Apparently, HuffPost intends to help get more cops killed

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Previously:

Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?

Here are some snapshots of HuffPost's ongoing, pathological practice of posting inflammatory headlines, based on lies and half-truths:

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"COP THROWS ROCK AT PROTESTER!"
 
The following appeared at the top of HuffPost's front page on April 27:

A cop threw a rock at a protester??!!  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!!  

So by implication, the protesters are, of course, justified in attacking the cops!!  They're just defending themselves!!

And we would have no reason to doubt HuffPost -- after all, it's the #1 most-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly claimed to be "nonpartisan."  And even President Obama urges people to read it!!  So this must be reliable information!!  Grrrr!!

Is that what really happened?  

Of course not.  Here's the "news" story to which that incendiary headline links, written by HuffPost "journalist" Nick Wing:

Let's examine this: HuffPost's original, breathless splash headline asserted that a cop (singular) threw a rock (singular) at a protester (singular).

Yet HuffPost's "news" story page now says that the police (plural, as an agency) threw rocks (plural) back (as in, in a defensive tactic) at protesters (plural).

Wow, that's quite a difference!!  So what actually happened?

Well according to the Daily Mail (UK), which has the video of the incident (emphasis added):

Violent protesters in Baltimore, Maryland injured several police officers on Monday, throwing bricks and rocks at the overwhelmed cops hiding behind riot armor.  While most of the cops tried not to engage with the protesters, at least one officer was seen throwing the rocks right back 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. [...] 

Fifteen police officers were injured Monday - two seriously - in the clashes with angry mobs rioting over the death of Freddie Gray.

That puts a bit of a different spin on the story, don't you think?  

Actually, it was even worse than that, once you see the video:

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 savage thugs "protesters" who threw it?

Somehow, HuffPost's "news" story left those little details out.

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.

Yet in violation of Arianna Huffington's alleged "prohibition" on the "newspaper" that bears her name publishing "inflammatory claims," 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:

"[At HuffPost] there are guidelines that have to be followed -- and they include a prohibition on conspiracy theories or inflammatory claims. [...]  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 angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy," and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."

- Arianna Huffington

In perpetrating this latest incendiary hoax, HuffPost once again gave tacit justification, on clearly false basis, to street thugs to attack cops, by asserting that if they do, they're only defending themselves.

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"BALTIMORE IS BURNING BECAUSE PEOPLE WITH NOTHING TO LOSE WILL DESTROY ANYTHING IN THEIR WAY"

Yet that was actually the headline of an editorial that HuffPost published, near the top of its front page, on April 28.  An excerpt of this quasi-psychotic screed:

America is burning with racism, with hate, with violence.

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.

Baltimore is burning because very few of us are committed to real leadership, 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.

These murderous thugs have nothing to lose?  They are in the position of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 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 leftist stronghold for decades)? 

Once again, HuffPost gives explicit moral justification for the violence and mayhem that it is helping to incite.  

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"RE-THINKING NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE"

Not satisfied with suggesting violence as a morally justified action in Baltimore (and elsewhere), on April 29, HuffPost published an editorial near the top of its front page that goes even further, and questions the utility of nonviolent "resistance."  Excerpt:

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 the problem? Or does it work at all?

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 the unofficial voicepiece of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which claims that by raining rockets down on Israeli cities and murdering Jews, it is practicing "resistance." 
 

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Given the above facts, and HUFF-WATCH's previous, detailed report on HuffPost's chronic lies about, and incitement against police officers, it's worth asking:

Is HuffPost actually trying to get more police officers killed?

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ACTION ITEMS

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:

(1) Make your voice known to HuffPost's senior management here

(2) Consider writing or calling one or more of HuffPost's top advertisers, to let them know your thoughts on what their ad dollars are enabling.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.

(3) Forward the link to this story along to others who support honest civil discourse (especially honest journalists).

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HuffPost rewrites AP headline: "Israel attacked Syria!!!!" (AOL parent says otherwise)

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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:

"Israel Launches Airstrike On Syria Border"

But is that really what happened?  Of course not.

How do we know?  Because the AP source article that HuffPost published clearly describes what happened, starting in the first paragraph:

JERUSALEM (AP) — 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. 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."

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 here, here, and elsewhere).  

