Thread: Obama urges cable companies to carry Al-Jazeera

We have enough terror apologists in the media already without an entire station devoted to obscuring the truth being beamed into America's homes.

February 14, 2011

Obama administration official urges cable companies to carry Al-Jazeera

Ed Lasky

AL Jazeera is filled with anti-American propaganda. It is also awash in anti-Semitism. The material broadcast stokes terror and violence.
Why would the person who Barack Obama appointed to be the Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, Juliette Kayyem, advocate American cable companies carry the channel-a channel that cannot help but inflame tensions and anger and one that is not known for unbiased accuracy.

From an op-ed by Kayyem in the Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/edito ... l_jazeera/

FOR THE past few weeks, a parallel plot line to the revolutions in the Arab world has been playing out in the media. With rare exceptions, the largest American cable and satellite providers simply do not provide viewers access to Al Jazeera English, the cousin to the powerful Qatar-based world news network. AJE has launched a full-fledged campaign - including advertisements quoting, of all people, major US news figures - to convince cable carriers to open their programming. But most have declined: Burlington, Vt., is the closest city to Boston where viewers can see the network on television.

AJE's battle with the cable carriers is major news in the Middle East. Not carrying the network sends a message to the Arab world about America's willingness to accept information, unfiltered, from the very region we spend so much time talking about. These television wars began not in Tunisia or Egypt, but in Iraq.

We have enough terror apologists in the media already without an entire station devoted to obscuring the truth being beamed into America's homes.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... icial.html

Dis-mantel the American way of life bit by bit.

Neat article.

Look who's trying to get more Americans watching the antisemitic, anti-Israel network.

February 17, 2011

Pushing Al Jazeera on Americans

Ed Lasky
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Recently, the Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times) published an op-ed by Juliette Kayyem advocating that more American cable companies carry Al Jazeera

What could go wrong? What harm could more inflammatory misinformation cause? Al Jazeera is filled with Muslim speakers promoting anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and calling for violence.

Have we not learned anything the last few years about how people such as Nidal Hassan can be driven to kill by propaganda?

But what is of interest is the background of Juliette Kayyem: President Obama appointed her to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. One would think that a key official at the Department of Homeland Security would see the danger of Al Jazeera being broadcast all over America. Maybe another president would have perceived the foolishness of choosing to appoint such a person to such an important position of power.

Furthermore, she hails from Harvard's Belfer Center. This was the congenial home for none other than Stephen Walt who wrote (along with John Mearsheimer) a screed against Israel's supporters in America (Christian and Jewish ). He also advocates a weakening of ties between America and Israel and rapprochement with the Muslim world.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... rican.html