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7pm/10pm - The "Banana Republican", our own Luis Gonzalez, has a spirited interview with...none other than JACK THOMPSON!
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Posted on 05/14/2002 7:18:07 PM PDT by RonDog
Mr. Breitbart must be a listener. :)
On NOW at RadioFR!
7pm/10pm - The "Banana Republican", our own Luis Gonzalez, has a spirited interview with...none other than JACK THOMPSON!
This is a CALL IN SHOW! Talk to BATMAN JACK THOMPSON!
1-866-RadioFR! (866-723-4637)
Why don't they have it in Hell? And invite Carolyn.
...Unfortunately, Cole doesn't have Stockholm Syndrome — she wasn't so much a hostage as an enthusiastic volunteer. Something you can't say about the priests, who were never asked if they wanted to be holed up in the church for 39 days.
As talk-radio host and author Hugh Hewitt noted, "Nowhere in the entire article, not even a single phrase, mentions that these priests are hostages. Their captors are described in glowing and even gentle detail. There is nothing of reporting about this at all. It is, quite simply, propaganda..."
(If you want OFF - or ON - my "Hugh Hewitt PING list" - please let me know)
May 9, 2002(Note: We are under court order not to post the FULL TEXT of articles from the Los Angeles Times, so you will need to go there to read the rest of this incredibly pro-Palestinian rant.
FIRST PERSON
A Church From the 4th Century and a Stalemate From the 21st
(click on photo for RealPlayer interview)Times staff photographer Carolyn Cole spoke via cell phone on May 7 from inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (RealPlayer)Times photographer Carolyn Cole entered Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity last Thursday with a group of international activists. More than 160 Palestinians and their sympathizers are inside.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank--You can't say I wasn't warned, considering I'd just run through a dark entrance called the Door of Humility... more
Yes, I remember her. What a troublemaker!
Merci for promoting Monsieur Hewitt.Hi, Angelique!
Vive La France! Vive la democracie!
Larry Elder went absolutely nuts over this today.I respect the "Sage from SouthCentral," but if he just started talking about this story TODAY, he is several days behind Hugh:
From http://www.hughhewitt.com/editorial_archive_files/editorial_archive_05_02.html#9:
May 9, 2002 - Message of the DaySometimes the Los Angeles Times seems almost determined to offend its readers. Today's edition is a case in point.
First, the Times runs a "first person" account of the events inside the Church of the Nativity by Times' photographer (now a "staff writer" for purposes of the article) Carolyn Cole. (Click here.) To run this piece is to endorse what the paper's employee did --rush the Church with a "group of international activists," and doing so despite Israeli efforts to stop additional people from entering the Church. Apparently it is Times' policy to aggravate international crises by interjecting their employees into the middle of the hot spot.
Beyond that, though, is the piece itself. As "reporting" it is a miserable failure. In fact, it is worse than a failure. Take this line for example: "The Palestinians' relationship with the priests is good. The clergymen have been kind to the Palestinians and have helped carry the bodies of those slain out of the church." No where in the entire article, not even a single phrase, mentions that these priests are hostages. Their captors are described in glowing and even gentle detail. There is nothing of reporting about this at all. It is, quite simply, propaganda.
The Times has all but declared its allegiance to the side of the Palestinian Authority in recent weeks, and it is suffering a decline in circulation as a result. But now it has moved from sympathizer to propaganda agent. No doubt more will cancel their subscriptions (call 1-800-252-9141), and more should write the editor-who-isn't John Carrol via e-mail at JohnCarroll@LaTimes.com or the big boss in Chicago, CEO of The Tribune Company, John Madigan, at master-webmaster@tribune.com.
Oh, by the way, California's Attorney General Bill Lockyer bowed to ethics yesterday, and returned $50,000 in campaign contributions from Oracle --the company whose giant contract with the state has led to scrutiny of Gray Davis' donations-for-favors regime. Lockyer is holding on to the investigation and will no doubt pull a Reno and get Davis off the hook. The story appears on page B-9.
The Times' strategy for reversing its deep decline in subscription is now obvious:
The paper is targeting pro-Palestinian liberal Democrats. You have to wonder when shareholders will wake up to the fact that this paper is suicidal...
Know what, how to throw rocks? I already knew that.
And some people still wonder why the right is leery of the media.
Those who hung around with Charlie Manson in the late 60s were a "family" of sorts too.
Never forget that AP's original account of this event was that "dozens" of Palestinians has sought "sanctuary" in the Church of the Nativity. Even in that original account, the dozens were elsewhere identified as being over 120 persons (dozens of dozens???).
Anyone hear of a single terrorist "occupant" converting to Christianity while seeking "sanctuary" in a Christian church of worship built on what is believed to be the site of the birth of the founder of that religion (God incarnate)?
Miami detective Delrish Moss said Cole "was seen throwing two or three rocks and then picked up her camera and proceeded to take photographs."Michael Parks, her boss at the Times, said in a statement that her arrest was "an abridgment of the people's right to know."
"Carolyn Cole was covering the protests in Miami as a news photographer, not participating in them, and her photographs published in the Times make that clear," Parks insisted.
And this is the same LA Times that prohibits FR from citing articles? Are they afraid of the scrutiny or is this just an instance of abridging the public's right to know?
Did she adopt the "uniform" of the invaders? If so, maybe she could face charges of treason. After all, Algore Jr. served his military by being a reporter...
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