tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79492458914756317812024-02-19T02:57:44.199-05:00Huff-WatchDocumenting and exposing Huffington Post's anti-Semitism and incitement of hate against Jews, the U.S. military, conservatives and the Tea Party.HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.comBlogger358125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-8884290347722404072015-10-16T07:48:00.001-04:002015-10-16T07:49:37.607-04:00HuffPost uses staged photo to mimic, embolden jihadi hate against America<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With obviously-staged photos and incendiary allegations like this, there can be little wonder why jihadists must love HuffPost - and have for a <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/11/want-to-give-back-to-us-soldiers.html">very</a>, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/huffpost-incites-muslim-hatred-against.html">very</a> <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">long</a> <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/huffpost-smears-us-military-again-this.html">time</a>. Think about it: if the Taliban, Al Qaeda or ISIS hired a professional photographer to create an iconic anti-American propaganda picture, would the end result be much different than this? Actually, <a href="http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2013/05/12/9741651b-c3cc-11e2-a43e-02911869d855/thumbnail/620x350/f0a9d1b46b641ccea2c196583c3ff5bc/pakistan_drone_protest_157744309.jpg">no</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This "news" <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/10/16/huffpost-rise-morning-newsbrief-oct-16_n_8310884.html">headline</a> appeared at the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibcWppz4mD_M1ERgfnV47SEvpNNgVjHZQ5k9cxP9bfbTDL7Psp7RgnkONl1JeMQdTDp3jkbCXf2PFgb1tY-tLxUp4TySOFl-GqaDfyM4Rnpv_OOeWWsdFRaoV9t7TJJTokpo9LXbXwJzta/s1600/16Oct+HP+SELF+PROMO+-+USM+MURDERED+BOYS+FAMILY+-+STAGED.jpg">top</a> of HuffPost's front page, October 16, 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-54248158067308303022015-08-19T21:39:00.000-04:002015-08-19T21:46:01.961-04:00HuffPost top "news": "'Fat Jew' is a 'F*cking Dick'"<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On August 19, HuffPost published the following item <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO9IDx-c2qNjWJLeC05T1X3iOYK7WEcDpr4IpmhA2Aa2Z5xtPIO4Og0Vucsv8hZhMcYfkYNTRet8y3JpvmNbNHR5VJ5C5z0d84p9-4QmMudHHvmph5ik0uh1ClU8TVxfFg3Ovh2Y9BDJnk/s1600/19Aug+FAT+JEW+AS+NEWS+TOP+2.jpg">near the top</a> of its front page - as "news":</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/08/18/comedians-paul-scheer-rob-huebel-call-out-the-fat-jew-hes-being-a-fcking-dick_n_8006450.html">Paul Scheer And Rob Huebel Call Out 'F*cking Dick' The Fat Jew</a></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An excerpt from this top-line <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/comedians-paul-scheer-rob-huebel-call-out-the-fat-jew-hes-being-a-fcking-dick_55d38a41e4b0ab468d9eb29a?kvcommref=mostpopular">"news"</a> story:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"He's being a f*cking dick, </b>and he's probably a piece of crap, but it's also on those platforms," <b>Huebel said of The Fat Jew </b>in a Tuesday conversation with HuffPost. [...] "I think the issue that's really bad about it is that <b>[The Fat Jew] is profiting off of it,"</b> explained Scheer. <b>"He's not just a thief -- he's actually making money off of people's stuff."</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is it shocking that HuffPost would publish such an inflammatory, <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-sharansky-f04.htm">anti-Semitic</a> screed on its front page, as "news"? Which uses the same old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Jews">meme</a>, that Jews are thieving, greedy, conniving, subversive charlatans? Not exactly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is part of the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">anti-Semitic</a>, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">anti-Israel</a> venom that HuffPost has been publishing for at least the past six years, as HUFF-WATCH has been meticulously documenting. A (small) sampling:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/08/huffpost-front-page-headline-romney.html">HuffPost front-page headline: Romney chased by "pack of Jews"</a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/08/81909-huffpost-publishes-anti-semitic.html">Swedish Article Suggests Israeli Troops Kill Palestinians, Harvest Organs</a> (at right) </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2015/03/huffpost-iranian-mullah-worth-quoting.html">HuffPost: Iranian mullah worth quoting in full; Netanyahu... "Bupkis"</a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/11/huffington-post-hamass-mouthpiece-in-usa.html">Huffington Post: Hamas's mouthpiece in the USA</a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/08/huffpost-jews-trying-to-control-nyt.html">HuffPost: Jews trying to control the NYT!!! (Silence on Hamas media restrictions)</a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-huffpost-even-more-anti-israel-than.html">Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here's the proof</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Insofar as HuffPost enabling lunatics to launch such inflammatory ad hominem attacks against anyone else (putting aside the anti-Semitic venom for a moment), it's also worth recalling that when <b>Andrew Breitbart, </b>HuffPost's co-founder, responded in another publication to one of its resident bloggers calling him a racist, Arianna's top minions threw down the hammer, and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/03/huffposts-laughably-hypocritical.html">kicked Andrew off the site</a>. Their justification:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Andrew Brietbart’s <b>ad hominem attack </b>on Van Jones in The Daily Caller [...] <b>violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched.</b> As a result, we will no longer feature his posts on the front page. [...] (H)e is welcome to continue publishing his work on HuffPost provided it adheres to our editorial guidelines, as the two posts he published on HuffPost did — <b>guidelines that include a strict prohibition on ad hominem attacks..."</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And recall one of Arianna's first (of <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html">many</a>) <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/51668">lies</a>, regarding HuffPost's commitment to civil discourse:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"If you're looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric ... don't bother coming to the Huffington Post."</b> </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So why would HuffPost enable, and give top billing to such virulent anti-Semitism, at this moment?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Might it have something to do with the fact that it opened up its first <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/marhaba-introducing-huffpost-arabi_b_7870402.html?1437986905">Arabic version</a>, which is being criticized as <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/16/the-huffington-post-defends-huffpostarabi-its-pro-jihad-hate-site/">a "pro-jihad" site</a>? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who knows. Maybe someday, some enterprising report from a major news organization will finally ask Arianna about that. Or perhaps, her bosses at AOL, or Verizon, which just <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/business/media/huffington-post-in-limbo-at-verizon.html?_r=0">bought</a> both AOL and HuffPost. Don't hold your breath, though. HUFF-WATCH has sent every major report produced on this site that exposes HuffPost's endemic anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bias to many major news organizations - and not one has said a peep about any of it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />If you'd like to make your voice known to HuffPost management on this issue, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/to-contact-huffpost.html">here's info</a> on how to contact them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?</a></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are some snapshots of HuffPost's ongoing, pathological practice of posting inflammatory headlines, based on lies and half-truths:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The following appeared at the top of HuffPost's front page on April 27:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>A cop threw a rock at a protester??!! </i> That's awful!! That's assault!! As HuffPost knows, or should know, rocks can be deadly!! Good for HuffPost for publicizing this, another unprovoked attack by a cop on a (presumably) unarmed citizen, (presumably) just minding his own business, (presumably) peacefully protesting this exact kind of barbaric behavior!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So by implication, the protesters are, of course, justified in attacking the cops!! They're just defending themselves!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And we would have no reason to doubt HuffPost -- after all, it's the <a href="http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites">#1</a> most-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">claimed</a> to be "nonpartisan." And even <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/08/huffpost-front-page-butt-grinding-dog.html">President Obama</a> urges people to read it!! So this must be reliable information!! Grrrr!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Is that what <i>really</i> happened?</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course not. Here's the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/police-throw-rocks-baltimore_n_7156614.html">"news" story</a> to which that incendiary headline links, written by HuffPost "journalist" Nick Wing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let's examine this: HuffPost's original, breathless splash headline asserted that <b>a cop </b>(singular) threw <b>a rock</b> (singular) at <b>a protester</b> (singular).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet HuffPost's "news" story page now says that <b>the police </b>(plural, as an agency) <b>threw rocks</b> (plural) <u><b>back</b></u> (as in, in a <i>defensive</i> tactic) <b>at protesters </b>(plural).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wow, that's quite a difference!! So what actually happened?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well according to the <i><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3058579/Photographer-captures-moment-Baltimore-police-officer-threw-rock-protesters.html">Daily Mail</a> </i>(UK), which has the video of the incident (emphasis added):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Violent protesters in Baltimore, Maryland injured several police officers on Monday, throwing bricks and rocks at the overwhelmed cops hiding behind riot armor. </b> While most of the cops tried not to engage with the protesters, at least <b>one officer was seen throwing the rocks right back</b> at the mostly-young groups of rioters even as the nation watched on live TV. A photo taken by photographer Patrick Semansky captures the moment one police officer threw a rock back at protesters while his fellow cops looked on. [...] </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That puts a bit of a different spin on the story, don't you think? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, it was even worse than that, once you see the video:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gee, that looks pretty frightening! Can you imagine being one of a handful of cops, facing hundreds of "protesters" throwing bricks, rocks and Moltov cocktails at you, after fifteen of your fellow officers had been injured, two severely? Think you might be tempted to throw one of those rocks raining down on you back at one of the <strike>savage thugs</strike> "protesters" who threw it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Somehow, HuffPost's "news" story left those little details out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bottom line: this was a single cop, momentarily reacting to a mob that was trying to kill him and his fellow officers. HuffPost knew that.<br />
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</b>Yet in violation of<b> Arianna Huffington's</b> alleged "prohibition" on the "newspaper" that bears her name publishing <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/glenn-beck-goes-after-me_b_445195.html">"inflammatory claims,"</a> somehow her "journalist," Nick Wing, decided to turn the story inside out, to make it appear as if it was the cop that was assaulting a peaceful protester:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbFBRWE4N7GbkGA3WqsEaRnWQlwbCdnLbP3ExD-nZ6lgmm1iQMUs5OUYKhpzyCSlnO6srhOJscZEdwjRqk3gfB-SoYb90MG4s7tPPSW91cnp2-KUCWC_4EE4AEn7Lo0mnGSGJ96_IYIz1E/s1600/Arianna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbFBRWE4N7GbkGA3WqsEaRnWQlwbCdnLbP3ExD-nZ6lgmm1iQMUs5OUYKhpzyCSlnO6srhOJscZEdwjRqk3gfB-SoYb90MG4s7tPPSW91cnp2-KUCWC_4EE4AEn7Lo0mnGSGJ96_IYIz1E/s1600/Arianna.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a><i><b>"[At HuffPost] there are guidelines that have to be followed -- and they include a prohibition on conspiracy theories or inflammatory claims.</b> [...] For context, it's good to remember that Glenn Beck didn't come out of nowhere. He's the latest example of what <b>the great historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style in American politics," which he defined as angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,"</b> and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/glenn-beck-goes-after-me_b_445195.html">Arianna Huffington</a></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In perpetrating this latest incendiary hoax, HuffPost <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">once again</a> gave tacit justification, on clearly false basis, to street thugs to attack cops, by asserting that if they do, they're only defending themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">"BALTIMORE IS BURNING BECAUSE PEOPLE WITH NOTHING TO LOSE WILL DESTROY ANYTHING IN THEIR WAY"</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet that was actually the headline of an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-powell/why-baltimore-is-burning_b_7161432.html">editorial</a> that HuffPost published, near the top of its front page, on April 28. An excerpt of this quasi-psychotic screed:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQcCGN14GHuH4lPn8fa8NzBWSY8PAj6fBugAYGuxpyDgq8sIuS9ztLV1lraw0shA-F4_3cczgqmmP2gdzmTy-0sD_SUGuR5lLHAjg2AySvATXCR-giQly2Cw_pmU_jnrUcKnSXXFbuGVG/s1600/28Apr+HP+whips+up+racial+hate+-+justifies+Baltimore+riots+-callout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQcCGN14GHuH4lPn8fa8NzBWSY8PAj6fBugAYGuxpyDgq8sIuS9ztLV1lraw0shA-F4_3cczgqmmP2gdzmTy-0sD_SUGuR5lLHAjg2AySvATXCR-giQly2Cw_pmU_jnrUcKnSXXFbuGVG/s1600/28Apr+HP+whips+up+racial+hate+-+justifies+Baltimore+riots+-callout.jpg" height="200" width="190" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Baltimore is burning because far too many of us are on the sidelines doing nothing to affect change, or have become numb as the abnormal has become normal. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Baltimore is burning because very few of us are committed to real leadership,</b> to a real agenda with consistent and real political, economic, and cultural strategies for those American communities most under siege, most vulnerable. Policing them to death is not the solution. Putting them in prison is not the solution. And, clearly, ignoring them is not the solution. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These murderous thugs have nothing to lose? They are in the position of the Jews in the <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007745">Warsaw Ghetto</a>, on the verge of being wiped out by Nazi stormtroopers? They don't have the freedom to organize, to act peacefully to resolve the problems they claim are holding them back (in a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/28/baltimore-is-a-democrat-problem-not-americas-problem/">leftist stronghold</a> for decades)?<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">O</span>nce again, HuffPost gives explicit moral justification for the violence and mayhem that it is helping to incite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not satisfied with suggesting violence as a morally justified action in Baltimore (and elsewhere), on April 29, HuffPost published an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/rethinking-nonviolence-resistance_b_7170224.html">editorial</a> near the top of its front page that goes even further, and questions the utility of nonviolent "resistance." Excerpt:</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the face of the systematic racism of America's policing and prison system as well as crippling poverty that disproportionally affects the black community, how does non-violence work to actually solve the root of<b> the problem? Or does it work at all?</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the way, "resistance" is a loaded term, that Palestinians are well-known for using to justify its terrorism. HuffPost didn't bother to mention that fact; perhaps because for years it has been <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/11/huffington-post-hamass-mouthpiece-in-usa.html">the unofficial voicepiece</a> of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which claims that by raining rockets down on Israeli cities and murdering Jews, it is practicing "resistance." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Given the above facts, and HUFF-WATCH's previous, detailed <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">report</a> on HuffPost's chronic lies about, and incitement against police officers, it's worth asking:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Is HuffPost actually<i> trying</i> to get more police officers killed?</span></b></span></blockquote>
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If you believe HuffPost should start living up to its repeated claims of nonpartisanship, particularly in its coverage of law enforcement issues, we urge you to do three things: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>(1) Make your voice known to HuffPost's senior management <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/to-contact-huffpost.html">here</a></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> (2) Consider writing or calling one or more of HuffPost's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">top advertisers</a>, to let them know your thoughts on what their ad dollars are enabling.</b>An easy way to approach this is to scan our easy-to-use directory and find one or two corporations that you are a customer of, or have stock in. Your concerns will automatically be given considerably more weight. Also, request a follow-up after they've had a chance to review the evidence; don't let them off the hook, or sweep this under the rug.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(3) Forward the link to this story along to others who support honest civil discourse (especially honest journalists).</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For the second day in a row, on April 27 HuffPost featured the following "news" headline on its front page, which asserted that Israel attacked Syria for no reason, and without provocation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>But is that <i>really</i> what happened? Of course not.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we know? Because the AP <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_SYRIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-04-26-17-52-08">source article</a> that HuffPost <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/26/israel-airstrike-syria-border_n_7147546.html">published</a> clearly describes what happened, starting in the first paragraph:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">JERUSALEM (AP) — <b>Israel's military said Sunday it launched an airstrike on its border with Syria after spotting militants carrying a bomb in the Israeli-held Golan Heights.</b> The military said it carried out the strike after troops saw "a group of armed terrorists" approach the border with an explosive intended to target Israeli troops. It said that Israeli aircraft "targeted the squad, preventing the attack."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh, so this defensive military action was precisely targeted, and intended only to prevent any more Israeli soldiers or civilians from being murdered in similar fashions (as in recent incidents <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/israel-missile-lebanon-syria-hezbollah">here</a>, <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3930370,00.html">here</a>, and elsewhere). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>And that is exactly how the AP wrote the headline for this article (at right), which it provided to its subscribers (including HuffPost):</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_SYRIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-04-26-17-52-08"><b>"Israel says airstrike on Syrian border targeted militants"</b></a> (AP feed)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Every major (actual) news source that picked up the AP story used the original headline provided headline (or with only slight modifications):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://Israel Says Airstrike on Syrian Border Targeted Militants">"Israel says airstrike on Syrian border targeted militants"</a> (ABC News)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2015/04/26/israel-says-airstrike-syrian-border-targeted-militants/MkucZLQecIokglgyZvuNQM/story.html">"Israeli airstrike on Syrian border targets suspected militants"</a> (<i>Boston Globe</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/26/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-syria.html?_r=0">"Israel Says Airstrike on Syrian Border Targeted Militants"</a> (<i>New York Times</i>)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet HuffPost took that headline and deliberately rewrote it in such a way as to give anyone who casually glances at its front page, or its news feed, the false impression that Israel attacked Syria for no reason. This journalistic malpractice feeds the radical Islamist lie that Israel is the main aggressor in the Middle East, and that jihadis are justified in defending themselves against its unprovoked violence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ironically, even AOL, which <i>owns</i> HuffPost, ran the AP story as-is:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />AOL, which <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/07/technology/aol_huffington_post.cnnw/">bought</a> HuffPost in 2011, <a href="http://www.aol.com/article/2015/04/26/israel-launches-airstrike-on-syrian-border-after-seeing-bomb/21176569/">ran this story as-is</a>, without incendiary alteration:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So why would Arianna choose to rewrite the AP's headline to incite hatred against Israel, and Prime Minister Netanyahu, on such an easily-disprovable basis?</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Only she, as HuffPost's "Editor-In-Chief," can answer that question. But based on HUFF-WATCH's seven years of documenting HuffPost's chronic <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html">lies, deception and incitement</a>, here are two probable explanations:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Because she and her minions at HuffPost have gotten away with doing this, and far worse, to <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews</a> for many years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Because no one will hold her to account --- not AOL, not other "journalists," and not the "journalism" schools to which she frequently lectures. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just a few examples of HuffPost's previous deliberate efforts to depict Israel as an aggressor, using false headlines:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/it-begins-huffpost-depicts-israeli.html">It begins: HuffPost depicts Israeli strike on suspected Syrian WMD truck convoy as targeting civilians</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-huffpost-even-more-anti-israel-than.html">Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here's the proof.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/huffpost-headline-falsely-claims-israel.html">HuffPost headline falsely claims Israel broke peace, used tank to fire on Gaza civilians</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/huffpost-works-hard-to-protect-hamas.html">HuffPost works hard to protect Hamas, vilify Israel - again</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/06/huffposts-anti-israel-incitement-dog.html">HuffPost's anti-Israel incitement: Dog execution edition</a></span> </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ironically, Arianna lamented in 2011 that public figures need to be held to account, or else bad things happen:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"It's like when a toddler looks right at you and slowly and deliberately spills a glass of milk. The child wants to see the reaction. It's a test of boundaries. If there's no reaction, then the message is that it's OK."</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Arianna Huffington, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/mitt-romney-ad_b_1117288.html">November 28, 2011 </a></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks to the complicity of the "news" media, and even those at the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/abraham-foxman/">highest</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-harris/">levels</a> of the Jewish community, however, Arianna and HuffPost keep getting away with inciting hate against Israel (and Netanyahu). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And being that HuffPost is the <a href="http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites">#1</a> most-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">claimed</a> to be "nonpartisan," it has become a major driving factor in the <a href="http://www.jta.org/2015/02/26/default/study-global-anti-semitism-reaches-seven-year-high?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=jtafeed">dramatic rise</a> in global anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hatred.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How does this all compare to Arianna Huffington's claims that HuffPost is a professional "newspaper," and better than its competitors?</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“[</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">T]he news is not right-wing news or</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s1600/Arianna13.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s320/Arianna13.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567433797552589218" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 176px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 183px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">left-wing news, it's the news.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> And that will be the sensibility, that will basically permeate our news coverage.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">narrative.</span> We think <span style="font-weight: bold;">bringing journalism to a new level</span> is exactly what people are looking for.”</span><br />
- <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20091020/as-traffic-booms-is-huffpo-ready-to-make-some-real-dough/#kara-ethics">Arianna Huffington</a></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"If you're going to produce <span style="font-weight: bold;">great journalism, </span>you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving <span style="font-weight: bold;">toward the same goals editorially.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that <b>the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."</b></i><br />
- <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=147167">Arianna Huffington</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you believe HuffPost should start living up to its repeated claims of nonpartisanship, particularly in its coverage of Israel and terrorism, we urge you to do three things: </span> <br />
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(2) Consider writing or calling one or more of HuffPost's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">top advertisers</a>, to let them know your thoughts on what their ad dollars are enabling.</b>An easy way to approach this is to scan our easy-to-use directory and find one or two corporations that you are a customer of, or have stock in. Your concerns will automatically be given considerably more weight. Also, request a follow-up after they've had a chance to review the evidence; don't let them off the hook, or sweep this under the rug.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: white;">.</span></b></span>HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-61787824017861619762015-04-26T20:09:00.004-04:002015-04-26T20:58:24.589-04:00HuffPost weeps for Boston bomber's family, ignores mother's threats against USA<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
First came HuffPost <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/04/huffpost-friends-surviving-boston.html">"friending"</a> the Boston bomber, <b>Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.</b> Then came the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">self-proclaimed</a> "nonpartisan" newspaper <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-supporters_n_6957412.html">weeping</a> over the fact that the radical Muslims and leftists who originally supported Tsarnev, proclaiming his innocence, had evaporated. All of which is really not that surprising, given HuffPost's history of claiming Al Qaeda has a <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/huffpost-shills-for-al-qaeda-gentle.html">"gentle face,"</a> of weeping for a <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">"homesick jihadi,"</a> traitors, subversives and all manner of <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/06/huffpost-ignores-us-marine-jailed-in.html">trash</a>, while ignoring or vilifying <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-U.S.%20Military%20bias%3B%20Outrages">U.S. soldiers</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">law enforcement personnel</a>, and most recently, whitewashing a convicted cop-murderer as a <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2015/04/huffpost-relabels-cop-murderer-as.html">"jailed activist."</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>So it can't be all that surprising that today, HuffPost actually expressed sympathy (in the headline of a "news" story) for the family of the now-convicted-on-all-counts Boston bomber, because the "media" will be following them:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/25/tsarnaev-relatives-in-boston_n_7144138.html"><b>Where Tsarnaev Relatives Go In Boston, Media Will Follow </b></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First, notice the sympathetic picture HuffPost chose to use for this "news" headline; why, the bomber looks like a sophomore at UC-Santa Cruz, harmless as a little kitten!
