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Killing two headlines with one stone

By Brian C. Ledbetter · Wednesday, August 30. 2006 14:31
Those dastardly Israelis are at it again.

Of course, notice the smaller headline, "Hezbollah minister touts prisoner swap." Touts prisoner "swap?" As I recall, he actually rejected the UN's call to unconditionally release the Israeli troops which were held prisoner, by saying (and I quote verbatim), "There will be no unconditional release."

I suppose Yahoo! didn't consider "Lebanon refuses prisoner release" to be as compelling a headline, but instead prefers to wallow in their traditional Israel-bashing.

Figures.

I'm sure that the many leftist editors at newspapers worldwide will follow in lock-step, reporting on the actions of what they can only see as the world's most oppressive regime.

On a side note, at least the Associated Press has discovered that Lebanon Hezbullah does not want peace with Israel. (Does this mean that the war-mongers in Hezbullah represent the entire nation of Lebanon now?) Oh, and it also seems that our favorite Man in Red is riding in on his High Horse to stand up to Israel those dastardly Zionists, and America those Yankee gringos. I'm sure he's gonna stick it to the Man, maaaaan!

If the press would show as much "solidarity" with the truth as they do with Chavez, Lebanon, and Syria The Axis Of Evil, perhaps they'd be able to reverse their attrition in readership. After all, who wants to read that they are The Source Of All The Evil In The Worldtm every time they pick up the paper? Not most Americans, apparently.

That only leaves me to speculate that the Press is more dedicated to World Socialism (ed: Oops, wrong link!) than they are to profit. This might be admirable in some circles, but a majority of Americans are apparently tired of it.

UPDATE 18:42 EST: Just as a reminder, the UnTIEd Nations is in no position to cast stones at any nation. Until that organization bunch of tinpot dictators reins in its own internal CORRUPTION, that is.

(As a further update, I am going to throw in a WHAMMY! for good effect. Nothing represents cash-yoinking quite as well as Kofi & Co do!)
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captainfish on 2006-08-30 23:41 #1
*"I suppose Yahoo! didn't consider "Lebanon refuses prisoner release" to be as compelling a headline, but instead prefers to wallow in their traditional Israel-bashing."

because it is just too aggressive of a title. They can't put enemies of life, liberty and freedom in a bad light!!

What I really hope is the extent of this swap for Isreal, is the swap of recently captured Hezballah terrorists for the Isreali soldiers. I pray they don't release a thousand prisoners for each soldier as they have in the past. Talk about filling the ranks of your enemies.

The UN corrupt? Brian. Shame on you. Didn't you read that the UN fact-finding mission found that nothing much happened at the UN. cough, cough
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