I know I speak for Dan, Nick & John in saying we are proud to be one of the only gay blogs that were invited to be original members of PajamasMedia. Once again, Roger, Charles and the gang are leading the way!
Blogger Media At Forefront of the Middle East Coverage War – Yahoo.com
Pajamas Media (PJM) is providing special extended coverage of the Middle East War in conjunction with its new initiative called Politics Central. Within the PJM Network of 90 bloggers are several in theater commenting on the war between Hamas, Hezbolla and Israel from a first hand perspective. Pajamas has also been providing a real time and continuous chronology of news events via its global editors and contributors. Within PJM’s new Politics Central initiative, PJM is distributing exclusive podcast interviews that are longer and more in depth than typical cable news organizations are able to provide.
A literal living chronology of the ongoing Israel-Hezbollah War has been created and made available on the Pajamas Media front page (http://www.pajamasmedia.com). “This chronology’s intention is to give the public moment-to-moment access to the vicissitudes of the war and ultimately to provide historians with a record of the evolving struggle,” says Pajamas’ CEO Roger L. Simon.
Bravo to our PJM colleagues and especially those brave enough to be blogging from Israel and Lebanon in the new Theater in the War on Terror/World War III.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Congratulations on your invitation as an original member of Pajamas-Media. You deserve it. Your blog is a must read for me, although an infrequent commenter. You call things as you see them and that is refreshing. Keep it going.
Yet more evidence of why the MSM’s days are numbered.
Now, if we could just do something about academia and cocktail party conversations in Blue states…
Israel is the Front Line in the War Against Islamo-Fascism. Show ’em some love, peeps.
http://burgeridf.org/
http://pizzaidf.org/
For your amusement: http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/08/how_do_you_like_2.php
Following links to Roger L Simon, this comes up.
Agape.
This is a 17 yr old Israeli blogger hunkered down in a bunker.
http://israelibunker.blogspot.com/
Let him know we here in the USA are thinking of them and praying for they re safety. His posts are fascinating from the front lines of the war on terror. And todays post is his interesting take on the MSM as well!
That’s sweet. Now, who exactly are paying the bills behind PajamasMedia (aka PissPoorMedia)?
Names please. And if you don’t believe that that is of interest in assessing reliability of testimony, let me disabuse you of that notion. Bias is always of interest.
Bias is demonstrated by content, not ownership. The lefty argument that ownership = bias is a bit like saying since Kraft Foods is owned by a tobacco company, Velveeta must be made out of cigarettes.
gene- if he were on the frontlines in the war on terror, he would be lebanese
Pajamas Media – doing the job the Drive-by Media USED to do. Congrats, guys. And don’t let lunatic ravings by Really Annoying Jerk and (mo)lester deter you one whit. Methinks the moonbats doth protest too much.
Regards,
Peter H.
#4: Speaking of Wolcott and Piss-Poor Media, looks like we have Ahmed Chalabi 2.0 in the making:
http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/07/carrion_comfort.php
#7 V the stupidKow — July 23, 2006 @ 10:49 am – July 23, 2006
moos…
Bias is demonstrated by content, not ownership.
Some of us did not just fall off the turnip truck last night. Some of us know the real meaning of the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, rules.
PissPoorMedia is sponsoring the site. PissPoorMedia is financed by people who have the gold. So, who are those who have the gold? Simple question.
Let the Golems on the Left scream. The future is with America and those who love her. Isreal is the only democracy in that ghoulish desert land and it will survive when all the walking homocides around her are face down in the sand.
#10
Hey! Maybe Bill could run down to Kinko’s and make it true?
This isn’t a news piece, it’s a paid for press release/advertorial from PJM. So it’s not as if Yahoo are ‘picking up’ on the story is it. Nice try.
Some people are just to easily impressed/paid to be impressed.
Wasn’t Lebanon and the fantastic ‘Cedar Revolution’ a democracy too? A pity all those pretty girls with Lebanese flags the right were masturbating over are now probably dead/searching for dead family members/leaving the country
The failure of Lebanon to become a full democracy is the fault of Syria, which has occupied it for almost two decades, not Israel.
….and it will never become a democracy now. You have an entire generation of people who saw democracy springing to life in parts of Lebanon either dead or feeling radicalised. What’s the point of democracy if there’s nothing left of the country?
Israel had to respond to Hizbollah. Fair enough. But by levelling the entire of Lebanon they’ve gifted Hizbollah with the greatest gift it could receive. All they have to do is survive (as they’ve said that’s their victory) and they have a captive audience of widows, orphans and bereaved youths all ready to hate.
“Leveling the entire of Lebanon”?
Get over yourself, girl.
Ok, I admit that was a tad dramatic. “Bombing the shit out of it” is more accurate.
You assume, Umm, that the people of Lebanon don’t know whose fault it is that the bombs are falling on their heads.
They know that it’s Hizbollah.
They know that Hizbollah is a puppet organization of Syria and Iran.
They know that Syria encourages, arms, and funds Hizbollah as a means of keeping control and influence within Lebanon’s government and borders.
They know that the reason Iran unleashed Hizbollah is to draw attention away from Iran’s nuclear ambitions, with them as unwilling human shields for Hizbollah’s missiles and other military items.
They are likely sick of being played as suckers by Iran, Syria, and compliant leftists like yourself.
Um… Bruce? That’s not an article. That’s a press release. I could submit a release headlined “Bush Voted Most Popular President in US History!” but it wouldn’t make it true.
