Max Blumenthal's latest video was posted on the Huffington Post and quickly taken off by site administrators. Blumenthal shared that an administrator told him the video didn't have “any real news value.” Well, with that in mind, here are some headlines that were posted on Huffington over the weekend:
- 'Hangover' Premiere: Boobs, Ugly Glasses And Bradley Cooper (PHOTOS)
- Carradine Had Rope Around Genitals: Thai Police
- Hammer Time! Baggy Pants Making A Comeback
I'll admit I didn't dig too deep to find these, they were just on the homepage, the first two appeared under "Most Popular on HuffPost."
I would have been fine to let it go, and accept the site for what it is, until I saw Edgar M. Bronfman's post today - "A Real Two-State Solution." Bronfman, the former CEO of the Seagram Company Ltd. and the former president of the World Jewish Congress, uses the post to blame the Palestinians for the failure of the two-state solution. To accomplish this he repeats almost all of the most tired hasbara cliches about the peace process. One example - "It is worth remembering that, historically, Israel has always embraced every Arab hand that was extended forward in a true gesture of reconciliation and co-existence." Is there anyone who still believes this, after Gaza, after Lebanon, and with the Obama administration itself implying that Israel is the greatest impediment to an end of the conflict? My question to the Huffington Post - Where is the "real news value" in this?
This is an important issue: how the Huffington Post is going to treat one of the central foreign policy issues of the Obama administration? They have a track record for publishing pieces like Bronfman's. Mort Zuckerman's also come to mind. Going over to their Middle East topic page where the leading headline is "Suzanne Mubarak's Summery Style" (I'm not making this up) didn't ease my concern.
It seems the Obama administration is wanting to change the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this country so that it is more based in a balanced view of history and the on the ground realities. The media is going to play an important role in this, and in some cases will have to lead the way, opening the discourse and sharing the realities of life in Israel/Palestine that are so often ignored. The Huffington Post needs to decide what role they are going to play in this shift. They can either help lead or they will be passed by on this important issue as outdated conceptions of the region fall by the wayside and a new understanding of the conflict takes hold.
Huffington Post and its denial are typical of corrupt Establishment left-liberalism. Clearly the Statist Left does not want to disturb the winning coalition that includes Jewish Zionism (11% of House Dems and 20% of Senate Dems are Jewish Zionists), nor the electoral strategy of assembling racial-grievance blocks, in part by deliberately keeping them tribalized and dependant upon welfare. Had Israel been kicked off of American welfare decades ago, Zionism would be moot. But then the corrupt Statists of Left and Right wouldn’t have had Israel to manufacture all manner of pretexts as to why America must engage in perpetual social engineering and run all of the money earned in the provinces through Washington to do it.
i have come to like and respect HuffPost, but if they continue to be a pipeline for Zionist propaganda, I will say adieu.
HuffPo is to the Neolibs what Pajamas Media is the Neocons. One might as well complain about a viper's fangs.
Huff Post is financed to the tune of 25 mil. It is only natural that some of their funds will be coming from zionists so they have to be careful in what they post. But one heartening element is in the comments section to two Zuckerman articles I followed. It is quite clear that a majority of their readers are ready for a change in US Israeli relations. They completely reject the old narrative and are ready to back what appears to be Obama's more even-handed approach to the conflict. If they ignore these sentiments, they will lose their most intelligent readership and simply end up as an empty net version of People Magazine. They are in the process of finding their voice — suck up to their financial backers or lose their readership.
"Our highest responsibility is to the truth. The truth is not about splitting the difference between one side and the other. Sometimes one side is speaking the truth … The central mission of journalism is the search for the truth." -Ariana Huffington Huffington Post's website is well-organized, but avoids real discussion in the comments section. They allow idiots to comment, but will block serious issues like I/P. It's sad, but all too common. ABC online, pulls the same crap.
I agree. I must admit that I do not feel the same about the Huffpo as a result. With what appears to be their current editorial policy, they will play it safe and do little to broaden one's understanding of this critical but important issue. A meaningful peace in the region will be almost impossible without it. One might as well just listen to Limbaugh, Hannity and others of that ilk on this topic. Huffpo will not be that much different. They are more comfortable in recycling old canards that validate one's views about the I/P conflict rather than making people think more critically. Too bad. One question: was Huffpo's decision purely editorial or did financial considerations come into play? Thoughts?
