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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

...why comedian Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show," does a better job reporting on this nightmare than anyone in the "real" news media.

More on this later:

Posted by Will Bunch @ 8:22 PM  Permalink | 72 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:59 PM, 01/06/2009
    Hey beetlejuice - two quick questions. Any thoughts on who runs the NY Times, or maybe details about Jewish rituals, perchance?
    Talking point sleuth
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:26 PM, 01/06/2009
    Fair enough, beetlejuice. So, why don't you explain why it "seems the other way around?" This oughta be good.
    Talking point sleuth
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:51 PM, 01/06/2009
    You got me on that one, beetlejuice. Now, about that answer....
    Talking point sleuth
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:33 PM, 01/06/2009
    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.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:46 PM, 01/06/2009
    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.
    Mr. Smith


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