it now occupies and to have those people who have been aggressors against Israel retire to some other arena and I would be happy to have them make a home. I would be happy to have all of these Arab nations that have been so Hell-bent to drive Israel out of the Middle East, to get together, find some land and make a home for the Palestinians. I think it can be done."

As I read it, this is simply Dick Armey's opinion, an idea tossed out on the table. Yet look what this idea becomes in the liberal mind of Terry Moran. At the White House briefing Thursday, 05/02//2002, he initiated the following exchange with Ari Fleischer:

Moran: "One more on a different subject, the House Majority Leader, Mr. Armey, suggested on an appearance on Hardball that it would be preferable for Israel to keep the West Bank and for the Palestinian people there to be transferred, ethnically cleansed. What does the President think of this? He [Armey] didn't use those words."
Fleischer: "Yeah. Did the Majority Leader use those words?" Moran: "He said that they should leave."
Fleischer, answering his own question: "He did not."
Moran: "That's the way Milosevic said it, he never said ethnic cleansing either. And I wondered what the President felt about this high official of the United States government calling for the forcible transfer of -"
Fleischer: "Well, Terry, given your characterization of it I think it's only fair to go back and read the words with precision before I would give you a comment on something based on the way you've asked the question."

We all know what kind of ethnic cleansing Milosevic practiced! Certainly Rep. Armey was not suggesting the mass murder of the Palestinian people. And it seems unlikely his idea would ever get off the ground. Perhaps it is most accurately described as an expression of frustration with the so-called "Middle East peace process" and the lack of positive involvement from Islamic countries that claim to care.

Yet common sense will never deter a reporter from ABC News from attempting to place a Republican, a conservative, in a bad light. Even so, the Milosevic comparison is truly an outrageous stretch. As NewsMax.com asked, "How about a forcible transfer of Terry Moran from the White House?" You could call it "Ethical cleansing."

If you would like to express your disgust with Moran's distortion, the contact information is below:

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MRC CyberAlert, 05/03/2002
NewsMax.com: ABC's Terry Moran Distorts Armey's Remarks

[Deathmonger]

I would remind you that the entire nations of Germany and Japan suffered for the actions of their leaders.

The penalty for these countries was not population transfer to another place to make room for settlers from the victors. They were defeated, and borders were redrawn, but anyone within those borders became citizens of the respective countries. Palestinians have remained in indeterminate citizenship status since 1967. The reason is that Israel wanted the land but not the people on it. They could not expel them en masse for political reasons; thus they are taking it over one house at a time. Which the US funds and reaps the consequences thereof, Sept 11 inclusive.

[okie01]

"The penalty for these countries was not population transfer to another place to make room for settlers from the victors. They were defeated, and borders were redrawn, but anyone within those borders became citizens of the respective countries. Palestinians have remained in indeterminate citizenship status since 1967."

Why, then, were the Palestinians not granted their own country by the Egyptians or the Jordanians prior to 1967? Or granted citizenship in Egypt or, as it was then, Trans-Jordan?

And why should Israel grant citizenship to people who want nothing less than its destruction and the extermination of its inhabitants?

Why, indeed?

[OldFriend]

LOL it's not Terry Moroon......it's Terry MORON!!

[Deathmonger]

Why, then, were the Palestinians not granted their own country by the Egyptians or the Jordanians prior to 1967? Or granted citizenship in Egypt or, as it was then, Trans-Jordan?

They used to be citizens of those countries.

And why should Israel grant citizenship to people who want nothing less than its destruction and the extermination of its inhabitants?

Because it would give them a third option besides subjugation and war.

[Mr. Thorne]

Sorry to intrude, but granting citizenship to someone who wants to exterminate you does not, to me, seem to be a 'third option.'

Rather, it would seem to be giving your enemy a secure base from which to attack. It would be logical to expect war under such circumstances.

[Deathmonger]

Sorry to intrude, but granting citizenship to someone who wants to exterminate you does not, to me, seem to be a 'third option.'

Granting them citizenship would eliminate the main reason that the Palestinians fight--namely that they have no legal standing, and are at the mercy of the settler movement and the IDF forces that support it. I do not believe the Israeli propaganda that the Arabs are born and educated to murder Jews and the only option is to exterminate them before they do the same to us. This dehumanizing of the other side is in the worst tradition of politics.

The Palestinians feel (and say) that they are driven to do what they do by the injustice of their situation. Even Sharon acknowledges that they have a raw deal when he is being candid. There are three ways out: a state, a democratic (not "democracy only for Jews") Israel that encompasses West Bank/Gaza, or population transfer.

I'm not saying that there are not Islamic Jihad crazies that would like to see a bloodbath, but that their current support would evaporate if the Palestinians got some resolution on their citizenship status.

[okie01]

Q: And why should Israel grant citizenship to people who want nothing less than its destruction and the extermination of its inhabitants?

A: Because it would give them a third option besides subjugation and war.

Some option...

[Brian Allen]

The Neo-Axis-NATO war-crime-family slimed together by the joint effort of the treasonous, predatory, lying, thieving, mass-murdering, serial-raping ArKKKansas' Aberration and his fellow-fascist; once "great" Britain's Turd-Way Tony Blair; terrorized, killed, maimed, brutalized and forced from their homes at least one million more innocents than were ever effected by Milocovec's defensive wrath!

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