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Meet America's latest big boob. No, it's not one of Anna Nicole Smith's. His name is Josh Rushing, the Village Voice's fave former Marine Captain. And he's very excited about his latest showbiz role: chief American monkey for Al Jazeera. When we last saw Rushing, he was out of a job (he was Al-Jazeera's press liaison at Central Command), going on "Nightline," Bill Moyers' "NOW" on PBS, and whatever other liberal media sop would have him and his "somebody give me a job" pronouncements. Ted Koppel gushed over him. Rushing was looking for a job because he was essentially fired...

Some are calling former Marine captain Josh Rushing a modern-day Tokyo Rose for taking a job reporting for a new English-language channel of the Al-Jazeera network. The Qatar-based network has been described by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as "perfectly willing to lie to the world.”

Al Jazeera Documentary Angers Arabs at Film Fest December 8, 2004 LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Another documentary besides Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is under fire this time. Writer/director Jehane Noujaim's "Control Room," about Al Jazeera television, incensed Arabs at a special screening at the Dubai International Film Festival on Monday, Dec. 6, reports Reuters. It was a rare event since the popular channel, which covers the war in Iraq and other news, is currently banned in five Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Arab governments object to the controversial, no-holds-barred reporting in countries where the media is mainly controlled...

For most of the central figures in the Arab-produced documentary film "Control Room," the grisly images that emerged from the US invasion of Iraq last year were no cause for a change of opinion. Jehane Noujaim, the producer, gives an inside look at the war through the eyes and lenses of Al Jazeera's journalists, based at US Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar. And over the length of her film, the chasm only widens between US military officials who speak about the "liberation" of Iraq and the Al Jazeera reporters skeptical of the invasion. The exception is a Marine lieutenant...

US marine Josh Rushing, who features in the documentary Control Room about al-Jazeera, has become a victim of the film's success. He plans to leave the US military because his superiors are displeased with his role in promoting the film. "He did a few interviews that indicated he might not know what his lane is," a senior officer told the LA Times. The officer said Rushing had been asked not to make any further public comments about the film. In the film, Rushing says: "It benefits al-Jazeera to play to Arab nationalism because that's their audience, just like [Fox News]...

DUBAI, July 25 (Reuters) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari accused regional satellite channels of inciting violence and hinted Iraq might stop Al Jazeera operating in the country. "Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, al-Manar and al-Alam have all become channels of incitement and opposed to the interests, security and stability of the Iraqi people," Zebari told Al Jazeera television. "There is strong talk from some Iraqi government officials about closing Al Jazeera. Unfortunately it is being manipulated by terrorist groups and we will not tolerate this biased coverage," he said. Al Manar, is owned by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah, al-Alam is...

In the world of media, there is little that angers the Bush administration more than the influence of Al-Jazeera - the Qatar-based satellite television channel that features news reports drawing a broad Arab audience, often depicting Americans as the heavy. Just last week, the United States did not invite the Emir of Qatar to Georgia for a summit of major world leaders as a way of signaling displeasure with Al-Jazeera's coverage. "People have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera, and if it were not slanted in ways that appears to be,...

The final film I saw at Cannes 2004 came from Egypt and contained a surprise. It was "Alexandrie ... New York," by the veteran director Youssef Chahine, and it told the autobiographical story of an Egyptian who comes to America in 1950 to study at the Pasadena Playhouse, and returns again in 1975 and 2000. There is a lot more to it than that, but what struck me was when the student joined his classmates in singing "God Bless America" at the graduation. I hadn't heard that in an American film since "The Deer Hunter" in 1978. The character in...