And in other news, the sky is blue!

All CNN reporters are tools.
of one form or another

So? What you gonna do about it?

And people will keep tuning in to learn what to think and the White House will continue to issue press passes.

CNNLIES

Never believe a word

Charles, you see this?

CNNLIES

Never believe a word

CNN is a tool?

Thats not really news now, is it?

I love how the MSM will put up with all sorts of restrictions from terrorists and tyrants (remember CNN is the network that censored themselves to stay in Saddam's Iraq) that they would never put up with from our government.

Releasing classified US information despite the requests of the government...no problem. Shilling for terrorists...no problem.

Gee I wonder why the double standard? Oh yeah, the MSM are the enemy.

Hey, at least he admited it, and retty soon after the story aired to boot.

I actually think thats a vast improvement for CNN.

How long did it take for Eason Jordan to admit anything?

CNN ?!? Aw Nic! Say it ain't so !

CNN IS THE CALIPHATES WHORE

and where else will you hear this story?

Caliphate News Network

If CNN had been around during WWII, they would have said "no Jews are being killed" as they toured Auschwitz, even with smoke pouring out of the crematoria.

They're perfectly willing to be terrorist tools, in the interest of "getting a story".
But of course, they complain if Israel doesn't let them give the coordinates where shells hit.

Unfortunately, correcting the historical record is more complicated than just admitting the story fell short of journalistic standards. Robertson's "frame" for the news has now been established and it is through that prism that all stories about civilian casualities are now seen through.

It's not just CNN mind you, but other media outlets that were reporting from Beirut. CNN just produced the most blatant example.

If any of the media is broadcasting from Beirut or South Lebanon one has to seriously question the honesty of the reporting (as if you didn't have to do that anyways).

When caught red-handed making, rather than reporting news, they always fall back on the "we in the news media, being a superior, more highly evolved species, are always concerned for the little guy who has no voice, yadda, yadda..." arguement. Just wait for it.

Cool, Charles (and this thread) is getting picked up by newscom.co.uk here.

Eggsellent, as Rayra would say.

Is it just me or CNN indeed toned down their anti-israel whining lately? Maybe got lotsa angry letters?

Must have been the first time ever that a terrorist gang stages such an event. So I'm as surprised as Mr Robertson. /crickets

@13 Kosh's Shadow

Wasn't Ravensburck the "show camp" for the Red Cross and others so that the Nazis could show how decently they were treating the inmates?

It's the same premise, and it's disgusting.

It is obvious to all but fellow travelers useful idiots and fools that Nic Robertson is a fifth column traitorous asshole that works for a fifth column traitor network.

I take it this is not a flying pig moment? Bastards!

All the disturbing events in the world today can be very, very stressful. For anyone who would appreciate a little comic relief, I offer this website, brought to my attention by Tammy Bruce's blog:

[Link: www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com...]

As Mark Twain wrote,

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

Thanks to CNN that lie is now taken as the "truth".

I'm sure CNN will rush to air this information to the masses in primetime to set the record straight.


^{/yeah, right}

Sorry, wrong camp; if anyone's family was a victim of Ravensbruck, I humbly apologize for my mistake.

The camp was Terezin:

One of the most unusual of the camps, Terezin is a garrison town built in the 18th century northwest of Prague. It consists of the Great Fortress and the nearby Small Fortress. The Nazis forced the residents of the town to leave in the early 1940s then turned it into a so-called "model ghetto" for the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as for prominent German Jews. An elaborate ruse was created for the Red Cross delegation that visited the camp on June 23, 1944. The delegation only spent a few hours at the camp and apparently did not discover that, for the vast majority of Jews sent there, Terezin was merely a temporary stop before being deported to Auschwitz or one of the other killing centers. Today is Great Fortress is again a Czech city, while the Small fortress is a museum and memorial.

godfrey (#18)

What is that site? The first article I clicked on was so viciously anti-Semitic it's given me a belly ache.

Grrr. The link did not print entirely. It should read "Cats That Look Like Hitler."

I'm just surprised they admitted to being whores for the terrorists.