And that is exactly how the AP wrote the headline for this article (at right), which it provided to its subscribers (including HuffPost):

"Israel says airstrike on Syrian border targeted militants" (AP feed)

Every major (actual) news source that picked up the AP story used the original headline provided headline (or with only slight modifications):

"Israel says airstrike on Syrian border targeted militants" (ABC News)

"Israeli airstrike on Syrian border targets suspected militants" (Boston Globe)

"Israel Says Airstrike on Syrian Border Targeted Militants" (New York Times)

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.
 

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Ironically, even AOL, which owns HuffPost, ran the AP story as-is:

AOL, which bought HuffPost in 2011, ran this story as-is, without incendiary alteration:
 

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? 

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 lies, deception and incitement, here are two probable explanations:

(1) Because she and her minions at HuffPost have gotten away with doing this, and far worse, to Israel and Jews for many years.

(2) Because no one will hold her to account --- not AOL, not other "journalists," and not the "journalism" schools to which she frequently lectures. 

Just a few examples of HuffPost's previous deliberate efforts to depict Israel as an aggressor, using false headlines:

It begins: HuffPost depicts Israeli strike on suspected Syrian WMD truck convoy as targeting civilians

Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here's the proof. 

HuffPost headline falsely claims Israel broke peace, used tank to fire on Gaza civilians 

HuffPost works hard to protect Hamas, vilify Israel - again 

HuffPost's anti-Israel incitement: Dog execution edition

Ironically, Arianna lamented in 2011 that public figures need to be held to account, or else bad things happen:

"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."

- Arianna Huffington, November 28, 2011

Thanks to the complicity of the "news" media, and even those at the highest levels of the Jewish community, however, Arianna and HuffPost keep getting away with inciting hate against Israel (and Netanyahu).  

And being that HuffPost is the #1 most-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly claimed to be "nonpartisan," it has become a major driving factor in the dramatic rise in global anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hatred.

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How does this all compare to Arianna Huffington's claims that HuffPost is a professional "newspaper," and better than its competitors?

“[T]he news is not right-wing news or left-wing news, it's the news. And that will be the sensibility, that will basically permeate our news coverage.”
- Arianna Huffington

“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a narrative. We think bringing journalism to a new level is exactly what people are looking for.”
- Arianna Huffington

"If you're going to produce great journalism, you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving toward the same goals editorially.”
- Arianna Huffington

“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."
- Arianna Huffington

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ACTION ITEMS

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:

(1) Make your voice known to HuffPost's senior management here

(2) Consider writing or calling one or more of HuffPost's top advertisers, to let them know your thoughts on what their ad dollars are enabling.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.

(3) Forward the link to this story along to others who support honest civil discourse (especially honest journalists).

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HuffPost smears NY police, whitewashes Swedish law enforcement

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Continuing its jihad of lies and incitement 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:

Swedish Cops In New York Give Local Police 'A Schooling'

The story 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 insulting, loaded term.

Let's keep a few facts in mind:

• There were four trained police officers on scene, versus two punks.  Nice odds.

• These police officers knew they were on video; you can't take three steps in public in a crowded scenario like that subway car without ten people emerging with cellphone video cameras.  

• 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.)

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 self-proclaimed "nonpartisan" newspaper will not report them:

Linda, a Swedish girl, gang-raped by
Muslim immigrants, who said
she was "asking for it," because she
was unveiled.

• Sweden is now classified as the “rape capital of Europe.” The Swedish government now estimates that 25% of women there can expect to be raped. 

• After South Africa, Sweden now has the highest number of rapes in the world, a rate more than four times higher than in New York City. 

• Nearly all of these rapes are being committed by Muslim immigrants - yet Swedish law enforcement and their "news" media consistently refuses to identify the perpetrators as such; instead, they are identified only as "Asian" or "non-Western immigrants."

• Swedish courts either letting Muslim rapists (and rape-gangs) go free, or giving them shockingly light sentences (source).

• Sweden's top "counter-extremist" official has suggested that one way to help prevent Muslim-driven crime and terrorism would be to create a new jobs program for Muslim immigrants, and even to give them preferential treatment in the hiring process.

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.

Previously: 

Huff-Watch: Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers? 