In other words, they've been bought off by the Zionists. Same story for the Democratic Party, which was bought off decades ago and has stayed bought, and the GOP, which was bought off by the Zionists more recently. The problem isn't the marketplace of ideas. The problem is partisan hacks and materialists who are willing to look the other way, sell out the country and sell their very souls in exchange for power and money. This is an innate character flaw born of the post-Christian Western "ethics" of hyper-materialist Capitalism, atheism, narcissism, and power/government worship.
Bronfman was more accurate than Adam Horowitz. There is no confident negotiation partner among the Palestinians. Why would you seek to dismiss that reality, instead of doing what you can to effect it. Hamas is not possibly a negotiating partner. At best they will negotiate only hudnas, and Israel will not pursue negotiations with them that results in billions of dollars flowing through their accounts. I'm blown away by people like Finkelstein that claim that Hamas is not corrupt because their leaders aren't as wealthy as Arafat was. Diverting funds meant for development to arms, is a corruption to my mind. Or, accepting armsfunds, and training from Iran corrupts the concept of uncorrupted democracy.
Aha the true Witty comes out of his closet. He is now hinting that "there is no one to negotiate with". He is backing the obstructionist zionist position of the last decade. "There is no on to talk to". This is the cover for expanding settlements. Please Witty, please stop saying that you support the two state solution. Because you are against the only process that will get us there. I have not yet figured you out. Either you are quite stupid and can't make the obvious connections or possibly very dishonest who will dissimilate, obfuscate or deflect any solution that will end the era of the occupied territories.
In Huffington Post: The Bible's Vindication of Obama's Middle East Strategy Robin Wright essentially calls Palestinians beligerant and vindictive. I wonder what he calls the IDF rampage through Gaza (or the Jewish Americans in Max Blumenthal's video). In Insert the Zionist Phallus to Achieve a Diaspora Orgasm: Adam Sandler’s ´Zohan¡ as the New Jewish Hero David Shasha argues:
Who is being belligerent and vindictive? Wright has a major confusion about the nature of the history of scripture versus history within scripture. Even though it probably refers to an earlier period of Persian rule, Esther was probably composed quite late in the Hasmonean period. It is quite vindictive: Every Israel Advocate a Madoff.
The Huffington Post: Israeli-Occupied Territory Why is the Huffington Post carrying water for the IDF? Follow the money … http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13990 …"When Arianna nabbed $25 million from Oak Investment Partners, of Palo Alto, California, she was acquired by a financial network that also has significant investments in the Israeli arms industry – an industry, I might add, directly subsidized and controlled by the Israeli government." …"In her odyssey from the Newt Gingrich right to the Obama-ite left, the founder of the Huffington Post personifies the utter vacuity of our age, the emptiness that has nothing at its core but an ideological vacuum waiting to be filled by the dictates of fashion and commerce." …"How and why this came about is well-documented by professors John Mearshemier and Stephen Walt, in their book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy [short version here], but a new riff on their theme is the extent to which the online media have been co-opted by the Lobby – in this case, bought outright."
Witty, is it your diaspora liberalism or your racist Socialist Zionism that prevents you from being a responsible conservative Jew willing to make common cause with responsible conservative Muslims (who also appreciate the tenets of family, faith, and moderation), in order to end the dispute? You ignore the context of decades-ongoing epic abuses perpetrated by racial-socialist Zionism, and profess dismay at the extremism of Hamas. I have to wonder if there is any such animal as a moderate political Jew. I have to wonder of Jewish culture mandates bi-polarism, and will settle for nothing less. Even you “moderate” Zionists seem insistent on making any kind of rapprochement an impossibility. All you do is point fingers and curse the Muslims as backward, extreme, and irrational. Are there any conservative Jews of good faith out there anywhere, or is that a cultural impossibility, an oxymoron?
