Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Jazeera. Show all posts

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Al Jazeera Loving Weinergate

These folks are just kvelling over the downfall of the evil Zionist infidel.
Poor Congressman Anthony Weiner. As if it weren't tough enough making a living out of bashing Arabs and Palestinians to satisfy New York's pro-Israel voters.

Now the self-deprecating references have taken a difficult, bizarre turn for the New York representative, after a lewd photo of a man clad only in underwear was sent from his Twitter account to a college student.

Weiner refuses to acknowledge in any of the interviews that the photo is definitively not a picture of him. Weiner further alleges he was hacked and wants an investigation. Yet days into the fray and--here comes the real surprise - no FBI investigation has been initiated.

Congressman Weiner knows better. Were federal agents to investigate at his initiation and determine Weiner's own involvement (i.e., that this was not a case of hacking), then the Congressman would be committing a felony for a making false statements, intentionally misleading federal agents, not to mention be wasting everyones time and tax payer dollars.

And that's presuming Weiner did send the photo and was not auditioning for a post-Congress career as an underwear model.

If he did not send the photo, an investigation would be the most logical course of action, given he is a serving US Congressman and those breaches are rarely taken lightly. Twitter would receive a subpoena. The alleged hacker's IP address could be learned. A warrant would be issued for the computer. An arrest warrant might follow. That would pretty much be the the end of story.
Well, we can't disagree with that last part. Read the rest. It quickly descends into Jew-hating nonsense that has nothing to do with anything, but then again, it's Weiner's wife's mentor Hillary Clinton who told us what a valuable news source Al Jazeera was.

Monday, April 18, 2011

White House Praises Fox News: 'They Are a Really Important Media Entity, and We Have a Really Great Relationship With Them'

Well, it appears there may have been a thaw in relation between the Obama administration and Fox News. After their unsuccessful two-year war on FNC, the Obama folks have clearly realized it's probably a good idea to have an adult relationship with the nations's most popular cable outlet.

Oh, wait a minute.
In the halls of American power, the Arab Spring has brought Al-Jazeera in from the cold.

Seven years after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” and President George W. Bush joked about bombing it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised it as “real news” in her recent Senate testimony.

Not only that, her staffers, as well as those of the CIA and the Obama White House, were attending the Congressional Correspondents’ Dinner as Al-Jazeera’s guests.

“They are a really important media entity, and we have a really great relationship with them,” said Dana Shell Smith, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for international media engagement, who speaks Arabic and has frequently appeared on the channel. “This administration has empowered those of us who actually do the communicating to be in a close relationship with Al-Jazeera. They understand that the relationship can’t consist of complaining to each other about the differences we have.”
If you're keeping score at home, Jihad TV is winning the hearts and minds of our White House, while Fox News is the mortal enemy.

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Gitmo Problem Solved

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. Or something like that. The world's favorite Spanish-speaking, long-winded, non-teleprompter using, Socialist dictator Hugo Chavez says he is open to taking the Gitmo prisoners.

What could possibly go wrong? Between making nice with Sean Penn's other pen pal Ahmadinejad, allowing Russian planes and naval ships access to his country, and chasing the devil out of the UN, why should this latest overture be a surprise?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he would be willing to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which U.S. President Barack Obama has said he will close, the Venezuelan government said Thursday.
This was reported by Al Jazeera. As for that that long-winded part, it was a 90-minute interview. If Obama went that long without a teleprompter they would have to hook him up to life support. And yes, he went on to meet with the Iranian president.