Jim Pinkerton, staffer for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and a senior campaign adviser for Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign who is a long-time Foxaganda contributor
underscores his right-wing bona fides again:
Fox News analyst Jim Pinkerton suggested on Monday that Al Jazeera’s new American television network might have an editorial policy that was supportive of “killing Americans and so on” because he said that was what most Arabs wanted.
In preparation for Al Jazeera America’s Aug. 20 launch, Fox News host Jon Scott noted during a Monday segment that “some charged” that the network’s Middle East counterpart “gave a voice to terrorists.”
“But what about the editorial side of it?” Scott asked Pinkerton. “I mean, Al Jazeera, many people saw it as a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden because that was the channel that regularly aired his diatribes right after 9/11.”
“Well, I think there’s something to that,” Pinkerton agreed. “But look, they’re an Arab news channel, and let’s face it, many — if not most — Arabs probably support what bin Laden was trying to do in terms of killing Americans and so on. The polls from the Pew Center certainly show that.”
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UPDATE: In addition to the dangerously bigoted Al Jazeera idiocy Pinkerton spouted and contrary to his claim, here's Igor Volsky:
The Pew surveys Pinkerton cites actually came to the opposite conclusion. “In the months leading up to Osama bin Laden’s death, a survey of Muslim publics around the world found little support for the al Qaeda leader.” The survey, conducted in 2011, found that “[m]inorities of Muslims in Indonesia (26%), Egypt (22%) and Jordan (13%) expressed confidence in bin Laden, while he has almost no support among Turkish (3%) or Lebanese Muslims (1%).” On the anniversary of bin Laden’s death, another Pew poll concluded that al Qaeda is still “widely unpopular among Muslim publics.” |
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2003—Blair knew:
The judicial inquiry into the Blair administration's
case for war hit the mother lode, with evidence Blair knew Iraq was no threat.
In a message that goes to the heart of the government's case for war, the Downing Street chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, raised serious doubts about the nature of September's Downing Street dossier on Iraq's banned weapons.
"We will need to make it clear in launching the document that we do not claim that we have evidence that he is an imminent threat," Mr Powell wrote on September 17, a week before the document was finally published [...]
Downing Street also faced severe embarrassment yesterday when the Hutton inquiry was told the prime minister's official spokesman in an email had described the government's battles with the BBC as a "game of chicken."
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Tweet of the Day:
It's worth remembering that in the ruling on stop & frisk, the judge found that "in 98.5% of the 2.3 million frisks, no weapon was found."
— @AriMelber
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Kagro in the Morning show: the Miranda/Greenwald story, about which we got a few comments in from
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