February 01, 2012

Call Fox New York and tell them you're psychic.

January 24, 2012

To a dedicated liberal, if a large group of people disagrees with him/her, it's the group that is wrong, not the liberal. If a group wants to express that disagreement, then the group needs to be silenced, rather than the liberal acknowledging that maybe he/she is possibly wrong.

He/she may not be wrong, but a negative reaction from a large audience should be cause for any normal, open-minded person to at least re-evaluate his/her position.

A few nights ago, Newt Gingrich chastised CNN's John King over media bias. The audience roared its approval with standing ovations. The audience clearly agreed with Newt about media bias.

So, how does MSNBC prepare for another debate?

You'd think they would make an effort to keep the questions fair and impartial. You'd think they'd take extra care to make certain the questions were bipartisan and directly addressed current issues facing the next administration.

But no. Instead, MSNBC decided, rather than to examine their own political bias, they would simply squelch dissent. They instead decided to prevent the audience from expressing any support or disapproval of questions or answers.

At the start of Monday night's debate, [Brian] Williams said, "We've asked our invited guests here this evening to withhold their applause, any verbal reactions to what they hear on stage, so as to ensure this is about the four candidates here tonight and what they have to say."

Silencing dissent is a tactic of cowards, tyrants, and fascists. But now, it looks like a tactic of the liberal media.

November 08, 2011

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Drug use and rapes and violence, oh my!

The thing that surprised her most: "It's totally lawless." Gee, what tipped you off?

Read Candice Giove's report HERE.

November 03, 2011

The media is reporting #OccupyOakland protests as "mainly peaceful". That exact phrase is being used by several media outlets.

I guess they got the memo. Oh wait, here are a few original descriptions of the day. This one says "mostly peaceful." Here's a "largely" peaceful. And this one says "predominantly" peaceful. Check out the big brain on Brett! I guess those thesauruses come in handy after all!

This one just uses "peaceful" and goes on to tell readers "no injuries or property damage were reported." Really? Let's see that "peaceful" protest with no property damage:

#OccupyOakland protester smashes a window a a Well Fargo bank. But remember! There was no property damage reported! Gee, I wonder who'll pay for that? Certainly not the freeloading freaks. And who brings a hammer to a "peaceful" protest anyway? The Tea Party protesters never did.

#OccupyOakland protesters broke into a privately-owned, vacant building. They claimed it as their own. Of course, they didn't pay for it, they haven't paid taxes on it, yet they think they're entitled to it.

#OccupyOakland protesters bang on vehicles and refuse to allow drivers to proceed. Protesters, in essence, were illegally detaining drivers, violating them of their rights.

#OccupyOakland protesters climb on trucks, preventing the truck drivers from hauling their load. For people protesting the lack of jobs, they are certainly doing their part to harm working people.

#OccupyOakland protester stands in front of a burning barricade. Protesters built the barricade and set it on fire to deter police.

#OccupyOakland protester defaces a supermarket building. Who'll pay for that? Not them. The rest of us will pay for it through higher prices.

October 27, 2011

Update: Many thanks to Programing Director Gavin Spittle for changing the image. Hopefully, in the future, the journalist involved will be more careful when selecting file images to accompany stories.

I've also removed the contact info because, since the image was changed, there's no point in having it up. If you wish to thank Programing Director Gavin Spittle for so quickly addressing our concerns, you can find his email on the contact page at the linked article.

CBS Houston reported a story about a Texas hospital sending an illegal immigrant patient back to Mexico for long term treatment. If CBS's liberal bias in the story was not evident enough, take a look at the file photo the "journalist" decided to use with the story:

One commenter writes:

I’m a medical student there and I can say with 100% assurance, those are NOT the flags that are being flown at UTMB. Our flags are in perfect condition and have a spotlight on them at night. The picture is bunk.

So, why would CBS Houston choose such a disrespectful image for the article? Is it to somehow demonize Texas as being un-American or unpatriotic in their quest to transfer this illegal immigrant? Is it a subliminal message that our values are disintegrating? Or maybe they are gloating over the successes of the Obama Administration to destroy America from within to pave way for a new, socialist society?

