I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
Obama’s Recycled Republican Policies
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Ah, how I love reading the section of the National Review magazine entitled “The Week”. They recently had this great item:
It is becoming a Friday ritual—the weekly announcement of the embarrassing news that yet another Bush national-security policy labeled a war crime or a rule-of-law violation by the Obama campaign has been adopted by the Obama administration. Thus did the president announce that military commissions aren’t so bad after all. The administration will be resuming them for, at least, the worst al-Qaeda detainees, such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Such dramatic reversals are routinely accompanied by face-saving claims that the Bush policy is being adopted only after an “overhaul” that renders it consistent with “our values.” But the “overhaul” turns out to be an inconsequential tweak or two. (On the military commissions, for example, detainees who have enjoyed their pick among legions of volunteer lawyers from white-shoe firms will now somehow have “more latitude” in choosing counsel.) The commissions join a growing list of Bush policies—military detention, rendition, aggressive surveillance, state-secrets-doctrine assertions, withholding of classified information (such as prisoner-abuse photos), the operation of Guantanamo Bay, etc.—that Obama has continued notwithstanding his MoveOn election rhetoric. “Our values” are turning out to be rather protean.
[...] I recently posted how Obama is taking all the Bush policies that he railed against during his campaign—and adopting them himself! In that post, I quote National Review which pointed out that another adopted policy is revealed almost weekly. Well, then, it comes as no surprise to see an MSNBC article, entitled, “Obama blocks list of visitors to White House: Taking Bush’s position, administration denies msnbc.com request for logs”. [...]