Fired Journalist Has a History of Anti-American Slanders
The story of Lara Logan’s ordeal in Tahrir Square has spawned a sideshow, the exceedingly offensive remarks made about it by fellow journalist Nir Rosen.
Much of the publicity Rosen has received so far in his fifteen minutes of fame has focused on what he tweeted about Logan, whether he meant it, and the risks of using social media to mouth off. But there’s another potentially more important issue, and that is whether Rosen should ever have been regarded as an unbiased reporter (as opposed to opinion journalist) in the first place.
Rosen’s forte has been to go behind the scenes to report on events in war-torn Iraq, Afghanistan, and the turbulent Middle East, using a distinct advantage that has made him nearly unique in the world of U.S. journalism: although American-born, he speaks fluent Arabic with an Iraqi accent. Rosen writes his dispatches in a colorful and lively narrative style filled with details, anecdotes, and flair. No wonder his articles have been sought after by such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic, among others; as well as periodicals such as Foreign Policy and the Boston Review. Not bad for a man still in his early thirties
Rosen had burst on the scene seemingly out of nowhere, an American University dropout who had worked as a bouncer while he took an unpaid gig as researcher for investigative reporter and author Scott Armstrong, formerly of the Washington Post. In 2003, his mentor Armstrong somehow talked Time magazine into working with the very youthful and inexperienced Rosen, who pulled up stakes and arrived in Iraq just three days after the war officially ended. His career was launched.
Probably the most well-known — and controversial — of Rosen’s articles was a piece that appeared in Rolling Stone in October of 2008. In it, Rosen wrote about experiences he’d had while supposedly embedded with the Taliban. The controversy over the article was two-pronged: there was criticism of Rosen’s ethics in cooperating with the Taliban in the first place; as well as skepticism about whether Rosen had really been with the Taliban (voiced by military consultant Joshua Foust in the Columbia Journalism Review). Foust spoke of how well-written Rosen’s Rolling Stone article was, but claimed that the piece was “laden with serious flaws that call into question Rosen’s reliability as an analyst of the events he witnessed, and make it hard to accept his credentials as an impartial observer.”
But impartial is something Rosen had never been, even at the start of his career. This very early piece of his appeared in a publication called Dissident Voice (“a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and justice”) in April of 2002, about a year before the twenty-something Rosen went to Iraq and became a well-known and respected journalist. It is both a personal memoir and a strong statement of the leftist anti-Israel line, written at the height of the bloody Second Intifada and voicing sentiments such as the following:
To my dismay, my parents, and all moderate Israelis have been radicalized. Now I find an unbridgeable rift widening between myself and my family, over which we communicate only by screaming….
They remind me of Serbs I have known, whose epistemology was dominated by propaganda and denial. They have the same defensive sense of persecution, the excessive and preposterous protestations of victimhood that cannot mask the guilt that they deny….
So I find myself in the unique and painful position of calling for international sanctions against Israel and wondering if a punitive bombing of Tel Aviv, the city I love, until it complies with international law, might be a good (albeit quixotic) idea.
There is no reason to believe that Rosen has changed these opinions in the slightest in the ensuing years. Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic recently went back to look at some of Rosen’s tweets prior to the Logan episode, and found such cheerful fare as “Yes to a 3rd Intifada. This time hopefully with the support of the Palestinians citizens of ‘Israel.’”
Live by the Leftist sword. Die by the Leftist sword.
So typical.
This guy is just lost. And there are billions of people like him. They don’t understand why freedom and democracy is better than tyranny. They always end up fighting for the wrong causes and ends up screwing themselves over.
Rosen’s lame effort to apologize in Salon—”How 480 characters unraveled my career”—overestimates the number of characters it took to bring him down. It only took one character—his own flawed one.
Very well said.
Amen to that!
We have a winnah!