But this story focuses on sympathizing with his poor family, apparently an Islamist version of the Waltons, whom HuffPost is very concerned won't get any privacy as they go about their lives in Boston. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>There are several key facts that HuffPost chose to ignore in this original "news" story it wrote, that rational, patriotic people might find of interest:</b></span><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(1) <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/04/25/your-tax-dollars-paid-boston-bombers-familys-trip-us-hotel-lawyers-and-security">Your tax money</a> is being used to fly the bomber's family from Chechnya to the USA, and protect them. </b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />The only reason the bomber's family is in Boston is because our Department of Justice spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to fly them here from Chechnya, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=distance+chechnya+to+boston&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=miles+distance+chechnya+to+boston">5,300 miles</a> away, to be present at his sentencing -- and to provide them with food, lodging, round-the-clock security, etc.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(2) On April 9, the bomber's mother <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/boston-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-mother-claims-america-is-the-terrorist-10164072.html">openly threatened America</a>. </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's what Mommy Dearest, <b>Zubeidat Tsarnaev, </b>posted on social media after her darling boy was convicted on all counts:</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV IS INNOCENT! <b>THE U.S. WILL PAY! </b>MY SONS ARE INNOCENT, AS INNOCENT AS ALL THOSE WHO ARE BEING KILLED BY YOUR COUNTRY … TODAY THEY ARE KILLING MUSLIMS, AND TOMORROW WILL COME YOUR TURN AND HE WHO DOUBTS THIS IS DEEPLY MISTAKEN!!!!!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“HOW CAN A MOTHER FEEL WHOSE SON IS IN THE CLAWS OF A PREDATOR PREPARING TO TEAR HIM TO PIECES LIKE MEAT??? <b>THEY WILL PAY FOR MY SONS AND THE SONS OF ISLAM, PERMANENTLY!!! </b>THE TEARS OF THEIR MOTHERS WILL BE FUEL FOR THEM IN HELL, AND ALSO THEIR BLOOD, I AM DOUBTLESS AND ETERNALLY GLAD THAT I KNOW THIS FROM THE WORDS OF THE CREATOR, NOT JUST ANYONE’S WORDS!!!!!!” </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>HuffPost <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/tsarnaev-mother/">completely</a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgee9p46SMNn5orUJPGtIN0yDTYJBGbktjWJV8mogxs5DNTdk-4rertLqNCKv_QAQBiIvCRKyWCFCbQtMkqGWUgIIAsFsPmjgqv7rxw8rFVFdxfxDxPRLSKunf77rvEPkgsv8Rgf7PCVVHe/s1600/26Apr+search+Tsarnev+mother+-+nothing.jpg">ignored</a> Mommy Dearest's tirade -- and the fact that <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=distance+chechnya+to+boston&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=miles+distance+chechnya+to+boston">hundreds of thousands of dollars</a> of U.S. tax money were used to bring this Islamsit family-from-hell from Chechnya to Boston, and provide them with round-the-clock security.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So what types of "news" stories did HuffPost decide were more important for the global audience it <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/100-million-thank-yous-to-huffposters-around-the-world_b_5822998.html">brags about</a> to be aware of, than those facts? </b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's a sampling, from its front page, between April 9-11, 2015: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“[</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">T]he news is not right-wing news or</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s1600/Arianna13.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s320/Arianna13.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567433797552589218" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 176px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 183px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">left-wing news, it's the news.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> And that will be the sensibility, that will basically permeate our news coverage.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">narrative.</span> We think <span style="font-weight: bold;">bringing journalism to a new level</span> is exactly what people are looking for.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that <b>the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."</b></i><br />
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HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-73381642882362922032015-04-25T10:20:00.000-04:002015-04-25T10:29:01.018-04:00HuffPost smears NY police, whitewashes Swedish law enforcement<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Continuing its jihad of <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">lies and incitement</a> against American police officers in general, and the NYPD in specific, while whitewashing and ignoring radical Islamism, on April 25 HuffPost published the following story on its World page:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/24/new-york-police-give-lesson-in-european-policing-by-swedish-cops-on-vacation_n_7138962.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World">story</a> describes how four Swedish policemen on vacation in New York City broke up a fight between two men on a subway train, and included video to show how gentle they were with the suspects. This, according to HuffPost's "journalist," Paul Vale, is indicative of how these police officers gave the NYPD "a schooling," a highly <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schooled">insulting</a>, loaded term.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There were four trained police officers on scene, versus two punks. Nice odds. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Every day, NYPD officers render hundreds of acts of courage, of generosity and over-and-above gentleness that are not caught on video, and which HuffPost neither reports on, nor solicits stories regarding. (It wouldn't fit their narrative of incitement and lies, anyway.)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let's also keep a few other facts in mind --about Sweden's law enforcement system -- facts that HuffPost's readers may not be aware of, because the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">self-proclaimed</a> "nonpartisan" newspaper will not report them:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linda, a Swedish girl, gang-raped by<br />
Muslim immigrants, who <a href="https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/muslim-rapists-in-sweden-enjoy-impunity-amnesty-international/comment-page-1/">said</a><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sweden is now classified as the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sweden+rape&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8">“rape capital of Europe.”</a> The Swedish government now estimates that <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/swedish-court-hands-out-light-sentence-muslim-teen-rapists/#fm">25%</a> of women there can expect to be raped. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nearly all of these rapes are being committed by <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape">Muslim immigrants</a> - yet Swedish law enforcement and their "news" media consistently <a href="http://www.steynonline.com/4217/asking-for-it">refuses</a> to identify the perpetrators as such; instead, they are identified only as <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape">"Asian" or "non-Western immigrants." </a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Swedish courts either letting Muslim rapists (and <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/swedish-court-hands-out-light-sentence-muslim-teen-rapists/#fm">rape-gangs</a>) go free, or giving them shockingly light sentences (<a href="https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/muslim-rapists-in-sweden-enjoy-impunity-amnesty-international/comment-page-1/">source</a>). </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to HuffPost, none of those facts and stories matter, and its readers should not be exposed to them. After all, if they were, they might realize the reality of our situation, which would defuse 99% of the hate and misconceptions that HuffPost thrives on inciting, most often, against American police officers, the U.S. military, and Israel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">Huff-Watch: Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></blockquote>
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</span> HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-7656812565281863082015-04-17T11:29:00.002-04:002015-04-17T11:57:30.996-04:00HuffPost relabels cop-murderer as "activist"<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />On April 15, HuffPost continued its practice of deliberately misleading its readers, by misidentifying convicted murders and terror-supporters as "activists."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This time, HuffPost employed its journalistic malpractice in an effort to rehabilitate the image of <b>Mumia Abu-Jamal,</b> the radical leftist and militant founding member of the Black Panthers. Here's the "news" headline that HuffPost ran about him on its front page, on April 15:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To fully grasp HuffPost's malicious betrayal of even the most elementary standards of journalistic integrity, let's remind ourselves of who this person is that it labeled a "jailed activist." Courtesy of <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1330">DiscoverTheNetworks</a> (emphasis added):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[T]he event that decisively catapulted Abu-Jamal into the public eye occurred shortly after 3:55 a.m. on December 9, 1981, when a 25-year-old white Philadelphia police officer named <b>Daniel Faulkner </b>made a traffic stop of William Cook, Abu-Jamal’s brother, who was driving the <a href="http://danielfaulkner.com/about-2/">wrong way</a> down a one-way street. Faulkner pulled behind Cook's car, radioed for police backup, approached Cook’s vehicle, and ordered the driver to get out of his car. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While Faulkner handcuffed the driver, Abu-Jamal, who was employed at that time as a cab driver, was <a href="http://danielfaulkner.com/about-2/">parked</a> across the street in his taxi. <b>He suddenly got out of his vehicle, ran toward Faulkner, and shot him in the back. As the officer fell, he drew his own gun and managed to shoot Abu-Jamal in the chest, wounding but not killing him. The gun-wielding cabdriver then fired repeatedly at Faulkner, finally dispatching him from close range with a bullet between his eyes. </b>Abu Jamal's presence near the scene of the roadside stop at that particular moment has led to serious speculation that William Cook had intentionally led Faulkner into an ambush—one that had all the earmarks of other Black Panther provocations in places like Newark and Oakland. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The body of evidence placing Abu-Jamal at the scene of Faulkner’s killing was overwhelming. When the arresting officers arrived at the scene, Abu-Jamal was <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15969">sitting</a> on a curb near Faulkner’s corpse, with a fresh gunshot wound incurred from the young officer’s weapon. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the monster whom HuffPost labeled an <b>"activist."</b> And by claiming he's a <b>"jailed activist," </b>without referencing the fact that he is a convicted murderer, HuffPost was deliberately continuing its racial lies and incitement, which HUFF-WATCH documented in extreme detail in the special report, <i><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">"Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?"</a></i></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Moving on, HuffPost knew, or should have known, that the "teacher" in its headline did not "ask" her students - third-graders - to write get well cards to this convicted murderer, she <i>ordered</i> them to do so. How do we know this? Because the AP, HuffPost's #1 most-cited news source, reported on April 11 - four days <i>before</i> HuffPost published its "story" - ran <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/marylin-zuniga-teacher-who-assigned-get-well-cards-to-mumia-abu-jamal-suspended-1.10246361">this story</a> about the incident:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This is part of HuffPost's continuing, willful pattern of deliberately misleading its readers, by misidentifying convicted murders and terror-supporters as "activists." </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few well-documented incidents of this pathological behavior, by the <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1</a> most widely-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">claimed</a> it is "nonpartisan":</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-hamas-loves-huffpost-marwan.html">Why Hamas loves HuffPost: Marwan Barghouti image-whitewashing edition</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this incident, HuffPost severely edited a news story it sourced from the AP to falsely depict a convicted Palestinian mass-murderer and terror kingpin as a"jailed leader." Only after HUFF-WATCH's detailed report reached the blogosphere that HuffPost surrender, and post the entire, unedited source article - but then lied as to when it was published, in a failed attempt to cover its tracks.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/217343.php">Huffpo Newspeak: Out "Terrorists", In "Activists" (Jawa Report)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this incident, our friends at the Jawa Report ran with the screencaps we provided, to cover this story. In summary, in HuffPost's endless jihad against the U.S. intelligence and military communities, it falsely alleged that the NSA was "spying" on "activists porn habits." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But who are the "activists" to whom HuffPost referred? Turns out they're Al Qaeda supporters and donors - <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html"><i>as its own "news" article revealed</i></a>. HuffPost deliberately ignored that fact, and relabeled supporters of the terrorists who murdered 2,977 Americans on 9/11, and countless U.S. soldiers and intelligence personnel since then.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />All part of HuffPost's endless lies, bias, and incitement against <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">police officers</a>, the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-U.S.%20Military%20bias%3B%20Outrages">U.S. military</a>, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews</a>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“[</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">T]he news is not right-wing news or</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s1600/Arianna13.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s320/Arianna13.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567433797552589218" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 176px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 183px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">left-wing news, it's the news.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> And that will be the sensibility, that will basically permeate our news coverage.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">narrative.</span> We think <span style="font-weight: bold;">bringing journalism to a new level</span> is exactly what people are looking for.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"If you're going to produce <span style="font-weight: bold;">great journalism, </span>you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving <span style="font-weight: bold;">toward the same goals editorially.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that <b>the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you believe HuffPost should start living up to its repeated claims of nonpartisanship, particularly in its coverage of Jewish affairs, we urge you to do three things: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Previously: <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?</a></i></span> </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fresh on the heels of HUFF-WATCH's recent <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/12/did-huffington-posts-incitement-and.html">expose'</a> on how HuffPost deliberately manipulated facts and suppressed others in order to whip up racial hatred.... on Thursday, March 19, HuffPost published a front-page "news" story with the headline:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/19/whites-only-stickers-austin_n_6904296.html">Someone In Austin Is Putting Up 'Exclusively For White People' Stickers</a></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There were at least four good reason to instantly suspect, however, that these stickers were a stunt, and as demonstrably fake as Arianna Huffington's repeated <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">claims</a> that HuffPost is a "nonpartisan" newspaper:</span><br />
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</b></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The reality is that on Friday, <b>March 20 at 3:55pm,</b> KXAN, the Austin NBC-TV affiliate, <a href="http://kxan.com/2015/03/20/austin-lawyer-adam-reposa-says-he-put-up-white-people-stickers/">reported</a> that <b>the perpetrator has been identified, and openly admitted, <i>on video,</i> what he had done. </b> Turns out he isn't a racist; to the contrary, he's a "social justice" (translation: radical leftist) attorney. Excerpt:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An Austin lawyer is claiming responsibility for several stickers placed on East Austin businesses that claimed they were “exclusively for white people.”<b> <a href="http://www.dwibadass.com/" target="_blank">Adam Reposa</a> </b>posted the video on YouTube and made a statement on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adam.reposa?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a> saying he was trying promote the issue of gentrification in East Austin. <i>“They’re getting pushed out, and pretty quick. This area of town is turning into white’s only,” Reposa said in the clip. “Not by law like it used to be, and everyone’s going to jump on, ‘that’s racist!’ ‘that’s racist!’ Man, this town, the way **** works is racist! And I knew I could just bait all of y’all into being as stupid as you are.”</i></span></blockquote>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The story of this hoax was soon picked up within a few hours by other (actual) news outlets, including the <i><a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2015-03-20/update-exclusively-by-boneheads/">Austin Chronicle</a>,</i> <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/austin-attorney-claims-responsibility-for-white-people-stickers-in-bizarre-shirtless-rants/">Raw Story</a>, the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/austin-man-behind-exclusively-white-people-stickers-article-1.2157849"><i>New York Daily News</i></a>, and others.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Later on March 21, however, HuffPost removed the story from its front page. </b> Instead, here are some of the "news" stories that HuffPost felt were more important to post on its front page, than to update its readers on the reality of this stunt. The first "news" story, below, was left up for two straight days:<br /></span> <br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Was HuffPost unaware of the hoax, and who had perpetrated it? No -<i> it spoke to the perpetrator, on March 22. </i></span></b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We know this because <b>HuffPost openly admitted it spoke to Adam Reposa, at the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/19/whites-only-stickers-austin_n_6904296.html">original story link</a> </b>- which no one would know even exists, if they hadn't seen and bookmarked the original story when it appeared on the front page: </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And yet, as of March 23, HuffPost still has posted <i>not a single mention </i>on its front page of anything concerning this story, and the fact that it was a hoax - that it was not, as implied, a racist who was posting these stickers, but rather was a "social activist attorney," who intended to elicit sympathy for black Americans.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rather than being an isolated incident, this is merely the latest example of HuffPost giving top-line coverage to outrageous, incendiary allegations that on the surface reek of suspicion - then deliberately removing the fact that the "news" story had been completely debunked.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On March 9, 2013, HuffPost ran this headline on its front page, and left it there for two straight days:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note that HuffPost's front page headline said, de facto, that a racist note was left on a Red Lobster receipt - not "apparently," as in the story page. HuffPost gave its trademark sympathetic coverage to the waitress who alleged this was done to her, <b>Toni Christina Jenkins, </b>and who posted it on her Facebook page.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On October 31, 2013, however, it was <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/devin-barnes-accused-writing-n-word-red-lobster-receipt-sue-waitress-and-restaurant">reported</a> at the Opposing Views blog that the customer whose name appeared on the receipt that the Jenkins posted,<b> Devin Barnes,</b> had filed a $1 million suit against Jenkins and Red Lobster, after a handwriting expert concluded that neither Barnes nor his wife wrote that racist message. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead, HuffPost decided that these "news" stories such as these (the first of which was posted for two straight days on its front page) were far more important for its readers to be aware of, than the truth behind yet another outrageous hoax that HuffPost helped to publicize:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On August 8, 2012, mere weeks before the presidential election, HuffPost ran the following incendiary headline allegation on its front page:<br /></span><br />
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HuffPost claimed in its "news" story and an associated slide show that Romney was "chased off" by a "pack of Jews" (actually, a Jewish wedding party; just imagine for a moment if any other "newspaper" had published a headline alleging that a "pack of (insert minority here) had chased anyone.... HuffPost would have been first out of the block to call that publication "racist.") </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As HUFF-WATCH <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/08/huffpost-front-page-headline-romney.html">documented</a>, however, the entire story was a lie; the "pack of Jews" that ran after Romney's motorcade were actually supporters, who wanted to greet the candidate, and have their picture taken with him. HuffPost never posted a new headline to reflect this fact and apologize - and it has kept the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/mitt-romneys-motorcade-ch_n_1757479.html">slide show</a> allegation exactly as it was, to this day (March 23, 2015):</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Here are a few more examples of the dozens and dozens of examples* of HuffPost's outrageous headlines, representing incendiary hoaxes, lies and half-truths, which could only be employed in an effort to deceive its readers -- and which it never posted new headlines to indicate the truth concerning:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/05/huffposts-amazing-anti-israel-headline.html">HuffPost's amazing anti-Israel headline story disappearance trick!!!</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/06/huffposts-anti-israel-incitement-dog.html">HuffPost's anti-Israel incitement: Dog execution edition</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/08/81909-huffpost-publishes-anti-semitic.html">HuffPost publishes anti-Semitic blood libel without any proof; users unleash anti-Semitic hate (HuffPost: "Approved!!!")</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/05/51510-huffpost-smears-sarah-palin-and.html">HuffPost smears Sarah Palin and the NRA, again (users erupt in hate-fest; HuffPost: "Approved!!!")</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-huffpost-even-more-anti-israel-than.html">Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here's the proof</a></span> </li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>(*If HuffPost disagrees with this assessment, PLEASE, go ahead and sue HUFF-WATCH, and we'll let the general public pore over the physical evidence and decide for itself who's telling the truth.)</i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How does this all compare to Arianna Huffington's claims that HuffPost is a professional, nonpartisan "newspaper," and better than its competitors?</span></b></span><br />
