Posted on 02/02/2005 2:54:33 PM PST by swilhelm73
Can't say I'm surprised that an Al_Jazeera 'journalist' was helping the terrorists.
If this were true, I don't think Eason Jordan would be around to make these claims.
Why is this man still employed?
Y'know, if we right-wingers really were half as nasty as he claims we are, he would long ago have taken up a new career, pushing up daises in some unmarked shallow grave. The fact that he hasn't does seem to kind of put the lie to his claims.
TKS' Jim Geraghty is now reporting the Washington Post is on the story (maybe). If so, they won't be able to suppress the tape or transcript. It's going to come out.
UPDATE: CNN has sent out an email to several bloggers, including us, that says:
Many blogs have taken Mr. Jordan’s remarks out of context. Eason Jordan does not believe the U.S. military is trying to kill journalists. Mr. Jordan simply pointed out the facts: While the majority of journalists killed in Iraq have been slain at the hands of insurgents, the Pentagon has also noted that the U.S. military on occasion has killed people who turned out to be journalists. The Pentagon has apologized for those actions.Mr. Jordan was responding to an assertion by Cong. Frank that all 63 journalist victims had been the result of "collateral damage."
Heck of a day, when Barney Frank is the voice of reason.
He even "offered the story of an Al-Jazeera journalist who had been 'tortured for weeks' at Abu Ghraib, made to eat his shoes, and called "Al Jazeera boy" by his American captors."
Made to eat his SHOES? (How exactly is that done?) And then, just to be really, really mean, called him "Al Jazeera boy"? This story is so absurd that it boggles my mind that anyone could take it seriously. This is a parody, right?
Amen.
This pile of feces should be made to eat his words.
Eason down, eason down the ro-hode.
Don't you mean "eat his shoes".
"Heck of a day, when Barney Frank is the voice of reason."
I'm no Barney fan but if he stood up for our troops against the lies of this CNN bigwig i'll write and thank him.
Jordan needs to be "Rosenberged".
He is a known traitor, and if the government won't take him down, the stockholders who own his company should.
Just for today, for what he did, I won't post my usual, HORRIBLE picture of Barney Frank. Although leaving it to your imagination might be even worse...
Ah, yes, CNN. If you get caught in a malicious, anti-American, anti-Military LIE, is the best solution to top it off with an even BIGGER LIE!
Don't you get it, CNN? When assertions are repeated and repeated, they can't be taken out of context. Repeated assertions ARE context. You do know this, don't you?
I have this little feeling that the mendacious "out-of-context" claim might even get a life (or should I say "context") of its own.
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Jeez, I did my best to help CNN out. I wrote the reports up as a news article ("CNN Exec Claims American Troops Executing Journalists") and sent it in on their Breaking News/Tip hotline.
Haven't gotten so much as a "thank you"...
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http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/02/02/jordan/
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