BBC has done much the same thing for years. I had some relatives in the intelligence community overseas back when "the Troubles" were hot and heavy in Belfast. One time they asked me if I ever wondered how it was that a BBC camera just happened to be in the perfect spot to catch a masked IRA guy throwing a molitov cocktail at a car or tank. Cause they pre-orchestrated the whole thing with the camera crew to make sure they got the right camera angles, that's how.

#3 Earth2moonbat

So? What you gonna do about it?

CNN prostitutes itself to evil to get access so CNN can run a "story" on the ground in Lebanon. So CNN gets viewers, so CNN gets money from advertisers.

I don't watch CNN. And if I ever buy TV ads, I sure as hell won't buy them on CNN.

This is so dangerous. I'd like the reporters to tell the truth about that human garbage, Arafat, too. The media are the vehicles by which the savages spread their propaganda. Bastards. I hate them all equally -- the terrorists and those who enable them.

Where's the story about CNN under Saddam's thumb? I'm too tired to look for it now.

#31 Cornholio

I think CNN has totally written off the North American market. The're getting their clocks cleaned by Fox. Their cash cow markets are Europe and the mideast. They're just playing to their market. This isn't hard to understand.

zulubaby

I know, that news aggregator picks up a slew of trash propaganda from the ME and other places. I don't know what the algorithm is. Another lizard recommended it as a breaking news tool, and I've been checking on it from time to time for that reason. This is the first time I've seen LGF picked up.

Beyond that, don't know.

I told my lizardoid mate that Nick Robertson is an a**hole and I was questioned as to why I felt so strongly about that.

Now I have 'documentation' to back up my gut feel.

Can we sue CNN for false advertisement? I recall one of the N's in its name stands for "News," but now we have and admission that it should be a P for "Propaganda." Aren't they selling their services under a false label?

I think I'll refer to the "CPN" from now on.

Oh godfrey, I didn't understand why you'd linked to it. The first click landed me in a lovely Jew-hating rant by some Muslim guy in Germany. I guess it just trolls the net for stories.

Zulubaby

You must be referring to the CNN reporters who kept Saddam’s nasty little secrets of torture a secret in order to not be tortured. Even though the CNN reports could have told the real story.
As Dan Rather says: courage!
NOT!

CNN = terrorist turd sniffing international leftists

CNN sat on the truth about Saddam's various dabbles in the world ot torture (no cries of boo hoo heard from the world body and Sully either) in order to stay in Saddam's good graces.

Or something like that…

CNN = Democrat/leftists.

#31 Cornholio

And if I ever buy TV ads, I sure as hell won't buy them on CNN.

You a media buyer?

as pointed out at the above website by a poster.

allanf Says:
July 24, 2006 - 16:56
Robertson should have zero credibility. He filed reports from Baghdad describing how President Saddam was universally loved and won the last election with almost universal support. It was later revealed that CNN had compromised its integrity to stay in Baghdad and had filed propaganda reports at the behest of the Saddam government.

Roberston seems to be repeating his problem. He is nothing more than a propagandist.

He should not be a journalist.

AMEN

FrogMarch, yes, that's exactly right. I've got to go to bed but I'm looking for a link. Sooo typical. LOL.

That's good that they admitted that the terroists told them what to say. Maybe it's a start.

Got it.

CNN executive Eason Jordan admits that the network regularly covered up stories of Iraqi torture and atrocities—out of simple fear: The News We Kept to Ourselves.

A fifth column Media in a time of war has no right or reason to exist if freedom and liberty are to survive. The indivdual and the state made up of individuals must stand up to the media cartels and root out the traitors. The survival of the free world is at stake.

babbazee

CNN isn't the caliphate's whore, it's the caliph's pander.

You got LLL's who want to lie in bed with terrorists for a little multicultural walk on the wild side? CNN's got what you want. They have attractive "news personalities," too, while you wait.

CNN pimps for the cult of death. It's not the only one.

Hmm, seems that CNN has a nasty habit of doing this.

Kuwait hospital/baby incubator story anyone?

My wife says Laura Ingraham played the video clip on her radio show, and laughed the whole time about how Robertson runs like a girl. By any chance does anybody have a link to that?

Last night on Israeli TV they stitched together 3 different tours of South Beirut for Journalists hosted by the Hezbollah spokesman. At the end of each tour he suddenly looked up in the sky and told everyone to make a run for it because Israeli planes were about to attack. They all then took off like scared rabbits,and there was no bombing. Boy did they look stupid.

