Gotta love the MSM
Bookworm on Jul 24 2006 at 11:23 am | Filed under: Media matters
On Sunday, San Francisco saw a fairly large rally supporting Israel. It wasn’t large for a City of SF’s size, but it was large for a City as Left as SF is. To her credit, Dianne Feinstein attended and spoke at the rally. The San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting on the rally is fairly content neutral. What’s typical MSM, though, is the Chron’s internet front page sell for the story. There, instead of a story about a large pro-Israel rally with a major Democratic speaker, you get this:
About two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters stood behind police barricades and shouted at the rally hosted by the Jewish Community Foundation at Justin Herman Plaza on Sunday.
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You know, it’s amazing that there were more Pro-Israel then not! That is highly unusual for SF!
BW: Anna has previously cited T. Roosevelt’s thinking about ‘hyphenated’ Americans. It’s a feeling I have seen among many new citizens. Their feelings: ‘We aren’t part-American anythings. We’re new Americans!’
So the Chronicle’s journalistic use of ‘Palestinian American’ seems misguided. One cannot serve two masters.
More troubling is the appearance of the Green Party using terrorist slogans. In Germany especially the party of that name is a powerful Force. Have the Greens decided to become a conduit for Islamofascism?
–excerpt from the Chronicle story:
“..criticism from leaders within the California Green Party and others who held a separate news conference near the plaza.
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… Todd Chretien, a 37-year-old Oakland writer and activist running for U.S. Senate.
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Chretien described Hezbollah as a legitimate, organic movement of resistance to Israeli occupation and oppression rather than a terrorist group.”
Jg, thanks for highlighting Chretien’s quoted language. I’d noted the Green parties’ involvement, but hadn’t thought much of it, since I always associate the Greens’ with the fringey Left (that’s a byproduct of having seen them in the Bay Area for so many decades). I’d love to have Chretien explain how Hezbollah, which occupies/controls Lebanon, a sovereign nation that has not had an Israeli presence in many, many years, can be described as a “legitimate, organic movement of resistance to Israeli occupation and oppression….” Vis a vis Lebanon, what Israeli occuption and oppression. That statement just highlights the garbage in/garbage out thinking that characterizes the Lefts’ approach to the current Mid-East uproar.
It’s legitimate because Chretien feels good about supporting them? If it feels good, then do it.