OK, so near as I can tell, Clancy was claiming the following. The magazine wasn't really insulting Mohammed-- they were satirizing people who attack Mohammed. Because... well that's murkier. The socialist Left would never really insult Mohammed? Or those terrorists were ignorant rather than evil and attacked people who should have been allies?

It's not clear what Clancy is trying to claim, which is sad because since it's provably untrue, his motives are the only important part of the story. It brings to mind CNN's "pious fraud" of claiming that video of Palestinians celebrating 9/11 was fake to prevent a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment. Its coverage of the fake Jenin "massacre" suggests that they've no problem with anti-Jewish attacks. It's attacks on Christians show they're ok with that as well. So there's something special about Islam that puts it nearly on a level with the Left itself in its immunity to criticism.

So I'm not at all surprised that when twitter followers provide evidence that he's lying, he responds by claiming it's all an Israeli/Jewish plot. ("Hasbara" refers to Israeli public relations meant to counter palestinian claims about war crimes using testimonials, videos, and other evidence. Most of those claims turn out, months and years later, to be entirely fabricated, but Israel realized that by the time the truth came out, people already assumed they were guilty and stopped paying attention.) To me, that's the least interesting part of this because the Left is always reacting this way.

Who watches CNN?

According to Freud . the thought is the mother of the deed (or speech). Jesus thought so, too.

Simple. They're anti-American and anti-Semitic schmucks, like the German Jews in the 30's who didn't think that Hitler was talking about them. Remember that Hitler and Islam were a mutual admiration society. Look it up.

Yeah, this is really going to help CNN's ratings which are currently at very low levels.

CNN International makes domestic CNN look like FOXNEWS.

"bizarre" is the word for it. He starts off by making a claim which really attacks the muslim terrorists to then twist around to kind of say the muslim terrorist were doing what Israel wants. Why Israel wanted to attack the magazine is not explained.

Some insults are more equal than others.


Apparently.

I don't know who these people are or what hasbara is, and it does seem like the guy is unhinged.

But articles that just recount Twitter fights just seem kind of pissy.

To the extent that they reveal the true character of those supposedly objective journalists who bring us the news, they're a lot more valuable than your run-of-the-mill schoolgirl Twitter fight.

Consider just how much CNN's Jim Clancy must hate Jews to twist the Paris murders of non-Muslims by Muslim terrorists into Israel's fault.

Exactly! What does Israel have to do with Islamic fascist terrorists? These savage murderers are Ishmaelites not Semites. But then CNN always seems to be confused.

Ishmaelites are also Semites. If you follow the Bible, Jews and Arabs are both descendants of Noah's son Shem, which is where the word Semite comes from.