Dewey Zexx

Progressives Believe In Journalism, And Conservatives Don't?

Bias makes people deaf, dumb and blind. Each time the "progressives" write something about this issue they expose more and more of their own deep-seated prejudice and they cannot see this. I would not label them progressives in the contemporary political sense. They are elitist in their philosophy.

Arrogance: "a feeling or an impression of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or presumptous claims."“ Websters Collegiate Dictionary.

The word is well-defined in sentences like these from the liberals:

[T]he right™s sustained accusation of "bias" is both a powerful organizing tool...and an effective way of "working the refs." Knowing that they face constant charges of bias, reporters respond by bending over backward to show how tough they can be on progressives and Democrats. In contrast, when Media Matters for America criticizes the news media, it’s for a simple reason: we want them to do their jobs and do them right.

There may be no more profound difference between the left and the right on media issues than this: progressives believe in journalism.

[Via NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias]

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CAIR Calls for Probe of US Role in Israeli Prison Attack

A rooster crowed this morning therefore the sun rose in the east. Plausibility !!

The Council on American-Islamic Relations today called for an investigation into Palestinian accusations that America helped Israel in the Jericho prison operation: CAIR Calls for Probe of U.S. Role in Israeli Prison Attack.

WASHINGTON, March 16 /U.S. Newswire/ — A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for an independent investigation of allegations that America played a role in an Israeli attack on a Palestinian prison that came 10 minutes after U.S. and British monitors withdrew from the facility. ...

“The fact that the assault came just minutes after the withdrawal of American monitors creates the impression that there was coordination with the Israeli military,” said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Washington-based Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR). He said that impression, if left unaddressed by an independent investigation, can only serve to reinforce the perception in the region that our nation’s foreign policy serves Israeli, not American, interests.

Awad cited a new study published by the Harvard University John F. Kenney [sic] School of Government, titled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” that asks the question: “Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?”

The report also states: “...the United States has become the de facto enabler of Israeli expansion in the occupied territories, making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians. This situation undercuts Washington’s efforts to promote democracy abroad and makes it look hypocritical when it presses other states to respect human rights.”

They’re completely shameless.

Google ordered to release some search data (AFP)

Bad vibes here; folks !!

AFP - Google has been ordered to turn over some data on sites in its popular search engine to the US federal government -- but only 50,000, far fewer than the government wanted, under a judge's ruling.

Saddam's Phillipine terror connection

The long cover story in the new Weekly Standard is by our friend Steve Hayes and is derived from the captured Iraq documents that have just begun to be released: "Saddam's Phillipines terror connection." Steve writes:

SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq. An eight-page fax dated June 6, 2001, and sent from the Iraqi ambassador in Manila to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, provides an update on Abu Sayyaf kidnappings and indicates that the Iraqi regime was providing the group with money to purchase weapons. The Iraqi regime suspended its support--temporarily, it seems--after high-profile kidnappings, including of Americans, focused international attention on the terrorist group.

The fax comes from the vast collection of documents recovered in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. Up to this point, those materials have been kept from the American public. Now the proverbial dam has broken....

Steve omits to mention that he's the guy who broke the proverbial dam.

JOHN adds: This is a can't-miss piece by America's most important journalist. Steve concludes with a quote from a just-published Foreign Affairs article that is based on hundreds of captured Iraqi documents dealing with the run-up to the 2003 war:

The Saddam Fedayeen also took part in the regime's domestic terrorism operations and planned for attacks throughout Europe and the Middle East. In a document dated May 1999, Saddam's older son, Uday, ordered preparations for "special operations, assassinations, and bombings, for the centers and traitor symbols in London, Iran and the self-ruled areas [Kurdistan]." Preparations for "Blessed July," a regime-directed wave of "martyrdom" operations against targets in the West, were well under way at the time of the coalition invasion.

UPDATE: Steve's quote above comes from the "special, double-length article [by Kevin Woods, James Lacey and Williamson Murray] from the upcoming May/June issue of Foreign Affairs, presenting key excerpts from the recently declassified book-length report of the USJFCOM Iraqi Perspectives Project." The Foreign Affairs article is "Saddam's delusions: The view from the inside."

Ben Stein to Hollywood: "Stop Spitting in the Face of Americans"

Via the AP (Yes, I'm surprised also): Actor and writer Ben Stein spoke Thursday (3/16/06) at a Republican Party fundraising dinner in Michigan. He chastised Hollywood for failing to recognize the sacrifice of our brave men and women fighting overseas during the Oscar ceremonies on March 5.

"Not one prayer or moment of silence for those who have given their lives ... And they complain about (falling box office numbers). Stop spitting in the face of Americans and maybe we will go to the movies," Stein is quoted as saying (emphasis mine).

The "real stars" are not those in posh Beverly Hills, Stein says, but the soldiers "wearing body armor in 130-degree heat, pulling 24-hour shifts" in the Sunni triangle.