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</span> HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-69816228226983181522015-03-13T01:15:00.000-04:002015-03-13T03:31:26.515-04:00HuffPost: Iranian mullah worth quoting in full; Netanyahu... "Bupkis"<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On March 12, this was HuffPost's splash headline:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note that HuffPost summarizes the key sentiment expressed by </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mohammed Khatamei</span>, </b>the "Supreme Leader" of the world's #1 largest state sponsor of Islamist terror, without criticism or skepticism of any kind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, contrast this to how HuffPost presented the speech that<b> Benjamin Netanyahu,</b> the leader of the state that Iran has publicly committed to wiping off the face of the Earth, gave to Congress on March 3:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />In case you're not familiar with the term "bupkis," it is <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bupkis">defined</a> as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think about that for a moment. HuffPost, the <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1</a> most widely-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">claimed</a> it is "nonpartisan," gives the leader of the #1 terror state in the world an unedited platform to assail the Republican Party of America. Yet that same "nonpartisan" newspaper insults and dismisses, in its entirety, a speech by the leader of the one free, civilized state in the Middle East, to the United States Congress, as.... nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just another day at the office for the West's #1 largest online enabler of <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/26/huffington-post-serves-as-promoter-for-iranian-front-group/">Iranian</a> <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/20/huffington-post-serves-as-promoter-for-iranian-front-group-part-ii/">propaganda</a>, and inciter of hatred against <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews</a>. And not a whimper from the "news" media that is supposed to act as a watchdog over such egregious breaches of journalistic standards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And continuing HuffPost's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/05/52009-onward-pathological-photo-bias-re.html">longstanding pattern</a> of pictorial bias to ensure that Iranian madmen look as benevolent and kindly as possible, and that Prime Minister Netanyahu looks as sinister and evil as possible, shortly after posting the above, it published these contrasting pictures:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First, we have a kindly depiction of Iran's chief mullah, looking very grandfatherly, with open hands, as if to say,<i> "Nukes? What nukes? What are those rotten Zionists talking about now?"</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, contrast that to this picture it chose to run of Netanyahu - angry, sinister and malevolent:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is nothing new. HuffPost has been doing this for more than six years. Here's a flashback to a side-by-side piece they ran in <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/05/52009-onward-pathological-photo-bias-re.html">June 2009</a>:<br /></span><br />
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HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-8618845114497246662014-12-26T12:37:00.005-05:002014-12-26T23:53:31.115-05:00Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxkBO-pGSf3GmqnC6nB3YcNWR09HHGRpHNsqd4e0EQ26Cge1wSBNRAjPkF1SIGZkboLuX9MSEDNAVfVgr5rYq5_EEXo2r5NHcbM92uIib0IanzpfTy3fHDJok5xZ2PV9cbdP_PEadTSlB/s1600/Ramos+and+Liu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxkBO-pGSf3GmqnC6nB3YcNWR09HHGRpHNsqd4e0EQ26Cge1wSBNRAjPkF1SIGZkboLuX9MSEDNAVfVgr5rYq5_EEXo2r5NHcbM92uIib0IanzpfTy3fHDJok5xZ2PV9cbdP_PEadTSlB/s1600/Ramos+and+Liu.jpg" height="111" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Saturday, December 20, New York Police Department officers <b>Rafael Ramos</b> and <b>Wenjian Liu </b>were <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/12/20/2-nypd-cops-shot-execution-style-in-brooklyn/">murdered</a> by <b>Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley,</b> who <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/cops-shot-brooklyn-sources-article-1.2051941">claimed</a> on social media he did it to retaliate against alleged police misconduct across America. Without warning, Brinsley walked up to the officers, who were seated in a patrol car, and shot each one in the head multiple times. </span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What could drive a person to commit such a barbaric act, against two police officers who'd done him no harm? Irresponsible, unfair <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/21/guiliani-obama-holder-should-be-ashamed-for-creating-severe-anti-police-hatred-video/">statements</a> by influential public figures have helped to create a climate of distrust of police officers, as well as of our entire judicial system, for not prosecuting them for alleged wrongdoing. Numerous influential “news” entities have also failed to provide complete, balanced information to the general public about recent issues involving police officers.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Huffington Post</b> (owned by AOL), however, has been going farther than any other alleged “news” entity, in terms of pouring gasoline on this fire. Specifically, since the Michael Brown shooting in August, HuffPost has been consistently producing "news" stories that could only serve to whip up hatred against, and endanger police officers across America, through three primary means:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Incitement:</b> HuffPost has repeatedly published incendiary, editorialized “news” headlines that paint the worst possible perception of police officers, up to and including calling them murderers. One headline (documented below) even asked, <u><i>“Can the cops be stopped before they kill again?”</i></u><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Selective editing:</b> HuffPost has consistently excluded essential facts that are necessary to provide accurate context to its headlines (which would often also serve to undermine them).<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ignoring terrorist threats: </b>HuffPost has pathologically ignored the progressively-worsening terroristic threats that have been made against police officers across America, both by “lone wolves” as and organized groups. This deliberate omission has served two purposes: to undermine the threats that every police officer across America faces, and to give tacit “free pass” and approval to these terrorist groups, especially when considering HuffPost's overt calls for purportedly defensive actions against police officers.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Were the Huffington Post just another website, these shameful practices would have little impact. As <b>the <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1</a> most-read online “newspaper” in the world,</b> however, what HuffPost does carries weight, and has impact.</span></span><br />
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<b>(1) <u>"How To Get Away With Murder"</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />On December 4, HuffPost ran this as a “news” headline – an overt accusation that police officers “murdered” Eric Garner and other supposedly innocent people, and got away with it. Attorney <b>Ben Shapiro </b>of <b>Breitbart News </b>demolished HuffPost's incendiary lie <a href="http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/12/04/Huffpo-get-away-murder">here</a>.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(2) <u>"Can The Cops Be Stopped Before They Kill Again?"</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On December 6, HuffPost positioned this inflammatory editorial <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/06/so-that-happened-ferguson-eric-garner_n_6271694.html">screed</a>, not on the left margin, where its opinion pieces go --- but rather as a “news” item. How could any reasonable person view this as anything other than a call for direct action against police officers, everywhere?<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">HuffPost ran this incendiary accusation as a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/26/police-brutality-victims_n_6225776.html">“news” story</a> on its front page for three consecutive days, from November 26-28, claiming that police officers are “murdering” black children and “getting away with it.”<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just one problem: any honest, first-year journalism student would be able to look at the individual cases cited, and realize how egregiously HuffPost used selective editing to omit inconvenient yet crucial facts, such as how many of these individuals were killed after having been observed committing crimes, or refusing to comply with police orders – or were pointing weapons at officers. Another inconvenient fact: the median age of the six “kids” profiled is 23.5 years old.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">(4) <u>"ARREST HIM!"</u></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On August 18, HuffPost ran this incendiary call for action against officer Darren Wilson as a “news” story:<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Keep in mind that the facts revealed in the coroner's report showed that the entire <i>“Hands up, don't shoot!” </i>narrative <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/michael-browns-autopsy-analysis-shows-struggle-darren-wilson-thc-his-blood-and-279155">could not be true</a> – and that Officer Wilson's account of what happened was supported by the physical evidence. But as in all the other examples cited herein, facts didn't matter to HuffPost; inciting hate against Wilson and other police officers, did.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On November 25, just below the announcement that the grand jury had decided not to indict Officer Wilson, HuffPost alleged (in a “news” headline) that the grand jury “got its basic job wrong”:<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contrary to HuffPost's inflammatory assertion, as the <i>Washington Times</i> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/25/legal-scholars-praise-ferguson-grand-jury-fairness/?page=all">pointed out</a>, legal scholars from across America agreed that the Ferguson grand jury:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“was unusual, it was not unfair. Rather if it was anything unusual, it was in its fairness and openness. Lawyers and academics [said] that, despite their personal opinions on the case, which has sparked riots over police brutality, St. Louis county prosecutor Robert McCulloch sought unbiased justice in presenting the jury with every piece of evidence and then making that evidence public.”</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The reality of the situation clashed with HuffPost's thirst to incite hate against police officers, so of course, the facts had to be quashed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(6) <u>"THE FIX IS IN: "Allegations Of Police Misconduct Rarely Result In Charges"</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next day, November 26, HuffPost published this allegation, as part of a larger splash headline:<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Given the cauldron of lies, distortion and incitement that HuffPost itself created, one need not wonder why it would publish such an inflammatory headline, mere hours after Ferguson erupted in violence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(7) <u>"Rabbis Arrested After Reciting Kaddish For Eric Garner"</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For three consecutive days, on December 5-7, HuffPost ran this inflammatory allegation as a “news” headline on its front page, alleging that rabbis were arrested after saying a prayer (kaddish) for Eric Garner:<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is that<i> really</i> what happened? Were these rabbis<i> really</i> arrested just for saying a prayer? Of course not. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As HuffPost knew, these rabbis were standing in a busy New York street intersection, and <a href="http://www.westsiderag.com/2014/12/05/rabbis-jewish-activists-arrested-after-blocking-96th-and-broadway">refused to move</a> when ordered to by police. HuffPost's original <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/rabbis-arrested-eric-garner-protest_n_6276522.html">“news” story</a>, however, mentioned none of that. <i>(The fact that HuffPost attempted to whitewash what really happened concerning these rabbis is laughable, given its <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">pathological</a> incitement of hatred against Jews and Israel. Who can forget its lie-filled “news” story, that Mitt Romney was chased away from a wedding by a <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/08/huffpost-front-page-headline-romney.html">"pack of Jews"</a>?) </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">(8) <u>"CAUGHT ON TAPE: COPS GUN DOWN (BLACK) MAN AT WALMART"</u></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On September 24, HuffPost published this incendiary splash headline, insinuating that police officers just ran into a Wal-Mart and gunned down a (black) man, for no reason:<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As in all the other cases, HuffPost knew the truth – but failed to even hint at it in the headline. In reality, as its <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/24/john-crawford-air-rifle-video_n_5878022.html">own version</a> of the story (and a more responsible one in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/25/ohio-wal-mart-surveillance-video-shows-police-shooting-and-killing-john-crawford-iii/"><i>Washington Post</i></a>) showed, (a) police officers responded to a call that a man was walking around the store with a rifle, pointing it at people; and (b) the officers ordered the gunman, <b>John Crawford III, </b>to drop the rifle, but he <a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/crime-law/special-grand-jury-selected-john-crawford-case/nhRwM/">refused</a> to do so, after which they shot him.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNgWsp5mbnxnhXxGeC8W9DujZRGImjEsRTSi64DZeXFSklovIab5OywUoRDDYxXWevtbIH25zr1mhgXyfJ3ZOVy_tCFNkKZQT7akhhmuo35_1m-uX8egQidXf_9uG2mjnFg7cApwPBT3h/s1600/Arianna13.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNgWsp5mbnxnhXxGeC8W9DujZRGImjEsRTSi64DZeXFSklovIab5OywUoRDDYxXWevtbIH25zr1mhgXyfJ3ZOVy_tCFNkKZQT7akhhmuo35_1m-uX8egQidXf_9uG2mjnFg7cApwPBT3h/s1600/Arianna13.jpg" height="193" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Given all these facts, it is worthwhile to note that <b>Arianna Huffington,</b> HuffPost's Editor-In-Chief, has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/glenn-beck-goes-after-me_b_445195.html">publicly stated</a>
in 2010 that she prohibited “inflammatory claims and conspiracy theories”
at HuffPost, and urged Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, to do the same:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><b>"[At
HuffPost] there are guidelines that have to be followed -- and they
include a prohibition on conspiracy theories or inflammatory claims.</b>
[…] For context, it's good to remember that Glenn Beck didn't come out
of nowhere. He's the latest example of what the great historian
Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style in American politics,"
which he defined as <b>angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,"</b> and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And in regards to HuffPost deliberately leaving out vital facts that clash with its agenda, but are necessary to provide readers with accurate perceptions of these contentious issues, it's worth considering how Ms. Huffington described what makes HuffPost better than its "news" rivals:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that </span><span style="font-style: italic;">the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned</span><span style="font-style: italic;">.”</span></span></b></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">- <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=147167">Arianna Huffington</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HuffPost consistently ignores terrorist threats against police</b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">HuffPost also steadfastly avoided publishing any of the terroristic threats that were leveled against police officers, across America. For example: </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On December 6, the NYPD <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-nypd-warned-militant-group-plans-shoot-cops-article-1.2036616">publicized</a> the fact that it had received credible reports that a domestic terrorist group, the <b>Black Guerrilla Army,</b> was threatening to begin murdering on-duty police officers. HuffPost completely ignored this. Instead, on December 6 and 7, it published items on its front page that it decided were far more newsworthy, such as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/07/kardashians-outfits_n_6275960.html"><i>“Every single time the Kardashians owned it this week,”</i></a> and the second straight day of coverage of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/two-faced-cat-frank-and-l_n_6278948.html">a two-faced cat</a>.<br />
<span style="color: white;">.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On December 8, HuffPost allowed its notorious resident <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/23/al-sharptons-history-of-racial-evils/">race-hustler</a>, <b>Al Sharpton,</b> to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-al-sharpton/marching-for-congressiona_b_6291638.html">announce</a> anti-police rallies he was organizing in Washington, DC and New York for December 13. HuffPost gave extensive, glowing <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/13/justice-for-all-washingto_n_6320166.html">coverage</a> to the rally that Sharpton led in Washington. But it completely ignored the fact that at the New York rally – which occurred less than two miles from its editorial headquarters – several hundred “demonstrators” were caught on video, screaming,<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dj4ARsxrZh8"><i>“What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!”</i></a> </b>Instead, on December 13 and 14 HuffPost published stories on its front page that it decided were much more important for its readers to be aware of, including <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/13/pornhub-study-_n_6317640.html"><i>“Map shows where Americans love butts more than boobs,”</i></a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/12/cut-video-couples-sex-positions-_n_6316562.html"><i>“Couples act out sex positions you've never heard of.”</i></a><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On November 29, Nation of Islam leader <b>Rev. Louis Farrakhan</b> told an audience at Morgan State University that if black protesters' demands aren't met, that they need to <b><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/29/farrakhan-on-ferguson-well-tear-this-gdamn-country-up-video/"><i>“tear this goddamned country apart!!!”</i></a> </b>HuffPost completely ignored this incitement. Instead, on its front page it published what it deemed were far more newsworthy stories, including <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20141130/us--snooki-weds/?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=entertainment"><i>“Snooki ties the knot,”</i></a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/29/stone-age-axe-discovered-denmark_n_6225320.html"><i>“Stone-age axe discovered in Denmark.”</i></a></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Christmas Eve: HuffPost published another egregiously false, inflammatory accusation against police</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On December 24, HuffPost <span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3501" style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3500">published a <a class="yiv2680436126" href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/huffpost-duped-by-twitter-prankster-claiming-he-witnessed-antonio-martin-shooting/" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419616787262_3579" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">false</a> account of a supposed eyewitness to the death of <b class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3499">Antonio Martin,</b> who was shot by police near Ferguson, Missouri after he pointed a <a class="yiv2680436126" href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/24/justice/missouri-officer-involved-shooting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gun</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3501" style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3500">In summary, HuffPost was contacted by a anonymous
blogger, <b>"Jesus Christo,"</b> on Christmas Eve (gee, no red flags there!), who <a class="yiv2680436126" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2886114/Furious-Twitter-backlash-against-prankster-pretended-best-friends-latest-police-shooting-victim-Antonio-Martin-watched-die-plugged-mixtape.html" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3615" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">claimed</a>
that he was with Martin, who was unarmed, yet was shot by the police
officer without cause. HuffPost published this incendiary allegation without even doing the barest amount of research to determine if this "eyewitness" was even on the scene (he wasn't), as its own </span></span><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3501" style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3500"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/24/huffington-post-gets-it-very-wrong-in-last-nights-st-louis-police-shooting-story/">"reporter"</a> later admitted</span></span>.<span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3505" style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3504"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3505" style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2680436126" id="yiv2680436126yui_3_16_0_1_1419579705567_3504">If
HuffPost's negligence and misreporting of facts concerning police shootings were limited to this idiotic incident,
it would deserve significant scorn. Instead, as this report shows, that was merely
the tip of the iceberg - and the only incident that was publicly exposed (until now). </span></span></span><br />
