tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post1521868784962191941..comments2024-01-22T04:45:58.881+02:00Comments on Simply Jews: "Innocence of Muslims", "Sam Bacile", cheap scoops and Faux NewsGideonSworthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13951672633294843881noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-42062438306640267842012-09-16T13:45:13.952+03:002012-09-16T13:45:13.952+03:00Yep, it's unfortunately true about journos. An...Yep, it's unfortunately true about journos. And of course, my beef with Fox wasn't because they were like everyone else, but because they weren't different, if you see what I mean.SnoopyTheGoonhttp://simplyjews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-72848240662222730332012-09-16T11:15:43.766+03:002012-09-16T11:15:43.766+03:00Fox Schmox. In an unusually strong move for a left...Fox Schmox. In an unusually strong move for a lefty rag Tablet has done the footwork to round up the original suspects:<br /><br /><br />"It all began when the Wall Street Journal and Associated Press published notes from an interview with Sam Bacile, then thought to be the producer behind the film that is said to have been the catalyst for the riots at U.S. embassies in Cairo, Tunisia, Yemen, Iran, and even Israel. Bacile told both the AP and the WSJ that he was an Israeli-American and that he raised $5 million from “100 Jewish donors” for the film."Both the WSJ and AP, in an exercise of stenographic journalism, dutifully published those two details about Bacile’s nationality and his donors’ religions, all without knowing whether Sam Bacile was the individual’s real name or whether he had actually produced the film. In fact, it took the Wall Street Journal an entire day after publishing these details to conduct a records search on whether the name Sam Bacile was even real. (That records search turned up no references to any men in the United States by that name.) By that time, there were already 17,000 Google search results. The other U.S. newspaper giants—the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today—all parroted these details, as did the large city-specific ones."Including, BTW, the Jerusalem Post. And probably other Israeli newspapers I can't read because they write in Hebrew.More at: http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/112248/beware-of-even-numbers?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=419ad88a05-9_15_2012&utm_medium=emailDick Stanleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-5921410783358405082012-09-16T10:43:44.882+03:002012-09-16T10:43:44.882+03:00You can't be serious.You can't be serious.Dick Stanleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-17963792315827991942012-09-14T19:36:59.408+03:002012-09-14T19:36:59.408+03:00This is not about a stupid movie. If it was why h...This is not about a stupid movie. If it was why hasn't the Muslims in the US and the rest of the West not rioting?<br /><br />This is about something very different.KatieNorcrossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-75401394093727781432012-09-14T18:21:33.290+03:002012-09-14T18:21:33.290+03:00I'm sure Mo Farah and many others including th...I'm sure Mo Farah and many others including the great majority of muslims will be bemused to know they are at war with you.Shaun Downeyhttp://www.facebook.com/people/Shaun-Downey/536793401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-81011267029118838242012-09-14T18:14:13.804+03:002012-09-14T18:14:13.804+03:00Oh, that for sure. Many were just looking for an e...Oh, that for sure. Many were just looking for an excuse to riot against the West.SnoopyTheGoonhttp://simplyjews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-66299091929285469152012-09-14T18:12:14.402+03:002012-09-14T18:12:14.402+03:00I am not picking at Republicans, of course, in thi...I am not picking at Republicans, of course, in this post. I am indeed picking on Fox, since of all the media Fox is less than others expected to push anti-Israeli drivel. And notice the list of Fox misdeeds in that last article.SnoopyTheGoonhttp://simplyjews.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-67904600241578181582012-09-14T17:13:20.982+03:002012-09-14T17:13:20.982+03:00So Nakoula pretended to be Israeli to deflect att...So Nakoula pretended to be Israeli to deflect attention away from himself? An ugly little shit stirrer.<br /><br />Then again that does not mean that some Muslims should have reacted in the disgusting and murderous way they have. It does not excuse what has happened at allShaun Downeyhttp://www.facebook.com/people/Shaun-Downey/536793401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18234909.post-68027773526579438632012-09-14T14:37:04.332+03:002012-09-14T14:37:04.332+03:00Why pick on Fox News and the Republicans? The famo...Why pick on Fox News and the Republicans? The famously-leftist Democrat "National" "Public" Radio had exactly the same story. It came from AP, after all. And slipping the Republicans in there is unfair, since they had no known part in the exercise. <br /><br /><br />Of course they don't vet AP stories. They have to rely on something, since they're all in the business of "cheap scoops." And, so far, I see no monopoly on Israel bashing.<br /><br /><br />Maybe you should backtrack altogether and try to figure out why this alleged "Israeli Jew" wound up being cited by whoever AP's (probably unidentified) source was in the first place. Probably some Fed, since all news organizations rely on pols and bureaucrats (and cops and bureaucrats) with their well-known penchant for lying,<br /><br /><br />Of course there's no reason to blame any filmmaker or any news organization for what the loony goat rapers do. That's what these savages are programmed for by their mullahs, every Friday. We're in a war with them and the best we can hope for is that most Muslims are not combatants. Since the Musselmen outnumber us by what, a factor ten? Or worse?Dick Stanleynoreply@blogger.com