Actually the opposite. I am suggesting that Hamas join a unity government even as it will diminish its resistance status. Thats if you want peace. Israel is a tough one too. Its reasonably claimed that there is noone to negotiate with there. If Netanyahu is convinced to negotiate earnestly, then that condition would be changed, as the parties comprising a willing negotiation would be a solid majority.
excuse me… yes the behavior in this video is deplorable, however I would encourage all your readers to check out MEMRI where you will find reams of racist, vile content in which Islamic clergy or Arab leaders slander and libel Jews in general and Israeli Jews in particular… you can choose from hundreds of videos, simply excerpts from Arab news and television broadcasts. In addition, MEMRI has a rich trove of up-to-date text-based content including such dandies as a recent piece by an Egyptian government official about how http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjec… target=”_blank”>pigs are descended from Jews or excerpts from a recent Hamas television program portraying Jews as drinking Arab blood. This is the tip of the iceberg. Does the failure of Huffpo to report these stories color its objectivity? Hardly. But in the face of a constant deluge of hateful antisemitic propaganda from Islamist terror groups vying for international legitimacy or a torrent of venomous fiction channeled through the official protocols of Arab governments, one contrived homemade video that depicts inappropriate comments from a few intoxicated American Jews is hardly a story.
There is no confident negotiation partner among the Palestinians. Why would you seek to dismiss that reality, instead of doing what you can to effect it. Hamas is not possibly a negotiating partner No that is not the opposite. Does the meaning of the words you write have any relevance at all to you. Anytime you almost say something, and you are called on it, you immediately retract what you just said and try to argue it meant something else. There are words for this — let me see if I can find one. Is it weasel,? oily, maybe. Maybe just slime. There has to be something better than these.
You missed the next clarifying statement. Stop the accusations. You can ask what I mean if it confuses you.
Huffington Post’s problem is that Arianna Huffington put a PR flack in as Political Editor. Hilary Rosen, the former president and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with a lobbyist staff of 72, worked there for 17 years until 2003. So who did she work for? Bronfman and his record company, Universal Music Group, among many. To put what Rosen did over her 17 years into perspective, here’s what C. Delores Tucker, the founder of the National Political Congress of Black Women, had to say about how she ran RIAA: "In terms of children, the RIAA is the most destructive lobbying force in America. It is incomprehensible that anyone with an ounce of concern for children would be demanding the promotion, distribution, and sale of gangsta/porno rap to children." Anything to make a buck. And Rosen presided over it. 17 years. Now she’s currying favor with her former friends by giving them carte-blanche at HuffPo. But it aint news.
Puff the Magic Dragon . . .
Ed, you're right. HuffPo is now fully corrupted by the same powers that have converted the MSM into a high octane hasbara machine. Bronfman? Mortimer? These guys are "honest" about the I/P situation? Adam is spot on about HuffPo tough choice: lead, follow or get out of the way. The only source of real, objective news on i/P is the so-called "fake news" of Jon Stewart's "Daily Show." The intellectually dishonet idiocy of Congress and the MSM is perfect fodder for Stewart's acerbic wit. A telling moment occurs on the Daily Show when Stewart pointedly asks NBC's David Gregory why the MSM is so slanted in favor of Israel in its I/P coverage. Before Gregory can respond, the studio audience bursts into spontaneous applause. PS – Check out Max Blumenthal's latest hit total for his "Hate in Jerusalem" report on YouTube. Almost a quarter of a million hits(!). Of course, YouTube has suppressed its stats and "honors" under pressure from special interest groups, but what the hey, it's so popular now there's a "remix" version . . .
Arrianna Huffington is the former wife of a millionaire Republican, who was once a Congress person representing a district in CA. While she was married she voiced conservative policies. Huffington is not a leftist, nor is Huffington Post a leftist or liberal internet news aggregator. The Huffington Post is mostly an opinion website that hardly ever exceeds a moderate position, but does feature titillating entertainment news, with pictures. Its association with Bronfman and Zuckerman, as well as the source for its name, makes it an elitist media org, with little to offer other than commonly held platitudes and the occasional topless photo.
syvanen I don't quite know what you mean about witty 'coming out of the closet' Every single post he's ever made is in defense of israeli abominations and against any concrete steps aimed at a just settlement. He's a Zionazi to his rotten marrow.
i think mister obama has in mind something quite similar to the "geneva agreement" of 2003, an agreement by nongovernmental israeli doves and moderates of the PLO. certainly such an agreement will not be reached with netanyahu as prime minister and it will not be reached if Hamas has anything to say about it. since netanyahu has just been elected and hamas is well ensconced in power in gaza, it is not clear how such an agreement is going to be reached. nor is it clear what the american conversation is going to contribute. mister horowitz advocates a one state solution, so what would he really know about what mister obama is advocating? also who would rely on him to decipher implications from mister obama's statements?
