Is Janeane Garafalo calling the shots at Al-Jazeera?
As amusing as the capture John Adam, a.k.a. Cody, a.k.a. G.I. Joe has been; I started to wonder how the Arab / Muslim world perceived the recent events. I started out doing a search for Arab blogs, not much information on our action hero could be found there. Next stop the king of all Arab media, Al-Jazeera.
I started with a search for John Adam: results – nothing.
Next a quick search for Cody: results – nothing.
Maybe their search features don’t work to hot, I’ll poke around a bit surely they have something mentioned on their site about the hoax.
After about two hours of skimming headlines I found no mention of our captured hero. Does he even exist in the eyes of the Arab media or is our brave Cody just another casualty of war??
I went back and read several of the more interesting headlines I saw along the way while searching for Cody. While I found nothing about the mistake the main stream media made, what I did take away from the review was a sick feeling in my stomach. Were it not for my convictions and staunch anti-liberal mindset I’d almost be able to sympathize with the people in the Middle East that hate the US and what it stands for. The propaganda machine at Al-Jazeera could make Adolph Hitler look like the patron saint of tollerance, peace and happiness. I was and still am totally in awe of how a media giant that bills itself as an organization that will: “cover all viewpoints with objectivity integrity and balance.”
A strategy, but not one for freedom: This article from May describes George Bush as a fundamentalist Christian who constantly talks about his "crusade" in the Middle East.
US reform threatens Arab identity: Does a great job of describing how the United States’ hope for a free and democratic Iraq is nothing more than a ploy to destroy thousands of years of culture and to stop out the Islamic Faith.
US initiatives for reform: Is and interview with Danielle Pletka, vice-president for foreign and defence policy studies at the Washington DC based American Enterprise Institute for Public Affairs Policy (AEI), here the pictures are worth 100,000 words. When she says the US isn’t in a quagmire in Iraq the editors promptly insert a picture of a burned out Hummer.
It’s no wonder to why the Arab world hates the US if Al-Jazeera is the number one media outlet. The terrorists killing Muslims in Iraq aren’t called terrorists, they’re “Fighters” and their targets are the occupying forces. I found plenty of articles describing how the US was leading a war ON Iraq or AGAINST Iraq. There were also plenty of statements that categorized Westerners as Crusaders out to Colonize the holy land once again.
Maybe I’m naïve, but it seems that with the successful elections that took place just a little over a week ago there would be some toning down of the Anti-Western stance. But instead the propaganda giant has decided to use its influence to state that the United States is using the recent elections to legalize the occupation of Iraq.
I’m starting to think that the 10 – 12 journalists killed Eason Jordan mention may have actually terrorists with cameras and that Al-Jazeera is an offshoot of CNN.
Then again it could quite possibly be that Janeane Garafalo is calling the shots over at Al-Jazeera and that would explain just about everything.