The person who wrote the article, and presumable selected the image, opted not to include his/her name. That's not a surprise. But CBS Houston should be ashamed to post such an image that is not only offensive, but completely unrelated to the article.

Via The Project Veritas

On Monday, Project Veritas started the release of its latest investigative series, "To Catch a Journalist."

The reaction to our airing of Part One was both expected in some regards with the media elite taking the time to mock our efforts while unexpected in that we became the target of a late-night rant by a Pulitzer Prize winning professor from Columbia's Journalism School.

Today, we're shifting focus to the New York Times.....

ProjectVeritas.com investigation. NYT Consultant and NYU Journalism professors of the self-identified media "elite" discuss strategy to legitimize Obama, help Occupy Wall Street, NPR tax loophole, defeating Perry and Bachmann. Jay Rosen says, "We are the one percent."

Project Veritas: To Catch a Journalist - Part I

October 21, 2011

A excellent read, a few quotes doesn't do it justice so be sure and read it all

Of course, that the Guardian published a report on the Gilad Shalit deal by a journalist as hostile to Israel as Deborah Orr is not surprising to anyone remotely familiar with the paper adeptly characterized by Robin Shepherd as the mainstream Anglo publication most hostile to Israel in the world.

Nor is it surprising anymore when they publish essays or letters about Israel by commentators with a well-documented record of engaging in explicit antisemitism. While such contributors are often of the Islamist variety, recently they provided a forum to two of the most prolific modern (leftist) antisemites – Alison Weir and Gilad Atzmon.

However, as even the Guardian typically assures that such contributors maintain at least a thin “progressive” rhetorical veneer to furtively advance classic Judeophobic narratives, Orr’s latest piece stands out as a simply ugly, and thoroughly unrestrained, expression of animosity towards Jews[...]

Orr wrote:

“It’s quite something, the prisoner swap between Hamas and the Israeli government that returns Gilad Shalit to his family, and more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners to theirs…[which is] an indication of how inured the world has become to the obscene idea that Israeli lives are more important than Palestinian lives.”

No matter what Israel does it is never enough. I'm glad Galid is alive (he is the first ever swap of coming back alive) and back home with his family but negotiating with terrorists is a no win situation.

h/t @MargieInTelAviv

October 14, 2011

Note: I am going to refrain from commenting as anything I might say may reflect poorly on The Jawa Report and be used against it on a later date.

(Hat Tip: JammieWearingFool Tweet)

October 13, 2011

(Hat Tip: IHateTheMedia)

The media's guide to protesters:

August 29, 2011

The more we follow the news, the more we realize that some things are just too outrageous to be taken seriously.

HonestReporting presents the first in a series of 'Media Circus' titles that might open the eyes of others, through an alternative satirical approach.

So, watch the film, laugh (we hope), and share, share, share. Remember that every 'like', every new follower on Twitter, every +1 and every friend you share this movie with helps raise awareness of the real news issues, and of HonestReporting's role in defending Israel from Media Bias.

Keeping with the spirit of 'a look on the light side of life' - we're giving away a 2-disc DVD set of 'Monty Python's Life of Brian: The Immaculate Edition'. All you have to do to enter the free draw is go to:
http://honestreporting.com/hr-light-side-of-life
and leave your name and email in the sign up box after watching the film.

Take a moment to invite others to come check out our homepage too:
http://www.honestreporting.com

The bigger our community, the greater difference we continue to make.

This video reminded me of something, BBC apologized for including Pork Vindaloo among Eid al-Fitr recipes. Amazing, eh?

August 20, 2011

Via BigJournalism

A journalist for Al-Jazeera has been arrested on suspicion of being an agent of the Palestinian terror group Hamas. The journalist, Samer Allawi, Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief in Afghanistan, is a Palestinian. He was apprehended by Israeli authorities as he attempted to leave the West Bank.

