Solomonia Archive: Seymour Hersh Addresses the Home Crowd

Monday, February 26, 2007

In Egypt, of course...

Sandmonkey reports on Hersh's appearance at the American University of Cairo:

...the man was brought to us by the Heikal foundation for Journalism, as in Mohamed Hassanein Heikal. For those unfamiliar with the man, he wrote the book on crony journalism and regime propaganda. This is the man who crafted the image of Nasser for the egyptian people for over almost 2 decades, creating and crafting his personality cult, and then spent the rest of his days as an advisor, a writer, and occasionally a weapon's dealer. But in essence, he is an apologist for an authoratarian regime and a proagandist per excellence. So to hear mr. Hersh talking about how he is glad and optimistic regarding the future of egyptian journalism thanks to institutes such as the Heikal Foundation for Journalism, well, you can understand why I felt like crying at that moment.

However, I was immedietly distracted by the group masturbation session that followed those words as mr. Hersh started his speech. I was wowed by this man's ability to verbally give every single member of the audience a handjob. It was exactly everything they wanted to hear and nothing more. Simply amazing. This is a man who knows his audience and how exactly to bullshit them. For example, he mentioned- with the disclaimer that he has no proof of this- that the UN owed Iraq approx. 9 billion dollars for Oil sales in escrow, which was later on claimed by the US government when it took over Iraq and then simply dissappeared and vanished. He of course has no proof or sources to confirm this, but his audience is not one that needs proof in such matters. After all, we live for this shit...

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Posted by Solomon at 2:50 PM on Monday, Feb 26, 2007 | Comments (2)
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#1 Joanne | February 26, 2007 10:57 PM

When Sandmonkey speaks of Seymour Hersh, he mentions the special regard given to any anti-Israeli Jew telling an Arab audience what it wants to hear.

Regarding anti-Zionist Jews being given extra credence because they're Jewish, there is a long but worthwhile post on normblog titled "Just because you're Jewish, it doesn't mean you're right."

The post is dated Feb. 26, and it's here: http://normblog.typepad.com/.

#2 Cynic | February 27, 2007 8:14 AM

Sandmonkey's phrase:
I mean when he decribed the March 14th movement as "The US backed Sunni dominated Seniora government" I started heaving, but when he described Hezbollah as "a member of an opposition coalition with Christian catholics" I knew I was in the presence of greatness. This is a man who could distort shit so well that he could disprove gravity.

sums up the guy's ability with the
facts very nicely. Perfect for the MSM.