EGYPT LIFTS BAN ON IRANIAN WARSHIPS USING SUEZ
Those who think that Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak didn’t intentionally ban Iranian warships from using the Suez Canal for 32 years because it’s forbidden by international law, and that it was Iran’s decision to only use the Canal for its commercial vessels, have forgotten that until the signing of the Camp David Accords all Israeli ships, commercial and military, were illegally* banned by Egypt from the Canal. Egypt has sovereignty over the Canal and will ultimately decide according to its interests what nations will and will not use it. What we are witnessing is a radical and very dangerous shift in policy toward Iran by moderate Arab states-who have lost confidence in US power-first by the Saudis (in allowing Iranian warships to dock at Jeddah) and now by Egypt’s military regime on Iran’s military use of the Suez. The star of radical Islam is rising.
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While the ships are allowed through, Israel’s pro-Palestinian apologist (Haaretz) reports that Iran does not have hostile intentions towards Israel.
Could God’s ultimate religion of peace and harmony (the answer to war, poverty, injustice and all bad things) have hostile intentions toward anyone? These are belligerenet ships. They’re love boats.
Could God’s ultimate religion of peace and world harmony (the answer to war, poverty, injustice and all bad things) have hostile intentions toward anyone? These aren’t belligerent ships. They’re love boats.
Funny how Nir Rosen can exercise his right to free speech, no matter how stupid it is, in this country, but if he tried to say something that offensive in a place like Egypt he’d probably be thrown in jail. Funny how it always works out that way.
According to Schroedinger’s Cat-kicker, if he’d said that in Egypt he’d have gotten giggles from the men.
A Jew who hates Jews. Nothing could be sadder. And that is the key to this subhuman creature. He hates himself.
One wonders how he’d fare under Islamic rule of the world.
I’m sure he makes George Soros proud.
He’d fare just fine because he’d immediately convert to Islam.
People like this guy exist in every time and place. He’s a typical collaborator, ready to change allegiance at the drop of a hat and become one of the oppressors. Because he has no allegiance to anything beyond himself. That’s why he didn’t recognize that mocking a rape victim and fellow liberal journalist, would be crossing the ‘line’.
Don’t be surprised if he gets a new job immediately…with al Jazeera.
Well.. a long-time hater of Jews and Women hidden in the media for years. Will wonders never cease?!
The only wonder is that he came to anyone’s attention. I’m still not sure why he was fired. He’s hardly the only one making remarks offensive to someone.
It’s to be hoped for that this guy will never find a job with a respectable publication or network again. Let him retire to the unwashed ranks of lefty whackadoos where he belongs.
Right-on. And I note the ‘responsible.’
However, there are any number of creepy leftard ‘organizations’
which will pay him for his bile, for example, here in Canada:
Stopwar.ca, NOII, MAWO, The Canadian Charger, not to mention
the anti-semitic unions which fund those rags, like CUPE, CUPW,
BCTF, CAUT and HEU.
It is often surprising that there are so many self hating Jews among the American Left; it is also remarkable how many women haters there are among the American Left; finally no surprise that there are so many American hating ideologues in the American Left.
Good point. Modern feminism began as a leftist man-hating reaction to leftist woman haters. Anyone who doesn’t know that can check feminism’s hystorical record for oneself.
The Jewish angle is always fascinating, isn’t it? His parents and an enormous percentage of Jews he knows gradually come to an idea different than his. He therefore concludes it is they who must be wrong. No hint or whisper of self-doubt, or questioning oneself, or examination of possible wrong motives on his own part. Very un-Jewish, isn’t it? Jews had a long tradition of pilpul, of developing oppositional arguments, or looking for paradox, even of switching sides in a theoretical argument to avoid one side’s victory by superior rhetoric rather than reason. Yet when they became American liberals, all this seems to have receded, practiced now by only a few.
When confronted with his misogyny by a smarmy Anderson Cooper, Rosen bragged that he was a “radical feminist”, and stressed his cred in that social justice department by bragging about how he reported in Iraq on abuse of women. Note the cumbersome way he ties the Leftist anti-American narrative together to convince Anderson Cooper:
“In my defense, in terms of my rec… my record, if I may, um… [I've] spent eight years risking my life trying to tell the stories of victims and condemn their oppressors I spent today actually here… I’m in the middle east, documenting sexual abuse of women by local security forces, who were trained by the Americans, umm…”
I think the sudden case of Nir Rosen illustrates an interesting point which is rarely discussed about so-called “reporters” who bring us the “news” from the seething cauldron of hatred and bigotry a.k.a. The Middle East. I’m convinced that most or all of them are compromised profoundly. I postulate that in order to gain access to our vile enemy, in order to come and go without being beheaded, most or all of these reporters must first curry favor with their fascist Arab subjects by reassuringly exhibiting their anti-American biases to those Arabs and Muslims. The Jordan Eason/CNN scandal was an illustration of this.
