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One thing can be said about establishment media propagandists: they never miss an opportunity to manipulate the public and make it think they way they want it to think. And they aren’t nearly as subtle as they think they are.
The contrast couldn’t be more stark. When Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) died last summer, the Associated Press headline was “Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a ‘hoax,’ dies at 89.” But when Hezbollah top dog Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike Friday, AP ran a piece entitled“ Charismatic & shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.” After howls of outrage and cascades of ridicule, AP altered its headline, but it wasn’t by any means alone. In their coverage of Nasrallah’s death, several establishment media outlets have made it unmistakable: they love jihad terror mass murderers far more than they do patriots or even establishment Republicans.
Even after it was revised, AP’s story reads like something out of a Hezbollah fan magazine. Nasrallah was “an astute strategist.” He was “idolized by his Lebanese Shiite followers and respected by millions of others across the Arab and Islamic world.” He even “held the title of sayyid, an honorific meant to signify the Shiite cleric’s lineage dating back to the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam.”
Nasrallah was also, AP tells us, “a fiery orator” who was “viewed as an extremist in the United States and much of the West.” Note that while Nasrallah was only an “extremist” in the U.S. and the West, the assertion that he was an “astute strategist” is presented as sober, objective truth.
AP wasn’t alone. Not to be outdone, the Washington Post said that “among his followers, Mr. Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide. He was lauded as the man who empowered Lebanon’s once downtrodden and impoverished Shiite community and protected it from Israeli incursions by turning Hezbollah into a formidable deterrent force.” He spoke in a “folksy yet articulate manner that established him as a skilled orator.”
The WaPo even went so far as to award Nasrallah the left’s coveted victim status: “The death of his 18-year-old son, Hadi, in a battle with Israel in 1997 burnished Mr. Nasrallah’s leadership credentials, establishing him as a man who had shared in the suffering of those battling the Israeli occupation.”
The New York Times was just as hagiographical, noting that “in Lebanon, Mr. Nasrallah developed a force of thousands of grass-roots fighters — schoolteachers and butchers and truck drivers — and used religion to inspire them to fight until death, analysts say, telling them they would have a guaranteed spot in heaven.” He “enjoyed tremendous devotion from Hezbollah’s Shiite Muslim base, who saw in him a charismatic religious and political leader and military strategist who had dedicated his life to ‘resistance,’ or the fight against Israel and American influence in the Middle East.”
None of these three revered news outlets bothered to mention the fact that there was a bit more to Hassan Nasrallah than a portly, lovable lug who led a “resistance” struggle. None of them quoted one of his most notorious sayings: “If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.”
That was in 2002. But Nasrallah did not grow mellower with age. Early in Aug. 2024, a spokesperson for the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations announced, according to the Jerusalem Post, that Hizballah “would begin deliberately targeting Israeli civilians.” This was after a Hizballah rocket killed twelve Druze children who were playing soccer in a field.
Nasrallah shared his Iranian masters’ hatred for the U.S., as he made abundantly clear as far back as 2002: “Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute…. Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, ‘Death to America’ will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: ‘Death to America.’”
Hassan Nasrallah was, in short, a bloodthirsty jihad terrorist who was responsible for the murders of innumerable civilians, as well as 241 Americans at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. The fact that AP, the Washington Post, and the New York Times portrayed him in death as a wise, avuncular, visionary leader only reflects an unpleasant but undeniable fact: they hate America as much as Hassan Nasrallah ever did.
Here’s an excellent summation of the demon terrorist Nasrallah in the Jerusalem Post.
May his name live in infamy, and those who praise evil as good be cursed:
https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-822794
NYT: all the filth that’s fits our printers
WaPo: Democracy dies in our darkness
AP = Arab Press
The AP Propagandists doing all they can to give aid to the enemy and maybe a total Boycott of the M.S. Media/AP Bottom Feeders is in Order
Lebanese Christians and Jews were the ones who were “occupied”
There have been many Lebanese people celebrating the death of hezbollah. They are the ones who can change the situation.
This seems to be a common theme in Gaza and in Iran – that there are ordinary people who would like freedom from their Islamist rulers in all three areas. Maybe there is a need for them to work together, so that sympathetic Iranians go to the help of the Lebanese, on the understanding that the Lebanese will return the favour once Hezbollah is dismantled.
When Jews stop subscribing to the New York Times and start subscribing to the New York Post or the New York Daily News, then a different tone will be set across the wider legacy media.
I gave up on the NYT entirely twenty years ago.
“Observe, in literature, the emergence of a thing called ANTI-HERO, whose distinction is that he possesses no distinction — no virtues, no values, no character, no significance — yet who occupies, in plays and novels, the position formerly held by a hero, with the story centered on his actions, even though he does nothing and gets nowhere. Observe that the term “good guys and bad guys” is used as a sneer — and, particularly in television, observe the revolt against happy endings, the demands that the “bad guys” be given an equal chance and an equal number of victories.” – Ayn Rand, “The Cult of Moral Grayness”
Oh please, not another abstract homework assignment.
Contrast the DNC press corps with how they write up islamic leaders who ally themselves WITH America. They find them to be flawed, and support those leaders to be removed.
Pervez Musharraf was the elected leader of Pakistan in 2001 & allied himself with the U.S. That was useful to America, especially in the wake of 9/11.
When he fell from power is was to the cheers of Democrats & their courtier press in 2008.
Long before that was the very westernized Shah of Iran. Carter & the press favored him out, because he wasn’t perfect. THE one major flaw they saw? He wasn’t a rabid islamic fanatic who hated America.
So any obituaries of former U.S. allies are written up as “the SOB tyrant had his downfall coming!”
Two shockers here.
1) The media lies spinning the terrorists as the just, and
2) The fools who believe the lies.
Bill Cooper was right, we are losing the information war.
Still fighting the Bush wars aren’t you.
what everyone has omitted is that nasrallah is in HELL along with all his counterparts . despite what most people believe , there is a hell . otherwise there is no justice . death is only the cessation of a physical existence , the soul ends up in hell . nasrallah along with his murderous mates have a specific place prepared for them , no paradise ! wailing and gnashing of teeth the order of the day and its eternal as well as the fact that they dont know that there are others sharing their fate which is why its called hell . you dont get to compare notes .
“And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of
the wicked, yea, who are evil—for behold, they
have no part nor portion of the Spirit of the Lord;
for behold, they chose evil works rather than good; therefore the spirit
of the devil did enter into them, and take possession of their
house—and these shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be
weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth,
and this because of their own iniquity, being led
captive by the will of the devil.
Now this is the state of the souls of the wicked,
yea, in darkness, and a state of awful, fearful looking for the fiery
indignation of the wrath of God upon them; thus they remain in this state,
as well as the righteous in paradise, until the time of their resurrection.”
Alma 40: 13-14
Write obits for the authors of those articles. Dox them in the first line. Write some highly detailed splatter murder. Date it for the future. Mass mail it to the prisons, homeless shelters and insane asylumns.