il ragno
09-25-2007, 01:28 AM
Despite Sulla's best attempt at a dismissal : ".....show's over folks - it's just a tabloid paper! Nothing to see here", Mortimer (US NEWS & WORLD REPORT) Zuckerman's NY DAILY NEWS represents the jewel in his media crown: one of the three highest-circulation daily papers in America, it allows him a platform to further his Zionist agenda, unfettered by the soft shoulders and relative restraint that US NEWS' upscale advertisers have come to expect from it: here, he can agitate for foreign war and domestic miscegenation and - just as important - shout down naysayers as fools and traitors.
I've already posted today's front page - a slope-browed yet worthy successor to the chuckling, punning glee they exhibited for Saddam's execution headline a few months ago - a few times.
http://www.drudgereport.com/dn.jpg
Now let's look inside today's paper. (Excerpts only....please, I just ate dinner.) You can be forgiven for noting that, the day after 9/11, they didn't reach this kind of rhetorical overkill and constant tone of hysteria. But there's something else at work here, a bit of psychological legerdemain worthy of Ed Bernays himself. How best to ensure war with Iran? By assuming the sale: every one of these "news" stories reads as though we're already at war with Iran. Given the number of nimrods out there who still think Saddam did 9/11, you'd be risking your bankroll betting against Zuckerman here. Lincoln's famous quote begins you can fool some of the people all of the time; as far as the Ziocons are concerned, that's where it ends, too. That's all you ever really need.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_monstrous_idiocy.html
Monstrous idiocy
Editorial
The Columbia University dean who is sponsoring today's obscene appearance by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is deeply unworthy of the position he holds. In saying that he would welcome Adolf Hitler to campus, John Coatsworth revealed that he lacks the moral compass, historical perspective and human decency to be the head of the university's School of International and Public Affairs.
Coatsworth's invitation to the Iranian president was a gross abuse of academic freedom that he has been attempting mightily and futilely to defend. But there is no way, at least in civilized society, to defend Coatsworth's expressed openness to granting a forum to a man who was the world's most determined, most efficient mass murderer.
Here is what Coatsworth said in a Saturday interview with Fox News. So shocking were his comments that we quote verbatim to assure the reader that he actually said what he said: "If Hitler were in the United States and wanted a platform from which to speak, he would have plenty of platforms to speak in the United States. If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly run it."
Coatsworth is grievously wrong on so many counts. His belief that Hitler would be invited to speak across the U.S. is an insult to America's character. And his thought of engaging the guiding force of the Third Reich in collegial debate is simply monstrous. In your worst nightmare, you can imagine the topics.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_iranian_madman_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_walks-2.html
Iranian madman Ahmadinejad walks among us
BY PETER KADUSHIN, KERRY BURKE, and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Hatemonger Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed in a hornet's nest of outrage yesterday as Columbia University prepared to welcome him with open arms today and stuck by a dean's outrageous assertion that it would let Adolf Hitler speak, too.
The Holocaust-denying Iranian tyrant jetted into New York as students, faculty and political leaders protested Columbia's decision to roll out the red carpet.
"It's a stain on the university," said sophomore Elizabeth Friess, 20. "You can't have an open debate with someone who wants to wipe out Israel. There is no reasoning with someone like that."
Emotions ran high on the Morningside Heights campus as students blew whistles to drown out a classmate who defended Ahmadinejad's right to speak.
Columbia threw fuel on the fire of protest by refusing to disavow a dean who said the university would have gladly let the architect of the Holocaust speak.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_what_can_we_learn_from_a_monster-5.html
What can we learn from a monster?
Michael Goodwin
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
The Ivy League ain't what it used to be. Then again, maybe it is - some of its leading lights are still willing to play footsie with Hitler and his murderous heirs.
The admission from a Columbia University official that he'd have der Fuhrer himself over for a chat makes mush of the school's high-minded defense of the invitation to Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The shocking comment reveals the dopey thinking behind the invitation to Ahmadinejad in the first place.
Opening the door to every global psychopath is not principle. It is pure provocation. It is not defending freedom of speech. It is embracing moral equivalency, a lazy leftist dogma that says all "ideas" are equally deserving of being taken seriously. That Columbia has fallen into the value-less trap shows that an expensive education doesn't buy common sense.
