Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Uh...wow. Watch and read this. Tom Gross at The Corner: This is CNN
Earlier this month, I attended a debate for journalists in Jerusalem between two members of the Israeli Knesset: Danny Ayalon, Israel's former ambassador to the United States, and Jamal Zahlaka, a Knesset member for Balad (an Arab nationalist party), who before entering politics qualified as a medical doctor at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Both Ayalon and Zahlaka were professional, courteous, and generally reasonable in what they had to say. So were the journalists who asked the questions, including Ethan Bronner, the New York Times's senior Jerusalem correspondent.
But one journalist, sitting in the row in front of me, was far from courteous, and I have today posted on YouTube a video of her extraordinary tirade against Danny Ayalon, in which she harangues and berates him, uses expletives, and calls him "fascist, fascist."
You can watch it here:
This woman, Nidal Rafa, worked, and claims to still work, for CNN, as well as a variety of other news outlets as writer and producer. Read the rest here.
It gets worse and goes deeper and wider. See Honest Reporting's excellent special report: Exposed: How Palestinian Fixers Manipulate their Media Bosses for how the foreign press becomes a mouthpiece for people like Rafa.
What I'd like to know is who is that girl that keeps coming in from the right?
Nice Jewish Girl...*sigh*
;-)