Rubbish Journalism
The New York Times is so blinded by Bush Hatred that its Lebanon reporting is becoming an insult to Lebanese intelligence.
Thanks to DBK for pointing out this outrageous piece in the New York Times on Lebanon:
“The struggle is over who gets to be the next president, a post reserved for a Christian under Lebanon’s Constitution, and which must be filled by the end of November. But the larger question — one that is prompting rival Christian factions to threaten war — is whether Lebanese Christians must accept their minority status and get along with the Muslim majority (the choice of the popular Gen. Michel Aoun) or whether Christians should insist on special privileges no matter what their share of the population (the position of veteran civil war factions like the Phalange and the Lebanese Forces).
They have to be kidding! Where does the Times find these idiots?
Aoun’s entire platform for the presidency is getting a “strong Christian leader”, and many say that his alliance with Hezbollah is a tactical move before eventually confronting them on their weapons.
It is plain irresponsible for the Times to manipulate the American Audience’s unfamiliarity with Lebanese nuance just to drive home a simplistic “Bush and his allies are evil” message.
Update: Tony has shred the piece apart.
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Hello, my name is Mustapha and I blog in The Beirut Spring about Lebanese society and politics. I started in February 2005 after the killing of P.M. Rafik Hariri.
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NY Times reporters are Jews who hate Bush. So every crap in the world is better than who Bush supports. People like Hersch have been so blinded by their hatred that they have become the mouthpiece of the murderous Syria-Iranian axis…They have people with no knowledge of Lebanon picking up their news from Landis and Cham “impress”…
If I were you I’ll ignore it. One thing for sure Hassoun and his lackies will quote it next week…
Don’t be too eager to jump… Saad Hariri’s meeting with Bush was overlooked by Elliot Abrams… It’s all over, and obvious.
Challenging religion and convention!
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I agree. I have also emailed the Ediotr to complain on the absurd remark of a Cristian Christian war in Lebanon. How distortful. After all the protestation and massive public speeches that unite Lebanese, here you have a clueless reputable news paper saying a war is going to erupt. pff.
Wow…
…I can feel my brain shrinking just from reading the quote!
Absolute garbage!
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Mustapha,
I think you are overreacting.
People who are interested in ME affairs do not restrict themselves to NYT only.
People who do not care about ME will forget that in an instance.
[...] The article’s first few paragraphs criticize the NY Times’ article that has already been ravaged on the Lebanese blogosphere. This why I suggest to the attention challenged to skip straight to the gold: So why can’t Lebanese Christians ever seem to get a break from this tedious characterization? The common answer is that their main political organization after the 1930s, the Phalange, was influenced by European fascist movements, and that one of its later emanations, the paramilitary Lebanese Forces, reinforced the same tendencies. What are these? Loyalty to a dominant leader, an often parochial sense of nationalism, a centralized command structure, a willingness to employ force, a tendency to absorb the individual into a corporate identity, and so on. No doubt a few of these characteristics were or are present in a number of Christian parties, albeit in very haphazard and very undisciplined ways. However, they also happen to typify most other Lebanese political groups as well. [...]