The Fox News crew in Lebanon/ Northern Israel this morning said that they had shot footage of Hezbollah missles being fired into Israel but were threatened by Hezbollah into not showing the footage, so that the IDF couldn't figure out where the missles were coming from.

There was a thread on Hezbollah giving guided tours to the media back on July 21, 2006.

In fairness to CNN's Robertson (which was subject to a thread on July 18, 2006) he did acknowledge Hezbollah's role in his original report:

Hezbollah officials gave CNN exclusive access to the southern suburbs of Beirut -- the area thought to house the organization's headquarters, CNN's Nic Robertson reported.

Robertson noted that his tour of the area was hurried, and he could not confirm the group's claims that civilians were being targeted or that it had no weapons stockpiles.

Source

#46 godfrey

OK...

CNN: BIG PIMPIN' FO DA CALIPHATE
and
GRAMSICAN SOCIALIST LEFTIST PAMPHLET TAKERS ARE STILL THE CALIPHATES WHORE...
and
KOFI ANAN BE DA CALIPHATES CRACK HO
LOL

see you later

CNN's price of "access": Complicity

44 Zulubaby

Excellent research skills. that's it!

I happened across Anderson Cooper on CNN last night (ugh). At least he was square with his story about being led around by Hezbo' media hacks in south Beirut. His report openly demonstrated that Hezbo' hacks were stage-managing tours of destruction, choreographing ambulance runs (no casualites - just running around with light and sirens for the cameras), he admitted being told what he could photograph and which buildings he could enter. He acknowledged that the tour was nothing more than fake propaganda designed to make the IDF look like monsters. He noted that every stop on the tour had a handy collection of ready-made victims, just waiting for their cues as the media circus marched on by.

I say kudos to Cooper for this particular report. He was straight with viewers about what we were seeing and how it was presented.

I assure you, Christianne Amanpour would have presented a completely opposite tack.

#52, Van Impe. Did you see the piece as originally broadcast? I did. It was traitorous fifth column propaganda. It should not have been broadcast without a disclaimer on every frame.

digg this story.

Hizb'allah's stage management needs to be covered.

#57 gymnast: Was this the same report with the white phosphorus claims?

Nic sports a shaved head correct?

Q. What is the difference between a "poor, dead, innocent civilian" and a "dead terrorist"?

A. The time it takes for the CNN photographer to remove the weapons and hood from the body.

CNN = Crappy News Network
(however, their sports updates aren't that bad, but then again, how can you screw up a sports update?)

I watched that Sympathy for the Devil piece the night it was broadcast. It was so obviously stage-managed I don't know why they bothered.

Israel bomb hits UN base in southern Lebanon, causes casualties

Is Hezbollah using UN observers as human shields? What are they doing in a war zone?

#56 Ronaldusmagnus
I agree with you on that one. One thing's for sure, Cooper will never get to film behind the Hez' lines again. He's their highest-rated anchor (FWTW) so hopefully this will get airplay.

As for Robertson and Eason Jordan, what they did is inexcusable, and I don't care how many post hoc apologies they can muster now. Weak little disclaimers and readily answering leading questions that wouldn't even be allowed on "Law & Order" have sunk their credibility. The segments should never have aired. Never. Manipulated news is worse than no news.

Let not forget that Hezbollah runs its own flipping television network .

So its not as if they have no sophistication with respect to propaganda or newscasting!

This is where I would encourage divestment from CNN, and anyone who advertises on the station.

This outright admission of guilt bastardizes all of those who have shed their blood to protect freedom of the press, as well as other protections provided under our constitution.

This is bullshit.

MEMRI reports Lebanese Druze militia leader challenges Nasrallah;

Lebanese Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt on Al-Arabiya TV: I Have the Right to Challenge Nasrallah's Heroism

Interviewer: "Hassan Nasrallah is considered a hero by the Arab peoples."

Walid Jumblatt: "Great, so he's a hero. But I'd like to challenge this heroism of his. I have the right to challenge it, because my country is in flames. Besides, we did not agree... In his political speeches, [Nasrallah] says: 'I do not recognize the state of Israel, and I want to set out from South Lebanon to liberate Palestine in its entirety.' This is what he is doing. If this is his agenda, I have the right to oppose it."

