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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:23 am Post subject: Taranto: "Does Obama Scare Osama?" |
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I think Taranto's closing quip alone makes this commentary worth the trip...
| Quote: | Does Obama Scare Osama?
Reuters doesn't even try to hide its bias
By JAMES TARANTO
"A double blast from al Qaeda against Barack Obama shows the group is as worried as ever by the persuasive skills of the U.S. president, who makes a speech to Muslims on Thursday," Reuters "reports" from London:Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in an audio recording aired on Wednesday by Al Jazeera television, said Obama had planted the seeds of "revenge and hatred" towards the United States in the Muslim world and he warned Americans to prepare for the consequences.
A day earlier, the militant network's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri urged Egyptians not to be seduced by Obama's 'polished words' when he makes a major address in Cairo seeking to repair ties with the Muslim world. When we read this, we suspected bias. After all, al Qaeda often attacked George W. Bush, but did Reuters portray this as a sign of the American president's strength and bin Laden's fear of his "persuasive skills"?
Then again, would it really be worth our time to comb through the archives in order to prove something so obvious--to answer what is essentially a rhetorical question?
Fortunately, we didn't have to! Reuters confirmed our suspicion in the next paragraph of this very dispatch:For some, al Qaeda's concerted attempt to upstage Obama is a propaganda own goal that shows its normally media-savvy operatives in disarray following the departure of Obama's predecessor George W. Bush. They found Bush easy to stereotype as a belligerent, Muslim-hating cowboy. This is a good opportunity to remind readers of one of Taranto's Laws of Journalism: When it appears in a news story, the word some is a first-person pronoun.
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I'm betting it won't be too long before we're offered media reports suggesting a meteoric rise in American popularity in the Muslim world. |
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:38 am Post subject: |
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#1, I think you figured out why Obama took the opportunity to declare America one of the larger Muslim Nations recently.
UK Telegraph
That's some spin, Osama frightened by Obama.
Every tapped message during the Bush years was just the opposite.
Now, he releases them because after four months and no actions taken by Obama that amount to much, he sees he is defeated?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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TEWSPilot
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| Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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1. OSama hated Bush.
2. OBama hated Bush.
3. The enemy of my enemy is my friend......uh, er, let me think about this..... |
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