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Conclusion</b></span></span><br />
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Individually and collectively, HuffPost's acts and omissions violate not only the most basic standards of journalistic integrity, they stand in stark contrast to Ms. Huffington's repeated <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">claims</a> that it is a “nonpartisan” newspaper, just one of the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/03/huffposts-laughably-hypocritical.html">many</a> <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html">lies</a> that she has told the general public about the “newspaper” that bears her name since it went live.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley.<br />Was he a HuffPost reader?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Returning now to the central question posed in this article: did HuffPost's incitement and bias against police officers lead directly or indirectly to Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley's murder of NYPD officers Ramos and Liu? This can only be ascertained by a forensic analysis of his computer and mobile devices, and interviews with those close to him.<br />
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What is crystal-clear, though, is that if Brinsley relied only on HuffPost for his “news” about police and judicial affairs in America, the incitement and bias he would have observed could only have helped to nudge him from merely being angry, into a far more agitated state. And in reaction to HuffPost's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/06/so-that-happened-ferguson-eric-garner_n_6271694.html">question</a>, <i>“Can the cops be stopped before they kill again?,”</i> Brinsley may have said, <i>“Yes – and I will be the one who stops the two cops sitting in that car from killing again.”</i><br />
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Now, the only question that remains is: Will the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">corporations</a> that have enabled HuffPost to engage in this behavior, through their advertising dollars, continue to do so?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ACTION ITEMS: There are only two things that enable HuffPost to engage in this reprehensible behavior. Here's how you can help make a difference.</span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The two things that enable HuffPost to engage in this behavior are: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The money it gets from its roster of top-flight <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">advertisers</a> --- including American Express, Chevrolet, Citibank, and many other top brands.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The silence of "journalists"</span> who avidly read HuffPost, yet avert their eyes from the reality that's staring them in the face --- and which we report, and send them, on a regular basis</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here's how you can help:</span></span> </div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contact HuffPost's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">advertisers</a> --- especially those with whom you already do business.</span><br />
Let them know your thoughts on how HuffPost has been using the money they provide it to engage in this persistent pattern of anti-U.S. military incitement, and bias.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Send this article to journalists, newspapers and TV networks that you trust --- whether on a local or national basis. </span><br />
Ask them to take a look at our documentation, and urge them to do some investigating. As you can see, throughout HUFF-WATCH is an encyclopedic cornucopia of physical evidence that backs up every aspect of every one of our allegations.</span></li>
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HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-53415605899907051792014-12-16T14:26:00.003-05:002014-12-17T20:08:30.592-05:00HuffPost: Who's more evil - the Australian jihadist, the CIA, Cheney or the U.S. military?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Huffington Post </span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>changed the headline of a source article, discussing the savage Australian jihadi murderer, to focus only on the contention that he comes from "a troubled past." This stands in sharp contrast to its consistent practice of writing editorialized headlines that incite hate against those who combat jihadists, while eliciting sympathy for jihadis - despite its </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>repeated <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html">claims</a> that it is a nonpartisan, professional news organization. As </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>the world's <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1 most-read</a> online "newspaper," one can only speculate on the impact that HuffPost's bias and incitement is having on the public's perception and understanding of vital issues. </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A quick briefer on <b>Man Haron Monis, </b>the jihadist preacher who perpetrated the murder and terror at the Lindt Chocolate in Sydney, Australia, courtesy of the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-siege-gunman-man-haron-monis-was-on-bail-for-40-sexual-assault-charges-and-accessory-to-murder-20141215-127u1e.html"><i>Sydney Morning-Herald</i></a>:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He was suspected in brutal murder of his ex-wife (stabbed 17 times and burned to death). </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He was recently arrested, and charged with perpetrating <i>"22 counts of aggravated sexual assault, 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault, one count of aggravated act of indecency, one count of sexual assault and two counts of assault with act of indecency. The women were visiting him at Wentworthville where he was offering services as a 'spiritual healer'."<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He was convicted of using the Australian mail service to terrorize and harass the surviving family members of Australian soldiers who died while fighting his fellow jihadists, in Afghanistan and elsewhere.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He openly preached murder against non-Muslims.</span> </li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To normal, rational people and organizations, Monis represents the epitome of raw evil. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>To the Huffington Post, however, Monis was merely a "troubled" individual, who deserved every one of its notorious editorial manipulations to shield him from being held to public account for his motives, actions and background</b> - the exact opposite of what it routinely does to the CIA, the US military, and former Vice President Dick Cheney.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">HuffPost rewrites the headline of its AP source story, in order to elicit sympathy for the jihadist -- but not his victims</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On December 16, the day after Monis murder two hostages, and was killed in a shootout with the police, the AP wrote a detailed article about him and the matter, which it entitled <b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ap+Horror+over+a+deadly+siege+morphed+into+anger+Tuesday+as+leaders+of+a+grieving+nation+demanded+to+know+how+a+man+with+a+violent+criminal+history+slipped+through+the+cracks&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8">"Horror over a deadly siege morphed into anger."</a></b> The opening sentence, from the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2875643/Australian-leader-lays-flowers-memorial.html"><i>Daily Mail</i></a> (UK):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(AP) <span id="ext-gen37">Horror over a deadly siege morphed into anger Tuesday as leaders of a grieving nation demanded to know how a man with a violent criminal history slipped through the cracks and ended up in the downtown Sydney cafe where he took 17 people hostage.</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That, however, is not the headline that HuffPost chose to run atop its version of the AP story. Instead, <b>HuffPost rewrote the AP headline in a way that could only serve to elicit sympathy for this monster:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/16/gunman-in-sydney-siege_n_6331610.html"><b>"Gunman In Sydney Siege Had Troubled Past"</b></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Does HuffPost always do these kind of moral somersaults and ethical gymnastics to protect those accused of perpetrating atrocities? The answer is yes, and no. Yes, when it is Muslims, and particularly Islamists, who are the accused. A few examples:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">HuffPost gives super-coverage to "homesick" jihadi - and continues ignoring victims of jihad</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/huffpost-shills-for-al-qaeda-gentle.html">HuffPost shills for Al Qaeda: The "gentle face" of the terror group</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-hamas-loves-huffpost-marwan.html">Why Hamas loves HuffPost: Marwan Barghouti image-whitewashing edition</a></span> </li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When the accused is the CIA, the U.S. military, Dick Cheney, conservatives, or its perpetual enemy, Israel, however, HuffPost does the exact opposite: it holds nothing back to incite hatred against them, even when it knows that the basis of its "news" stories is completely bogus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Examples of HuffPost's relentless efforts to craft inflammatory headlines to smear those who are dedicated to protecting people from jihadists, and their Islamist enablers</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few examples - starting with the headline HuffPost published a few days ago, regarding <b>CIA Director John Brennan.</b> While HuffPost whitewashed the Austrlian jihadist as merely "troubled," it claimed Brennan presided over a reign of <b>"depravity and incompetence,"</b> in the context of the hyper-partisan Democratic report on CIA interrogation tactics:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To punctuate this theme, on December 9, the same day that the Senate Democrats released their report, <b>HuffPost depicted those who wear America's uniforms to sadists, who took personal delight in inflicting pain on innocent victims:<br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HuffPost published no defenses of the CIA --- such as the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/09/torture-cia-senate-intelligence-report-911-column/20088647/%22">scathing article</a> by former Democratic Senator and combat veteran <b>Bob Kerrey.</b> Instead, on December 16, HuffPost decided that the latest vulgar personal attack by Jonathan Liebowitz (Jon Stewart) against former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense of the CIA was worth <b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/16/jon-stewart-dick-cheney_n_6331988.html">a front-page headline</a>:<br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That incendiary headline must have somehow slipped past Arianna Huffington's <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/51668">absolute prohibition</a> on personal attacks and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/03/huffposts-laughably-hypocritical.html">incivility</a> at HuffPost: <b><i>"If you're looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric, don't bother coming to the Huffington Post."</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a continuation of HuffPost's pattern of using the most inflammatory language possible, against those who wear America's uniforms. For example, when the U.S. military was <b><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/04/4510-huffpost-falsely-smears-us.html">falsely accused</a>,</b> several years ago, of having fired on a group of Iraqis who had just fired at them several minutes before,<b> HuffPost (falsely) accused American soldiers of having committed "collateral murder":<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That apparently also somehow slipped through Arianna's absolute prohibition on <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/02/13110-beyond-hypocrisy-arianna.html">"inflammatory claims and conspiracy theories"</a>... presumably, especially when it turns out they're based on lies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few more random examples of HuffPost editorializing its headlines to whip up hatred against those who seek to defeat jihadists: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another <b><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/05/51510-huffpost-smears-sarah-palin-and.html">lie</a>:<br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And another <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/08/81909-huffpost-publishes-anti-semitic.html"><b>lie</b></a> - in which the "journalist" who wrote the story admitted that he had <b>"no idea, no clue"</b> if the allegation was true or not (it wasn't):<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But HuffPost's willingness to write inflammatory smear headlines to incite hate against people isn't limited only to counter-jihadis; it even extends to athletes it doesn't like - such as one whom it labeled (in a "news" headline) as <b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/trouble-with-floyd-mayweather_n_5594057.html">"a terrible human being"</a>:<br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>And yet, in regards to a self-identified militant Islamist who perpetrated dozens of sexual attacks on women, and murdered and maimed in the name of jihad, HuffPost decided to manipulate a headline to indicate only that he comes from a "troubled past." </i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How does this all compare to Arianna's claims that HuffPost is a professional "newspaper," and better than its competitors?</span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"If you're going to produce <span style="color: #990000;">great journalism</span>, you have </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfOjiAtTJunRt89yQv0HGPeKbLE8lbo5S65XR12Fva2Xu1bu6FUHetxWWCa9QQI15fEXoU76ePzYPeuh2jpnnOWT4um8cx4aCOIJceWKk0jN7-csNIFthfmim4Pj-gPpD6Ym4P3mOoC0/s1600/Arianna13.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfOjiAtTJunRt89yQv0HGPeKbLE8lbo5S65XR12Fva2Xu1bu6FUHetxWWCa9QQI15fEXoU76ePzYPeuh2jpnnOWT4um8cx4aCOIJceWKk0jN7-csNIFthfmim4Pj-gPpD6Ym4P3mOoC0/s200/Arianna13.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616954083160578194" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 121px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 122px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">to </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">build a team of people</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">who are working together and driving toward the same goals editorially.” </span><br />
– Arianna Huffington, <a href="http://adage.com/article/special-report-digital-conference/aol-s-huffington-steers-portal-freelancers-ramps-aggregation/226883/">April 7, 2011</a> --- two months after being put in control of <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/02/youve-got-hate-aol-blows-315-million-to.html">all</a> of AOL's "news" and "content" </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizr0oip5WHBS2-yn3CdcBU_JuTPRMDMDETtzmB0ZU1qLtBzFrX2OiM0TREQBtoo_KZSpYAyOmHxLdCpyIXiJRhacSbqS1BMkKLUIn5xZm-khJnPsvOPDw-kPW8BTTmqiZu1qUYjGU0wjE/s1600/timmy.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizr0oip5WHBS2-yn3CdcBU_JuTPRMDMDETtzmB0ZU1qLtBzFrX2OiM0TREQBtoo_KZSpYAyOmHxLdCpyIXiJRhacSbqS1BMkKLUIn5xZm-khJnPsvOPDw-kPW8BTTmqiZu1qUYjGU0wjE/s200/timmy.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607006033267185170" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 82px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 76px;" /></a> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"AOL's acquisition of HuffPost has allowed us... to continue to change the culture here."</span><br />
--- Tim Armstrong, Chairman, AOL, the genius who bought HuffPost and put Arianna in charge of all "news" and "content" --- <a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_18058101?nclick_check=1">May 14, 2011</a></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that </span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">the highest calling of journalists is to </span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ferret out the truth, </span>consequences be damned.”</span><br />
- Arianna Huffington, <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=147167">July 29, 2008</a></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">“We are aiming <span style="color: #990000;">to go beyond just facts,</span> to create</span> </span></span> <span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">a narrative... </span></span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black;">[</span><span style="color: black;">W]e think </span></span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">bringing journalism to a new level </span></span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black;">is exactly what people are looking for.”</span></span><br />
- Arianna Huffington, <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20091020/as-traffic-booms-is-huffpo-ready-to-make-some-real-dough/#kara-ethics">October 20, 2009</a></span></blockquote>
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</b>If you believe HuffPost should stop whitewashing and protecting jihadis and their radical Islamist supporters, while inciting hatred against counter-jihadis, we urge you to do three things: </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">SEE UPDATE AT END:</span> Barely twelve hours after HuffPost decided to depict Sen. Rand Paul as a murderous warmonger, it backtracked when President Obama said effectively the same thing --- and as usual, made him look like a towering hero.</i></b></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HuffPost might as well be letting ISIS write its headlines. Here's what it published as its splash headline on the evening of Sept. 3, 2014:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />What, exactly, is the context for this pathetically decontextualized headline? There is none -- except that it claims Sen. Rand Paul wants to bomb someone, thus casting him into the role of a murderer --
just as HuffPost does to anyone (<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/24/wiesenthal-center-huffington-post-headline-on-gaza-takes-art-of-lying-to-new-depths/">especially</a> <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/05/05/simon-wiesenthal-center-slams-contextless-huffington-post-israel-strikes-again-headline/">Israel</a>) who advocates standing up to
Islamist sociopaths. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The story page is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/03/rand-paul-iraq_n_5762270.html">here</a>. Turns out HuffPost based the headline on a statement that Sen. Paul made to the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/rand-paul-isis_n_5755028.html" target="_hplink">AP</a>, regarding ISIS:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That's it? That's all that Sen. Paul said? So why didn't HuffPost just write a headline that reflected that reality? Because that would have meant deviating from its now-congenital whitewashing of, and propagandizing for Islamist murderers, including by <b>painting the U.S. armed forces as a gang of murderers -- just as ISIS does, and which is <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/defense/215549-reports-isis-beheads-american-journalist">explicitly</a> <a href="http://thedailybanter.com/2014/08/breaking-isis-releases-youtube-video-executing-missing-american-journalist-james-foley/">stating</a> as <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/world/meast/isis-american-journalist-sotloff/index.html">justification</a> to behead U.S. journalists. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lest we forget some of the myriad incidents of HuffPost's bias and incitement of hate against the U.S. military, on a false or grossly decontextualized basis -- which were documented in Huff-Watch's special report, <b><a href="http://Want to "give back" to U.S. soldiers, Arianna? Stop libeling and dishonoring them.">"Want to 'give back' to U.S. soldiers, Arianna? Stop libeling and dishonoring them"</a>:<br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Huff-Watch has documented for years the fact that HuffPost is the most reliable, shameless online Western PR shill for Islamist terror groups including <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Hamas</a>, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/huffpost-shills-for-al-qaeda-gentle.html">Al Qaeda</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">Al Shabaab</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, apparently, HuffPost has apparently decided to add ISIS to its roster of unofficial "clients" -- and allow it to write its inflammatory, incitement-based headlines, to boot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As if all this isn't disturbing enough, remember that it was none other than <b>Arianna Huffington,</b> HuffPost's Editor-In-Chief, who had the audacity to <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/02/13110-beyond-hypocrisy-arianna.html">lecture</a> Fox News against the use of "inflammatory claims" (emphasis added):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>At HuffPost, there are guidelines that have to be followed -- and they include a prohibition on </b>conspiracy theories or <b>inflammatory claims.</b> [...] For context, it's good to remember that Glenn Beck didn't come out of nowhere. He's the latest example of what the great historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style in American politics," which he defined as <b>angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy,"</b> and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-- Arianna Huffington, April 3, 2010</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Will anyone in a position of influence ever hold HuffPost to account? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who knows. But today, <b>Dr. Phil announced he has formed <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-phil/a-welcome-message-from-dr_1_b_5758306.html">an official partnership</a> with HuffPost </b>-- so perhaps he can help explain what is required, psychologically, for a <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">self-proclaimed</a> "nonpartisan" newspaper to abandon even the pretense of journalism, and decide to act as a shill for the most violent, malevolent monsters on the planet.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sept 4, 2014 update, 11:30am: President Obama echoes Sen. Paul's stance on ISIS; HuffPost depicts him as conquering hero, after quietly removing its attack on Sen. Paul</b></span><br /><br />Sometime between 10:30pm last night, and 11:30am today, HuffPost <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVGW63A80BUza0HmnmXvNPN8GPbIP9tf22bGlz5MpsTqkV6n-Jzl_Fgvcr6Z_76gByH9uDc_bCYczCwxVe-Nx-MTd0Oyor3gmOWuAG8UkvcinfGVMZpe5VK9VBneZKc6Dizc4Ub8kBAl04/s1600/09-04-2014+FPHL+11-34.jpg">completely removed</a> its inflammatory headline article against Sen. Paul, and replaced it with this:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The story page is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/03/obama-david-cameron-isis_n_5763042.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World">here</a>. So what did President Obama say, specifically, that caused this dramatic change?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>"Our objective is clear,</b> and that is to degrade and <b>destroy ISIL so that it's no longer a threat,"</b> President Barack Obama said Wednesday during a visit to Estonia, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State. He later headed to Wales for an annual meeting of leaders of the NATO military alliance. Separately, during an appearance in Maine, <b>Vice President Joe Biden declared that the U.S. will pursue the militants to "the gates of hell."</b></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wow! Just imagine what HuffPost would do to any non-letist politician that dared to espouse such warmongering words!!! <i>Oh, wait...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lest you think there are Grand Canyon-sized double-standards at play here, let's refer back to what Arianna has to <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">say</a> about HuffPost's "journalistic" standards and "nonpartisanship": </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“What we're doing is two things. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">We do news. I don't believe news is left wing or right wing.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">”</span></span>