There is never a clarifying statement. Just more ambiguity, you always leave a small opening that you can slither through if someone challenges the most reasonable interpretation to your words. You came very close to saying "there is not one to talk to". This is the line of the most extreme defenders of the the WB colony. I called you on it. Now you crawl away, spewing obfuscations in your wake.
There was a period after the civil war and into the 1960's that black Americans referred to each other as mister [last name]. I heard it frequently as a child. It was explained that this formal, respectful form of address was a reaction to the many insults that blacks received from the white racists in this country. My family would also use mister or missus when addressing or introducing black acquaintances to show respect. Today that custom is obsolete. Your use of 'mister obama' reeks of disrespect and condensention. I presume you are Israeli. If you come here I would like you to show some respect for our president. Of course, you and your kind (as has been so well documented by Max) can try to undermine President Obama with your racist slurs, but I think that is a tactic that will cost you dearly.
dear syvanen, you are an idiot.
if you bothered to read my post other than the first four words you would note that i am supportive of el presidente, the honorable, the most high, the most significant obama's proposals. but you are too busy getting caught up in the trivial. if president obama doesn't want to be called mister in the comments posted on mondoweiss, he should let me know.
This goes to exactly what I was talking about, how the mainstream left-liberalism's coalition partners will pimp racial grievance (e.g. destructive rap) in order to profiteer, and keep racial minorities angry, isolated, alienated, bitter — indeed to create a culture of those characteristics that keeps many of them in the ghetto and on the welfare dime. They then say: vote for us, because we won't cut off the welfare. They're basically selling dependency, throwing a few bones to the decaying neighborhoods they've helped to create, and taking the rest for their themselves and their Plutocrat partners. These demagogues don't want to liberate anyone; they want to enslave them on the welfare plantation and profit politically and financially from their misery. It is no coincidence that left-wing governments historically and almost invariably eventually turn their guns on the very downtrodden they profess to be oh-so concerned for when the economics of their scam result in scarcity for most, and a tiny minority of wealthy and powerful inner Party Plutocrats who have plundered and decimated the country for their own enrichment. [cont'd]
From the former Soviet Russia, the Jews of this type eventually made their way to Europe, the US, and Israel. And today, they and their collaborators are running the entire West into the ground. Their sick culture of misanthropy and profiteering is to blame. Certainly, the Statist Right is guilty of war profiteering, oil imperialism, and wars for Zionism, but the Statists Left's misanthropy is always hell-bent on turning its guns both outward and inward. How much of this is a consequence of Political Judaism's bitter contempt for non-Jewish humanity?
Come on Huff Po Bradgelina, boobs, toobs and lubes. A mix of a few insights with Hollywood garbage and definitely blog clogs on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Huff Po will not touch this issue honestly or fairly, Firedoglake finally opened up Oxdown so that folks could touch the issue, but the main bloggers at Firedoglake will not touch this issue with a 10 foot pole. As Jane Hamsher said "it's not time yet" Well when the fuck is the time 20 years ago. Crooks and Liars is also Israeli Occupied Territory . Oh they will write about the issue when pressured and then pretend they were not/ Justin Raimando has the greatest article called Huff Po Israeli occupied Territory. Best debates going on at Juan Coles, Washington Note and now at Mondoweiss. Thanks Phil and Team.
Here's five words for Arianna: Neocon means never any accountability.
Another divide is coming, between those that pursue mutual humanization and those that dehumanize habitually. Mutual humanization is credible, reliable, and will result in peace, even if the Waqf has an Israel halfway through it. But that Israel then has a path to be a good neighbor to a good neighbor.
