Comments on: CNN’s Shocking Suck-Up to Iran’s Fascists

By: JJKnight

JJKnight — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:31:09 +0000

F.Zakaria? & credibility?
Please read this article Newsweek to understand his expertise.http://www.newsweek.com/id/199147
Part of the article.
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex).

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:21:34 +0000

Zakaria has been an apologist for Islamic terrorism and thuggery since the day he picked up a pen.

By: Despite Murder and Brutality, They Still March in Iran : The Sundries Shack

Despite Murder and Brutality, They Still March in Iran : The Sundries Shack — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:43:33 +0000

[...] the other hand, he is getting cover from the other side and a little bit from CNN, so perhaps he’ll be able to step over the broken Iranian bodies without any real [...]

By: John

John — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:05:34 +0000

Go all the way back to 1986 — the year after Jesse Helms was calling for Ted Turner to buy CBS and fire Dan Rather — when Turner stunned everyone by getting CNN to be the first news organization to have a regular bureau in Cuba. The quid pro quo was CNN treated the Castro regime with kid gloves, in order to retain their favored access.

That’s what’s going on in Iran, and what has gone on with CNN for the past 23 years. Given the choice, they prefer to have access to the inside of countries running despotic regimes to actually reporting the truth on those regimes, because to do so would cost them that access. And if you scratched the surface of a CNN executive, like Eason Jordan, they’d throw out some moral equivalency BS in order to justify in their minds why its OK to uncritcally report on the Iranian regime, as they did with Saddam, as they have done with Casto, as they would do with Kim Jong Il, if he wasn’t so paranoid and would just let them into North Korea to prove themselves.

By: ic

ic — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:44:33 +0000

Why shocking? They did the same for Saddam. Kissing up to dictators is the only thing they know how to do.

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:04:01 +0000

he’s a smoothie and he is not what everyone thinks he is, I’ll leave it at that, if he ever came out as who he really is and not the Chicago manufacture, he would break even more taboos and be the AfAM Jefferson, but for it to happen, he has gonna have to be pushed by events until he ceases to be “fly” and the world becomes his fly

By: Fen

Fen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:15:03 +0000

And if you think CNN’s bad, you should see CNN International.

By: Dean Kennedy

Dean Kennedy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:13:49 +0000

“Journalistic hall of shame”; they have been there for awhile.

By: Karllafong

Karllafong — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:55:46 +0000

CNN is going to bring Peter Arnett out of retirement for a special assignment to Iran to reveal how the protesters destroyed a milk factory.

By: D

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:50:50 +0000

Hobbesian state of anarchy… sort of an oxymoron isn’t it?

Hobbs did after all believe in absolute government.