Reuters Sickens Us All by Its Bias

It is most interesting to see how the mainstream media's initial breaking stories betray their inherent anti-Israel bias. Then when their attention is called to this, they quietly change their articles, without acknowledging the initial bias.

For the second time in three weeks, Reuters has shown what they really think of Israel.

On March 12, Reuters referred to the IDF as "Israel's occupation forces" - an anti-Israel term used by Arabs only. They silently corrected that.

This time, Reuters headlined its story about the terror attack today this way:

Jerusalem bombing kills woman after 7-year lull


And then it says:

Police said it was a "terrorist attack" -- Israel's term for a Palestinian strike. It was the first time Jerusalem had been hit by such a bomb since 2004.

I grabbed this from the Reuters-UK feed, because the American version was quickly changed (and the UK version might be changed by the time I post this.). The headline is now

Bomb explodes near Jerusalem bus, 1 dead, 30 hurt

and the other sentence has been turned into a lie:

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion, which Israeli police termed a Palestinian "suicide attack."

No one said this was a suicide bombing!

But back to the initial headline. Reuters is saying that there has been a seven year lull in bombings in Jerusalem.

This is not only a lie, but it is intentionally misleading.

The last suicide attack in Jerusalem was in September, 2004. But there have been other suicide bombings in Israel since then, as recently as 2008 (Dimona.)

But let's say that Reuters is only talking about Jerusalem, for some reason, as if terror attacks there are different than those in the rest of Israel. The last fatal terror attack in Jerusalem was a man being knifed to death in October, 2008, and in July 2008 three Jerusalem Jews were killed by a terrorist who rammed into them with a bulldozer.

But let's say that Reuters is only referring to roadside bombs. There was a pipe-bomb in Gilo, Jerusalem only a couple of weeks ago, and a sanitation worker lost his arm in the explosion. Obviously the intent was to kill there as well.

So Reuters, by seemingly referring only to the lack of major, fatal bombings in Jerusalem itself as a "lull," was consciously trying to minimize the number of terror attacks in Jerusalem - in the headline of an article about the latest attack!

Not to mention that Reuters pooh-poohs the term "terrorist attack" as some sort of Israeli propaganda when a mere 38 people are injured and only one dead. Reuters instead refers to it in more military terms: a "Palestinian strike." No doubt the lady who was killed was a legitimate military target as well, in Reuters' writers' minds.

They say that you can find out how people really think when they are drunk or sleepy. In reuters' case, you can see how they really feel in the initial bulletins after Jews are killed.

(h/t Zach)
Elder of Ziyon

Clarence Dupnik, Pima County AZ Sheriff, Blames AZ Political Culture for...

" He was a political radical" "He was left wing" "As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal" Loughner's leftwing high school friend Caitie Parker ("I went to high school, college, & was in a band with him")

Despite the evidence of the shooter's leftwing politics, the leftist enemedia and culture terrorists are in full assault on the American psyche, blaming Republicans and our most effective leaders, spinning their bold-faced lies and using this terrible mass murder to destroy people and the tea party.

The politicians: Arizona State Senator Linda Lopez, who blamed the tea party on FOX News before the gunman was named. Lopez blamed the tea party without any basis in concretes or any knowledge of the identity of the gunman.

Jewicidal Jihadism from the Left

Goldberg completely ignores Spencer's shredding of Goldberg and Gerecht. They never responded, they never even attempted an answer to Spencer's response to the hit piece by Goldberg and Gerecht. This is what they come back with, that I'm a Terre'blanche supporter? This is Goldberg's gutless attempt to save himself. Goldberg would have been one of those people who dressed up as a woman to get onto one of those lifeboats on the Titanic. Who gives these people jobs? Who put these people in positions of influence? We are thirsting, and they're giving us seawater to drink. Answer Spencer's charges, you weak intellectual cowards.

This is how the left operates. They lie and their quislings repeat the lie in the hopes that no one checks and they can continue to destroy all that is good and decent and right.

I never expressed support for Eugene Terre'blanche. Ever. They have nothing on me. They must create a nazi narrative out of whole cloth, in this they mimic the nazis. Same MO, same SOP.

I challenge Jeffrey Goldberg to point to one place where I ever said I supported Terre'blanche. And yet that's his headline. Liar.

Jeffrey Goldberg, something of a Jewicidal jihadist and would-be annihilationist of Israel, ignores my numerous refutations of this libel. I fiercely disagree with Terre'blanche's ideas, but I don't believe he (or anyone else) should be viciously hacked to death for their ideas by supremacists. Apparently Goldberg is a supporter of vigiliantism. I am not.

Goldberg echoes co-conspirator, Hamas linked CAIR's talking points, and steals their talking points. Surprised? Me neither. These anti-semites deserve each other.

Via Little Green Footballs, a fascinating report about the bigoted blogger Pamela Geller's fascist friends in the English Defence League. I also didn't realize that Geller was a supporter of the South African fascist Eugene Terreblanche, but it makes sense:

The genocide of Boers taking place in South Africa is never spoken of. Particularly the Boer Farmers -- it is called Plaas Moorde. In America you find little to no dialogue about the genocide of thousands of farmers in South Africa, because it's black against white. It is politically incorrect to call attention to the deaths of these human beings. And we have been taught to believe that the ANC and Nelson Mandela are the "good guys." The western media has made all whites in South Africa out to be racist monsters. This is simply not the case, and I would remind people that one of the steps to genocide is to dehumanize the target -- dehumanize the Boer. What is happening in South Africa against the White population is a crime against humanity. Savage. And no one will speak of it.

