...why comedian Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show," does a better job reporting on this nightmare than anyone in the "real" news media.
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There are 7 billion people on this planet of which 25 million are of Jewish decent. Why does it seem the other way around?
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Hey beetlejuice - two quick questions. Any thoughts on who runs the NY Times, or maybe details about Jewish rituals, perchance?
Hey talking point sleuth -couldn't care less who runs the NY Times and the only detail I know of Jewish rituals is circumcision.
Fair enough, beetlejuice. So, why don't you explain why it "seems the other way around?" This oughta be good.
Batboy: I guess what you call "reporting" is the one sided slop the American media dishes out-the same ones that people like you call the "liberal media" who can't be trusted and who were in the tank for Obama. But now when it comes to Israel's desire to obliterate the Palestinians in Gaza, the American media are truth-tellers of the highest order. Jon Stewart is one of the few media voices to give any voice to the suffering endured by those in Gaza (and he is Jewish to boot). Does their suffering justify the launching of missiles at innocent people? No, but neither does launching missiles justify Israel's literal overkill in response. The issue is much more complicated than anything that you will see in the pro-Israel US press. But to point this out runs the risk of being called anti-Semitic or a self-hating Jew (if one is Jewish). The cognitive dissonance of the right is astounding.
Talking point sleuth- that's three questions can't you count?
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You got me on that one, beetlejuice. Now, about that answer....
Gypsys tramps and thieves...........oh it's you again. I was in the middle of something...Talking point sleuth what do you want now? What answer do you want. The answer to life? or maybe you want to know how to win friends and influence people. From what I've read you do need some help in that department.
Home, Home, Home! Damn, the movie was wrong, we still got beetlejuice with us...
This oughta be good........
6,464 rockets launched from Gaza in the past three years. What would you to address this Mr Bunch? C'mon now, give us your best hope-n-changey answer.////Krauthammer: "Israel has but a single objective in Gaza -- peace: the calm, open, normal relations it offered Gaza when it withdrew in 2005. Doing something never done by the Turkish, British, Egyptian and Jordanian rulers of Palestine, the Israelis gave the Palestinians their first sovereign territory ever in Gaza.
What ensued? This is not ancient history. Did the Palestinians begin building the state that is supposedly their great national aim? No. No roads, no industry, no courts, no civil society at all. The flourishing greenhouses that Israel left behind for the Palestinians were destroyed and abandoned. Instead, Gaza's Iranian-sponsored rulers have devoted all their resources to turning it into a terror base -- importing weapons, training terrorists, building tunnels with which to kidnap Israelis on the other side. And of course firing rockets unceasingly."
Because I was at a meeting, I only saw the first part of NBC'c Nightly News. It appeared to me that by focusing on children killed in the Israeli bombing of a UN school and by a long section on a Norwegian doctor who has come to treat the Palestinian wounded, they presented the "overkill" side of the story without saying anything against Israel. But I agree that Stewart did a great job of showing how the reporting has been generally supportive of Israel with no outright statements against the onslaught. Part of the problem is that nobody likes Hamas, so there seems to be no reason to support them, especially since their actions provided the excuse for the shelling and invasion of Gaza.
Hamas is a cancer. It's killing Palestinians. Israel could try to carve out the cancer with a butcher knife, but instead they're trying too hard to be precise. Calling their bombing targets before they bomb them. That's never been done before. Even Wilson Goode didn't do that.
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