It is a very convincing explanation about why reportage from the Arab and Muslim quarters so often whitewash entire aspects of the Muslim culture to the detriment of Western readers. The incessant genocidal anti-Jew and anti-American drumbeat which spews from the Muslim World is treated like it’s nothing – like reporting on the wetness of rain. If most Westerners knew the lust with which Arabs and Muslims which for our genocidal destruction, I believe we’d be far less inclined to try and instil democracy in these savages, and far more inclined to destroy the poisonous ideology of Islam.
But we rarely get the story abbot the hatred which animates virtually all of the Muslims who take Islam seriously. Nir Rosen is a poster boy for the evil bargain ME reporters make in order to have access to product. He just went a little too far off the plantation.
Great Post!
A very well thought out post.I agree entirely. Thankyou
Have you ever been to the muslim world? Obviously not or you’d have been hypnotized to the dark side. Stupid question.
“This time, though, he happened to have hit on a subject that was offensive to leftist sensibilities as well as those on the right ”
It was only offensive to the left because Laura Logan worked for a leftwing media outlet. If a conservative woman had been raped the entire leftwing echo chamber on the Internet would probably be laughing about it.
If it had happened to Sarah Palin the Kos would be sending out high fives.
Rosen is just another rat feasting on the carrion and misery of others. And bringing more of his own to the table. He has been allowed to get away with it for so long because of he is a left winger and his a “protected” species in America. Just like those who wear the mantle of “minority” he can urinate all over everyone and everything in his path because he has been taught well. That he is out of a job, FOR THE PRESENT, is somewhat of an astonishment. But then again – look at his sin. He make light and sport over the plight of another left wing “protected species” – a left wing female. Had he said this about Sarah Palin, or a host of others on the other side, it would have just been more spittle from Rosen, a lark to be laughed at. He was a university dropout, a bouncer (???) and yet look where he ended up. Roads were paved for him, people pushed out of the way, and yet he ended up an unworthy star just because of what he spewed and what he represented.
Good grief, am I naive to think that any reporter who got caught pooh-poohing, or whatever he did, a gang rape by muslims of Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman or Laura Ingaham would have to get booted from whatever remotely responsible news organization he/she is in?
No, you’re disingenuous.
So what consequences faced Sandra Bernhard for wishing Sarah Palin got raped by “big black brothers?” (Apparently, to a leftist the way to make rape even worse is for it to be perpetrated by Blacks – but they aren’t racist!)
What happened to Letterman after making a joke about Palin’s daughter Willow (13 at the time, I believe) being raped by Alex Rodquiguez?
Good grief! Am I naive to think you aren’t being just a bit too dishonest?
You shouldn’t post when you are taking drugs.
Nir – note from your ‘beloved’ city: don’t hurry home. Signed, typical Serbian-style Israeli with slight American accent. Ex-feminist.
It is not just American Jews who have jumped on the lefty bandwagon. As the left has most, if not all, of the control over the media and the MSM publications, it ‘seems’ sensible to join in their looney cause.
On the bright side, these publications and stations are presently losing their thin veneer of respectable reporting. People are tuning them out and refusing to buy their papers. It is government handouts that are keeping them afloat. But that will soon end as budgets become tighter.
The truth will always win out. It has a way of coming back to haunt them.
Their refuge of lies and half-truths will die in the light of honesty. They have picked a most unsafe place to hide……in the darkness.
Nir Rosen has put himself in more danger for his reporting than any journalist I can think of, in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has more guts than the whole lot of Pajama warmongers combined.
So he’s earned the right to mock and belittle a victim of sexual assault? Good point.
