Galloway Hearing Videos - Our MSM At Work - Still Serving Up Biased Slop
First up is the CBC interview with Meir Weinstein of the JDL at today's aborted George Galloway Hearing. Now I realize we shouldn't expect the young lady who conducted the interview to be up on every detail of George Galloway's comings and goings so maybe whoever assigned her to cover the event should also shoulder some blame for what amounts to an ignorance of both basic facts and background to the story.
At the 1:23 mark of the video she asks Meir "Is there any evidence of that" referring to George Galloway having handed over cash directly to Hamas and personally declaring the donation to be political and not charitable. Meir patiently schools her in the facts.
"Fact, by Galloway's own admission, broadcast on several Arab television stations: "I, now, here, on behalf of myself, my sister Yvonne Ridley, and the two Respect councillors – Muhammad Ishtiaq and Naim Khan – are giving three cars and 25,000 pounds in cash to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Here is the money. This is not charity. This is politics." Not charity, but politics. Not to "doctors and nurses who hadn’t been paid," but to the Hamas gangster "Prime Minister" Ismail Haniyeh who, in fact, is not and was not the Prime Minister of Palestine."
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At the 1:53 mark the young lady asks Meir "Am I right or is your organization on the blacklist in the states". She is referring to the fact that the original United States incarnation of the Jewish Defense League was indeed once listed as a terrorist organization in the States.
Fact - The JDL is no longer listed as a terrorist organization in the US nor anywhere else other than in the minds of the of the useful idiots of the left in Canada, which is where I suspect our young CBC reporter got her information from. Once again Meir patiently instructs the "media".
Why do these questions never get asked by our MSM?
I have now had a chance to review some MSM coverage of the George Galloway hearing, with particular attention paid to how they handled interviews with James Clark of the alleged Canadian Peace Alliance. Clark is one of the useful idiots behind the legal action to have George Galloway's ban rescinded. I was willing to wager that no member of the press, including the young CBC reporter, would ask James Clark about his association with Zafar Bangash, the Islamist thug and shill for the murderous Iranian regime. I doubted also that any of the reporters would ask James Clark of the Canadian Peace Alliance about his attendance at the Cairo Conference where he and others from our "peace loving left" met with members of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhod - all terrorist organizations. I was not proven wrong.
Interesting but not surprising; not a single report discusses James Clark and his notorious network. We will change this.
Well the first Dead Tree Report is in, The Toronto Star Reports...nothing of James Clark's "associations".
Holy Crap how many CBC's are there? Here's another report check out the "on the spot" coverage, I'm certain grade school students could do better.
This is, as of this writing, a 16 hour old CBC Web piece on the Galloway Hearing - nope no questions asked about Clark's "friends" here.
The Canadian Press interviewed James Clark...gee no questions asked about his "bosom buddies"
Rabble/Babble - Abandon hope, all ye who enter here
CFRA is gay
CTV asks all the non hard questions.
C no news on CNEWS.
The Epic Globe & Fail
Gee am I starting to detect a pattern here....The failure of the MSM to pursue the real story illustrates why it was necessary and valuable for the JDL to take to the street.
Great video, BCF, thanks!
Always welcome.
Meir Weinstein was much kinder to the CBC cub reporter than I'd be. "Any proof." What, are you new?
Ah but, if CBC reporters were truly allowed to think for themselves, they'd never make the cut, and wouldn't be trusted to recite the mantra from the last taxpayer funded liberal Castle.
It isn't as if this is a new story, I was going to be alot crueler but man she seems like such a naif.
Thank God for the interwebs.
One of the problems with the left is that they seem to think that if (Hamas) terrorists and their supporters are "democratically elected" it makes them more legitimate, when in fact it makes isolating the people who so elect all the more legitimate. A democratically elected MP who supports the fascist Baath party is less legitimate, less worthy of our attention and judicial sympathy, than an unfree thug who supports the fascist party and wants to enter Canada despite the law against terror-supporting thugs. Free Canadians who support supremacist terrorists are not more daring "peace" activists, they are less legitimate spokespeople for "peace".
The media are hopeless thug lovers. Thanks for showing another voice.
Getting a "reporting" toehold at the CBC must be very stressful for a newcomer even if they have all the leftist education "cred" needed plus powerful sponsors. That one carelessly worded followup question on rookie assignment could elicit the "wrong (truthful)" answer for a preconceived politically correct snowjob waiting to go to air must be tough.
Okay, so I'll play devil's advocate here on behalf of the CBC reporter.
She couldn't turn the camera on herself and start lecturing the viewers about Galloway's actions.
She asked a fair question which then gave Meir Weinstein the opportunity to state that there was ample evidence.
A lot of the anti-JDL stuff on the internet mentions the old "terrorist" canard and for all we know it might have been mentioned to the CBC interviewer this morning by the pro-Hamas people.
So, again, her question was fair.
It would have been preferable if she had asked it in such a way to indicate she knew that JDL-Canada had never been on a terrorist list, but I think it was responsible of her to address this issue.
At least she gave Meir Weinstein the opportunity to correct the misinformation.
The important thing will be to see the end result: will the information be included and, if so, how will it be presented?
If the report neglects to mention either issue, the question will be, why? Was it because they don't want to tell the truth about those issues? Was it because both sides made opposing statements and the CBC omitted it because they didn't want to explore the issues? Or was it because they only had a limited time to tell the story and had to stick to the basic facts?
And so on.
Of course I know the CBC is usually biased in favour of George Galloway types and against Zionists. I just don't think the interviewer did a terrible job.
J, I agree with you, it was a fair question to ask of Meir, I wouldn't suggest otherwise and as you point out at least the young lady asked it even if she likely betrayed her "sources" as you and I both suspect.
We should be grateful that an opportunity to set the record straight was provided, however it is also necessary to castigate the girl reporter as the opportunity presented itself at the expense of her ill-advised attempt at a "Gotcha" moment.
With the possible exception of your last possible explanation relating to time and space constraints I maintain that the MSM holds a fundamental ignorance of the stories background complicated by a politically correct bias that inhibits their ability to provide an accurate portrayal of events.
Great media round-up and excellent video. Thanks for posting this.
Will you be posting more video, BCF?
Yea I will post more J, just been tied up, was not that eventful a protest both sides stayed on message etc, no surprises.
This is what I like . On the spot recording.
I think we really piss of some of the MSM now.
Does anyone know if any part of her interview was used by the CBC?
You know J I have yet to determine if it was ever aired.
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