- <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/51668">Arianna Huffington</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“The editorial stance of the Huffington Post is to debunk the right-left way of thinking, </span><span style="font-style: italic;">which has become completely obsolete."</span>
- <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/">Arianna Huffington</a></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uh-huh. And if you believe any of that, you're just the type of person Arianna is looking for, as she branches off into <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-arianna-is-now-selling-timeshares.html">time-share sales</a> as well.</span><br />
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</span>HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-55315509065961867832014-08-26T20:58:00.001-04:002014-08-26T21:11:54.951-04:00HuffPost ignores white Marine beaten into coma by gang of African Americans upset over Michael Brown<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: white;">.</span> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>HuffPost ran <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">five straight</a> days of top-line coverage to elicit sympathy for a "homesick jihadi."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>It gave front-page <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfWgYrLE3ufJlJx7fiPpsJVj8JSsc2fYchuQ5BPaq6rcaP_DJ7Ag4XPb1tEW__J8d5UwOO1FVBxzug5xAPYHgxKmwkfGYmyBI3fz35vIV4iqO0BHrb8Zt7K8odWpBXDoOfDcMRJiAcc3DU/s1600/20Feb13+FPHL+HP+weeps+for+pal+director.jpg">splash headline</a> treatment to an allegation that a Palestinian filmmaker who was detained for several hours at LAX. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>And it ran two straight days of front-page coverage to elicit sympathy for its female staffers who <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/things-men-say-to-women-on-street-harassment_n_5659877.html">allege</a> (without any proof) they were spoken to unkindly by men on New York streets.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Yet HuffPost has completely ignored the story of a white U.S. Marine, Ralph Weems IV, who was beaten into a coma by a gang of African Americans in Mississippi, allegedly because they were upset over the Michael Brown death.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first version of the story was reported three days ago, on <b>August 23, </b>by <a href="http://www.wcbi.com/wordpress/man-undergoes-surgery-after-fight-at-west-point-restaurant">WCBI</a>, the local CBS-TV affiliate. An excerpt:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>A West Point man undergoes emergency brain surgery following a serious
beating at a West Point restaurant. Ralph Weems </b>the IV was airlifted to
North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo following the assault at the
Huddle House between 1 and 1:30 a.m., Saturday.Friends and relatives
tell WCBI that Weems and a friend, David Knighten, were at Waffle House,
and got into an argument with as many as seven men. It involved some
<b>racial slurs. </b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The story was then <a href="http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/mississippi_man_beaten_after_h.html">reported</a> by the AP - HuffPost's most-cited news source - at <b>12:07am on August 25,</b> and described Weems' injuries as "life-threatening." An excerpt:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">West Point police said a man received life-threatening injuries in
what they are investigating as an aggravated assault at a restaurant. <b>Ralph Weems IV,</b> who was injured early Saturday, was in fair condition
Sunday at North Mississippi Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Genie
Causey said without elaborating. [...] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A relative, Bradley Barnes of Madison, told The Associated Press by
telephone on Sunday that his brother-in-law was in<b> a medically induced
coma following brain surgery. "They're going to try and wake him up
tomorrow and see what damage was done,"</b> Barnes said, describing Weems as
a 32-year-old former Marine who had served in Iraq.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David Knighten of West Point told AP earlier by phone that he and
Weems had gone to a Waffle House early Saturday. He said a man waved him
over outside the restaurant and <b>told him politely that people were
upset by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and it wasn't a safe place for whites.</b> When he went in, he said, Weems
was inside and was arguing with other men.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="entry-content"><i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/25/beaten-man-restaurant/14598819/">USA Today</a> </i>is covering the story. Many other news sources and blogs are <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ralph+weems&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb">covering</a> Weems' plight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="entry-content"><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />So how much coverage did HuffPost give to Weems' beating? </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="entry-content">How do we know? Just do a search at HuffPost of the name <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=Ralph+Weems&s_it=header_form_v1">"Ralph Weems."</a> Three days after the story broke, the search results were zero, zilch, nada. This mirrors HuffPost's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2014/06/huffpost-ignores-us-marine-jailed-in.html">complete blackout</a> of coverage concerning the plight of </span>Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, another U.S. Marine who has been languishing in a Mexican jail for nearly six months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="entry-content"><b>So what types of stories did HuffPost decide were more newsworthy, and deserving of front-page coverage, than what happened to Ralph Weems? </b>A sampling, from August 26 - starting with the <i>second straight day</i> of HuffPost cheering on its <b>front page</b> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erin-mckelle/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-interacting-with-me-a-fat-girl-who-wears-revealing-clothes_b_5686713.html">a fat girl who wears revealing clothes</a>:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="entry-content"><br />HuffPost is pretending it doesn't know about Ralph Weems - yet somehow, magically, it is able to find <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/baby-squirrel-passes-out-city-wildlife_n_5716903.html">a "news" story</a> about a squirrel who passed out after eating - and plaster it on its <i>front page</i>?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="entry-content">If you still haven't reached the limits of outrage, here's a little more: This is what Arianna Huffington said on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/ferguson-the-untold-story_b_5697928.html">August 21</a> about HuffPost's coverage of the Michael Brown incident, and what makes the "newspaper" that she oversees and edits better than its competitors (emphasis added):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitO0fo1bwydqNIsNN8pJaGoUo1Zo5S7dia4rsGlUVek1FFFHaSUbwSjB5pFudj3IXpfcHvZe5yPJSu3idDd4iiEH8hUaF4E8-q-gdx0kdhqckHPjWfucRQQ9FKM4htlPWPBVc_VQRwHaeY/s1600/AHbottle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitO0fo1bwydqNIsNN8pJaGoUo1Zo5S7dia4rsGlUVek1FFFHaSUbwSjB5pFudj3IXpfcHvZe5yPJSu3idDd4iiEH8hUaF4E8-q-gdx0kdhqckHPjWfucRQQ9FKM4htlPWPBVc_VQRwHaeY/s1600/AHbottle.jpg" height="200" width="155" /></a><span class="entry-content">We also know that what the media choose to shine a light on matters. The
phenomenon of copycat crimes and the contagion effect of suicides are
well established. So perhaps we'd see more than glimpses of our better
angels if the media decided to include them as the vital part of the
story that they in fact are. I'm not asking for depictions of utopia or a
Pollyanna filter on the news. <b>At The Huffington Post we're relentless
in our coverage of corruption, injustice, poverty, joblessness,
inequality and racial discrimination, but we are equally relentless in
giving our readers and viewers a full and accurate idea of the entire
human story.</b> [...]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Giving only one side breeds cynicism and a sense of hopelessness. The
divisions and inequities exposed in Ferguson are real and formidable.[...] And <b>we are definitely going to keep the focus on Ferguson
long after the national spotlight dims --</b> both on the conflicts and
divisions and on the acts of compassion and giving that bring the
community together.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Will anyone in a position of influence ever hold Arianna Huffington to account for HuffPost's pathological bias and incitement against the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-U.S.%20Military%20bias%3B%20Outrages">U.S. military</a>, and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a>, and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews</a>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Doubtful. This is just one more example of the fundamental clash of the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html">lies</a> that Arianna Huffington has been telling the public, and her <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">advertisers</a>,
since HuffPost launched in 2005 --- that it is a "nonpartisan"
newspaper, only interested in "ferreting out the truth" in journalism --- and the reality of HuffPost is, and does, under her direction:</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the highest calling of journalists is to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ferret out the truth, </span>consequences be damned.”</span><br />- <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=147167">Arianna Huffington</a></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;">But who knows.
This is America, land of promise, innovation, and initiative. Maybe
someday, someone in a position of influence will start to hold
Huffington to account.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">. </span></span>HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-75367316378880937582014-08-10T11:59:00.001-04:002014-09-04T23:40:11.555-04:00HuffPost gives murdered Miami, FL rabbi about as much coverage as you'd imagine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">SEE UPDATE AT END:</span> For indication of how HuffPost treats murderous crimes against Jews in America.. versus Muslim allegations of... outrages.</i></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGz2bPAEPGJCGsbRBDOJj2NEKHusva9QEdg7INzqxLafmQ2t2VsLOce_4kmHzWCJbgByQYMem8s0wtQuWj6d_0aQp142INx_MF9mNxq_zqBGwmasxjByBMSJn07cNWRCNe3YO_6YuadQmR/s1600/Swastika+and+Hamas+on+FL+synagogue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGz2bPAEPGJCGsbRBDOJj2NEKHusva9QEdg7INzqxLafmQ2t2VsLOce_4kmHzWCJbgByQYMem8s0wtQuWj6d_0aQp142INx_MF9mNxq_zqBGwmasxjByBMSJn07cNWRCNe3YO_6YuadQmR/s1600/Swastika+and+Hamas+on+FL+synagogue.jpg" height="142" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;">Early on the morning of July 28, 2014, Congregation Torah Ve’emunah in Miami, FL was defaced with spray-painted swastikas and "HAMAS" signs. See a local news video report of this hate crime <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMM9fyZusQY">here</a>. </span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>HuffPost gave <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=Congregation+Torah+Ve%E2%80%99emunah&s_it=header_form_v1">zero</a> coverage to this story, on that day or since.</b> <i>(Perhaps this omission was due to the fact that anti-Semitic hate crimes such as this are exactly the kind that are incited by HuffPost's chronic incitement of hate against <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews</a>.)</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But HuffPost wasn't ignoring all domestic "news" stories during this period that it deemed we should be very concerned about. For example, on<b> August 9, 2014,</b> HuffPost gave the second day of front-page coverage to a <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/things-men-say-to-women-on-street-harassment_n_5659877.html&sa=U&ei=GJXnU9O0DMns8AHboYHoAQ&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNE9B3ZqNvsSSuj_WG5_pQ5q6d3D7A">"news" story</a> about some of its female employees who allege (without proof of any kind) that men have spoken to them unkindly while walking on sidewalks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />Twelve days after Congregation</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Torah Ve’emunah was vandalized, on August 9, rabbi Joseph Raskin, was shot to death in front of the synagogue.</b> </span><br /><br />From a local CBS-TV affiliate:</span></span><br />
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According to an <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/09/4280988/two-men-sought-in-fatal-shooting.html">article</a> in the <i>Miami Herald</i>, the local leader of one prominent national Jewish organization speculated that the synagogue vandalism and this murder are connected:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(A) local Jewish community leader, <b>Brian Siegal, </b>director of the American Jewish Committee’s Miami and Broward Regional Office, said he believes Raksin’s shooting may be connected to the recent act of vandalism at the nearby Torah V’Emunah [...] <b><i>"Coming so soon and so close to the synagogue that was vandalized last week with swastikas and pro-Hamas graffiti, obviously we’re suspicious that it’s linked, but that remains to be seen.”</i></b></span></span></span></blockquote>
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</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Instead, as of 9:00am on August 10 - a full <i>24 hours after </i>the murder, here is a sampling of the stories that HuffPost judged important enough to be placed on its <b>front page:</b></span><br />
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So what kinds of domestic "news" stories does HuffPost publicize on its front page, in which they sympathize with the victim? </b></span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Here's a sampling, over the past several years:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">HuffPost gave front-page <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/emad-burnat-detained-5-broken-cameras_n_2724518.html">splash treatment</a> to Michael Moore's allegations that a Palestinian filmmaker was detained for merely a few <i>hours</i> at LAX:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">HuffPost gave <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">five days of top coverage</a> to a "homesick American jihadi" - yet ignored the a U.S. military hero who was given the Medal of Honor during the same time period:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How does this all compare to Arianna Huffington's claims that HuffPost is a professional, nonpartisan "newspaper," and better than its competitors?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s1600/Arianna13.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLRDtXvYOPPLyqgEOxDc0tHcOb8T9RALJ9ENDHwTZxRvP1PZJS15av3B5w8T5r8i3L0wlVziiZvcqJjC2jjhyphenhyphenzyiJw3bPTHWHaQIfoEijV5zQIlTQGSEo4HLrxMjwWAymrBfO-xKuZKfc/s320/Arianna13.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567433797552589218" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 176px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 183px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">narrative.</span> We think <span style="font-weight: bold;">bringing journalism to a new level</span> is exactly what people are looking for.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"If you're going to produce <span style="font-weight: bold;">great journalism, </span>you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving <span style="font-weight: bold;">toward the same goals editorially.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that <b>the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."</b></i><br />- <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=147167">Arianna Huffington</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>====================<br /><br />UPDATE, Sept. 4, 2014: HuffPost gives front-page coverage to "news" story about a New York Muslim who alleges the NYPD took too long to respond to a crime call.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/04/hate-crime-arab-american_n_5769318.html">"news" story</a> certainly has more merit than that of an American rabbi who was murdered on his way to a synagogue that had just been vandalized with anti-Semitic hate graffiti (according to HuffPost's radical leftist, Islamist-enabling fever swamp):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/11/huffington-post-hamass-mouthpiece-in-usa.html">Huffington Post: Hamas's mouthpiece in the USA</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/07/huffposts-anti-semitic-bias-violent.html">HuffPost front-page headline: Romney chased by "pack of Jews"</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/07/huffposts-anti-semitic-bias-violent.html">HuffPost's anti-Semitic bias: Ignores Jewish children terrorized in Pennsylvania</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/07/huffpost-busted-in-another-lie-follow.html">HuffPost busted in another lie: Follow-up on Penn. Jewish child camp attacks</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On August 2, HuffPost published this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/israel-missing-soldier_n_5643356.html">headline</a> at the top of its front page, just under the splash:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turns out, the story was sourced by Reuters, but HuffPost completely changed the headline, which originally read <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/02/uk-mideast-gaza-idUKKBN0FV04D20140802"><b>"Hamas defends ambush, blamed for ending Gaza ceasefire." </b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why would HuffPost twist this headline in such an egregious way? </b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The answer is, because HuffPost's editors chose to ignore the kidnapped IDF soldier, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/hadar-goldin-idf-officer-kidnapped-in-gaza-is-engaged-to-be-married/"> </a><b><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/hadar-goldin-idf-officer-kidnapped-in-gaza-is-engaged-to-be-married/">Lt. Hadar Goldin,</a> </b>23, his fiance, his family and comrades, as well as the potential horrors that he is being subjected to at the hands of the gang of savages known as Hamas. Instead, these editors decided to instead sympathize with what his kidnapping may mean for what they term Gaza's "nightmare."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note also that HuffPost has not featured a single picture of Lt. Goldin on either its front page or World page. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contrast this to the fact that when a Palestinian "journalist" was merely <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/groundreport/detained-palestinian-jour_b_184794.html">detained</a> for a few hours by Israel, HuffPost featured her picture on its front page: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To feature Sgt. Goldin's face and story on HuffPost's front page would be to humanize him - and that is the one thing that HuffPost never does, for Israelis or Jews, as Huff-Watch and our friends at <a href="http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/">HuffPostMonitor</a> have been documenting for the past five years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As we've documented over and over again, HuffPost is only willing to "humanize" one side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: terrorists, their enablers, and their Muslim victims. Lest we forget when <b>Dirar Al Sisi,</b> Hamas's chief rocket-maker, went missing on his way to an engineering conference, and HuffPost plastered his little girl's weepy-eyed face all over its <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/10/dirar-abu-sisi-abducted-israel-ukraine_n_833907.html">front page and World page</a>?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This practice of dehumanizing Israelis and Jews, and "super-humanizing" Palestinian terrorists and their victims, has been going on for many years at HuffPost:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/huffpost-continues-to-do-hamass-pr-and.html">HuffPost continues to do Hamas's PR, and dehumanizes Jews as a bonus</a> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/91010-huffposts-pathological-anti.html">HuffPost's pathological anti-Semitic bias: Children's edition</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-2-huffpost-gives-super-coverage-to.html">Part 2: HuffPost gives super-coverage to "homesick" jihadi - and continues ignoring victims of jihad</a> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/06/huffpost-gives-palestinian-murderer-idf.html">HuffPost gives Palestinian murderer, IDF victim same moral status</a> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/03/pictorial-huffpost-anti-semitic-bias.html">PICTORIAL: HuffPost's anti-Semitic bias against Tolouse murder victims</a> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/03/huffposts-anti-semitic-pro-islamist.html">HuffPost's anti-Semitic, pro-Islamist bias: Fogel family slaughter edition</a> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/10/10410-more-of-huffpost-giving-front.html">More of HuffPost giving front-page, personalized coverage of Muslim deaths; Jewish victims of Muslim violence? Nope</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />Humanizing Palestinians (and dehumanizing Jews) as part of Hamas's and HuffPost's doctinres</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Huff-Watch special report,<i> </i><i><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/11/huffington-post-hamass-mouthpiece-in-usa.html">Huffington Post: Hamas's mouthpiece in the USA</a>, </i>revealed the fact that Hamas's spokesperson, and one of HuffPost's top video "journalists," claim that they have the same basic mandate: to "humanize" Palestinians. This basic propaganda doctrine was affirmed in a recently-discovered Hamas <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hamas-issues-terrorism-101-handbook/">training manual</a>:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Regarding “the narrative of life vs. the narrative of blood: [When speaking] to an Arab friend, start with the number of martyrs. [But when speaking] to a Western friend, start with the number of wounded and dead,” the video states. “Be sure to humanize the Palestinian suffering. Try to paint a picture of the suffering of the civilians in Gaza and the West Bank during the occupation’s operations and its bombings of cities and villages.”