The lying and whoring never ends with THE NEWSHOUR these days. Ava and I noted last night in "
TV: How they lied about Iraq and how they still lie about it"
how PBS, last week, rigged the conversation about Iraq by (a) bringing
on three War Hawks and (b) not challenging even the most basic lies and
(c) letting them reset the goal posts yet again. They are lying and
doing it on purpose. Their goal is to rehab the illegal war. And they
did it again last night
Last night, they again pretended
that they just wanted to talk the Iraq War and do so fairly. Again,
they pretended they wanted to know if it was worth it. And the eight or
so million Americans who watch the program in a week, if they caught
the segment, might not have realized that they rigged it before they
started the interview. They rigged the outcome by the person they
selected.
Was the Iraq War worth it? Oh, let's ask Barham Salih!
Why?
And that's what PBS viewers should have been told but they weren't.
He's
a Kurd. The Kurds wanted the US to invade. They became
semi-autonomous due to the 90s Gulf War. They wanted the US to invade.
They also make up less than 20% of Iraq's population.
They finally find an Iraqi they want to discuss the illegal war with and, low and behold, it's a Kurd.
That's not by accident. PBS is back to selling the Iraq War.
They're abusing public funds in an attempt to deceive the American people and rewrite history.
Their
appalling coverage is not by accident. It is the result of their
rigging the outcomes before the camera ever starts rolling.
Here are some Tweets about PBS' abomination last week.
After the U.S. invaded Iraq 20 years ago, Iraqi American playwright and
actor Heather Raffo created and starred in an acclaimed play “Nine Parts
of Desire” about the lives of Iraqi women. She’s returned to the
subject on film and through a distinctly American lens, setting a new
version in Michigan. Jeffrey Brown went there to see the work for our
arts and culture series, CANVAS.
No,
she did not 'create' it after the invasion. She wrote it before the
invasion. It has nothing to do with the 2003 invasion but she used it
-- like a whore -- to sell her play. People were kind because they were
taken in. But the reality is, the story of Iraq's never going to be
told in a (bad) one-woman play.
She's a bad
paste and cutter (don't call her a playwright) and she's a bad actress.
And she does her cookie-cutter pretense on this injustice or that and
they never amount to a damn thing because she tries to tug at your heart
while ignoring the realities of what leads to the conflicts.
But, again, she wrote it before the 2003 invasion. Even that basic fact, PBS couldn't get right last week.
The US assault on Iraq
that began 20 years ago has left a toxic legacy worse than that of the
Hiroshima bombing, according to a study that looked at cancer rates and
infant mortality.
After the bombing in Japan,
the rates of leukemia among those living closest to the detonation
increased by a devastating 660%, about 12 to 13 years after the bomb
(which is when radiation levels peaked). In Falluja, leukemia rates
increased by 2,200% in a much shorter space of time, averaged just five
to 10 years after the bombings. Anecdotally, doctors in Iraq began
reporting a big increase in cancer rates as well as congenital anomalies
(commonly referred to as “birth defects”) after the US began bombing
the country. The research,
led by Dr Christopher Busby while he was at the University of Ulster,
showed that the doctors’ observations were backed up by data.
In
addition to the huge increase in leukemia, Busby and his colleagues
found a 1,260% increase in rates of childhood cancer in Falluja after
the US bombing as well as a 740% increase in brain tumors. They also
found evidence that Iraqis had been exposed to radiation, as infant
mortality rates were 820% higher than in neighboring Kuwait.
What the Tatars did to Iraq in 1258, the
Americans did again when they destroyed a sovereign country. Not even
Iraqi artefacts were spared; they were stolen along with the country's
wealth.
The US occupation fuelled hateful
sectarianism which ignited sedition, making sectarianism the most
prominent political headline for the regime that Paul Bremer, the US
appointee and de facto head of Iraq after its occupation, put in place.
He said explicitly in a TV interview that although the Shia in Iraq
represent about 70 per cent of the population, Iraq was being governed
by its Sunni minority and that it was time to fix this mistake and
restore balance to the country.
This malicious man turned Iraq into an
arena for terrorism and internal strife. He destroyed the state
institutions, dismantled the army and security forces, dismissing
officers and soldiers to be replaced by Shia militias that are loyal to
Iran. They killed according to religious identity in a country that was a
national model of one homeland and one people.
Bremer added Iraqi state officials to the
terrorist lists, including ministers, senior army officers and scholars
in order to liquidate them. It is painful to see Iraqi scholars being
targeted for kidnapping and killing; many have had to migrate to save
their lives. Despite this, some were not spared liquidation, even
outside of Iraq.
By the way, that was
one of the findings of the Chilcot Inquiry in the United Kingdom
(Bremer's disbanding the Iraqi army destroyed Iraq) -- a fact PBS
pretends to be blissfully unaware of as they allowed Paul Wolfowitz to
lie on air last week -- allowed and encouraged.
Meanwhile,
let's turn to noted homophobe and transphobe Jonathan Turley. Shutting
down productions, implementing laws where you can't say "gay" in
Florida, all of these and more should concern someone who purports to be
a free speech advocate.
Yet silly Jonathan, 61-years-old (remember that), hasn't said a peep.
Why?
Because
he works for FOX "NEWS." They pay the bills and Jonathan doesn't bite
the hand that feeds him. So while they've launched an attack on LGBTQ+
persons that has lasted over a year -- an attack so bad that they are
seeing people cancelling subscriptions to FOX NATION over it -- an
attack so bad that they've had to come up with an offer to try to get
those people back ($1.99 a month if you will just return -- but they
aren't returning) -- he's not said a word.
And he just gets more and more ridiculous.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Tennessee law limiting drag shows
on constitutional grounds. Like many, I have been appalled by some
images of very young children watching highly sexualized routines in
schools or businesses. However, many of these events are held off school
grounds and with the support of their parents. As a parent of four, I
cannot imagine taking my kids to some of these shows, but we all raise
our kids according to our own values.
What
images, you stupid ass. There's no link there. He's a Libs of Tick
Tock lover so he's probably talking about some of the stuff in Canada
but who knows. He has to hold his little nose before he can speak up.
Hold his little nose and clutch his pearls -- with his sphincter?
I
used to call Cokie Roberts out for her b.s. about "as a mother." Now
we're getting Jonathan -- 61-years-old -- writing "As a parent of four .
. ." He's ridiculous.
And one column -- one
really bad column -- doesn't wipe away your bigotry. That's all you
are, Jonathan, a bigot. Well you're a paid bigot. There's that too.
FOX "NEWS" wouldn't keep you around if you were calling out their
bigotry, would they?
Your paid to look the
other way and that's why when you're finally forced -- due to complaints
online and, yes, on campus (yes, Jonathan, I know all about it) -- to
talk about you frame it in such delicate and petite language.
As a parent . . .
Just
stop pretending. We know you're a paid whore. FOX "NEWS" owns you.
It's destroyed your reputation and it's destroying your academic
career. When you're standing looking around at the ruins of your life,
hope you still think it was worth it because this isn't over, Jonathan.
It's just beginning.
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