HuffPost uses staged photo to mimic, embolden jihadi hate against America

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With obviously-staged photos and incendiary allegations like this, there can be little wonder why jihadists must love HuffPost - and have for a very, very long time.  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, no.

This "news" headline appeared at the top of HuffPost's front page, October 16, 2015.

 

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HuffPost top "news": "'Fat Jew' is a 'F*cking Dick'"

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On August 19, HuffPost published the following item near the top of its front page - as "news":

Paul Scheer And Rob Huebel Call Out 'F*cking Dick' The Fat Jew

An excerpt from this top-line "news" story:

"He's being a f*cking dick, and he's probably a piece of crap, but it's also on those platforms," Huebel said of The Fat Jew in a Tuesday conversation with HuffPost. [...] "I think the issue that's really bad about it is that [The Fat Jew] is profiting off of it," explained Scheer. "He's not just a thief -- he's actually making money off of people's stuff."

Is it shocking that HuffPost would publish such an inflammatory, anti-Semitic screed on its front page, as "news"?  Which uses the same old meme, that Jews are thieving, greedy, conniving, subversive charlatans?  Not exactly.  

This is part of the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel venom that HuffPost has been publishing for at least the past six years, as HUFF-WATCH has been meticulously documenting.  A (small) sampling:

• HuffPost front-page headline: Romney chased by "pack of Jews" 

• Swedish Article Suggests Israeli Troops Kill Palestinians, Harvest Organs (at right)

• HuffPost: Iranian mullah worth quoting in full; Netanyahu... "Bupkis"

• Huffington Post: Hamas's mouthpiece in the USA

• HuffPost: Jews trying to control the NYT!!! (Silence on Hamas media restrictions)

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

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 Andrew Breitbart, 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 kicked Andrew off the site.  Their justification:

"Andrew Brietbart’s ad hominem attack on Van Jones in The Daily Caller [...] violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched. 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 — guidelines that include a strict prohibition on ad hominem attacks..."

And recall one of Arianna's first (of many) lies, regarding HuffPost's commitment to civil discourse:

"If you're looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric ... don't bother coming to the Huffington Post."

So why would HuffPost enable, and give top billing to such virulent anti-Semitism, at this moment?

Might it have something to do with the fact that it opened up its first Arabic version, which is being criticized as a "pro-jihad" site?

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 bought 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.   

If you'd like to make your voice known to HuffPost management on this issue, here's info on how to contact them.  
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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: Iranian mullah worth quoting in full; Netanyahu... "Bupkis"

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On March 12, this was HuffPost's splash headline:

Note that HuffPost summarizes the key sentiment expressed by Mohammed Khatamei, the "Supreme Leader"  of the world's #1 largest state sponsor of Islamist terror, without criticism or skepticism of any kind.

Now, contrast this to how HuffPost presented the speech that Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of the state that Iran has publicly committed to wiping off the face of the Earth, gave to Congress on March 3:

In case you're not familiar with the term "bupkis," it is defined as:

Absolutely nothing; nothing of value, significance, or substance; eg "We searched for hours and found bupkis."

Think about that for  a moment.  HuffPost, the #1 most widely-read online "newspaper" in the world, which has repeatedly claimed 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.

Just another day at the office for the West's #1 largest online enabler of Iranian propaganda, and inciter of hatred against Israel and Jews.  And not a whimper from the "news" media that is supposed to act as a watchdog over such egregious breaches of journalistic standards.

Addendum, 3 hours later 

And continuing HuffPost's longstanding pattern 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:

First, we have a kindly depiction of Iran's chief mullah, looking very grandfatherly, with open hands, as if to say, "Nukes? What nukes? What are those rotten Zionists talking about now?"

Now, contrast that to this picture it chose to run of Netanyahu - angry, sinister and malevolent:

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 June 2009:

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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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