<i> </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At 2:00pm on August 1, 2014, HuffPost published this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/israel-new-york-times-censor_n_5641905.html">headline</a> on its front page (screencap taken at 10:30pm):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This <b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/israel-new-york-times-censor_n_5641905.html">"news" story</a></b> was written by HuffPost star "reporter" Michael Calderone (who holds a master's degree in journalism from from NYU). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So does that headline<i> really</i> tell the story - accurately, in context, and with balance? Of course not. This is <i>HuffPost</i>. And as has been documented at Huff-Watch over and over again, its headlines concerning <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews</a> are primarily designed to do one thing: incite hate against both, while ignoring or whitewashing acts and statements by Hamas, et al, that are 1,000 times worse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go through the story, and you will learn that:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Israel, like all other countries when in military conflict, sets rules on reporters who are operating in the region.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was a timely request to help save the life of the IDF soldier whom Hamas kidnapped this morning.<br /><span style="color: white;">.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HuffPost published the following update at 5:55pm - <u><i>four and a half hours before</i></u> the screencap above was taken:</span> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UPDATE: 5:55 p.m. -- In a statement emailed to HuffPost, Times international editor Joe Kahn said<b> "we are not submitting NYT articles for prior review by Israeli censors." "We are aware of a very narrow issue that concerns the censors about the background of the captive solider,"</b> said Kahn. "And our reporters in Israel have not reported on that issue. But <b>censors are not reviewing what we publish prior to publication."</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Those facts alone would be sufficient to cause any (honest) Journalism 101 professor to flunk Calderone, HuffPost's front-page headline writer, and its editor, who allowed this "story" to be presented as it was.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>But wait, it gets worse.</b></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you only got your news from HuffPost, you would never know the following verifiable, extremely important facts, which would have made this "story" a complete yawner:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fact that Hamas controls all international journalists operating in Gaza.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fact that Hamas prohibits Jewish journalists from reporting in Gaza.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fact that Hamas has been openly <a href="http://honestreporting.com/journalist-backs-idf-on-hamas-rocket-misfire/">intimidating</a> and <a href="http://honestreporting.com/idns-07282014-journalists-threatened/">threatening</a> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=214092"></a>international journalists to only report what they allow them to, and physically <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=214092">attacking</a> those who dare to deviate.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fact that the Palestinian Authority (in the West Bank - our supposed "peace partner") has routinely <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=224143">intimidated</a>, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=224539">terrorized</a> and jailed international journalists who dare to report anything that PA "president" Mahmoud Abbas dislikes.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Taking these facts into account, one truth becomes inescapable: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Given the knowledge that HuffPost leadership had in its possession at the time it published this headline, <b>the only possible reason for constructing it as they did, was to advance a classic anti-Semitic libel - that Jews control the media, and manipulate it to serve their own purposes. </b>And, by omission, this lie is only reinforced by the fact that HuffPost has never published a single story on its front page or World page about how Hamas and the PA treat journalists. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And even four and a half hours after HuffPost was advised by the <i>NY Times</i> itself that this was nothing out of the ordinary, it allowed that inflammatory, dishonest headline to remain posted. Why would it do that? To incite and publish the exact kinds of hate-filled user comments that it has thrived on for five years. A sampling (see many more <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/israel-new-york-times-censor_n_5641905.html">here</a>):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How many supporters of this campaign support the fact that a foreign country has the ability to instill a gag order on US media outlets? Does it not bother you that the story that broke the ceasefire is now being monitored by an israeli for approval? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I thought Israel already writes the NYT's Israel coverage. Every NYT mid-east reporter is a pre-approved Jewish supremacist hack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In other words, "We don't want anyone to find this guy walking down the street because they'll know we completely lied about his capture in order to wipe out more Palestinians".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Israeli military told The New York Times on Friday to withhold publishing additional information about an Israeli soldier reportedly captured by Palestinian militants until it is first reviewed by a censor. Why are we so closely tied to these people? Now they want to censor OUR MEDIA? This is not Russia, we are not in Nazi Germany, we have freedom of the press. Evidently they do not in Israel. And we call them a free society? How can you have a free society if the government censors the media?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just another day in the life of Hamas's most reliable Western online PR shill, the HuffPost, where truth and facts get turned on their heads in order to whip up hatred against Israel and Jews, on a daily basis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On July 31, it was announced that at 8:00am local time, the IDF and Hamas would begin a cease-fire to enable humanitarian aid to be brought into Gaza, the injured to be evacuated, etc.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On August 1 at 9:30am local time, Hamas terrorists emerged from a terror tunnel, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/IDF-soldier-feared-kidnapped-369720">murdered</a> two IDF soldiers and <a href="https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/status/495178781963735040">kidnapped</a> a third, <b>Lt. Hadar Goldin, </b>23. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of this was confirmed by <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4553302,00.html">Israeli</a> and <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-soldier-feared-captured-in-tunnel-attack-by-militants-9642469.html">Western</a> media by <b>8:00am EST</b> (HuffPost's time zone).</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead of accurately reporting what caused the end of the cease-fire, HuffPost made it appear in a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/gaza-war-72-hour-cease-fire_n_5640524.html">splash headline</a> (screencap taken at <b>10:30am EST)</b> that neither side was responsible, and that the cessation of hostilities happened through unknown causes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Update, 2:00pm</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HuffPost has now turned the headline imagery for this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/gaza-war-72-hour-cease-fire_n_5640524.html">"news" story</a> into a sympathy plea for Palestinians:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just another day at the office for Hamas's largest Western online mouthpiece, the Huffington Post. As a reminder, some earlier examples:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/30/huffington-post-takes-its-propaganda-war-against-israel-into-outer-space/">Huffington Post Takes its Propaganda War Against Israel Into Outer Space</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/11/huffington-post-hamass-mouthpiece-in-usa.html">Huff-Watch: Huffington Post: Hamas's mouthpiece in the USA</a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-huffpost-even-more-anti-israel-than.html">Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here’s the proof</a></span> </blockquote>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/huffpost-video-news-host-pushes-hamas.html">HuffPost video “news” host pushes Hamas lies, ignores savage reality of Hamas</a></span> </blockquote>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/2012/10/ahmed-shihab-eldin-cheers-for-gaza-and.html">Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Cheers for Gaza and Qatar</a></span> </blockquote>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/10/25/people-like-ahmed-shihab-eldin-are-destroying-huffington-post-live/">People like Ahmed Shihab-Eldin are Destroying Huffington Post Live</a></span> </blockquote>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/2012/11/ahmed-shihab-eldin-counts-bodies.html">Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Counts the Bodies</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On March 31, 2014 U.S. Marine <b>Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi </b>accidentally crossed into Mexico, due to a <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/05/27/border-crossing-where-former-marine-entered-mexico-by-mistake-difficult-to/">confusing</a> series of road signs, on his way to San Diego. Mexican officials refused his request to turn around a few hundred feet over the border, and instead threw him in jail, where he has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/justice/us-marine-mexico-prison/">remained</a> ever since. The reason: Tahmooressi, who was essentially living out of his truck, was carrying all of his possessions, including three firearms, which he openly admitted to Mexican officials. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An Afghanistan war veteran suffering from PTSD, by all accounts Sgt. Tahmooressi served honorably, and was relocating to San Diego to obtain the mental health counseling that had been <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/30/us/mexico-us-marine-detained/">prescribed</a> to him. <b>Since his incarceration in Mexico, however, </b><b>Tahmooressi has <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/05/us-sgt-tahmooressi-i-was-stripped-beaten-chained-threatened-of-rape-by-mexican-guards-video/">reported</a> that his jailers have beaten him, stripped him of his clothes, chained him to a bed, and threatened to rape him.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's a video summary of Sgt. Tahmooressi's situation:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>So how many stories did the Huffington Post, the world's <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1</a> most-read online "newspaper," publish about Sgt. Tahmooressi and his plight and allegations, in the nearly <i>three months </i>since he was taken captive by Mexico? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Zero - and you can prove this for yourself. </b>If you <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/search.php/?q=Andrew+Tahmooressi+&sort=date&date_filter=newest&s_it=header_form_v1">search</a> "Andrew Tahmooressi" at HuffPost, you will find a list of returns - all of which have <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54gMG7eo4dgjnWoTQdMGVC61Fl__uDxx_tMRvHDrw9IQ3iqSo9aZCMQINNhzGguavema_Pj6hnBrTQsIh8Op6q1wt5oLxHGVHkMRD8CVq4DiTLJhEnsGh-zb4fuD4fcAJSMuvprae-b_H/s1600/26June14+search+callout.jpg">"huff-wires"</a> in the URL, meaning that these were items that were inserted into HuffPost's news feed, but not published - least of all on its front page, or any prominent position.</span><br />
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</b></span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Contrast HuffPost completely ignoring Sgt. Tahmooressi to the sympathetic coverage it has given to a convicted U.S. traitor, to Palestinians, and even Al Qaeda</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />As the following facts demonstrate, were Tahmooressi anything other than (a) an American combat veteran who honorably served, and (b) a gun owner, it would have given his plight front-page coverage. Consider the following facts:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />(1) HuffPost gave front-page <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/emad-burnat-detained-5-broken-cameras_n_2724518.html">splash treatment</a> to Michael Moore's allegations that<b> a Palestinian filmmaker was detained for merely a few <i>hours</i> at LAX:</b></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) HuffPost gave front-page <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/bradley-manning-sentence_n_3696501.html">splash treatment</a> to<b> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-usa-wikileaks-manning-idUSBRE97J0JI20130821">convicted traitor</a> PFC Bradley Manning</b> when it became difficult to prove whether or not his treason led to actual deaths of U.S. service members or our allies:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) HuffPost gave Manning a front-page <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chelsea-manning/a-statement-on-my-legal-name-change_b_5199874.html">editorial</a> to explain why he was changing his name, and had changed genders - and left this editorial posted on the front page <b>for <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnCrB0_IUY7igCE3VgH_PDpWrgNyLMslYyb_ZSSc3povOqMuLmfZXt83o3ELWZb_KFxJBgzprsK6idLNNPyjFeQBA-0cl1v3YalQfbn6TYbWqurwjldDw67oJ1NjbtprJX669jDEz57-vM/s1600/27Apr+HP+GIVES+TRAITOR+MANNING+EDITORIAL+DAY4+TOP.jpg"><i>four days</i></a>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(4) HuffPost gave<b> <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">five days of top coverage</a> to a "homesick jihadi" </b>-<b> </b>yet ignored the a U.S. military hero who was given the Medal of Honor during the same time period:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(5) HuffPost gave sympathetic front-page coverage to a "news" story that presents<b> <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/huffpost-shills-for-al-qaeda-gentle.html">"the 'gentle face' of Al Qaeda"</a>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(6) HuffPost gave <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/palestinian-refugees-in-e_n_3299755.html">splash treatment</a> to Palestinians whom it alleged were <i>"left behind by government, the world"</i>: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are not isolated incidents, or "accidents," as HuffPost likes to claim when it is caught in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bill-oreilly-needs-to-en_b_92646.html">embarrassing</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/limbaugh-hannity-and-th_b_42333.html">situations</a>. Rather, they are par for the course in the "news" room that is commanded by the woman who <a href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1886214,00.html">reportedly</a> claimed she is <i>"the future of journalism."</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most recently, on June 24, 2014 HuffPost published an editorialized teaser atop its news section, for an original <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/23/mohamed-fahmy-reaction-al-jazeera-egypt_n_5521212.html">"news" story</a> that presents what it contends is <b>the "heartbreaking" reaction that an Al Jazeera "journalist" had to being sentenced by an Egyptian court:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note also that by HuffPost's own admission, amidst this "heartbreaking" ordeal, the "reporter" <b>overtly threatened the court,</b> screaming, <b><i>"They will pay for this! I promise they will pay for this!"</i>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note further that as documented in a <a href="http://www.usasurvival.org/home/docs/ASI30Jan13.pdf">detailed report</a>, HuffPost has a long, intense relationship with Al Jazeera, in which it has relentlessly worked to get the <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/al-jizya-pbs-using-al-jazeera-as-news-source/">terrorist-celebrating</a> "news" network into millions of U.S. homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Day 87 of </b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Sgt. Tahmooressi's captivity, and terror: What you can do to help him</span></b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Learn the details at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/freeusmctahmooressifrommexicanjail"><b>Facebook page</b></a> set up to help liberate Sgt. Tahmooressi, and sign the petitions that are linked therein.<br /><span style="color: white;">.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contact your <a href="http://whoismyrepresentative.com/"><b>Congressional representatives</b></a> and the <a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/demand-release-usmc-sgt-tahmooressi-suffering-ptsd-mexico-imprisonment/qslJk2Xd"><b>White House</b></a> to ask them to help free </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sgt. Tahmooressi.<br /><span style="color: white;">.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contact any of the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html"><b>corporations</b></a> that advertise at HuffPost, to ask if they are aware of what it is they are enabling. <br /><span style="color: white;">.</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Write or call <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/to-contact-huffpost.html"><b>Huffington Post's senior management</b></a> to ask that they end the blackout of news on </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sgt. Tahmooressi, and begin showing him, and all U.S. soldiers, the respect and sympathy that they show traitors, terrorists and Palestinians.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Monday, November 11, the Huffington Post featured a front-page <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/10/isra-almodallal_n_4250911.html">story</a>, sourced from the Associated Press, about Hamas hiring its first female “spokesperson,” <b>Isra Almodallal,</b> replete with a staged <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4kY8jyUeZGMmC7K9XDnXQyc9mkTRdWuJ1B48BlTRiPUGegt9-9BN0M8e6JA4wbgaVUl4AaxKf34xLmwbxdmEltXLRIPQqSVBQ30hU4yKVTbLkZ7b2ydUXeoPJb8e37H8xwlpODRn3XMM/s1600/10Nov13+FPHL+HP+does+HAMAS+pr+-+new+spokeswoman+-+callout.jpg">picture</a> of her looking like a teenage U.S. blogger<span style="color: #0000ee;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the article, Almodallal voices her support for standard-issue genocidal Hamas threats (that all of Israel should be wiped out, as it sits on Palestinian land), and her belief that Hamas has a bad reputation not because of its terrorism, genocidal threats, or suicide bombings, but because of “unfair Israeli media.” Her new job, she says, is to make the Palestinian issues “more human” to the outside world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ironically, earlier this year, another pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel propagandist, <b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ahmed-shihabeldin/">Ahmed Shihab-Eldin</a></b> – who happens to be one of the top hosts of HuffPostLive, its video “news” service – described his job in almost identical terms: as being “to humanize” the Palestinians:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> If you define “humanizing” a culture as whitewashing terrorists and publishing false, incendiary propaganda about their victims (namely Jews), as HuffPost has been doing for four years, then HuffPost’s senior management (which repeatedly, falsely <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/huffposts-repeated-public-claims-that.html">claims</a> it is a “nonpartisan” news operation) has been allowing Shihab-Eldin to fulfill his “job,” and then some. See the following links for more details: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-huffpost-even-more-anti-israel-than.html">Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here’s the proof</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/huffpost-video-news-host-pushes-hamas.html">HuffPost video “news” host pushes Hamas lies, ignores savage reality of Hamas</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/2012/10/ahmed-shihab-eldin-cheers-for-gaza-and.html">Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Cheers for Gaza and Qatar</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/10/25/people-like-ahmed-shihab-eldin-are-destroying-huffington-post-live/">People like Ahmed Shihab-Eldin are Destroying Huffington Post Live</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perhaps Hamas’ new <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">propagandist</span> spokeswoman should apply for a job with the Huffington Post. And judging by his actions, we already know that Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is fully capable of taking over for her, in case Hamas’ propaganda begins to suffer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On November 13, HuffPost published – deep on a secondary page – an obscurely-titled, sanitized version of the story of the savage murder of 19-year-old <b>Eden Atias</b> by a Palestinian teenager. As shown in the JPG below, the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/palestinian-teen-kills-israeli-soldier_n_4266670.html" target="_blank">URL</a> that HuffPost assigned to the piece is<i> <b><i>“palestinian-teen-kills-israeli-soldier”</i></b></i>; it knew full well the details of this brutal attack. Yet the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiehbToiiTXeTr3okST-w_GZr9yDsvaWx_-4y9z0j2mSglQUqYAOcqkGSutnAVHljUECScCyFrSDu-MaIdynanfWAbp1ttHEI_z4ckPc1X1b9ZThIB1AW0-9-W4EvAUKQ8jY-9aJtRsuHjH/s1600/13Nov13+WPHL+IDF+soldier+murdered+-+HP+sanitizes+-+callout.jpg" target="_blank">headline</a> that HuffPost wrote, <b><i>“IDF Soldier Stabbing Could Impair Peace Talks,”</i></b> intentionally creates an unclear impression. Does that mean the IDF soldier stabbed someone – or that the IDF soldier was stabbed? Did anyone die?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contrast this with the gory, personalized, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">sympathetic</a> coverage the HuffPost routinely gives to jihadis and Palestinians who meet with bad fates as a result of Hamas or PA terrorism against Jews:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soon after, as <i>The Algemeiner </i><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/11/13/hamas-spokesman-applauds-murder-of-19-year-old-idf-soldier-by-16-year-old-arab/" target="_blank">reported</a>, a Hamas spokesperson issued an official statement by the terror group, celebrating the murder of Eden:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HuffPost, however, chose to ignore that story. Was this decision made because it might clash with the positive image it had given just two days earlier to Hamas's new spokeswoman?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead, HuffPost’s editors (including Shihab-Eldin?) decided other “news” stories were far more deserving of top-line coverage – such as a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBs5jUBRKKGgl91-lC_NYsuIfn__VDcMwZgCfxaUwX2aNIQ-JXfZalkWcBR5CjZy46QXYxVoaUykydWyuUQi3Oy0Y8ySmLFAwoUa7N_JIr2yGbQhCoZCg9KC0nVEZ-AEBgn_aXJJ_m2Veu/s1600/13Nov13+WPHL+PUTIN+WORSHIP+JUMPS+THE+SHARK.jpg" target="_blank">propaganda story</a> about Vladmir Putin, and an assortment of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/pebbles-tlc-chilli_n_4269155.html" target="_blank">celebrity</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/larry-david-knicks-photo_n_4268082.html" target="_blank">gossip</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/matt-lauer-ellen-halloween-costume_n_4267633.html" target="_blank">various</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/ian-mckellen-tramp-photo_n_4266352.html" target="_blank">nonsense</a>, such as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/500-boozy-milkshake_n_4268962.html" target="_blank">“the $500 milkshake.”