NYT Legimitizing Hizballah
Little Green Footballs
The New York Times has been running a series of sanitization exercises on Hizballah, trying to legitimize this virulent terrorist group as a political party, and today they give the raving freak leader of Hizballah the star treatment.
You won’t find a single mention of the Hizballah suicide bombing that killed 241 US Marines, or the rallies where thousands scream “Death to America!” Instead you get drivel like this:
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Hezbollah Leader’s New Fray: Lebanese Politics.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 12 - When Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah organization, addressed the hundreds of thousands of party faithful who gathered in the largest rally in Lebanon’s modern history on Tuesday, his usual theme of liberating Jerusalem went unmentioned.
Instead, Sheik Nasrallah, a 44-year-old bearded cleric, focused, uncharacteristically, on the future of Lebanon.
The speech was also remarkable for its venue - downtown Beirut - and the absence of the trademark Hezbollah backdrop, its green and yellow banner with a fist brandishing a Kalashnikov rifle. Manar Television, the organization’s satellite channel, ended its somewhat triumphant reporting with a tight shot of Sheik Nasrallah, standing on the balcony of a sparkling white sandstone building and in front of a Lebanese flag.
“Today Sayyid Nasrallah has become a national leader,” the announcer intoned.
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And that’s all it takes for the New York Times to jump on the bandwagon.
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