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Assclown Alert: Zogby trashes U.S. in Saudi Arabia
2003-12-31
EFL & Buttloads of Fun
A prominent Arab-American leader is trashing the United States government for managing the news in the Saudi Arabian media – where criticism of the royal family is strictly forbidden.
Note: He did so freely without U.S. government censorship.
The broadside by James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute and a frequent commentator on Arab and Muslim issues in the U.S media, appears in the current issue of Arab News, which describes itself as the first English-language daily in Saudi Arabia.
We hang by our thumbs awaiting his next insight.
In a piece of crap titled, "How U.S. Manipulates News to Suit Its Interests," Zogby charged the American press has deceived the public into believing Iraq was a threat and linked with international terrorism.
Well that makes sense. We know how supportive our media is of the WoT.
"In the American public’s mind Sept. 11, Afghanistan and Iraq have all been morphed into a vague but clearly threatening reality – a ’reality’ that has been cultivated by carefully managed news," he wrote.
Washington Post, New York Times, et al. They are just puppets of the Bush administration, no?
Zogby fantasizes claims the news coverage of the war is "managed and ’spun’ and, when needed, shifted to new topics – positive stories of victories. For a while, for example, as daily attacks against U.S. forces were taking their toll, public support for the war was declining. This required management. To a degree, the effort has been successful. Americans and Al-Q Iraqis continue to die, on a daily basis, but the stories of these deaths no longer generate front-page news coverage. For example, a series of attacks on U.S. forces on Christmas Day resulted in four American deaths. A review of a number of major U.S. daily newspapers found the story on page 39 in one, page 18 in another and not even appearing in another two."
Bush has his foot right on the neck of all major media outles, no?
"In a similar vein, Iraqi terrorist civilian deaths, resulting from actions by coalition forces, have all but disappeared from the U.S. press," he wrote, saying the Pentagon refuses to release such information to reporters.
Blah, blah, blah...funny he knows about these deaths. Guess the Pentagon is not doing a good job covering up all these deaths.
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#4  PlanetDan...you are thinking of his brother. This moonbat is on a planet all his own along with millions of other asshat arabs and extremists.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-12-31 3:30:40 PM  

#3  Jeez -- I must have missed what he had to say about "fair and balanced" Al-Jizz.

hey -- isn't this guy supposed to at least appear impartial, being a pollster and all? Even if he felt, in his heart of hearts that US media spins, shouldn't he keep his views to himself?
Posted by: PlanetDan   2003-12-31 12:31:45 PM  

#2  actually, if the US were really spinning the news, this gem in the arab news would be a big item in the US news and he would face hardball questions about it.

does anyone seriously think this will happen
Posted by: mhw   2003-12-31 12:14:17 PM  

#1  Dragon fly you beat me to the post! But here are my comments:
Zogby and apologists like him continue to amaze me. Despite that facts and evidence that Saddam had WMDs and was connected to Terrorism, they still think removing him was a bad thing. I think Mr. Zogby, nay the entire CAIR, PHRC, and AAADC needs to visit Iraq and gaze onto the mass grave sites, torture/rape rooms, and the kinder prison. Then tell us what a bad thing it was to remove this animal and his gang of thugs. I wonder how many denunciations the ‘Palestine Human Rights Campaign’ has issued with respect to homicide bombers blowing up pizza places, grocery stores, and malls? And how much cooperation has the Department of Homeland Security received from the ‘American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’? Mr. Zogby and his ilk have some really demented views of right and wrong too bad they would rather be Arab than Americans.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2003-12-31 11:16:18 AM  

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