I note you show your own bravery by posting anonymously. Well played, sir!
Really? SOO glad you know ALL posters and their respective backgrounds.
Typical Leftist tactic: Projection and deflection.
But hey, if you’re a 1st or 2nd year Liberal Arts, Sociology major, it’s what you’ve been told and are unable/unwilling to go into greater depths.
I see your age group, brethren screaching the same nonsense for their beloved public sector teachers and/or employees.
He doesn’t know any of us. That’s simply ignorance.
But he draws conclusion and makes assumptions anyway. Now we’re talking arrant stupidity.
But being a leftist means never having to know what you’re talking about. Because shut up, you racist teabagger.
nir rosen has a deep seated hated of white people. he’s a racist
I strongly disagree. I think he put himself where his heart is and where he feels comfortable among the parasites that spew hate daily .He had no trouble staying alive because he was really one of them all the time.
Reporting or making it up? Isn’t that what punk journalists do? The guy is a coward, hope if he visits his family the mousad pays him a visit. Those guys are real men.
Nir post using your own name.
“Hitler served in France and Belgium in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment, on the Western Front as a regimental runner. He was present at a number of major battles on the Western Front, including the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Passchendaele.[35]”
“Hitler was twice decorated for bravery. He received the relatively common Iron Cross, Second Class, in 1914 and Iron Cross, First Class, in 1918, an honour rarely given to a Gefreiter.”–wiki
Turns out you can be both brave and a scumbag all at the same time.
In one of these historical ironies, the officer who sponsored him for the Iron Cross was Jewish.
Rosen put himself in no danger at all as he has consistently supported Hamas, Hezbullah, Al Qaida and The Taliban.
Why should those groups not welcome him when they know he will only aid their cause?
Reporters who are more fair minded are either raped or beheaded.
Actually, it takes some stones to be hangin’ with Rosen’s Taliban and al-Qaida peeps. Never know when a Hellfire might come through the window.
the very language Nir and his cohorts use is a tip off-a giant red flag to any person with an ounce of love for USA- so editors are obviously not concerned that their reporters are hateful and biased- seditious and traitorous to his own parents,his country or countries- why does this person still have an American or Israeli citizenship?
If we suck so much – fine- give us up and live with your loves, the Taliban and Gazans–
Of course we might have to send Obama and his entire admin by my rules-
Why are my fellow JEWS so insane?? why do they parrot the people who want them dead?
Yesterday was Adar 14 the Torah portion is about Esther
a Jew “embedded” in the Persian King’s house- she makes a very different decision than NIR- a true feminist way before her time- she is instrumental in saving her people.
Adar 14
Mordechai said to respond to Esther, “Do not think that you can save yourself [from Haman's decree of annihilation] because you are in the royal palace” (Esther 4:13).
Esther, the heroine of the Purim episode, received this sharp rebuke from Mordechai. No Jew should ever assume that anti-Semitism will affect only others but not oneself. No one has immunity. Every Jew must know that he or she is part of a unit, and a threat against any Jew anywhere in the world is a threat to all Jews.
History has unfortunately repeated itself many times. Spanish Jews who held powerful governmental positions were sent into exile along with their brethren. Jewish millionaires and members of European parliaments were cremated in Auschwitz ovens. Throughout the ages, those who had thought to escape anti-Semitic persecution by concealing their Jewish identities sadly learned that this effort was futile.
Esther accepted Mordechai’s reprimand and risked her life to save her people. In fact, the Megillah (Book of Esther) tells us that Esther had not revealed her Jewish identity because Mordechai had instructed her to keep it a secret. She never would have stayed hidden in the palace and watched her people perish. Mordechai spoke his sharp words not to her, but to posterity.
Some people simply refuse to accept history’s painful lessons. In defiance, they continue to say that they will be different. Neither any individual who feels secure for any reason nor any community that lives in what it considers to be a safe environment should have this delusion of immunity.
Mordechai’s message reverberates throughout the centuries: “Do not think that you can save yourself by hiding when other Jews are being persecuted.”
courtesy of aish
http://www.aish.com/sp/ged/a/?month=6
my comment disappeared??
into the ether of cyberspace? or I was unapproved?