This story (shown as via LGF) is up at digg. I joined digg the other day, and it's simple to register or post an article. Here's where you register. Help spread LGF to the lizard-deprived.

Are there any "political" factions in Lebanon, other than Hizb'allah, that support the "liberation of Palestine" from southern Lebanon?

Hizb'allah seems like an extreme minority on this position. How are other political factions not taking issue with it?

#57

Did you see the piece as originally broadcast?

No I stopped watching CNN years ago, the smugness of Aaron Brown became unbearable.

#70, Van Impe. Know your enemy! You never know when they will be cross your sight picture.

Arron Brown, was always amusing in that he would speak while chewing on his fingers. I am sure that was a sign of some mental conflict or affliction, but I am not sure of which one. Arron Brown seemed to have so many.

He was great in "Charly" and "Brainstorm"...

oh, sorry, that was Cliff Robertson.

I SAW that piece, and thought, "sheeesh, where is the journalistic skepticism there? Where are the pan shots of all the city, untouched except for a dangerous neighborhood?"

glad he was caught.

Fuck you commie news network, i hope you all have run ins with suicide bombers.

As far as I know, the CNN editors have a lot of say over the content and delivery of a story...

ohhh wait,

you mean the other terrorists.

Yeah, they bad too.

I saw it as originally broadcast, flipping through channels (probably trying to avoid O'Reilly). I thought "whotf does he think he's kidding?" Well, probably a lot of people. But the piece was almost comical. He was like a puppet dancing to the Hizb spokesliar's tune and dashing madly through alleys -- ooo! danger! -- (and he does run like a girl). At the end of the piece the anchor made a point of saying how very brave Ric was. Funniest line of the night.

Anyway, very glad to see this posted.

fINALLY, WE ARE KILLING THE ENEMY:

Four U.N. Observers Killed by Israeli Airstrike

#56 ronaldusmagnus

I entirely agree. I read the script of the report on cnn.com and had to admit I was proud of A-C on that one. The comments under the report are fascinating. Series of great jobs and kudos for the honesty, with interspersed (is that a word) accusations of bias from someone named Muhammed or Hashish or such. Sooo transparent. So they ever think instead of just react? What is MISSING in these people?

Sorry. Nic will get NO brownie points from us for gingerly tapdancing ever-so-slightly toward the Land of Truth (under gentle prodding from a fellow CNN comrade...)

He is still the new CNN Whore of Babylon for his lifetime of cheerleading and shilling for Moozie terorists and murderers, reaching a crecendo now that his beloved Hizzy thugs are about to be eradicated.

If this is true then he has lost all integrity as a credible terrorist analyst. I lost all respect for him.

He effectively aided the terrorists in there propaganda war against Israel. As a result he aided the Left support for Hezbollah in the U.S and other countries.

# 63 zulubaby:

Is Hezbollah using UN observers as human shields? What are they doing in a war zone?

Hey, there, ZB. Be strong.

Anyway, the UN are observing the tactics and operations of their side. Amazing how corrupt the UN has been in just the last fifteen years or so. Someone with time on their hands needs to do a balance sheet of successful/unsuccessful UN operations/programs. All I know is that Kofi's name could feature prominently as the man in charge of many recent UN failures. The UN really has got to go. Our withdrawing from that corrupt cesspool would be its death knell, and deservedly so.

My # 82:

". . . Kofi's name could would feature prominently. . ." There's no presumption of innocence in his case.

Either Hizballah is "very very slick" or Nic Robertson is very, very gullible.

Don't these guys even want to be good at their jobs?

Ummm...isn;'t this a bit of deja vu relative to CNN reporting from Iraq under Saddam?

Will these media asshats never turn out an honest page?

Since the CNN reporter Nic Robertson was not forthcoming in explaining to viewers that this was all a Hizballah propaganda presentation and that he knows nothing about the real facts in this case, he owes the public a basic statement of fact: that Hizballah embeds itself in the population. Or else, CNN anchors should explain this, if Robertson's doing this would jeopardize his life, seeing that Robertson likes to hang out with the Hizballah terrorists.