It is of course comforting to know that Geller is ecumenical in her racism: She fears bloodthirsty Muslims and savage blacks in equal measure

Every post on South Africa, every one that I have ever written, makes clear that I reject apartheid and white supremacism. The bottom line is, no one deserves to die like that -- white, black, whatever.

And as far as the EDL goes, the English Defence League came onto the scene after the grotesque attack on returning British soldiers by Muslims in Luton. (More here.) Anyone with an ounce of decency would stand with the EDL. They are accused of having neo-Nazis and racists in their ranks, but actually they expel anyone who manifests such tendencies; they have Hindus and Sikhs among their ranks, and even boast a Jewish Division.

Attacks on the West, the Jews, and unbelievers in general are ongoing and relentless; yet no media or political elites dare to speak about the open Jew-hatred and calls for genocide at the pro-Palestinian rallies in Europe and America against Operation Cast Lead in January 2009. Instead, the media focuses on EDL rallies, concentrating on rumors and fringe characters who attach themselves to the group before being expelled. The media never covers the actual speeches, positions, and people of the EDL. They hold the EDL to an impossible standard, while holding the Muslims and Leftists to no standard at all: no matter how barbaric the Left’s rallies get, the media covers for them.
Atlas Shrugs

Blumenthal Busted! ABC Caught Inciting Debate for Cameras

"Geller's pogramists".................punk.

Remember Boobenthal's vile antisemite's slanderous tweet here? That wasn't a racist, that was ABC News. Evil schmuck.

Alan Baginski wrote at facebook:

One video that I was in was posted on Youtube but some Liberal Jerk off who faked Titled the video - [anti muslim rally at ground zero] when in fact it was a rally against the ground zero mosque, the ass was trying to deceive people into thinking it was a rally against Muslims in an attempt to ...make us all look racist. while we were doing a reflection for the 911 victims, a Man in a white cap waltzed in the crowd and started with racist rhetoric and got the people upset and we started to chant no mosque no were! the liberals ran to him and when he was on camera he said we assumed he was muslim and went off on him. watch the video. and because of the title it got hundreds of thousands of hits you can look it up at that title. these Liberal#### are sneaky son of a bitches. I can be seen at 7 seconds into the video in front of the red truck with the big orange poster. look up -

It was a set-up folks, by.............ABC news. Andrea Lafferty exposed all (check out her letter below)

In 1989 during my first gig as an investigative reporter with the Guam Tribune, my editor sat me down and I've never forgotten his warning, "It's the job of the news media to report the news, not incite it."

Tell that to ABC News. (Newsbusters)

Andrea Lafferty, Executive Director of the Traditional Values Coalition, sent me a opy of the letter she sent David Westin: President of ABC NEWS from

Dear Mr. Westin:

I am alarmed by an experience I had with employees of ABC News during a demonstration against the proposed Ground Zero Mosque in New York on Sunday, August 22, 2010.
As the rally concluded, thousands of the participants marched the one block from the rally site to the actual site of Ground Zero.

It was there that I noticed a man in a black shirt with a phone camera, aggressively questioning a gentleman with a sign which read “No Sharia Here.” This man was haranguing the gentleman with the sign. A reasonable person would have recognized it as provocation, which exceeded the bounds of any legitimate interview technique.

"It's the job of the news media to report the news, not incite it."

His line of questioning was very aggressive, disrespectful and condescending. He did not like the gentlemen's answers and pushed the point: Why do you feel threatened? What are you afraid of? Why can’t you answer my questions?---type of thing.

I took the attached photos after witnessing this inappropriate and excessive behavior. I originally thought the man in black was a supporter of the mosque or some kind of fringe activist. At that point, I did not know his true identity.

A cameraman was standing nearby watching. I asked him who he worked for--he said ABC News. I then asked if the man in the black shirt was with him. The ABC cameraman said yes.

Later, I observed the man in the black shirt getting into the ABC News truck and putting on the sound equipment.

At that point, it became clear the man in the black shirt was also an employee of ABC News. The ABC cameraman also witnessed his colleague’s aggressive behavior –and did nothing to stop him.

Clearly, this ABC News employee was attempting to provoke a confrontation with participants, so ABC News cameras could record it and then use the footage. He was, quite literally, attempting to stage and “make” news.

By anyone’s standards, this exceeds the role of a journalist who is supposed to seek facts, truth, etc., in explaining the disagreement over the mosque.

Clearly, this man has a point-of-view, and he attempted to use the cover of ABC News to advance his personal views. Who else knew about this attempt to “make news” or encouraged such behavior? Was his superior/producer involved? What is the policy of ABC News concerning such behavior? If events are too slow or uninteresting, do ABC News personnel have a responsibility to spice them up by provoking the participants?

I am deeply offended that representatives of ABC News attempt to stage manage and color such serious public policy debates, treating it like Saturday morning wrestling, and then present it as factual reporting each night in American living rooms.

I strongly recommend that both these ABC News employees be fired. There should be no place in journalism for people who behave this way and use their positions as journalists as cover for advancing their personal agenda or the agenda of their bosses.

Thank you,
Andrea Lafferty
Executive Director
Traditional Values Coalition

It's media bias when you slant the news to fit a desired agenda.