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By: Watcher of Weasels » Obamania - The Act of Inferring Greatness Out of Thin Air

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:47:11 +0000

[...] Third place with 1 points – Cheat-Seeking Missiles – MSM Yawns As NY Muslim Beheads Wife [...]

By: Laer

Laer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:05:08 +0000

It ran this morning – one week after the Fox report.

By: Josh Z

Josh Z — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:01:51 +0000

dated feb 17:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18behead.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Aasiya%20Hassan&st=csewere you intentionally searching for the wrong thing?

By: Cheat Seeking Missiles » Disappointment Inside The Beltway

Cheat Seeking Missiles » Disappointment Inside The Beltway — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:36:40 +0000

[...] of note: She had not heard of the NY Times refusal to carry the Aasiya Hassan beheading story. (The paper finally ran it this morning.) She had not heard the news and at first deferred to the [...]

By: Laer

Laer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:36:42 +0000

Y – I think you’d like Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno. A lot of deep strategy and pragmatic violence …

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:15:16 +0000

My point is that all these people here supporting the New York Times are de facto guilty of aiding and abetting enemies of humanity and their crimes against humanity. They are no allies of women, of liberty, or of the United States of America. They are either dupes, at best, or agent provocateurs at worse.

Btw, Laer, Aasiya died because nobody gave her 2nd Amendment rights. Nobody gave her First Amendment rights. They didn’t give a fauk because it wasn’t going to benefit their power, wealth, and status.
This is what Target Focus Training was made to stop. The destruction of personal liberties by thugs and people who need killing. And there’s a lot of people who need killing, Laer. A lot. And in very creative and immediate fashions unwritten and unseen amongst the aristocrat tea parties of the Left.

By: The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Eye on the Watcher’s Council

The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Eye on the Watcher’s Council — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:42:06 +0000

[...] Cheat-Seeking Missiles, “MSM Yawns As NY Muslim Beheads Wife” [...]

By: Laer

Laer — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:08:32 +0000

Pigeonholing is fine if it works; that's why it exists, because it has worked. You have pigeonholed me as someone who has a lack of ability to understand what her work is about because of a few words I used. I pigeonholed her because of a whole lot of words she has produced over her career.

The LA Times, no conservative outlet, refers to her work at Democracy Now! as "radio's voice of the disenfranchised left." Isn't that pigeonholing - and isn't it calling her, as I did, not mainstream and probably radical, since the disenfranchised left is radical?

That said, I respect some of her work, especially her work in East Timor, reporting an important story that was being all too much ignored by the MSM. But I think it's safe to say that her program was on Bridge TV because it espoused a viewpoint to the left of mainstream America's POV.

By: Robin Mulligan

Robin Mulligan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:12:31 +0000

What I didn’t point out is that your original point about Hassan was understood without bringing up a poorly executed knock on a reporter. Her quote only diminished your intent, as I see it.

The fact that you use terms, conveniently defined by yourself, like “mainstream,” “extreme,” “radicalism,” “sympathetic” all indicate a lack of OR inability to understand what her work is about. I’m not trying to defend her although I feel by speaking up about your abusive use of generalizations I inadvertently end up doing so.

When you define someone as “radical” you pigeonhole not only your blog’s views about that person (with that term), you also pigeonhole your understanding of the broader issues. Luckily, journalism is supposed to and does so, by it’s better practitioners, rise above such black and white stereotyping and expressed bias.

I still find some of your statements and views very refreshing. I guess that’s the difference with blogging and journalism: bloggers accept and celebrate their acrid bias and journalists are supposed to act in accord with their unprofessed hypocratic oath. I just don’t think generalized statements are productive, only self serving.

By: Laer

Laer — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:18:59 +0000

My point is so simple it needs no explanation: Goodman represents a hard left point of view, which is obvious to anyone who's followed her, and that Hassan - the supposed "moderate" Muslim - gives her several hours a week on his network to espouse her radical views, therefore, applying the term "moderate" to Bridges TV, and by association its owner, is pretty silly.

If I were a full-time blogger and had the time to fully research Goodman's work, I could have come up with a better quote than that one to illustrate her radicalism. But I had to limit my search to the few posts on the Democracy Now! site due to the time constraints I'm always under when I'm blogging. It worked well enough for me, anyway, because her sympathetic view of terrorists is extreme, not mainstream.