The detention of Allawi, a major development in the media wars over the future of the Middle East, is not the first time that Israel has detained journalists from the channel. During the 2006 war in Lebanon, several Al-Jazeera journalists working in Israel were apprehended and warned about providing military information to Hezbollah, another terrorist organization. The accusation was that Al-Jazeera journalists were reporting the specific location of Hezbollah rocket strikes on Israel, enabling the terrorists to more accurately aim their weapons. In total, Hezbollah rained an estimated 3,970 Katyusha rockets and longer range missiles on military and civilian targets in Israel. The rockets have no internal guidance system and needed to rely on spotters or media coverage of their strikes to increase their accuracy.

BTW, the picture I posted is current, Mama Allawi held one of him in his younger days. AP is notorious that way, showing sad mother holding such a innocent looking son's picture.

July 27, 2011

From a New York Times Op-Ed via the Gateway Pundit (emphasis mine):

Alas, that is the Tea Party. It is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great but our unique public-private partnerships across the generations. If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission.

Hezbollah? HEZBOLLAH? What, the Tea Party isn't good enough to be compared to al Qaeda? or the Taliban? Or even the Muslim Brotherhood?

Equating the Tea Party with Hezbollah is like equating our great Sith Lords here at the Jawa Report with Jar Jar Binks. Its insulting. Almost. I think.

July 21, 2011

Jeff Dunetz at YID With LID does an excellent breakdown

July 08, 2011

From my good friend and blogging mentor Brian over at SnappedShot:

Compare and contrast a Daylife search on relatives of Humberto Leal Garcia, a murderer executed late last night, and a Daylife search on relatives of Adria Sauceda (or just her mother and her father), the 16-year old girl that was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Garcia.

What you'll find is little, if any, coverage of the victim's family's anguish, but plenty of media sympathy for the killer's family, as illustrated by the Daylife gallery.

Click over to SnappedShot for links, pictures, and more details.

Related: I hope Mexico is proud of their loyal American son.

Viva Texas!

July 05, 2011

FoxNews.com's Twitter feed for political news, FoxNewspolitics, was hacked early Monday morning.

Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports were incorrect, of course, and the president was spending the July 4 holiday with his family at the White House.

The tweets have been removed from the feed.

FoxNews.com alerted the U.S. Secret Service, which will investigate the hacking and do "appropriate follow up," spokesman George Ogilvie said.

Those responsible were bragging on twitter. Later, they stopped bragging, said it wasn't them and deleted their accounts.

Twitter hash tag #foxnewstwitterpassword is still going strong and this twitter person claimed: "Fox News tries to kill unfavorable hashtag w/ army of sock puppets posting unrelated junk", to which I asked "are you being investigated yet?

He/she/it got back to me with this: "@jstablehand I'm not on the Fox News staff, so it wasn't me. #foxhackwasaninsidejob #foxnewstwitterpassword #p2 #p2 #topprog"

I guess these idiots don't realize what happens when someone hacks a News org. twitter account and announces Obama was assassinated. Not funny, not funny at all. Granted the left hates FOX but this is just stupid.

Most MSM sites headline with "FOX news claimed their twitter account was hacked. George Soros/Media Matters anyone?

UPDATE: I asked this person why he tweeted this and if this is what he believes:

FAIL, the dude is racist.

Abu Darth al-Odieus says it best:

See the leftists can't stand that conservatives have honor, they just can't.

They all warned that the wingnuts are "racist" and the teabaggers will assasinate Obama because of his skin color. Their projection and imaginiation was that this would happen.

They want it to be true so bad that they would push Obama out in front of a bus to to finally prove themselves right.

Their thoughts betray them.

They care nothing about the president's life if it would serve to paint the wingnuts as killers.

June 27, 2011

Kentucky.com

[Mitch McConnell]The Herald-Leader is staking out very lonely territory when it comes out in favor of trying two Iraqi-born suspects in a civilian federal court here in Kentucky.

