18th September 2010
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After my confession in the previous post I feel much better now, thank you. Good for the soul, so they tell me. Anyway, back to the numerous interviews that THE MAN gave while in the USA.
Now, this is a great one. Kind of puts the antis back in their box, where they belong. That’s why it’s all over the British papers, of course. (Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and of course here.)
In The Harvard Crimson James K. McAuleye has this headline:
“Protestors Decry Blair as Criminal”
Great what they find to headline their little stories with. Though Mr McAuleye has, graciously, omitted the three-letter word which is normally attached umbilically in front of “criminal”. Demotion is promotion in this game of criminality.
Some observers might have thought this story would have been more worthy of this sort of headline:
“I like Ahmadinejad,” says placard-waving Elaine
His “holocaust denial was irrelevant”, droned on the very relevant Ms Elaine C. Antonia, of Stoughton Massachusetts as she tied a balloon string round her finger to remind herself when to take her medication. “Mahmoud Amanutjob seems like a nice guy to me”, she opined, steam rising from all three of her ears.
“After all”, she continued, “My MoodyOne was duly elected by his people, unlike that Tony Blair who was a murdering dictator who stamped on democracy, set up kangaroo courts for his political opponents and even killed with his own blood-stained hands young people on the streets, especially if they didn’t vote for him. Three times they didn’t! And then that brutal dictator even had the cheek to blame other countries, like Mymad’s wondrous land. MY Madman would NEVER have done anything like that.”
The Harvard Crimson report follows, in full:
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A crowd of roughly fifteen locals gathered to protest the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s appearance last night at Harvard Square’s First Parish Cambridge Church, a scene that a passerby said resembled “The Ghost Writer.”
Wearing Palestinian flags, banging on pots and pans, and brandishing signs that advertised a “peace-loving Iran,” the protesters heckled the hundreds of people lined up for blocks to hear Blair discuss his new book, “Journey: My Political Life,” with noted British journalist Tina Brown.
“Prosecute Tony Blair for genocide! He’s a mass murderer!” protestors yelled.
“Americans, Brits, Iraqis died! Could it be because Tony lied?” they screamed.
“Hey people, use your noodle—don’t waste a dime on Bush’s poodle!” they shrieked.
“It’s an interesting statement, stopping war on peace-loving Iran,” said Kevin M. McKenna, who was waiting in line outside the church to hear Blair speak.
Inside the church, Brown confronted Blair about his decisions regarding the war in Iraq.
“In the book, you say that Iraq is not a regret and that if you were to do it again, you would. But I get the sense that you aren’t still at peace with it,” she said. “You were teasing out your point a little too much. I think you were still a bit uncertain.”
Blair responded saying that it is “inhuman” not to “consider your actions” ex post facto, “in light of what happens.” Even still, he maintained, “these risks are incredibly difficult to judge.”
On Iran, Blair’s views were clear.
“If I was a decision-maker today, I wouldn’t take the risk of Iran with a nuclear weapon, even acknowledging the risks of a Pandora’s Box.”
Outside, sentiments on Iran did not exactly mirror those of the former Prime Minister.
“I like Ahmadinejad,” said Elaine C. Antonia of Stoughton, Mass., adding that his Holocaust denial was “irrelevant.” “He was duly elected by his people. Every one of those protests we see on CNN was probably funded by the State Department.”
Halfway through the speech, the protestors attempted to move around the church to the side exit, where Blair’s convoy awaited his return, but Massachusetts police officers told them to clear the sidewalk.
“Did you ever hear of free speech?” said Mary Corcoran. “They clearly don’t believe in free speech. I think it’s disgraceful.”
In an interview after the event, Brown said that she thought Blair’s talk had gone well.
“I thought he was most interesting on how partisan ideology is over for the 21st century,” she added.
For her part, Antonia said she hoped she would be able to catch the attention of just a few.
I’m disappointed in Harvard,” she said. “During Vietnam this school was a hot bed. Now there’s people my age out on the street, and the students don’t even support us.”
—Staff writer James K. McAuley can be reached at mcauley@fas.harvard.edu.
—Aditya Balasubramanian contributed to the reporting of this story.