How Huffington Post Could Test Out its Advice to Israel

HuffPost shills for Al Qaeda: The "gentle face" of the terror group 

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HuffPost relabels cop-murderer as "activist"

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On April 15, HuffPost continued its practice of deliberately misleading its readers, by misidentifying convicted murders and terror-supporters as "activists."

This time, HuffPost employed its journalistic malpractice in an effort to rehabilitate the image of  Mumia Abu-Jamal, 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:

Teacher Sparks Outcry For Asking Students To Write To Jailed Activist

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 DiscoverTheNetworks (emphasis added):

Officer Daniel Faulker

[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 Daniel Faulkner made a traffic stop of William Cook, Abu-Jamal’s brother, who was driving the wrong way 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. 

While Faulkner handcuffed the driver, Abu-Jamal, who was employed at that time as a cab driver, was parked across the street in his taxi.  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. 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.

HuffPost's "activist"

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 sitting on a curb near Faulkner’s corpse, with a fresh gunshot wound incurred from the young officer’s weapon.

Not only did five witnesses see Abu-Jamal shoot Faulkner, but the bullets that were later pulled from Faulkner’s chest and brain were matched to the .38 caliber handgun that was registered to Abu-Jamal and which was sitting at his feet when the police arrived at the murder scene. Moreover, the gun had five empty cartridges when investigators found it.

This is the monster whom HuffPost labeled an "activist."  And by claiming he's a "jailed activist," 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, "Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?"

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 ordered 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 before HuffPost published its "story" - ran this story about the incident:

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This is part of HuffPost's continuing, willful pattern of deliberately misleading its readers, by misidentifying convicted murders and terror-supporters as "activists." 

A few well-documented incidents of this pathological behavior, by the #1 most widely-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly claimed it is "nonpartisan":

Why Hamas loves HuffPost: Marwan Barghouti image-whitewashing edition

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.

Huffpo Newspeak: Out "Terrorists", In "Activists" (Jawa Report)

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."  

But who are the "activists" to whom HuffPost referred?  Turns out they're Al Qaeda supporters and donors - as its own "news" article revealed.  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.

All part of HuffPost's endless lies, bias, and incitement against police officers, the U.S. military, Israel and Jews.

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How does this all compare to Arianna Huffington's claims that HuffPost is a professional "newspaper," and better than its competitors?

“[T]he news is not right-wing news or left-wing news, it's the news. And that will be the sensibility, that will basically permeate our news coverage.”
- Arianna Huffington

“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a narrative. We think bringing journalism to a new level is exactly what people are looking for.”
- Arianna Huffington

"If you're going to produce great journalism, you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving toward the same goals editorially.”
- Arianna Huffington

“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."
- Arianna Huffington

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ACTION ITEMS

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:

(1) Make your voice known to HuffPost's senior management here

(2) Consider writing or calling one or more of HuffPost's top advertisers, to let them know your thoughts on what their ad dollars are enabling.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.

(3) Forward the link to this story along to others who support Israel and Jews --- particularly journalists!!!

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HuffPost continues using deception to whip up racial hatred: Austin, TX edition

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Previously: Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?

Fresh on the heels of HUFF-WATCH's recent expose' 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:

Someone In Austin Is Putting Up 'Exclusively For White People' Stickers

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 claims that HuffPost is a "nonpartisan" newspaper:

(1) A simple search of actual fliers produced by racists demonstrates that they are about 159 notches down the scale of design ability.

(2) All the words were spelled correctly.

(3) There was no statement of attribution from the local pointed-white-hat crowd.

(4) Austin is the most liberal city in Texas, and one of the most liberal in America.

HuffPost kept the story on its front page for three days, through March 21.

Then, the story mysteriously disappeared from HuffPost's front page.  If one relied exclusively on HuffPost for their news, they would have been left to think that the perpetrator/s behind these outrageous stickers had neither been discovered, nor arrested. 

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The story was revealed as a hoax - perpetrated by a "social activist" attorney

The reality is that on Friday, March 20 at 3:55pm, KXAN, the Austin NBC-TV affiliate, reported that the perpetrator has been identified, and openly admitted, on video, what he had done.  Turns out he isn't a racist; to the contrary, he's a "social justice" (translation: radical leftist) attorney.  Excerpt:

An Austin lawyer is claiming responsibility for several stickers placed on East Austin businesses that claimed they were “exclusively for white people.”  Adam Reposa posted the video on YouTube and made a statement on Facebook saying he was trying promote the issue of gentrification in East Austin. “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.”

