Israel Matzav

Where Obama and Hillary get their news

When al-Jazeera English was introduced to the United States in 2006, conservative bloggers called on their readers to boycott any cable company that carried the network.

Here in Israel, al-Jazeera is notorious for helping Hezbullah aim rockets more accurately during the Second Lebanon War, for throwing a birthday party for child murdering terrorist Samir al-Kuntar, and of course, for killing any flexibility that the 'Palestinian Authority' might otherwise have had in negotiations through the release of 'Palileaks.'

But under the Muslim-adoring Obama administration, all that has changed. Al-Jazeera got its first boost in the US when it was the only network on site for Operation Cast Lead. It continued with the Obama administration's efforts to 'reach out' to al-Jazeera, like the administration has reached out to other America haters like Syria and Iran. And now, reports the Telegraph's Toby Harnden, we discover that Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton are 'glued to the set' getting their news from Jew-hating al-Jazeera.

“They told us that during Egypt basically Al-Jazeera English was all they watched to try to make sense of what was going on,” he said, taking off his overcoat in the channel’s bureau on K Street, the boulevard that houses the city’s top lobbyists. The President, they made clear, had been one of those glued to the screen.

On Capitol Hill four weeks ago, Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary of State, delivered what amounted to an advertisement for Al-Jazeera to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “Viewership of Al-Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news,” she said.

“You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news.”

In London, where Moroccan-born Foukara worked for the BBC World Service for nearly a decade before moving to the US in 2001, David Cameron has also made clear he is a fan. The Prime Minister has told friends that he considers Al-Jazeera to be essential viewing, the only network that gives the texture of what the Arab Street is thinking.

What could go wrong?

Read the whole thing.

Labels: al-Jazeera, Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:16 PM