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One thing can be said about establishment media propagandists: they never miss an opportunity to manipulate the public and make it think they way they want it to think. And they aren’t nearly as subtle as they think they are.
The contrast couldn’t be more stark. When Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) died last summer, the Associated Press headline was “Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a ‘hoax,’ dies at 89.” But when Hezbollah top dog Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike Friday, AP ran a piece entitled “Charismatic & shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.” After howls of outrage and cascades of ridicule, AP altered its headline, but it wasn’t by any means alone. In their coverage of Nasrallah’s death, several establishment media outlets have made it unmistakable: they love jihad terror mass murderers far more than they do patriots or even establishment Republicans.
Even after it was revised, AP’s story reads like something out of a Hezbollah fan magazine. Nasrallah was “an astute strategist.” He was “idolized by his Lebanese Shiite followers and respected by millions of others across the Arab and Islamic world.” He even “held the title of sayyid, an honorific meant to signify the Shiite cleric’s lineage dating back to the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam.”
Nasrallah was also, AP tells us, “a fiery orator” who was “viewed as an extremist in the United States and much of the West.” Note that while Nasrallah was only an “extremist” in the U.S. and the West, the assertion that he was an “astute strategist” is presented as sober, objective truth.
AP wasn’t alone. Not to be outdone, the Washington Post said that “among his followers, Mr. Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide. He was lauded as the man who empowered Lebanon’s once downtrodden and impoverished Shiite community and protected it from Israeli incursions by turning Hezbollah into a formidable deterrent force.” He spoke in a “folksy yet articulate manner that established him as a skilled orator.”
The WaPo even went so far as to award Nasrallah the left’s coveted victim status: “The death of his 18-year-old son, Hadi, in a battle with Israel in 1997 burnished Mr. Nasrallah’s leadership credentials, establishing him as a man who had shared in the suffering of those battling the Israeli occupation.”
The New York Times was just as hagiographical, noting that “in Lebanon, Mr. Nasrallah developed a force of thousands of grass-roots fighters — schoolteachers and butchers and truck drivers — and used religion to inspire them to fight until death, analysts say, telling them they would have a guaranteed spot in heaven.” He “enjoyed tremendous devotion from Hezbollah’s Shiite Muslim base, who saw in him a charismatic religious and political leader and military strategist who had dedicated his life to ‘resistance,’ or the fight against Israel and American influence in the Middle East.”
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crown says
The leftist mainstream media, along with academia, are the primary villains in the sorry decline of Western civilization.
They have poisoned the minds of the malignant and of the gullible, who consume their pronouncements as if they are precious morsels of truth, when they are usually just the opposite.
FYI says
islam doesn’t like dogs.
Dogs don’t like islam
Here Fido.This is allah’s holey kooran.What you think?..hey don’t run off with it!..aw now you’re chewing it to pieces.Actually that’s ok.You know they hate doggos in the islamic world?
Fido:grrrr.woof.WOOF. WOOF. grrrr
Luchtpint says
This MSM reverence is simply idiotic beyond belief.
“He even “held the title of sayyid, an honorific meant to signify the Shiite cleric’s lineage dating back to the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam.”
So what the hell if he did ? Motherfuckers like Khamenei and Khomeini were also sayyids. What’s the point of emphasizing it ? Unless MSM editors have started converting en masse to Twelver Shiism, maybe.
somehistory says
Propaganda. It is designed to make Israel look bad for eliminating a murderous ghoul.
News reporters once told people what…the things… to think about; A wreck, a weather event, closed streets and schools; the death of someone ‘beloved’ by the locals, with when and where of a funeral.
Now, ‘reporters’ no longer just tell the news…like in the song, New York, New York…they tell their listeners/readers “what …as in personal reactions, opinions, feelings…to think about the things they hear/read about.”
The scum was a murderous, unrepentant, son of satan the devil. Even if the ap didn’t want to write that…they do have mozlums working for them….they could just tell the Truth, the facts that he ordered mozlums to murder, and that he had threatened Israel with more murderous attacks. And they could even say that some people put him on a pedestal for those very things he did.
News reporters no longer just tell the what, when, where, who, how, and why. They give us their own opinion and make every attempt to sway us to see things as they do.
It’s akin to the doctor who uses his own fluids to help childless women have babies. These ones don’t want anyone making up their own mind or having what they want to have.
It’s a media dictatorship.
Brian K says
Regardless as to how the demonic media portray him, the piece of filth is still dead