Dems Force JihadTV to Remove Sign

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This is rich; Democrats forced JihadTV—Al Jazeera—to take down their sign at the DNC: Al-Jazeera TV network is asked to remove sign. (Hat tip: William.)

When John Kerry glances around the convention hall in Boston this week, his eye will be drawn to brightly lit television network signs — ABC News, NBC, CNN, CBS, and banners for Hearst-Argyle and Belo.

Missing from the lineup is Al-Jazeera, the controversial Arab-language TV network that often is first to carry news involving al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.

The Qatar-based network, which has 16 staff members assigned to the convention, was directed by convention officials to remove its sign. If it had remained, Al-Jazeera’s sign would have been seen by millions of television fans looming over the shoulder of convention speakers.

Convention spokeswoman Peggy Wilhide said Al-Jazeera was not singled out and the concern was aesthetic. “Frankly, we’re not providing a forum for companies to advertise,” Wilhide said. “We’re trying to create the kind of atmosphere we want to best present John Kerry and the Democratic Party.”

Of course, spokeswomyn Peggy Wilhide (no jokes about that name, please, it’s just too obvious) doesn’t say they were asked to take the sign down because Al Jazeera is the mouthpiece for virulent anti-Americanism, Jew-hatred, and jihad ideology in the Arab world. That would be so judgmental.

It’s just about the “atmosphere,” you see.

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