There's a broad, bipartisan consensus across the state: Get these alleged terrorists out of Kentucky.

I imagine readers of the editorial page are no exception — especially if they know all the facts.

The two men arrested in Bowling Green are not American citizens; they're apparently enemy combatants who have taken up arms against U.S. soldiers on a foreign battlefield.[...]

There is no question that we could prosecute these men in civilian court, but after Congress created a $200 million, state-of-the-art facility in Guantanamo Bay precisely for this purpose, why would we want to?

It simply makes no sense to saddle Kentuckians with some of the security and logistical costs associated with ensuring the safety of our residents during the trial [...]

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try these enemy combatants in Bowling Green instead of Guantanamo Bay is the wrong one.

I was shocked to hear Holder say recently that "our most effective terror-fighting weapon (is) our Article Three court system."

I think that if Osama bin Laden were still alive, he would say our most effective weapon is the American military.[More]

The call by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to detain and interrogate two men arrested in Kentucky and accused of supporting Iraqi insurgents was wrong, legally and practically [“The right place to try terrorists,” op-ed, June 22].

The best way to obtain intelligence and achieve justice is through the federal courts, where hundreds of suspected terrorists have been prosecuted successfully and valuable information about terrorist networks and activities secured by law enforcement in the process. The federal courts unquestionably have jurisdiction over charges against the men of conspiracy and material support — unlike the Guantanamo military commissions, in which the designation of these charges as war crimes is improper and rightly contested.

Previous:
Kentucky: Federal indictment: Two Bowling Green residents involved in a conspiracy to provide support, weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq (ISI)
Jawa Defamed in WaPo: Yes, Let's Follow the Money (Sticky/UPDATED)

June 17, 2011

This is the second time they have done this

The word “Republican” is even in the article’s URL. I repeat: Idiots.

Update: Once may be a mistake. But twice?

June 14, 2011

Sound is low at beginning of video so hang in there.

He has a lot of good one liners.

Big Jerusalem? Awesome idea.

June 07, 2011

Via Big Gov't

BTW, CNN anchors talked through entire appearance at Weiner presser

June 05, 2011

Israeli border defense is breaking, headline news. Yet Syrian mass slaughter is just another article buried in "more news..."

(Image updated - click for original)

First the HEADLINE (notice it's "updated" and no longer "new".):

An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said soldiers, who had been on high alert along the Syrian and Lebanese frontiers in anticipation of possible border-breaching protests, fired warning shots. He gave no casualty figures.

A Reuters correspondent at the scene saw at least four demonstrators carried away on stretchers by the crowd, but it was not immediately clear if they had been hit by Israeli gunfire.

(Note: MSNBC has replaced this article with a newer version.)

...And in other (less important) news (and notice it's "new" and, yet, the casualty count has dramatically risen in other MSNBC reports!):

The death toll in a government security crackdown in northern Syrian town has risen to 25, a human rights group said on Sunday.

Casualty figures increased to 63 dead, but MSNBC still has the original article and the 'more news' headline as 25. The New casualty figures aren't mentioned in the original article.

Update: (as of 11:27am EST) MSNBC has updated the Israel story to 11 dead, as reported by Syrian television. (They must have seen more stretchers...)

The story about the Syrian protesters is still at 25, even though scores more have been confirmed dead.

From the new, updated article (emphasis mine):

Israeli troops opened fire Sunday at a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to break into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from neighboring Syria, killing as many as 11 people and wounding scores in a burst of violence marking the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war.

The casualty figures came from Syrian state television. Israel has offered no immediate comment on dead or wounded.

Israel angrily accused the Syrian regime of orchestrating the violence — the second border clash in less than a month — to deflect attention from its bloody crackdown on a popular uprising at home.

And apparently, the deflection is working. At least at MSNBC.

May 31, 2011

Cornell-educated Keith Olbermann on the murder of ex-Marine Jose Guerena and Sheriff Dupnik's sequential cover-up of evidence: “bullshit.”