"the media is going to have to lead the way" That would be Juan Cole, Washington Note, Mondoweiss, Information Clearing House, C-Spans Washington Journal Diane Rehm tries to be fair and balanced on this issue. We are not going to have CNN, MSNBC, Firedogllake, Huff Po, Crooks and Liars lead the way on this critical issue. This will be up to you Phil and your team along with the above mentioned. If Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Olbermann develop some chutzpah or their producers think it will improve their ratings then that may change. Until now it's the few blogs, BBC, the Independent, Guardian a few radio outlets here in the states…who will keep the ball rolling. thanks for all you are doing…the tone and focus has shifted the last few years…more honestly
RE: "The Huffington Post needs to decide what role they are going to play in this shift." MY COMMENT: I think it's pretty clear that they have made their decision. I no longer visit the "Huffington Post" except on the rare occasion when there is a link to a specific article that appears to be worthwhile.
mister obama? He's President to us.
park it, sweetheart
I back syvanen up 400,000%, yonahred. Piss off.
so far Huff Po has demonstrated that they refuse to be fair and balanced on this issue. that site is filled with commercials and is clearly Israeli occupied territory. Check this out Background A boy from gaza Fresh from the success of the Viva Palestina: Lifeline from Britain to Gaza aid convoy – which took over 100 vehicles to Gaza from the UK, Member of Parliament, George Galloway has linked up on his US tour with the Vietnam veteran and peace campaigner, Ron Kovic, to launch a similar, but even larger venture from the States. Galloway announced the initiative at a 1000-strong meeting in Anaheim, South California, rounding off a packed-out, coast to coast speaking tour highlighting the Palestinian cause. “There’s a new atmosphere in the US over Palestine,” says Galloway, “the phenomenal response to this tour demonstrates that.” Ron Kovic, whose story was immortalized in Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, will be the co-leader of the convoy, which will travel from New York City to Egypt before making its way across the Rafah border into Gaza. Viva Palestina: The USA Convoy to Gaza is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, but individuals and groups from across the nation are organizing locally to generate support for the convoy, which aims to raise 500 vehicles and $10 million of humanitarian aid. “And what better day to head off,” says Galloway, “Than July 4 – Independence Day!” http://www.vivapalestina-us.org/
here is where this web site has reached. if you disagree with the dogma of the site, you are called a nazi and if you use the term mister to describe the president, you are guilty of a racist slur. let's here it for free speech on mondoweiss! hip, hip, hooray!
i apologize to the flag to apple pie and to betsy ross, you sensitive morons. you can call people nazis, but if someone says mister instead of president, off with his head.
Maybe these stories will be considered news worthy at Huff Po. Settler filmed shooting Arabs in Hebron won't be tried : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-ea... IDF beat bound and blindfolded children: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-ea...
I would guess financial.Almost all Greeks are pro palestinians.They are aware of their next door troublesome zionist neighbour.Ariana ,i beleive,is aware,but keeps mum.
Like MRW said, that's PRESIDENT Obama. Keep that in mind.
I guess you are Israeli. And you continue to belittle our president with your childish sarcasm. It is hard to believe. Your standard of living is dependent on American welfare payments. And as soon as we ask for some co-operation you hysterically attack with vile racist slurs the man that the American people chose as their president. Keep up with your insults, things are changing within the American polity,it might not be that far in the future that we will decide that you guys are not worth the costs. BTW, I have never used the word Nazi to describe zionists or Israelis. But you are definitely infected with a good dose of racism.
I am sick and tired of hearing you blather. all of us will bring something off topic in the threads, but you do it ALL the time. I see you have been frequenting this site: http://www.israelactivism.com/home. Hasbara tactic, change the topic and steer it in another direction. You racist Chabad moron. I see where your wolf in sheep's clothing personality comes from.
MEMRI is a rabidly right wing Zionist group whose raison d'etre is to demonize Arabs and Muslims. MEMRI cherry picks the Arab media looking for the worst of the worst, and when necessary simply takes things out of context, and at times produces translations that are highly distorted, or just plain wrong.
Juan Cole is a propagandist, that has no concept of truth.
How can Hamas join up with an obvious puppet entity owned by the opposition?
Does Firedoglake still devote a whole subdomain to the rantings of muscular pseudo-leftist Spencer Ackerman? It's a shame — Marcy Wheeler is great fun. It was Marcy who invented the wonderful nickname "pig missile" for White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, for reasons I won't get into here.
president obama's message is one of hope and thoughtfulness. your message is one of triviality and anger. you only support obama's title, you exhibit zero support for his message.
i can't assert regarding the accuracy of memri's translations or what they pick and leave out, but they happen to include tapes other than the worst of the worst- people who support peace and modernization in the arab world. arabs who are critical of arab society.
went through your comments to see what makes you tick but when i got to this one: it's not the truth and it don't hurt your not my pal take your pick