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Ya, it’s really bizzare to send this guy to do news stories… but on the other hand most news sources in gaza seem to only print what Hamas wants them to print. I guess it’s bias from both sides.

Are you suggesting that Sean Penn and JTP are opposite sides of the same coin, Gene?

Are you suggesting that Sean Penn and JTP are opposite sides of the same coin, Gene?

I’m suggesting that they are about equally qualified to practice journalism.

Why don’t we wait for his reporting, Gene? I don’t have especially high hopes, but who knows? Unlike Sean Penn, he certainly knows how to ask questions powerful people don’t want to hear.

And next, in true Spinal Tap fashion, journalists only allowed to interview people with whom they share a first name or a surname.

Oh wait, the BBC did that already with Victoria Wood doing a series on Queen Victoria and Oona King doing one on Martin Luther King.

Why don’t we wait for his reporting, Gene? I don’t have especially high hopes, but who knows?

Gene always unleashes his inner snob when ordinary folks dare to try their hand at the professions of the liberal elite, whether it’s journalism or politics.

I suggest you worry more about CNN and UK’s Channel 4 who are currently airing the latest release from PALLYWOOOD!

I’m suggesting that they are about equally qualified to practice journalism.

Ah, ok. You had me worried there for a second. While the kookometer doesn’t peg out with Spicoli, it’s definitely in the red. :D

Gene always unleashes his inner snob when ordinary folks dare to try their hand at the professions of the liberal elite, whether it’s journalism or politics.

Oh, I have an abiding faith that Gene is appalled at the idea that Caroline Kennedy may be appointed to the United States Senate. He just hasn’t said so, yet.

Oh, I have an abiding faith that Gene is appalled at the idea that Caroline Kennedy may be appointed to the United States Senate. He just hasn’t said so, yet.

I am, actually. But that’s another topic.

Gene wrote:

I’m suggesting that they are about equally qualified to practice journalism.

What qualifications does one need to practice journalism?

I would have thought basic literacy, the ability talk and interact and most importantly honesty and intellectual honesty.

What qualifications does one need to practice journalism?

One may not be a Republican plumber.

I am, actually. But that’s another topic.

So is the appointment of Burris to the Senate, and the rather painful u-turns by Reid and Obama.

We’re all dying to know what you think about it, Gene. Don’t be shy.

I would have thought basic literacy, the ability talk and interact and most importantly honesty and intellectual honesty.

Sean Penn was clearly lacking on the intellectual honesty front. I guess we’ll find out about JTP.

PJTV is a breath of sanity after the nausea of Newsnight. The Frank Gafney interview was particularly good.

ref: “JTP was agreeing with a McCain supporter that a vote for Obama was a vote for the death of Israel”.

Maybe, Gene, it’s a little premature to discard that as Joe’s mad ravings and further evidence of PJTV’s unreliability, ehhh?

Maybe, Gene, it’s a little premature to discard that as Joe’s mad ravings and further evidence of PJTV’s unreliability, ehhh?

I guess if Obama could hoodwink three-quarters of American Jews into voting for him, then anything’s possible, huh?

ref: “I guess if Obama could hoodwink three-quarters of American Jews into voting for him, then anything’s possible, huh?”

As the story, maybe apocryphal, goes: three quarters of the Jews in Pharaoh’s Egypt opted to not split with Moses and three quarters of the German Jews thought it best to stay and take their chances with the Nazis.

As the story, maybe apocryphal, goes: three quarters of the Jews in Pharaoh’s Egypt opted to not split with Moses and three quarters of the German Jews thought it best to stay and take their chances with the Nazis.

Ah. Perfect analogies.

HPH is way over the top, I think.

ref: “Ah. Perfect analogies.”

Not the point, which was that three quarters of the Jews, probably like about three quarters of any of population, are friggin’ clueless about how/where our interests and safety are and are not served.

Dealing with HPH and our resident Israel-haters. Does life get any better than this?

I guess if Obama could hoodwink three-quarters of American Jews into voting for him, then anything’s possible, huh?

Call me unimpressed. In 1976, Israel’s Best Friend For Evah!, Jimmy Carter, hoodwinked 87% of American Jews into voting for him.