</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Apparently, this was the latest effort by HuffPost to “humanize” Palestinians – this time, at the expense of dehumanizing a 19-year-old Jew, whom one of them savagely murdered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[Betsy] Morgan, [HuffPost's] C.E.O., described the Huffington Post approach as <b><i>"covering the news in a 21st-century kind of way."</i></b> </span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Conde Naste,</i> <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/">November 14, 2007</a></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">.”</span>--- Arianna Huffington, <a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=147167">July 29, 2008</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“[Arianna Huffington] is offended and </span><span style="font-style: italic;">bewildered by the suggestion that other news outlets think she's getting a free ride. </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">She sees herself as the future of journalism, not the end of it.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>--- Time</i> interview, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1886214,00.html">March 19, 2009</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>"If you're going to produce great journalism,</b> you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving toward the same goals editorially.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">August 1, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>WATCHDOG SITE SENDS DETAILED LETTER TO NY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS RE TERRORISTIC THREATS AT HUFFINGTON POST</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/">HUFF-WATCH</a>, a comprehensive watchdog site that documents and exposes Huffington Post's incitement and tolerance of hate, sent an open letter to the District Attorney of New York County, <u>Cyrus Vance</u>, and NYPD Police Commissioner <u>Ray Kelly</u>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The purpose of this letter, linked <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/08/to-nypd-will-you-also-prosecute.html">here</a>, is to provide these law enforcement officials with physical evidence of:</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What appears to be terroristic threats posted by HuffPost users, against attendees of the upcoming conference of the American Legislative Exchange Council, Charles & David Koch, and others. </b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The fact that by HuffPost's admission, not a single user comment is published without being pre-moderated, meaning they are all reviewed prior to publication, and only those that it approves are published. </b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The fact that while HuffPost reviewed, approved and decided to publish those threats, it held back a comment submitted by another user, asking if one of the threateners realized he's a coward - then banned the non-offending user, but left the offenders free to continue. <br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The fact that HuffPost has a longstanding practice of enabling and protecting the worst-of-the-worst violators of its comment policy, while censoring and banning non-violating users who attempt to speak out against or complain about them. </b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The<span style="color: #0000ee;"> following</span> screencaps provide a glimpse into the most current volley of what appear to be terroristic threats, focused on attendees of the ALEC conference, to be held on August 7-9 in Chicago. The first screencap is from a user (whom HuffPost has enabled to repeatedly urge that the Koch brothers be murdered) who indicates plans are underway to "intimidate" the attendees of the ALEC conference:</span>
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Another user, "Libs_Wreck_Everything," asks here to expand on this threat. In reply to this, HuffPost reviewed, approved and decided to publish a comment submitted by another user, "waukone," that the intent is not to scare, but <u><b>"to kill"</b></u> (ALEC attendees):<br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Beneath that, "Libs_Wreck_Everything" submitted a comment asking "waukone" if he realizes he is a coward. HuffPost, however, sent that comment to pending, meaning it was being reviewed:</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This screencap shows that HuffPost banned "Libs_Wreck_Everything" soon thereafter<span style="color: #0000ee;">:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Additional screencaps in the letter to the Mr. Vance and Commissioner Kelly show that HuffPost left both of the other users are still active --- the first of which has a very long history of posting threats and solicitations of violence against public figures with whom she disagrees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The reason for HUFF-WATCH's open letter to Mr. Vance and Commissioner Kelly, specifically, however, is because:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HuffPost is located within their jurisdiction. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The NYPD recently <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/jul/22/nypd-arrests-queens-man-facebook-posts-after-zimmerman-verdict/">arrested</a> a Queens, NY man for posting what it contends* were terroristic threats on Facebook, which only moderates comments after-the-fact. (*See Sec. <a href="http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article490.htm#p490.20">490.20</a> of the NY Code.) In contrast, it would appear that HuffPost is<i> actively facilitating</i> the publication of such threats, in that by its own admission, no comments are published until and unless they are approved beforehand, via moderation.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The ALEC conference is scheduled to begin in only six days (on August 7), and as one of these violators has made it publicly known that she lives north of Chicago, there is a reasonable basis to be concerned for the safety of attendees to this conference. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is, of course, up to these law enforcement officials to determine if these specific HuffPost users, and possibly HuffPost itself, should be prosecuted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The full letter contains deep background data to place this current documentation into context, and demonstrates that this was not a one-time anomaly, but rather, is part of a continuing, disturbing, dangerous pattern of behavior, of HuffPost users being allowed to post explicit and implicit threats and solicitations of violence against public figures and institutions with which they disagree, politically.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read the entire letter here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/08/to-nypd-will-you-also-prosecute.html"><b><i>To NYPD: Will you also prosecute HuffPost for enabling & publishing terroristic threats?</i></b></a></span></blockquote>
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HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-38538678399595502182013-08-01T13:40:00.004-04:002013-08-01T13:48:54.460-04:00To NYPD: Will you also prosecute HuffPost for enabling & publishing terroristic threats?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">District Attorney</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mr. Raymond W. Kelly</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From:<b> "HuffWatcher"</b> (an anonymous advocate of civil dissent and the rule of law)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Re: <b>Evidence of HuffingtonPost.com, a Manhattan-based "news" website, enabling certain users to post comments containing what appear to be terroristic threats --- and suppressing other users who attempt to speak out against them</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dear Mr. Vance and Commissioner Kelly:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The purpose of this letter is to provide you with evidence that I contend may constitute violations of New York and U.S. federal law concerning:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Individuals who submit comments to a major public website containing terroristic threats and solicitations of violence against (a) attendees of the August 7-9 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) convention in Chicago, (b) Charles and David Koch, and others.<br /><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fact that this website previews and and decides to publish these threats and solicitations of violence, yet blocks and bans users who attempt to denounce such comments, but allows these offenders to continue posting, in some cases, clandestinely.<br /><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fact that this website --- HuffingtonPost.com --- is located in lower Manhattan, NY. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below is the detailed physical evidence and background material that will be useful in helping you to evaluate the situation, and if necessary, prosecuting the offending individuals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you require any additional information or assistance, feel free to contact me at huffwatcher1@gmail.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Precedent: The NYPD's recent arrest of a Queens, NY man for posting terroristic threats on Facebook</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On July 17, 2013 the NYPD <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/jul/22/nypd-arrests-queens-man-facebook-posts-after-zimmerman-verdict/">arrested</a> a resident of Queens, NY, for allegedly posting what the District Attorney contends were terroristic threats on Facebook, felonies punishable by New York and United States laws. Specifically, it is alleged that Remel Newson posted comments that urged people to murder police officers and white Americans, in retaliation for what he believed was an unjust verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman. According to New York law (Sec. <a href="http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article490.htm#p490.20">490.20</a>), which is paralleled in federal law, a terroristic threat is defined as making (or publishing) a threat:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>"with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he or she threatened to commit or cause to be committed a specified offense and thereby caused a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of such offense." </i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Further, according to Sections <a href="http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article490.htm#p490.10">490.10</a> and <a href="http://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article490.htm#p490.15">490.15</a> of the New York code, it appears to also be a felony to enable, aid or otherwise provide material support to anyone who is intent on publishing terroristic threats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Facebook, however, is a passive commenting environment, in which comments are posted without any kind of pre-moderation. Comments (and pages) containing threats and solicitations of violence are removed by Facebook only after-the-fact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In contrast, the evidence in this letter shows that HuffingtonPost.com has been knowingly and willfully enabling certain users to publish comments that, by the above definition, constitute terroristic threats --- while at the same time, and on a minute-to-minute basis, blocking comments from other users that denounce these threats, then banning them. </b> In some cases, it even enables these violators to advise dissenting users that they are about to be banned --- and almost without exception, that is exactly what happens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below is a profile and background of HuffingtonPost.com, and the evidence of its history of such behavior: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>ABOUT HUFFINGTONPOST.COM:</u> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">HuffingtonPost.com</a> (<u>"HuffPost"</u>) is a "news" website owned by AOL that is <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/company-profile.TheHuffingtonPostcom_Inc.a5fa2830653301c7.html">located</a> at 770 Broadway, in Lower Manhattan, NY. Its phone number is (212) 206-4400.<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>ABOUT USER COMMENTING ACCOUNTS:</u> HuffPost enables users to read "news" stories and opinion articles ("blogs") for free, and submit comments concerning both by first registering with the site to obtain a commenting account. The comment histories of users with active accounts are publicly-accessible, and look like <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hito?action=comments">this</a>. The comment histories of users who have been banned, or canceled their accounts, are erased or archived; the only thing the public can see is a page like <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Patriotism_Is_Cool?action=comments">this</a>.<br /><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>ALL COMMENTS ARE PRE-MODERATED:</u> The president and President and Editor in Chief of HuffPost, <u>Arianna Huffington</u>, has repeatedly and publicly <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/06/history-of-huffposts-moderation-of-user.html">stated</a> that not a single user comment is published without first being moderated. She is also on public record as claiming that all user comments are reviewed by a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvRXWOTgupZNnDzeLZ2e3GjjDS70csU9L9VwmO31PE-n0semeA0ulcKFtiocVMHBN8-yAWc_6gwx4OTspI8tB5UFbBEystsR0j_c2iidH_HWwtXy6sV5XVxBv2gJRUXJ7bJm5I7Z57xag/s1600/Poynter.jpg">human moderator</a> prior to being published, to ensure that none contain material that violates the site's Comment Policy, or the law. She and HuffPost have also repeatedly, publicly <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/faq/#moderation">stated</a> that the site will not publish any comments containing threats, incitements of violence, or hate speech of any kind.<br /><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>HUFFPOST'S ENABLING OF CERTAIN USERS AND MODERATORS TO PUBLISH THREATS & INCITEMENT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST POLITICAL OPPONENTS -- AND CENSORING/BANNING USERS WHO ATTEMPT TO SPEAK OUT/COMPLAIN:</u> In 2009, the watchdog website that I edit, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/">HUFF-WATCH</a>, published a detailed <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/09/huffposts-protection-of-most-egregious.html">report</a> that documents the fact that contrary to Ms. Huffington's and HuffPost's asserted policies and procedures, it in fact makes it a practice of enabling and protecting the worst-of-the-worst violators of its policies, and bans users who dare to complain or speak out against them. The report cites numerous examples, rich with evidence in the form of screen captures and comment logs, of the fact that HuffPost enables and protects certain users to stalking and threaten other users who harbor different political opinions, incite violence against them, and even threaten protectees of the U.S. Secret Service --- and bans users who dare to speak out against or complain about them. <br /><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span><br />HUFF-WATCH has published numerous, detailed reports since then of similar incidents, including incidents in which <u>even HuffPost moderators</u> were enabled and protected to post threats against users who harbor different political views --- then bans the victimized users:</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/06/41209-huffpost-users-hey-lets-murder.html">HuffPost Users: "Hey, Let's Murder Bankers!!!" (HuffPost: "Approved!!!")</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2009/05/5209-huffpost-users-hey-someone-should.html">HuffPost users: "Hey, someone should murder President Bush!!!" (HuffPost: "Approved!!!")</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/12/kokand.html">"Hey, let's go murder energy industry executives!!!" (HuffPost: "Approved, protected!!!")</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/12/part-ii-huffpost-enables-protects.html">Special Report: HuffPost enables, protects MODERATORS to post threats, urgings of violence</a> </span></li>
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allows banned radical leftist Moderator to return, resume posting
threats against Scalia, the Kochs --- and bans users who complain</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/12/huffpost-enables-protects-one-of-its.html">Special Report: HuffPost MODERATOR: "Hey, let's murder Boehner,
the Kochs and others!!!" (HuffPost: "Approved, protected!!!")</a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-third-time-huffpost-allows-murder.html">For the third time, HuffPost allows murder-threatening Moderator to return, resume threats</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>JULY 2013: Evidence of how HuffPost has enabled and protected certain users to post comments that contain what appear to be terroristic threats and solicitations of violence</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perpetrator #1 is a user who, until 2010, HuffPost allowed to post threats under the user name <u>"FoxInRetreat"</u> (detailed background <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-third-time-huffpost-allows-murder.html">here</a>). Her particular obsession is posting threats and soliciting violence against Charles & David Koch, and other conservative individuals and members of conservative organizations. She has repeatedly posted comments indicating that she resides in northern Illinois, near the Wisconsin border (I confirmed this via track-backs to her IP address when she visited my website).<br /><br />During July 2013 (and in fact for more than a year), however, HuffPost has been enabling her to post threats and solicitations of violence against political opponents under the screen name <b>"<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/isupportclasswarfare?action=comments">isupportclasswarfare</a>."</b> If you click that link, however, you will see that HuffPost claims that that user's profile has been removed, meaning, it has banned her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, HuffPost has been enabling her to continue posting her threats and solicitations of violence against the Kochs and others, for years, and through late July 2013. <b> Here are some examples of such post calling for the murder of the Kochs, from April 2013:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>These threats against the Kochs and others continued up through July 19, 2013:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Yet according to this screencap, from <u>July 19, 2013</u> (note the date-stamp in the lower-right), HuffPost had "banned" the user (note the URL line):</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the same time, HuffPost repeatedly sent non-violating comments submitted by another user, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/drones_rock?action=comments">"Drones_Rock"</a>, to "Pending," meaning they were being reviewed by its moderators:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>At one point on July 19, "Drones_Rock" asked "isupportclasswarfare" whether or not she had been banned (as HuffPost had removed/hidden her profile from public view) ---- to which she posted a comment indicating she was laughing about it:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Within 24 hours, HuffPost <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/drones_rock?action=comments">banned</a> "Drones_Rock":</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have much more evidence of these types of threats and solicitations of violence that HuffPost reviews, approves and decides to publish --- and of it censoring and banning non-violating users who dare to attempt to speak out or complain --- which is available to you upon request.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>JULY 22, 2013: HuffPost enabled and protected certain users to post what appear to be terroristic threats against the upcoming ALEC conference in Chicago --- and blocked, then banned a user who attempted to denounce these threats</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On July 22, 2013 --- even though it appeared her user account had been banned --- HuffPost continued review and publish "isupportclasswarfare's" threats and solicitations of violence against political opponents, in this case, attendees of the upcoming <a href="http://www.alec.org/">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC) <a href="http://www.alec.org/meetings/annual-meeting/">conference</a> in Chicago, from August 7-9. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It began with HuffPost reviewing and publishing a comment containing her revealing the location of this event, and a statement that <u><i>"plans are in the works to make them feel unwelcome and intimidated"</i></u>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Note that in response to that implied threat, another user, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Libs_Wreck_Everything?action=comments">"Libs_Wreck_Everything"</a> asked what she meant by "intimidated." In response, HuffPost reviewed and approved a comment submitted by another user, "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/waukone?action=comments">waukone</a>," containing what is clearly a terroristic threat: <b><u><i>"Don't wound or scare -- kill."</i></u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In response, the user "Libs_Wreck_Everything" submitted a comment that accuses "waukone" of being a coward:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, as shown in the notice above the submitted comment, HuffPost held that comment in its "pending," meaning it was reviewing the comment and determining whether it would publish it or not. It should be noted that at the top of the "news" page on which these users were commenting, HuffPost explicitly states that comments submitted in reply to other comments will only be published <u><i>"after they have been approved"</i></u>: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Soon thereafter, rather than banning the users whom it had been enabling to post terroristic threats and solicitations of violence, HuffPost decided instead to ban <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Libs_Wreck_Everything?action=comments">"Libs_Wreck_Everything":</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">HuffPost left "isupportclasswarfare" and "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/waukone?action=comments">waukone</a>" free to continue posting, as shown in this screencap from July 31, 2013:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another user that HuffPost has been enabling and protecting to post terroristic threats and solicitations of violence is the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Bhokara?action=comments"><b>"Bhokara,"</b></a> the apparent reincarnation of another user documented at HUFF-WATCH, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kokand?action=comments">"Kokand,"</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In that particular case, HuffPost enabled "Kokand" to (a) advocate the murder of energy industry executives, then (b) threaten to have another user who objected to his comments banned --- in almost instantly, that is exactly what happened. See this detailed report:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is more evidence of HuffPost allowing "Bhokara" to threaten other users that he's going to have them banned -- which, if you look up their screen names, you will find out is <i>exactly what happened</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Yet as you can see in the screencap below, from July 31, 2013, HuffPost has chosen to allow <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Bhokara?action=comments">"Bhokara</a>" to continue posting his threats and solicitations of violence against political opponents at will,</b> and that he is now up to nearly 16,000 comments:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I urge you to take this matter extremely seriously, as HuffPost is now the world's <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1</a>