It’s mind boggling to me how leftists are always siding with the “bad guys”. Making excuses for terrorists. Israel vs Hezbollah. How can you argue that there is a choice what so ever in that equation? Israel is enforcing a UN resolution that wasnt enforced for over 10 years. The UN should say thank you to Israel and move on. The USA was enforcing a UN resolution in Iraq. The world should say “thank you” and move on. To see leftists like Juan Williams hyperventilaing about “all the lives being lost over there”…is amazing. Not one peep when for weeks Hezbollah rockets rained down on Israel.
Hey Gene,
tell you what, you can start banging on about UN resolutions when you address why Israel hasn’t followed a number aimed at it for years.
Or could it be that Israel ‘enforcing’ UN resolutions is a cover for something else, just like Iraq, for example,
I’m getting the feeling that some of you actually believe that Israel is in the process of destroying Hizbollah. What their actually doing is acting as recruiting agents for them for the next 20 years. Those who forget the lessons of the past are forced to relieve them. Remind me again, why was Hizbollah formed?
I support Israels right to exist, right to defend itself, right to go in and get their troops back. I do not however support their actions in destroying an entire country and basically handing it over to Hizbollah and other extremists on a plate.
I guess criticising Israel is always seen as ‘siding with the bad guys’ or ‘anti-Semitism’. But it’s not, especially when the ‘good guys’ are killing more civilians than the ‘bad guys’. What a simplistic world certain political types live in.
Then, Umm, since Israel gave Hizbollah exactly what they allegedly wanted and moved out of Lebanon, Hizbollah should have withered up and died on the vine, no longer having an “enemy” to fight or a purpose to exist.
Instead, they grew MORE brazen, stocked up on missiles, and started firing them at Israelis, as well as kidnapping Israeli troops and killing civilians.
Why? For the same reason that spoiled children vandalize other peoples’ property; they’ve learned that Mommiekins and Daddiekins will always blame the other person first, rather than admit that their precious cherubs are screwed up.
Israel did not make Hizbollah locate missile launchers and troops in civilian areas. Hizbollah did that deliberately because they knew that Israel would destroy them if they were put anywhere else. Hizbollah is using civilians, in violation of ANY convention of war, as shields for their equipment, hoping that doing so will a) stop Israel from striking them and b) put pressure on Israel to not act against Hizbollah.
And you leftist puppets play right into that. Hizbollah knows that they can do whatever they want and Umm will whine and cry about the Israelis being evil because they don’t just sit there and take the missile fire from those launchers in civilian villages.
Nice projection.
What part of my statement saying that the Israelis have every right to get their troops back and defend themselves didn’t you get?
What I object to is the mass bombing of Lebanon as a whole. The destruction of water supplies, electricity generators, hospitals, UN observation posts, food storage depots, civilians that have alreadly been ordered to leave….
Remind me again, what has Israel achieved ?
Are the captured soldiers released? Is Hezbollah disarmed? Destroyed?
What I object to is the mass bombing of Lebanon as a whole. The destruction of water supplies, electricity generators, hospitals, UN observation posts, food storage depots, civilians that have alreadly been ordered to leave….
None of which would be necessary – or happening – had Hizbollah not worked themselves into the civilian population and the government of Lebanon with the express purpose of making themselves untouchable and started exploiting all of these for their own ends.
Israel is faced with the choice of attacking those and taking heat from indulgent leftists like yourself who have ignored what Hizbollah is doing for years, or allowing their civilians to be blown away and attacked by those missiles because they can’t hit either where they’re at or the infrastructure that supports them.
“None of which would be necessary – or happening – had Hizbollah not worked themselves into the civilian population and the government of Lebanon with the express purpose of making themselves untouchable and started exploiting all of these for their own ends.”
None of which is necessary. Full stop.
Israel hasn’t had one decisive victory against Hizbollah. Are you seriously trying to say the above is
(a) going to release their captured soldiers?
(b) going to damage Hizbollah?
(c) ‘securing’ the region?
or more importantly to the Israelis
(d) be effective in providing better security for their own citizens?
Or is it…..as I believe…..
A monumental fuckup of fantastic proportions.
“Moshe Arens, a hawkish former Likud defence minister, issued a stark warning that Hizbullah and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, could emerge from the conflict undefeated. “This will be a disaster for Israel,” he told the Ha’aretz newspaper. “Nasrallah will be seen as someone who fired thousands of katyushas at Israeli communities for weeks and came out unscathed.”
Experts say Israel’s much-vaunted intelligence services have underestimated Hizbullah capabilities, especially in not knowing it had an Iranian-made missile capable of hitting an Israeli naval vessel off Beirut.
The air force has also come under scrutiny after the loss of three US-built Apache helicopters and an F16 jet, with one helicopter reportedly downed by friendly fire. Five Israeli soldiers have also been killed by friendly fire.
Wall-to-wall TV and radio talk shows have wheeled out reserve or former officers highlighting the shortcomings of those running the show, bringing defensive responses from the IDF general staff and even charges of disloyalty in wartime.
But Ze’ev Schiff, the highly respected doyen of Israeli military commentators, and author of the definitive history of the 1982 war, put it bluntly: “Israel is far from a decisive victory and its main objectives have not been achieved.”
When Israeli hawks are questioning the success/effectiveness/goal of the operation then you know there’s something seriously wrong.
Hahaha, I’m pissing myself laughing here. You actually took that press release to be a genuine article approving PJM? Hahaha. Back to Media Literacy 101, pretty boy.