Rivers of Exile

Washington Post disgusts, again August 30, 2006

Posted by Delilah in : General, Islam/Arab Phobia, Washington Consensus, World, Lebanon , trackback

Update: CAIR has the transcript (pdf) [via AntiWar.com]

The two authors of the paper on the Israeli lobby that created such a fury last spring about all the usual zionista crowd in politics and the media - aka AIPAC assets - were in town this week. They spoke at an event hosted by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and was broadcast on c-span. It can be seen here. They basically reiterated their analysis of the destructive influence of the Israeli lobby in our politics and media and offered a full-fledged analysis of the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon - as a case in point. And… they named names, boy, did they ever, including Chris van Hollen, our poor excuse of a Rep. in the House - himself a proven AIPAC tool.
If you watch carefully, you’ll see this WaPo’s gossip scribe, squirming on the edge of his first row seat - clearly uncomfortable for some reason. If you read his nonsensical account of the event, you’ll know why: poor a-hole dude was sitting in a room full of Muslims, listening to criticism of Israeli influence in our policies and media! Yikes.

What is a poor beltway gossip monger to then do to redeem himself in the eyes of the kewl beltway, AIPAC owned, crowd, eh? Well, he mocks the good professors, that’s what he does and points to the fact that:

they are hosted by a Muslim group
then they are giving an interview to Al Jazeera!
they have Germanic sounding names and blues eyes, don’t you know!
they only cite the percentage of Americans who didn’t support Israel in its latest murderous attacks on Lebanon, not the percentage who DO, INDEED, support it

In other words, BS - and the arguments made by the professors certainly remain unchallenged. For all the gory details, do see Justin Raimondo’s take down of the superfluous, irrelevant, beltway gossiper.