BUT WHAT DOES MURTHA HAVE TO DO WITH "THE ARAB STREET"???
WHY, HE'S PART OF IT, HE CREATES IT WITH "IN COLD BLOOD"!!
Posted on 09/20/2006 4:40:30 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
Remember the "Arab street," that riot-in-the-road featuring flammable Israeli flags, Saddam Hussein posters, clenched fists and chants threatening "Death to America"? The street may have lacked pavement and a fire hydrant, but it had beaucoup television cameras.
Flames, clenched fists and death threats -- a heart-pounding collage of sensational imagery and rhetoric. What more could a TV exec need to attract audience eyeballs?
Recall the talking heads who told us in 1990, after Saddam invaded Kuwait, that "the Arab street" was going to rise en masse, as an ur-proletariat, which would support Saddam against the West. If you need documentation, check out a few old PBS "NewsHour" transcripts.
But the mass rising didn't happen. Why? Because the Arab street was, to a great extent, the creation of television cameras. Political operatives -- no doubt many on Saddam's payroll -- knew they could attract the sensation-hungry camera crews and use the media to project the operatives' preferred "image of anger."
Twenty-first century Islamo-fascist terrorists, however, have refined the model and moved beyond an image of anger to a new form of prepared global ambush that integrates murder, terror and instant media.
The ambush technique coordinates blood-spilling violence with sensational imagery and rhetoric using a dispersed network of media operatives, guerrillas and terrorists. Networked, Coordinated Blood-spilling plus Sensationalism -- hence the technique's acronym: the CBS ambush.
Since May 2005, we've seen the CBS ambush employed effectively on three notable occasions, the latest being Pope Benedict's remarks at Regensburg University.
In May 2005, Newsweek ran its phony Guantanamo Bay prison "Koran flushing" story. Violent riots broke out in several predominantly Muslim countries. The riots in Afghanistan attracted particular attention. Indian military analyst Bahukutumbi Raman wrote that those riots were incited by "well-organized agents of the Hizb ut-Tahrir terror gang."
The Newsweek story gave the terrorists an emotion-laden "grievance trigger." The ambush consisted of violent riots and a prepared deluge of anti-American propaganda. The vicious riots not only attracted further global media coverage, but also intimidated Muslims who oppose terrorist organizations and their violent interpretation of Islam.
In September 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a series of editorial cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad. The cartoons attracted political protests and several violent threats, but the cartoons were no international cause celebre. In fact, an Egyptian newspaper published several of the cartoons in an article condemning the Jyllands-Posten.
But in January 2006, waves of orchestrated, coordinated violence broke out in predominantly Muslim nations and in Muslim neighborhoods. The terrorists and political operatives promoted a "clash of civilizations" propaganda line, with the cartoons as the "grievance trigger."
Pope Benedict's Regensburg ruminations provided another CBS ambush trigger.
Benedict -- in a speech that examined historical relations between Muslims and Christians -- quoted the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus, a ruler whose empire consisted of little more than the city of Constantinople. Muslim Turks had all but dismembered his realm. Manuel II, engaged in a dialog with a Muslim Persian scholar, challenged the Persian to show him "just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
An imprudent quote by a man on a global podium? Yes -- particularly since popes blessed several sword-bearing Crusades. It is, however, a defensible quotation in the context of an academic lecture. The pope pointed out the dialog between Manuel II and the Persian examined "the truth of both (religions)." But context doesn't matter when triggering a CBS ambush, only the superficial trace of historical grievance and the energy of emotional slight. The "distributed" violence following the media magnification of the pope's remarks included firebombing Christian churches (in several Muslim countries) and the execution-style slaying of a Catholic nun who worked in a hospital in Somalia. A hospital administrator said her murder was "not a random act."
Executing a CBS ambush requires the implicit cooperation of sensationalist media -- media that delight in emotional slights and rarely probe beyond the superficial. Until that implicit cooperation ends, the Islamo-fascists will continue to exploit this productive stratagem, achieving propaganda victories designed to ignite a "clash of civilizations" and brutally intimidate their Muslim and non-Muslim opposition.
It's amazing that many think the Pope was talking about Muslim/Christian relations at the time.
If I understand correctly, he wasn't. He was doing a historical review of Plato's relevance to Christian theology, and the islamic quote tied into that debate.
Islamics are just looking for someone to kill.
The least CBS could do when it airs video of these arranged riots is to do a little research on how they came about and report the truth about them. Instead, they gleefully air them without any background information so it seems like the riots just happened spontaneously.
Islamo-Fascists have learned well from Goebbels.
Don't just blame CBS. Last night PMSNBC's Hardball had Brian Williams interviewing the president of Iran. The guy was tossing out lies and Williams just moved on. I would have loved one question on how Moslems thought hosting riots and burning people in effegy was a protest of the claim that they are violent. But I was just dreaming.
I wouldn't have watched the sucker, but the roomies had it on. Since they aren't from America, I gave them a brief overview of the difference between hardball and softball.
Shalom.
Um, did you read the piece?
He's not talking about Katie's network.
Just got off phone with 4 old media friends. All still working. One in Israel, one in UK, two at network here. None had ever heard term.
I think writer was doing his own sensationalist bit in inventing that acronym.
Coordinated Blood-spilling plus Sensationalism -- hence the technique's acronym: the CBS ambush.
Reading speed - 600 words per minute
Comprehension - 0%
Or he could have used MSM ambush...that would have helped too
As the article points out CBS is: Coordinated Blood-spilling Sensationalism--CBS.
Yah, no kidding. He made it up. (That's allowed in a column.) And he's quite clear about it.
You actually surveyed people about this? Geez. A calmer read would save on your phone bills.
Mein Kampf is a best seller across the middle-east.
The above line direct from the article. Try reading the whole article next time. You might save yourself some embarassment by not making idiotic comments.
The MSM has become a propaganda mill and is being manipulated by or willingly cooperates with groups like Hezbollah to "manufacture" news that fits their own biased view. Who could ever believe they are unbiased in their reporting when obvious and crudely faked photos, blatantly phony documents and stories and clearly staged photo sessions routinely appear in their coverage as news.
Does any sentient being still fall for rent-a-riot?
>The above line direct from the article. Try reading the whole article next time. You might save yourself some embarrassment by not making idiotic comments.
The point was that this so-called acronym is not currently used. It was made up solely for this article, and was designed to incorporate the initials of the network, and thereby give the incorrect impression that it was, in some way at least, associated with CBS TV
I doubt we would enjoy a supposed acronym of "Fascist Rednecks Enjoying Everything Puerile, Eviscerating, Racist and Stupid" for Klansmen and Una bomber types.
You might try reading understanding and comprehending the whole article next time. You might save yourself.........
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