Here's Reposa's video (Caution: explicit language):

The story of this hoax was soon picked up within a few hours by other (actual) news outlets, including the Austin Chronicle, Raw Story, the New York Daily News, and others.

By the following morning, March 21, however, HuffPost still had the original story posted. 

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On March 21, HuffPost abruptly removed all mention of the story from its front page

Later on March 21, however, HuffPost removed the story from its front page.  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:

 

 

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Was HuffPost unaware of the hoax, and who had perpetrated it?  No - it spoke to the perpetrator, on March 22.

We know this because HuffPost openly admitted it spoke to Adam Reposa, at the original story link - which no one would know even exists, if they hadn't seen and bookmarked the original story when it appeared on the front page:

And yet, as of March 23, HuffPost still has posted not a single mention 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.

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This is merely the latest episode of a chronic series of such outrageous actions by HuffPost

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.

The 2013 Red Lobster "racist receipt" hoax

On March 9, 2013, HuffPost ran this headline on its front page, and left it there for two straight days:

Racist Receipt Apparently Left By Red Lobster Customer (PHOTO)

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, Toni Christina Jenkins, and who posted it on her Facebook page.

On October 31, 2013, however, it was reported at the Opposing Views blog that the customer whose name appeared on the receipt that the Jenkins posted, Devin Barnes, 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. 

HuffPost made no mention of those facts.  In fact, it didn't publish the story until six months later, on May 28, 2014 - but not on its front page. 

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:

 

 

.The "pack of Jews" lie

On August 8, 2012, mere weeks before the presidential election, HuffPost ran the following incendiary headline allegation on its front page:

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.") 

As HUFF-WATCH documented, 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 slide show allegation exactly as it was, to this day (March 23, 2015):

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:

• HuffPost's amazing anti-Israel headline story disappearance trick!!!

• HuffPost's anti-Israel incitement: Dog execution edition

• HuffPost publishes anti-Semitic blood libel without any proof; users unleash anti-Semitic hate (HuffPost: "Approved!!!")

• HuffPost smears Sarah Palin and the NRA, again (users erupt in hate-fest; HuffPost: "Approved!!!")

• Is HuffPost even more anti-Israel than the Iranian regime is? Yes – and here's the proof

(*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.)

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How does this all compare to Arianna Huffington's claims that HuffPost is a professional, nonpartisan "newspaper," and better than its competitors?

“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a narrative. We think bringing journalism to a new level is exactly what people are looking for.”
- Arianna Huffington

"If you're going to produce great journalism, you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving toward the same goals editorially.”
- Arianna Huffington

“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned."
- Arianna Huffington

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Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?

HUFF-WATCH dedicates this report to the memories of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, their families and loved ones, and all police officers across America who put their lives on the line every day to help ensure our safety and security.

On Saturday, December 20, New York Police Department officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered by Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley, who claimed 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.

What could drive a person to commit such a barbaric act, against two police officers who'd done him no harm? Irresponsible, unfair statements 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.

The Huffington Post (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:

• Incitement: 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, “Can the cops be stopped before they kill again?”
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• Selective editing: HuffPost has consistently excluded essential facts that are necessary to provide accurate context to its headlines (which would often also serve to undermine them).
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• Ignoring terrorist threats: 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.

Were the Huffington Post just another website, these shameful practices would have little impact. As the #1 most-read online “newspaper” in the world, however, what HuffPost does carries weight, and has impact.


Eight examples of HuffPost's incitement, bias, lies and distortion


(1) "How To Get Away With Murder"

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 Ben Shapiro of Breitbart News demolished HuffPost's incendiary lie here.

(2) "Can The Cops Be Stopped Before They Kill Again?"

On December 6, HuffPost positioned this inflammatory editorial screed, 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?

(3) "They're Murdering Our Kids And Getting Away With It"

HuffPost ran this incendiary accusation as a “news” story 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.”

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.


(4) "ARREST HIM!"