May 29, 2011

Sarah Palin Iz Eevil!

Obama ♥'s Tornado Victims

Israel=Bad, Muslim Brotherhood=Good

(oh, and BTW, Sheriff Dupnik sends SWAT team to kill ex-Marine in front of his family.)

May 20, 2011

From a report yesterday, it appears that Al Gore's hiring of Keith Olbermann has consequences.

Former US vice-president Al Gore has hit out at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, accusing it of "an abuse of power" by forcing his liberal TV station off air in Italy because it did not fit in with the media giant's "ideological agenda".

In an interview with the Guardian, Gore said the Current TV news and documentary channel was told unexpectedly three weeks ago that it could no longer be carried by Sky Italia because of its decision to hire a US left-leaning commentator often critical of Murdoch's company.

He added that the decision reflected how News Corporation operated worldwide. "News Corporation is an international conglomerate with an ideological agenda. It seeks political power in every nation they operate. They wield that power to shut down voices that disagree with the agenda of Rupert Murdoch," Gore said.

The decision, he added, was "a complete shock" but Current TV executives were told "off the record that the decision was taken on News Corp instructions from New York". The primary reason, he said, was "because Current is launching Keith Olbermann next month".

May 06, 2011

Excellent article, be sure to read it all:

CIFWatch

For several years now, the Guardian’s Associate Editor Seumas Milne has been attending the annual ‘Al Jazeera Forum’ in Doha, Qatar.

This year the event was held between March 12th -14th at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha and according to the advance publicity, its aim was to “explore the significance of the revolutions and unrest sweeping the Arab world and examine their impact on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict”.

Milne spoke at a plenary session entitled “Leaks: the future of journalism” along with several other interesting figures.[...]

Al Jazeera produced video interviews with some of the conference participants, including Seumas Milne who was in clear self-congratulatory mode as he talked about the Guardian-Al Jazeera joint project which became known as the ‘Palestine Papers’.

Milne describes his newspaper as one engaged in “pushing boundaries” due to the fact that, like Al Jazeera, it is not a “profit maximizing” organization and therefore enjoys “freedoms that other media organisations don’t have”. However, like Al Jazeera itself, the Guardian is extremely selective on the subject of where exactly it chooses to push boundaries and exercise its “freedoms” and for both these organisations, the subject of human rights in Qatar is a self-censored no-go area.[Read it all]

BTW, Al Jazeera had stated awhile back they were in talks with Comcast here in the US. It appears they (Comcast) do not want Bin Laden's favorite channel.

May 05, 2011

FishbowlNY reports on some non-issue Reuters felt compelled to "explain." Instead of focusing on why the President of the United States is more concerned with Muslim sensitivities than the United States taxpayers' right to information, we should all be occupying our conspiratorial minds with what Obama is hoping to achieve by posing for speech-reenactment photos.

Or something like that.

Photojournalists from Reuters and AP described how President Obama basically had to silently re-enact part of his speech for the still cameras after giving it. [...]

The reason still cameras are not allowed during live presidential addresses is because of the noise from the camera shutters and the placement of the teleprompter, not for any sinister conspiracy-type reasons like we were hoping.

Not hoping for any "sinister" conspiracies here, just hoping for a bit of integrity and respect from this Administration. Just to be clear, I'm not attacking FishbowlNY reports for reporting on this. But really, who gives a crap if President Me stages a few photographs after a very important speech? If you ask me, it is all just a transparent, unsophisticated attempt by Reuters at deflecting from real issues like this Administration's complete incompetence.

You want real photographic conspiracies? Where are the bin Laden photographs? Where is the live-feed video from the raid? Where is the sea burial video? My tax dollars paid for them. Now I have a right to see them.

Remember who you serve, Obama. It isn't radical Muslims with hair-trigger sensibilities.

Or maybe it is.

May 04, 2011

An interesting article - from Time Magazine, no less. Students from that infamous 9/11 reading speak out in defense of George W.