Greg Palkot, a correspondent in Lebanon, has said as much on Fox News, that the Hizballah people blend into the population. Also there was shown on Fox a video of rockets in the sky coming from the city of Tyre.

Also, recently, a UN official has admitted as much, that the Hizballah people blend into the population, and that as a consequence the burden of war is borne by civilians instead of by the Hizballah combatants.

I made all of these points a week ago.

#56 haakondahl 7/18/2006 09:32PM PDT

That man with Nic Robertson is a "HEZ'B'ALLAH PRESS OFFICER".

Some CNN segments have identified him as such. Most do not.

The credulous Nic Robertson should shut his damned mouth instead of uttering nonsensical statements such as "nobody has been tidying up around here", and "I didn't see any military debris". I realize that he has issued some disclamatory statements, but on the whole, he is supporting the unproven and unproveable Hez'b'allah party line.

Look at the way the man says, "I want to say something to you--Where is the International Community? Were is the United Nations? Where is the world?" I am paraphrasing here, but when he recites this list, he glances up and to the left before asking each question. This is a dead giveaway that he is recalling a memorized list. Nothing wrong with that, I supppose, but this is staged to apppear as spontaneous, within an emotional outburst. Nic believes.

CNN is being played by the media masters of Pallywood, who are frankly better at this than CNN. Of course, part of this is because CNN sympathizes with the terrorists, and are therefore quite honestly blind to the manipulation.

Also interesting is Nic Robertson's uncurious acceptance of the man's statements that "Now there's jet fighters--we have to move". He accepts the proposition that the man is receiving news from a network of informers, and that a warning has come through. He completely ignores the possibility that the man, having said his bit, wants to rush the cameras out of the zone.

The man also says, "Thank God, nobody was killed here. Everybody evacuated before the bombs fell." Never mind the ISRAELI LEAFLETS WARNING THE CIVILIANS.

CNN stumbles over itself to point out that "Nic Robertson could not be sure that there were no traces of military hardware in the rubble, as they were going quite quickly." This sort of mealy-mouthed proof by faint criticism is the nuanced hatchet job the MSM specializes in. By giving lip sevice to a ridiculously mild critique of the veracity of their own information, they give the impression that they have presented both sides.

Why were they going quickly? Because Hez'b'allah said to.
Where did they go? Into Hez'b'allah's decimated restricted-entry compound.
What did the camera shoot? What Hez'b'allah told it to.
Why did they leave so quickly? Hez'b'allah said so.
Who said no obvious terrorist gear was removed? Hez'b'allah said so.
That is the beginning of the other side, which CNN should present but never will.

What they should have said is this:

"Of course, Nic Robertson, despite being a brave man who has seen a lot of rubble in his days, has absolutely NO IDEA what was in those apartments now that they are collapsed in a heap on the ground. The entire neighborhood, widely reported to be a hotbed of Hez'b'allah rocket launches and high-level meetings, was sealed off as a Hez'b'allah-only restricted entry zone for years before the bombing. CNN knows that the rubble of an apartment building which contained many civilian households, many rocket launchers and a terrorist headquarters is indistinguishable from the rubble of an apartment building which contained only civilan households. Perhaps if the Israelis hadn't warned all of the inhabitants before the bombing, they would be able to see a lot more evidence."

When an officer of the enemy military offers your camera a guided tour at a trot through a bombed out zone and tells you what to think about it, while issuing directions to your cameraman ("Shoot me. Here"), you are enemy propaganda.

That man with Nic Robertson is a "HEZ'B'ALLAH PRESS OFFICER". And now, so is Nic Robertson.

Let's say that Nic Robertson got shanghai'ed and felt like an ass, trotting about behind the Hez'b'Allah rep, but there his day went, and he needed to turn something in. Fair enough, I guess.

BUT

What excuse did CNN have for featuring clips from that sequence in every program which aired for a week? This must be the most-played piece of video since the Anderson Cooper Special "Tears In Rain: AC 360 goes Moist-Eyed in Nawlins!"

Why can CNN show flat-out terrorist propaganda IN WHICH THEY ARE COMPLICIT, on heavy rotation, but cannot bring themselves to show 9/11 video?

so this is modeled after the cnn bureau in Baghdad?