On August 18, HuffPost ran this incendiary call for action against officer Darren Wilson as a “news” story:

Keep in mind that the facts revealed in the coroner's report showed that the entire “Hands up, don't shoot!” narrative could not be true – 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.


(5) "(Grand Jury) Gets Basic Job Wrong"

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”:

Contrary to HuffPost's inflammatory assertion, as the Washington Times pointed out, legal scholars from across America agreed that the Ferguson grand jury:

“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.”

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.


(6) "THE FIX IS IN: "Allegations Of Police Misconduct Rarely Result In Charges"

The next day, November 26, HuffPost published this allegation, as part of a larger splash headline:

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.


(7) "Rabbis Arrested After Reciting Kaddish For Eric Garner"

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:

Is that really what happened? Were these rabbis really arrested just for saying a prayer?  Of course not. 

As HuffPost knew, these rabbis were standing in a busy New York street intersection, and refused to move when ordered to by police. HuffPost's original “news” story, however, mentioned none of that. (The fact that HuffPost attempted to whitewash what really happened concerning these rabbis is laughable, given its pathological 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 "pack of Jews"?) 


(8) "CAUGHT ON TAPE: COPS GUN DOWN (BLACK) MAN AT WALMART"

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:

As in all the other cases, HuffPost knew the truth – but failed to even hint at it in the headline. In reality, as its own version of the story (and a more responsible one in the Washington Post) 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, John Crawford III, to drop the rifle, but he refused to do so, after which they shot him.

Given all these facts, it is worthwhile to note that Arianna Huffington, HuffPost's Editor-In-Chief, has publicly stated in 2010 that she prohibited “inflammatory claims and conspiracy theories” at HuffPost, and urged Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, to do the same:

"[At HuffPost] there are guidelines that have to be followed -- and they include a prohibition on conspiracy theories or inflammatory claims. […] 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 angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy," and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."

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:

“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned.”

- Arianna Huffington

HuffPost consistently ignores terrorist threats against police 

HuffPost also steadfastly avoided publishing any of the terroristic threats that were leveled against police officers, across America. For example:

• On December 6, the NYPD publicized the fact that it had received credible reports that a domestic terrorist group, the Black Guerrilla Army, 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 “Every single time the Kardashians owned it this week,” and the second straight day of coverage of a two-faced cat.
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• On December 8, HuffPost allowed its notorious resident race-hustler, Al Sharpton, to announce anti-police rallies he was organizing in Washington, DC and New York for December 13. HuffPost gave extensive, glowing coverage 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, “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” 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 “Map shows where Americans love butts more than boobs,” and “Couples act out sex positions you've never heard of.”
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• On November 29, Nation of Islam leader Rev. Louis Farrakhan told an audience at Morgan State University that if black protesters' demands aren't met, that they need to “tear this goddamned country apart!!!” HuffPost completely ignored this incitement. Instead, on its front page it published what it deemed were far more newsworthy stories, including “Snooki ties the knot,” and “Stone-age axe discovered in Denmark.”

Christmas Eve: HuffPost published another egregiously false, inflammatory accusation against police

On December 24, HuffPost published a false account of a supposed eyewitness to the death of Antonio Martin, who was shot by police near Ferguson, Missouri after he pointed a gun at an officer.  

In summary, HuffPost was contacted by a anonymous blogger, "Jesus Christo," on Christmas Eve (gee, no red flags there!), who claimed 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 "reporter" later admitted. 

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).


Conclusion

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 claims that it is a “nonpartisan” newspaper, just one of the many lies that she has told the general public about the “newspaper” that bears her name since it went live.

Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley.
Was he a HuffPost reader?

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.

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 question, “Can the cops be stopped before they kill again?,” Brinsley may have said, “Yes – and I will be the one who stops the two cops sitting in that car from killing again.”

Now, the only question that remains is: Will the corporations that have enabled HuffPost to engage in this behavior, through their advertising dollars, continue to do so?

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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.

The two things that enable HuffPost to engage in this behavior are:

• The money it gets from its roster of top-flight advertisers --- including American Express, Chevrolet, Citibank, and many other top brands.

• The silence of "journalists" 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

Here's how you can help:

• Contact HuffPost's advertisers --- especially those with whom you already do business.
  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.

• Send this article to journalists, newspapers and TV networks that you trust --- whether on a local or national basis.
  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.

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