Seven-year-olds can't understand what Islamic terrorism is all about. But they know when an adult's face is telling them something is very wrong — and none of the students sitting in Sandra Kay Daniels' class at Emma E. Booker Elementary School that morning can forget the sudden, devastated change in Bush's expression when White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispered the terrible news of the Al Qaeda attack. Lazaro Dubrocq's heart started racing because he assumed they were all in big trouble — with no less than the Commander-in-Chief — but he wasn't quite sure why. "In a heartbeat he leaned back and he looked flabbergasted, shocked, horrified," recalls Dubrocq, now 17. "I was baffled. I mean, did we read something wrong? Was he mad or disappointed in us?" (See pictures of people celebrating Osama bin Laden's death.)

All sorts of similar kid fears started running through Mariah Williams' head. "I don't remember the story we were reading — was it about pigs?" says Williams, 16. "But I'll always remember watching his face turn red. He got really serious all of a sudden. But I was clueless. I was just seven. I'm just glad he didn't get up and leave because then I would have been more scared and confused." Chantal Guerrero, 16, agrees: even today she's grateful that Bush regained his composure and stayed with the students until The Pet Goat was finished. "I think the President was trying to keep us from finding out," says Guerrero, "so we all wouldn't freak out." ...

One thing they'd like to tell Bush's critics — like liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, whose 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 911 disparaged Bush for lingering almost 10 minutes with the Booker students after getting word that two planes had crashed into New York's World Trade Center — is that they think the President did the right thing. "I think he was trying to keep everybody calm, starting with us," says Guerrero. Dubrocq agrees: "I think he was trying to protect us." Booker Principal Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, who died in 2007, later insisted, "I don't think anyone could have handled it better. What would it have served if [Bush] had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?

Read it all.

To the left, seven minutes is an inexcusable delay, never mind that there was absolutely nothing Bush could have done that morning. But Obama taking 16 hours to decide whether or not to take out a known terrorist is just the reasonable action of a "decisive leader."

The hypocrisy of Obamamites defending 16 hours as seriously considering "the option and implications" of removing a deadly terrorist from the world while complaining 7 minutes was just too long to consider responses to unprovoked and indefensible attacks committed by that same terrorist.

It's amazing that 7-year-old children have more insight and more intelligence than adult liberals.

(Hat Tip: NewsBusters)

April 22, 2011

Previous:
Video: Ezra Levant, Sun TV, and the Motoons:

April 14, 2011

No, literally.

Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the screenshot:

Click to view larger image

April 12, 2011

JPost

NEW YORK – Judge Richard Goldstone’s now-notorious Washington Post mea culpa, retracting several findings of his United Nations-sponsored inquiry into Operation Cast Lead, has ignited new flames of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in the Arab world, according to the Anti- Defamation League.

The above is just a sampling. It gets worse, if that can be possible. I chose the Al-Jazeera cartoons because of their campaign to bring their antisemitc network to all households in the U.S.

The NYTimes did their part and refused to print the retraction

April 10, 2011

According to a survey by the American Society of Newsroom Editors (ASNE), there are not enough African-American, Asian, Latino, and Native American journalists in U.S. newsrooms. It's believed that the percentage of minority journalists should be consistent with census figures.

On the other hand, it might be argued that competent news reporting should have nothing to do with the skin color of the journalist.

April 06, 2011

If not, then why the hell was she in it?

Pallywood..

The IDF bombed two terrorist tunnels in Gaza overnight, but foreign media rely on Hamas sources that two women, one of them pregnant, were wounded.

An army spokeswoman told Israel National News that Israeli aircraft scored direct hits on the tunnels in northern Gaza following another Kassam rocket attack on the western Negev Tuesday night. No one was injured.

March 27, 2011

After all they have done for the mad mullahs, now this?

LONDON (Reuters) - Two Reuters television journalists have been missing in Syria since Saturday night, when they were due to return to Lebanon.