Thanks for your superb post on Esther.
BTW, no need to be paranoid about someone deleting your posts. As you know this is a holiday weekend. We need some time off too. Post approvals might be a little slow for that reason.
sorry for that Rog usually I see the post and it has a header of waiting for moderator’s approval
The man described himself as “a radical feminist” — and burnished his street cred by “documenting sexual abuse of women by local security forces, who were trained by the Americans”… ignoring the much more serious sexual abuse happening all over the Middle East, by people who didn’t need Americans to teach them anything.
Now the “radical feminist” can’t bring himself to feel sympathy for a reporter like himself who is brutally sexually abused… because he doesn’t like her politics?!?
I sincerely doubt that the man truly believes in anything but himself. This incident allowed him to reveal to the world just how shallow he really is, that’s all.
If Rosen had the credibility he claims then he would not have not tweeted about Logan as he did. You have to wonder who he thinks he is kidding.
All of which makes me wonder if we don’t have another Stephen Glass hoax lurking here under the guise of “foreign correspondent and Taliban embed.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass_%28reporter%29
He should change his name to Akbar Zeb. Because he is.
The photo of Rosen looks exactly like a Hamas terrorist, complete with jihadi unibrow and buzz cut.
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
The photo of Rosen looks exactly like a Hamas terrorist, complete with jihadi unibrow and buzz cut.
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
He looks like lots of Israeli Jews. Jews and Arabs do have very similar DNA – we Jews are from there you know! If Rosen speaks Arabic with an Iraqi accent, he probably learned it at home. Many Iraqi Jews fled after pogroms in Baghdad about 1951, came to Israel – He would be the right age to have parents from there. And if he is having screaming fits with his parents over Israeli politics, that would fit too. Most Israeli Jews from Arab countries (about 1/2 the Israeli Jewish population) are pretty rightwing, having grown up with Arabs and having no illusions.
Jews first came to Babylonia (Iraq) in the 6th c BCE, after Nebuchadnetzar conquered Jerusalem (an event described by Jeremiah in Lamentations). Many returned after Cyrus the Great liberated them when Persia conquered Babylonia, many stayed and formed the community which redacted the Babylonian Talmud, in Pumbedita (which is now Fallujah). This Jewish community was the center of learning and religious leadership until the Middle Ages. IOW Jews had been in Iraq for 1200 years before Islam. By the time of the pogroms in 1950 one fourth of Baghdad was Jewish.
This is Rosen’s heritage.
Jews, of course, are not the only Semites. And that has prompted many, not aware of the history of the term, to claim “anti-Semitism” cannot possibly be restricted to Jew hatred.
The fact is, the term “anti-Semite” was coined by the Jew haters in order to apply a pseudo-scientific veneer to their ideology, much in the way both racists and totalitarians latched onto Darwin for justification. As an ethnic descriptor, anti-Semitism has no meaning, despite that nearly everyone in the Mideast is Semitic to some extent.
On the other hand, many modern Jew haters claim they are not against Jews per se, but are actually anti-Zionists. Somehow maintaining that Jews do not deserve a home is a respectable intellectual position.
Actually, this ahistorical use of the term “antisemite” became so widespread in France that the alternative (and unambiguous) term “judéophobie” (judeophobia) has been making inroads.
The leftist jews in America just cannot understand how they are the useful idiots of the islamofascists. If the islamofascists have their way in this world, my fellow jews will be the first to be marched to the ovens like too may members of my extended family in Poland and Ukraine were 70 short years ago. When will the tribe members wake up and stop supporting the left?
“Rosen went to Iraq and became a well-known and respected journalist…”
First of all, he’s not especially well known, he’s prety much a fringer.
Second of all, he’s an America-hating, Jew-hating renegade and traitor, who has actively worked with the enemy during a time of war. The only people who respect him are his fellow left wing traitors.
He’s scum, and he ought to be put on trial for treason, convicted and then executed, along with a whole lot of other left wing trash (start with Jane Fonda and work your way forward in time) who think that working for, or with people who are killing Americans is just the normal duty of a good lefty.