Flash! Grauniad says Obama fixing to play nicely with Hamas:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/08/oh-my-three-sources-tell-guardian-obama-plans-to-talk-to-hamas/

Flash! Grauniad says Obama fixing to play nicely with Hamas:

If that’s the same thing I read earlier, it say that “sources close to the transition” say the Obama is “prepared to” open a intelligence agency backchannel to Hamas. I would be surprised is such an arrangement doesn’t already exist.

ref: “…a intelligence agency backchannel to Hamas. I would be surprised is such an arrangement doesn’t already exist.”

Actually, given Pres. Bush’s prioritization of personal and political loyalty; his poor relationship with the CIA; and his poker-playing skills, I’d be surprised (and dismayed) if in fact such an arrangement did exist.

Its truly absurd. Perhaps Pajamas Media is a bit short of cash; their funding has always been a little opaque too.

Oh, Look: “Today on PJTV: Cliff May, Micheal Ledeen, Austin Bay and Megan Ortagus from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies provide commentary and analysis on the conflict in Gaza.”

That will be a balanced discussion then. Not one sided at all!

It’s slightly ironic that folk like Pajamas Media always accuse the BBC of bias, and then set up a panel discussing Gaza which includes three out of four panelists from the same neo-conservative think tank, and the other panelist a conservative! Media bias? Not us!

ref: “funding has always been a little opaque too…”

Your insinuation is maybe also a little opaque, Benj. Are you intimating that Pajamas Media is somehow beholden to those same unspecified forces who also determine its “unbalanced” discussion of Gaza? He who pays the piper, ehhh?

Last I heard, Pajamas Media doesn’t have a fleet of blacked-out vans loaded with techno-gizmos cruising the streets of America to triangulate and thence duly punish any proles who haven’t forked over, willy-nilly, the proper tithe to their moral and intellectual betters in professionalized broadcast journalism.

What, pray tell, is PJM’s obligation to provide “balanced” content according to Benj’s or anybody else’s judgement and desire… besides that of its management? And of course, also of its absolutely voluntary subscribers, who if they don’t like the tilt towards neocon think tanks, are quite free to withdraw their support.

What, pray tell, is PJM’s obligation to provide “balanced” content according to Benj’s or anybody else’s judgement and desire

Absolutely none. The BBC, however, has an obligation to offer balance. However, I note the irony. Presumably they want the BBC to be balanced - they claim it is biased.

However I strongly suspect that if the BBC was simply biased towards their perspective (as in their stuffed panels) there would be no complaints about the lack of balance then.

Who knows - they may even then call it ‘balanced’ then, that’s what Fox News actually advertises itself as!

It’s always good to see Gene take a break from supporting Israel and spend some quality time smearing working class folks who also support Israel. Can’t have ignorant proletarians joining the club, you know. It’s better to die with your nose in the air than to share a platform with the help.

Hanoi

I am not sure how many voluntary subscribers Pajamas has. It also has money from advertising. Would love to who its main funders were initially, and perhaps still are, but they’re not telling! It’s all a bit of mystery, which of course is apt, as Roger L. Simon is CEO. Personally I shall never forgive Simon for co-writing the script for the worst film Woody Allen has ever been involved in!

The BBC interview, I learnt that you can compare Gaza with Warsaw, Jews with Nazis, in any possible combination or aggregate, but you cannot compare Islamic Totalitatarianism, or certain aspects of Islam, likewise, on air, on the BBC. The BBC has always been like this! They even allowed Goebells through secret messages concealed in Swiss Tobelerone Chocolate to publish casuality figures, on the home service, in the name of balance and fair play.

It’s always good to see Gene take a break from supporting Israel and spend some quality time smearing working class folks who also support Israel. Can’t have ignorant proletarians joining the club, you know.

Do you think anyone actually falls for your contrived class war outrage?

I would have thought basic literacy, the ability talk and interact and most importantly honesty and intellectual honesty.

Now that’s comedy gold.

Well this is genius. Not sure how funny it is though, given the nature of what’s going on…
http://lone9gunman.livejournal.com/20052.html