Beirut-based producer Ayat Basma and cameraman Ezzat Baltaji had been expected to cross into Lebanon by road at approximately 1830 GMT (2:30 p.m .ET) on Saturday, where they had arranged for a taxi to pick them up from the border.

The last known contact was at 1722 GMT (1:22 p.m. ET), when Baltaji sent a phone message to a colleague in Beirut in which he said: "We will leave now."

Basma and Baltaji, both Lebanese nationals, travelled to Syria on Thursday afternoon. Mass protests that erupted 10 days ago have posed the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year rule.

The two journalists have been unreachable by telephone since Saturday night.

Mad Mullahs no like the truth. The bed is made, now sleep in it.

March 26, 2011

Qaddafi's human shields were unable to help her

TRIPOLI — A Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli Saturday morning and fought off security forces as she told journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members of the Qaddafi militia. After nearly an hour, she was dragged away from the hotel screaming.

“They say that we are all Libyans and we are one people,” said the woman, who gave her name as Eman al-Obeidy. “But look at what the Qaddafi men did to me.” She displayed a broad bruise on her face, a large scar on her upper thigh, several narrow and deep scratch marks lower on her leg, and marks that seemed to came from binding around her hands and feet.

She said she had been raped by 15 men. “I was tied up and they defecated and urinated on me,” she said. “They violated my honor.”

She pleaded for friends she said were still in custody. “They are still there, they are still there,” she said. “As soon as I leave here they are going to take me to jail.”

For the members of the foreign press here as guests of the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi — and largely confined to the Rixos Hotel except for official outings — her intrusion was a reminder of the brutality of the Libyan government and the presence of its security forces even among the surrounding hotel staff. People in hotel uniform who just hours before had been serving coffee and clearing plates grabbed table knives and rushed to physically constrain both the woman and the journalists.

March 24, 2011

In the wake of the recent terrorist attack in Jerusalem, Honest Reporting targets the media and it's refusal to place blame where it belongs - on Palestinian terrorists.

We've already noted how the AP subtly justifies such attacks. Reuters actually questions whether is really is a terrorist attack, or a legitimate response in a conflict between Palestine and Israel:

Police said it was a "terrorist attack" -- Israel's term for a Palestinian strike.

What spineless, cowardly reporting. Placing an explosive device on or near a civilian bus is a terrorist attack. It isn't an Israeli term or a Zionist term or a Western term. It is a terrorist attack - an act of violence to intimidate in order to attain a political or religious agenda. That is the definition of 'terrorist attack'. There is no other reason to target civilians.

Would someone please get Reuters a new dictionary?

Read more: Reuters Redefines 'Terrorist Attack'

March 23, 2011

"Millions of People in These Countries Don't Even Know What Facebook is"[MEMRI]

Dr. Faisal Al-Qassem, who hosts the popular Al-Jazeera talk show "The Opposite Direction," wrote in an op-ed in the Qatari daily Al-Sharq that it is the satellite channels that are the real engine behind the revolutions in the Arab world, not the online social networks. He added that the latter have not yet gained much currency among the Arab public[...]

""

"[One must also keep in mind that] in the Arab countries, Internet is usually slow and annoying, and makes users lose patience. It is well-known that in some Arab countries they praise the impact of 'electronic jihad' – but [the fact is that] due to the turtle pace of the Internet in these countries, it is easier to travel to London to receive a message than to send it by email...

"In Tunisia, which had the privilege of starting the blessed Arab revolution, [former president] Ben 'Ali throttled the Internet with unprecedented barbarity. He even established an Internet Ministry, and purchased mega-computers for millions of dollars, in order to control the Internet and its users... So neither the Internet nor Facebook sparked the Tunisian revolution. If they [had any role at all], it was very small.

"The same is surely true for the other republics of fear, that make people show their IDs before entering an Internet café so as to keep tabs on them and intimidate them. In these [countries], entering a banned website is an offence punishable by decades in prison. Whoever starts a blog, or writes anything against the president, will surely find himself in the dungeons of the Interior Ministry [investigation apparatuses]."