The only difference between a POS like Rosen and Lord Haw Haw is is that Lord Haw Haw has already been hung, and Rosen hasn’t been fitted for a noose yet.
Absolutely right. There was a time when they used to execute traitors in self-respected countries.
A leniency for a traitor means a disregard for the sacrifices made by patriots.
And the country that disregards the sacrifices made by patriots doesn’t deserve to exist as a free country.
That concerns America and my own EUNUCHALIA as well where traitors like Assagne become celebrities.
According to Michael Totten, Rosen also helped get some Taliban through a checkpoint, which I would call active aiding and abetting. Such a feminist, the guy is. Also Michael said that Rosen has a photo on his page of his daughter in a Hezbollah t-shirt. (May have been removed by now, I didn’t check.)
When someone calls a rift “unbridgeable,” it is instructive to look whether he is holding an axe or a hammer.
Nir Rosen, should write a book about his true feelings against America. Nir could write a whole chapter on the brutal attacks that Ms. Logan had to endure at the hands of so calle4d muslim men [swine with human body's]. You know the New York Times would make sure it would hit the top 10 best seller`s list. I am sure Obama and his closes people in the White House would all buy copies. You know because this shows what Obama said, there was not any anti American or Jewish sentiment at these joyous rallies. Women of the free world take a good hard look at how women are treated, by islam. Us older people do not have to worry, but I am afraid for my grand daughters. So as long as I am alive I will fight this muslim scum to my last breath and I will sit in a wheel chair and take down as many as I can!
Any fool can be a journalist as long as he hates America and worships its enemies.
These arrogant bastards feel no shame in betrayal of their family, their people, their nation and their collegues. The very notion of loyality is alien to them. So, we should treat them accordingly: as traitors of their race, their country, their culture and profession and strip them all protection which these bodies give at exchange of loyality. Let them be torn to pieces by angry Arab mobs when exposed to be Jewish. This would be a poetic justice.
Nir Rosen has made a valuable contribution to the debate in the Middle East. His clearly enunciated dreamy statement of the need to bomb Tel Aviv where he had friends and family is quite enough to see why Logan’s rape was just a fine thing in his head. The combination of sex, violence and ambition is so prominent in him as to raise the specter of psychiatric illness. Anyone who wishes death or dismemberment to people he has not met is a lunatic worth isolating. Anarchism is just an intellectual cover for his primitive anger.
” Jew! Jew! ” shouted by mob as it gang rapes Lara Logan in ” Freedom ” square.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/cbs_reporter_cairo_nightmare_pXiUVvhwIDdCrbD95ybD5N
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=208754
Ahem.
Rosen is a “fellow” at NYU’s Center for Law and Security.
NYU and Columbia between them are churning out, and harboring, anti-semitic, anti-American ideologues; right there in the heart of American Jewry. The pinnacle of Gramscian achievement.
In 2004, Rosen wrote a series of reports from Fallujah, where he was embedded with the Sunni terrorists who murdered US citizens and hung their burnt corpses from a bridge. Rosen praises these brave “mujaheddin”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/Fallujah.html
He’s an avowed Marxist and he hates America and Israel.
The Obama administration has found its new information tsar!
I think he got so vicious because she was ruining the official narrative.
This was supposed to be a cool revolution run by Google execs and Facebook yuppies.
Islamists screaming “idbah al yahud” were not supposed to be part of the story.
For those who don’t know, that common Arab saying translates, more or less, to “slaughter the Jews”.
I wonder where he holds citizenship? He appears to hold Israeli citizenship, and he certainly appears to be a traitor to Israel, although we are rediculously lax in that area, with even the relatively right-wing Jerusalem Post printing a treasonous column that is beyond what even the New York Times would allow. Does he also hold American citizenship?
Perhaps he can start a contest seeing how many countries he can be a traitor to.
Actually, his Jew-hatred and sympathy for Arab terrorists are so over the top that I wonder if he’s secretly a deep-cover agent for the Mossad.
Am I being sarcastic? You decide
Too much airtime for a nobody loser.