most-read online "newspaper." This makes the behavior that HuffPost
and its users are engaging in all the more potentially dangerous that
the act that got Mr. Newson arrested by the NYPD, because far more readers will see these threats posted, on HuffPost's top "news" stories, where they are posted, than what will see an obscure post on a Facebook page. Further, this is a very different situation, both technologically and legally, than an
environment such as Facebook, which is totally post-moderated, allowing
users to post whatever they want, anywhere they want, as opposed to HuffPost's self-admitted <i>pre-moderation</i> environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Given the preponderance of the physical evidence that shows HuffPost's long history of enabling and protecting certain users to post what appear to be terroristic threats, while blocking and banning other users who dare to attempt to speak out against them, it is reasonable to assume that such behavior is going to continue until and unless a prevailing legal authority begins prosecuting these users, and possibly HuffPost itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think there is serious, justifiable concern that if HuffPost and the threatening users it enables are not held to legal account, one of the victims of their behavior may end up getting injured or worse, as a direct or indirect result of what it is allowing to occur on its "comment" pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If I can be of any further assistance in clarifying these matters, or aiding in your prosecution of them, please don't hesitate to contact me at huffwatcher1@gmail.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-2098946985116437792013-04-23T15:04:00.000-04:002013-04-24T00:48:34.795-04:00HuffPost "friends" surviving Boston jihadi bomber<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
Question: What kind of reprobate "newspaper" would decide to extend a friendship-type courtesy to the jihadi bomber who murdered three Americans, and maimed and injured more than a hundred more, in the Boston Marathon attack?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Answer<span style="font-size: small;">:</span> The same reprobate "newspaper" that, for four years, has been acting as a volunteer PR firm for jihadi terror groups, and has been the West's largest facilitator of the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/02/about-cyber-jihad.html">cyber-jihad</a><span style="font-size: small;"> against</span> the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/archive-of-anti-us-military-bias-libels.html">U.S. military</a>, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews</a><span style="font-size: small;"><i>:</i></span><i> </i><b> The Huffington Post. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The latest example --- this splash headline, from the morning of April 23:<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"JAHAR"?</b> Who is that? The surviving jihadi murder's name is <b>Dzhokhar Tsarnaev</b> (his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed last Thursday). So who is "JAHAR"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Clicking through that headline to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/boston-suspect-denies-terrorist-groups_n_3135523.html">HuffPost's own story page</a> reveals the following: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(...)<b> Tsarnaev (whom friends called "Jahar")</b> told authorities in writing that he and his brother discovered instructions for bomb-making on the Internet. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>So, by HuffPost's own admission, it made the conscious decision to use a term of endearment in its splash headline, to refer to this monster.</b> (We'll address the fact that this guy is a liar, and that HuffPost has been failing to cover vital facts concerning this bombing, in a future post.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is this another incident that HuffPost's senior officials like to chalk up to "accidents"? If it were the first, second, fifth or twentieth time that HuffPost chose to act as a shill on behalf of jihadi monsters, perhaps we could give it the benefit of the doubt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The fact is that as we and our friends at <b><a href="http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/">HuffPostMonitor</a> </b>have been documenting for four years, if HuffPost isn't the jihadis' favorite online "newspaper," it should be. After all, it's now the world's <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1</a> most-read online "newspaper" --- which has repeatedly, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html">falsely claimed</a> that it is "nonpartisan." Here are but a few recent examples of how HuffPost whitewashes and celebrates jihadis, yet suppresses the grim reality of what they say and do, while vilifying their enemies (the U.S. military, Israel and Jews):</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/huffpost-shills-for-al-qaeda-gentle.html">HuffPost shills for Al Qaeda: The "gentle face" of the terror group</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">SPECIAL REPORT: HuffPost gives super-coverage to "homesick" jihadi - and continues ignoring victims of jihad</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/huffpost-hamas-opens-kiddie-terrorist.html">HuffPost: “Hamas opens kiddie terrorist indoctrination centers? Pass... got any anti-Semitic propaganda?"</a> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/01/huffpost-smears-us-military-again-this.html">HuffPost smears the U.S. military again, this time re drone strikes in Pakistan</a></span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/11/is-huffpost-even-more-anti-israel-than.html">Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here's the proof</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guess this is what Arianna <span style="font-size: small;">may have really </span>meant when she final<span style="font-size: small;">ly admitted that HuffPost is not engaging in journalism - but rather, <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/04/daniel-zimmerman/quote-of-the-day-arianna-huffington-anti-gun-agit-prop-edition/">"crusading journalism<span style="font-size: small;">."</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Do you have thoughts on this matter? Share them with <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/to-contact-huffpost.html">HuffPost's senior management</a>, and its <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">advertisers</a>, who enable this madness to occur.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>UPDATE:<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Examples of<span style="font-size: large;"> how HuffPost us<span style="font-size: large;">es headlines to<span style="font-size: large;"> identify<span style="font-size: large;"> bad<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>peop<span style="font-size: large;">le<span style="font-size: large;">,<span style="font-size: large;"> vs<span style="font-size: large;">. good (except<span style="font-size: large;"> in th<span style="font-size: large;">e case of t<span style="font-size: large;">he surviving Boston bomber)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few readers wrote in to ask why HuffPost's decision to use this savage's preferred nickname is such a big deal. If the above array of links don't convince you, here's some more indication of HuffPost's willingness to use first names only for those people it likes (as in the case of the jihadi savage featured in this article), versus those it doesn't. As a reminder:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>“The editorial stance of the Huffington Post is to debunk the right-left way of thinking, which has become completely obsolete."</i><br />- <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2007/11/14/Huffington-Post-Profile/">Arianna Huffington</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>(1) Arianna versus Ben Carson, MD:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this instance, contrast Arianna's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/02/will-aol-allow-arianna-to-continue.html">continually</a> plastering her face and media appearances all over HuffPost's front page, to its treatment of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson">Ben Carson, MD</a>, a black American who rose from poverty to become a celebrated neurosurgeon -- but made the mistake of speaking out on behalf of liberty; HuffPost doesn't even use his name. Instead, it smearingly dismisses him as being a <u>"right-wing darling"</u>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>(2) "Michelle" versus an unnamed "GOPer":</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A continuation of HuffPost's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/04/huffpost-worships-michelle-obama-while.html">ongoing worship of Michelle Obama</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>(2) "Michelle" versus an unnamed "GOPer" (Part 2):</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A continuation of HuffPost's <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2012/04/huffpost-worships-michelle-obama-while.html">ongoing worship of Michelle Obama</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>(4) The sexual perversions of a (Democrat) judge, versus the (evil) "GOPer":</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagine if a Republican governor appointed a judge to the bench, and it was later discovered that he'd been having sex in his chambers, and had allegedly fathered a child with a plaintiff seeking... child support. Do you think HuffPost might have noted his party in the headline? In this instance, note that HuffPost makes no mention in its headline (or its <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/wade-mccree-shirtless-judge-detroit-sex_n_2979800.html">story page</a>) of the fact that Judge Wade McCree was <a href="http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/245024-bailiff-detroit-judge-wade-mccree-sent-nearly-nude-photo-my-cell-phone.html">appointed by a Democratic governor</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Starting to see a pattern here? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></span>HuffWatcher1http://www.blogger.com/profile/15586521861130088771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7949245891475631781.post-39996305777864142302013-03-09T18:32:00.003-05:002013-03-11T08:17:02.216-04:00Finally!!! HuffPost identifies the "monsters" among us<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, it's true: <span style="font-size: small;">o</span>n March 9, 2013, HuffPost --- the world's <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1</a> most-read online "newspaper"<span style="font-size: small;"> --- decided it is g<span style="font-size: small;">oing to final<span style="font-size: small;">ly call out the "monsters" among us.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">So who are the<span style="font-size: small;">se "mo<span style="font-size: small;">ns<span style="font-size: small;">ters<span style="font-size: small;">"?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">T</span>he leaders of Hamas, who recently bragged that it's opened <a href="http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-hp-definitely-doesnt-cover-hamas.html">kiddie-terrorist-training academies</a>? <i> Nope.</i></b><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>HuffPost <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/huffpost-hamas-opens-kiddie-terrorist.html">completely ignored</a> that, so it could give top-line coverage to "news" stories it decided are far more important, such as a starlet who claims "My vagina smells like roses!," and "Hitler's toilet."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b>The Hamas-affiliated savages who slashed the throat of three-month-old Hadas Fogel, and murdered her family</b><b>? <i>Nope.</i></b><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><i>HuffPost <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/03/huffposts-anti-semitic-pro-islamist.html">buried</a>
then quickly removed the story of this attack, and never identified or
provided pictures of the victims. Nor did it publish any stories
regarding the murderers' claim they are <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=223707">proud</a> of what they did. Instead, HuffPost decided that "news" stories such as "Eva Braun and Hitler's private moments" deserved <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/03/fogel-family-slaughter-evidence-file.html">seven straight days</a> of top-line coverage.</i> </i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b>The American jihadi who, since 2006 has been part of an Al Qaeda-affiliated terror gang that's notorious for kidnapping, raping and murdering Somali women and children? <i>Nope.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>HuffPost instead decided to give him <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">five days of top-line coverage</a>, because he claims he's <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHqeDgMmya95pML0qvP-Dpum-Msi2G579uk13NJGMr7S52bMBuUAFFiwHWIAxnmh4Tlkh8YAsIOdqCYUTvO_XMk7KldO3_0hJ7eiymGMgmQWGerfZLXXSHan0YMlefd2SgiCxy8hyyalf/s1600/08Feb+FPHL+American+jihadi+is+HOMESICK+-+crop.jpg">"homesick."</a> During the same time period, HuffPost gave <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Rq82cIPpCAWs4k6mMr9adShEN8nwCS-Smt-3LeanYrnS9zz0ozjaDh1uSpInVtxrwgm7Gn67dBbrgeeTcni3laOJZa7yX5J3aIVftx3VhxLk_FRldKBUofIO1eVDQ4kziHVBxa93Anx0/s1600/HPeditorialDecision.jpg">zero</a> top-line coverage to a U.S. soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his super-human heroism during an intense firefight with jihadis.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Hamas-affiliated savages who organized the bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria in Israel (killing 15 teenagers and injuring 130 other civilians) -- one of whom is now the terror-endorsing "Oprah" of the Middle East??<i> Nope.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Instead of giving any coverage to the plight of one of the murdered children's parents to keep these savages in prison, amidst Hamas's demands that they be released, HuffPost gave top-line coverage to "news" stories it decided were far more important, including "Man arrested for bestiality claims prostitute transformed into donkey," "Man vows to masturbate in every NYC Starbucks bathroom," etc. Details in Section 3 <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-2-huffpost-gives-super-coverage-to.html">here</a>.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Adolf Hitler? Nope. (A HuffPost editorial even claimed Hitler was less "evil" than George W. Bush.)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The rationale of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-mehlman/at-least-they-didnt-mean-_b_53094.html?">editorial</a> that HuffPost decided to publish: because Hitler and "the world’s worst fascist dictators at least meant well... (T)hey honestly thought were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc."</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So if those individuals don't qualify as "monsters" to HuffPost, who does?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>Why, US soldiers, of course.</u> </i><br /><br />Specif<span style="font-size: large;">ically the ones <span style="font-size: large;">w</span></span>ho humiliated Iraqi prisoners at Abu Grhaib, by (gasp!) taking pictures of them with<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>panties on their heads.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Rather than being an isolated incident, this is merely the latest installment in HuffPost's escalating pattern of inciting hate against the three targets of the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/02/about-cyber-jihad.html">cyber-jihad</a>:<span style="font-size: small;"> the <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/archive-of-anti-us-military-bias-libels.html">U.S. military</a>, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Israel%20bias">Israel</a> and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Semitism">Jews.</a></span></b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do you think this pattern might have anything to do with the fact that HuffPost now attracts nearly 15,000 unique visitors <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/huffingtonpost.com">per day</a> from the three primary incubators of Islamist terror: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt (details <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/08/may-2010-350000-unique-monthly-visitors.html">here</a>)?</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The money it gets from its roster of top-flight <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2010/09/huffpost-advertisers.html">advertisers</a>.</span></li>
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who avidly read HuffPost, yet avert their eyes from the reality
that's staring them in the face --- and which we report, and send
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Let them know your thoughts on how HuffPost has been using the money
they provide it to engage in this persistent pattern of anti-U.S.
military incitement, and bias.</span></li>
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Ask them to take a look at our documentation, and urge them to do some
investigating. As you can see, throughout HUFF-WATCH is an
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>A new report documents the continuing pro-Islamist, anti-Semitic bias at HuffPost, now the world's <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550262">#1 most-read</a> online "newspaper," which has repeatedly <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2011/01/has-arianna-been-lying-since-2005-about.html">claimed</a> it is not partisan.</b><br /><br /><b>The report, <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/introduction-huffpost-gives-super.html">"HuffPost gives super-coverage to 'homesick' jihadi - and continues ignoring victims of jihad,"</a> utilizes dozens of screencaps and links to numerous supporting articles to reveal the following:</b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />In <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-1-huffpost-gives-super-coverage-to.html">Part 1</a>:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHqeDgMmya95pML0qvP-Dpum-Msi2G579uk13NJGMr7S52bMBuUAFFiwHWIAxnmh4Tlkh8YAsIOdqCYUTvO_XMk7KldO3_0hJ7eiymGMgmQWGerfZLXXSHan0YMlefd2SgiCxy8hyyalf/s1600/08Feb+FPHL+American+jihadi+is+HOMESICK+-+crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHqeDgMmya95pML0qvP-Dpum-Msi2G579uk13NJGMr7S52bMBuUAFFiwHWIAxnmh4Tlkh8YAsIOdqCYUTvO_XMk7KldO3_0hJ7eiymGMgmQWGerfZLXXSHan0YMlefd2SgiCxy8hyyalf/s200/08Feb+FPHL+American+jihadi+is+HOMESICK+-+crop.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />On February 8, HuffPost published simultaneously on its front page and World page a "news" story about an Islamist terrorist who complains that he's "homesick," in part because his gang's leaders won't let him touch the "war booty" that he captures. (The story made no mention of the fact that "war booty," to jihadis in general, and his gang in particular, includes the women and girls that they kidnap and <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/appendix-1-could-huffpost-really-not.html">sexually terrorize</a>.) HuffPost kept the story on the front page for two straight days, and on the World page for five.<br /><br />During the same time period, a U.S. soldier, <b>Sgt. Clinton Romesha, </b>was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for distinct heroism in a particularly brutal firefights against jihadis, in which eight of his comrades were killed. HuffPost did not publish this story on either its front page or World page, then or since. Instead, it has populated them with "news" stories it considered more deserving of this top-line treatment, including <b><i>"My boyfriend demands sex and gets violent while asleep”</i></b> (2 days on front page), <b><i>“Sole surviving food taster reveals new details about Hitler's diet”</i></b> (4 days on World page), and <b><i>"Rhianna stays naked for entire new music video"</i>:<br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />HuffPost also published not a single story on its front page or World page regarding another U.S. soldier, <b>Sgt. Dennis Weichert,</b> who sacrificed his life to save a little Afghan girl's. Instead, it gave top-line treatment to "news" items such as <i>"</i><b><i>Six-legged calf is adorable and milking the attention.”</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In <a href="http://huff-watch.blogspot.com/2013/02/part-2-huffpost-gives-super-coverage-to.html">Part 2</a>:</b>
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HuffPost gives sustained, top-line treatment to stories of jihadi terrorists and Palestinian Muslims who are killed or meet misfortune, and almost invariably includes graphic, sympathy-evoking images of the victims and their survivors at funerals or in protest<i>. </i> In contrast, it routinely downplays --- or ignores --- the Jewish civilians who are targeted and murdered by jihadis. For example:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> HuffPost completely ignored the plight of an Israeli couple, <b>Arnold and Frimet Roth,</b> who struggled to prevent one of the jihadis who murdered <b>Malki,</b> their fifteen-year-old daughter (and fourteen others) from being released early from prison. Instead, it gave top-line treatment to "news" stories including <b><i>"Man arrested for bestiality claims prostitute transformed into donkey," "Man vows to masturbate in every NYC Starbucks bathroom,"</i></b> and three items featuring Arianna Huffington's face. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> HuffPost completely ignored the funeral for a seven-year-old French girl, <b>Miriam Monsonego</b> (right), who was brutally murdered by a jihadi as she walked to school. Instead, it published "news" stories on its <span style="font-size: small;">front <span style="font-size: small;">pa<span style="font-size: small;">ge and <span style="font-size: small;">World page</span></span></span></span></span> including <b><i>"Chinese panda poo tea will sell for $200 a cup,"</i></b> and <b><i>"Is this the strangest way to have an orgasm?"</i></b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> HuffPost only briefly posted, mid-way down the World page, the story of <b>the Fogel family,</b> who were brutally slaughtered in their West Bank home by jihadis. Even though pictures of the victims were quickly available --- including of the three month old girl, whose throat the jihadis slit --- HuffPost's version of the story only featured one picture: of an IDF Jeep. HuffPost quickly removed the story, but decided that <b>a "news" story about pictures of <i>"Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler's private moments"</i> deserved seven straight days on its World page.</b></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Some Americans may also be shocked to discover that their <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/mike-ciandella/new-huffpost-site-funded-government-motors">tax dollars</a> are being used, albeit indirectly, to enable HuffPost to engage in this bias.
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