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- The ever-tenacious John Rentoul also wrote on Elaine, one of ‘the roughly fifteen’, here. (That’ll be 10, then)
- Boston Indy Media (yeah, them again): Report and pictures of friends of Ms Antonio
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Lies of Lauren Booth UNCOVERED by Media Standards Watchdog OFCOM
August 4, 2010Comment at end
4th August 2010
UPDATE – 25th October, 2010: “Reversion” personified: “My name is Lauren Booth, and I am a Muslim”. Hardly news, but now official.
NO-ONE TRIED TO KILL AMANUTJOB IN IRAN! HONEST GUV, said a source in his office. More or less. It is reported that it said so at Iran’s Press TV (now removed). And Lauren Booth works for them (in association with a few other noble Brits). So we know we can trust them. The Beeb in its usual way, is seeking out the truth.
EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. Bodyguards react after the sound of an explosion behind the entourage of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) as he is welcomed to Hamadan, 336 kilometres (209 miles) southwest of Tehran, August 4, 2010. Ahmadinejad survived an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan on Wednesday, a source in his office said. REUTERS/STR (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Thanks to DayLife here for the above picture and caption
The Censuring of Lauren Booth
Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British prime minister Tony Blair, is a journalist and self-proclaimed pro-Palestinian activist. This video debunks one of the Big Lies spread by Booth that Gazans live in abject poverty and are starving.
We’re All Gazans Now! Aren’t we just?
Article below from Cif Watch –
Lauren Booth Censured by UK’s media standards authority
You might remember Lauren Booth’s essay for Comment is Free, on the Mavi Marmara incident, published on 2 June 2010. Booth was a passenger on the 2008 Free Gaza boat and can be seen in this photo receiving a Gaza passport from Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh. (See CiF Watch’s post “How to be a Useful Idiot“)
Booth’s CiF piece included such objective passages as this, which not only defended the IHH terrorists on board the flotilla (portraying them as innocent victims of Israeli aggression), but used rhetoric simply dripping with sarcasm and unbridled contempt for the Jewish state:
As an excellent post at the blog of Honest Reporting (HR) noted, Lauren Booth was recently censured by Ofcom, the UK’s media standards authority, regarding her coverage of the Mavi Marmara incident. Regarding a broadcast on the June 5 edition of “Remember Palestine,” Ofcom found that her report on Press TV (an English language network owned by the Iranian regime), failed to show even a modicum of impartiality. (See Ofcom’s full report.) The report cited, among other breaches of ethical standards, these comments from the broadcast:
Ofcom’s report also chided Booth for failing to:
On these pages, many of us have noted the phenomena of so many seemingly sophisticated, highly educated, CiF columnists who possess what can, at best, be described as a remarkably facile view of the Middle East – blindly accepting a narrative of the Israeli Goliath doing battle with the Palestinian David. Such “progressive” journalists’ seeming erudition is reduced to an almost puerile naiveté when dealing with totalitarian terrorist movements – whose leaders are shamefully misogynistic and anti-gay, openly call for Israel’s annihilation, and engage in explicitly anti-Semitic invectives.
Booth, winner of HR’s 2008 Dishonest Reporting award, ended her CiF piece with the following (reportedly, while maintaining a straight face):
Yes, that pesky Jewish nation – not only randomly massacring innocent civilians, but corrupting the innocence of youth.
(See CiF Watch’s video, “The Lies of Lauren Booth”, for more background)
The link and an earlier airing of this atrocious video are here
Earlier jewels from this insane woman. Sorry, Cherie. She just is.
Next for the high-jump after Ms Booth? Hopefully THIS equally vile Islamism-promoter, friend of Saddam and prize nincompoop
Because I like to provide the occasional giggle to keep the bad dreams away, guys and gals, I just HAD to add this from the vain, vile, vicious, treacherous George Galloway –
GG: “For that reason, I have been meeting with some of the world’s leading legal minds, and with those with the means to bring such a prosecution, with a view to seeing justice is done. Watch this space. Tony Blair certainly is.”
Excuse me a second – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That’s better. But –
“… the world’s leading legal minds … a prosecution … justice… Tony Blair certainly …”
Hysterical! Does he KNOW any “leading minds”? Looks like it, from the above pictures! And, btw, I wouldn’t even claim that Mr Blair watches THIS space, Gorgeous Loudmouth, and this space admires him. HUGELY.
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Also reported at Britain’s Press Gazette. I bet that was painful for them. Censureship for an anti-westerner? Worrying. Getting nearer by the minute, punmpkins.
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The law WILL catch up with you Galloway
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