So you wanna wipe Israel off the map, Mr. Ahmadinejad? Well, come on over and we'll talk about it. Start a nuclear war? Golly gee, pull up a chair and let's explore what you're thinking.
And what exactly would Columbia ask Hitler? Dean John Coatsworth, acting head of the School of International and Public Affairs, told Fox News he'd invite Hitler to campus as long as the man who engineered the Holocaust would "engage in a debate."
Debate? That some people can't distinguish debate from depravity shouldn't be shocking. What is shocking is that they run one of America's most prominent universities. They are the perfect academic examples of Ralph Waldo Emerson's brilliant observation that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Sadly, Columbia has made this mistake before. Its president in 1933, Nicholas Butler, invited Nazi Germany's U.S. ambassador to speak on campus. The outrage was compounded when he threw the Nazi a cocktail party.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_jewish_hero_funded_hall_where_thug_will_-1.html
Jewish hero funded hall where thug will speak
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
WHEN IRANIAN DESPOT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes the stage at Columbia University today, it will be in a building funded by a billionaire Marine hero who gave generously to Jewish causes.
Alfred Lerner Hall, the main student center, was named for the late Jewish philanthropist who donated $25 million to the school.
It is an "obscenity" that the Iranian is speaking there, said Rabbi Gerald Skolnik of Forest Hills Jewish Center in Queens, to which Lerner also gave. "To have a Holocaust-denying, nuclear-aspiring hatemonger speaking in a hall that bears his name in the interest of 'free speech,' it's just the wrong person in the wrong place."
Lerner, who died in 2002 at 69, was born in Brooklyn to Russian immigrants. He was a 1955 Columbia graduate and a Marine pilot. He became chairman of MBNA Corp. and owned the Cleveland Browns football team. Lerner donated a fortune to the Cleveland Clinic and created a fund to help families of first responders killed on 9/11. He also gave generously to the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, which assists aging unsung heroes from World War II who helped save Jews during the Holocaust and educates teachers about the genocide.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_how_we_can_bring_him_down.html
How we can bring him down
U.S. can undercut the tyrant of Tehran by fueling a popular revolt inside Iran
By J. SCOTT CARPENTER
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
This week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again darkens the doorstep of America to address the United Nations. There he is likely to express outrage that New York refused his request to visit Ground Zero.
Like that visit would have been, his speech will be designed to divert attention from what may be the most urgent question facing the international community - whether the apocalyptic leaders of the Islamic republic can be stopped from acquiring the nuclear weapons necessary to implement their pledge to wipe Israel off the map.
So far, the UN has proven to be its usual dysfunctional self. A strategy of compelling Iran to end its nuclear program by imposing broad-based sanctions has proved illusory. The Bush administration has repeatedly stated that no option is off the table - including a military option - but has given those words little content, instead stressing diplomacy as the only way forward. The result is that Ahmadinejad arrives in New York brimming with confidence that the West is busy negotiating with itself while his nuclear program proceeds undeterred.
When he takes the UN rostrum, President Bush must place America firmly on the side of the Iranian people. He need only recall his 2005 State of the Union address and promise actions to match those stirring words: "As the Iranian people struggle for their freedom, America will stand with them." Investing in the Iranian people - now, while there is still time - is the best way to effect peaceful change in Iran without resort to military force.
Carpenter is Keston Family Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Until two weeks ago, he was U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Near East Affairs.
Warmonger much?
How it must've burned Zuckerman to have to squeeze this NEWSWEEK story in there, too - albeit around page 17. But it illuminates a truth you'll never see in anything commisioned for a Morty Zuckerman publication: mainly, that nothing is going to stop Regime Change II from happening. It's only a matter of deliberately over-reacting to the next fabricated crisis as a cover story to justify invading.
Read the item below and then explain to me again how only crazy people could believe 9/11 was anything but what it was: flying Nazi demons in turbans hitting us with everything they had, and aiming for the soft spot right right between our goodness and our freedom. Because things like You Crazy Nazis dream up - inside jobs, false flags, wars fought on false pretexts - well, they just don't happen in real life!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_cheney_eyed_israeli_strike_on_iranian_nu.html
Cheney eyed Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear reactor - mag
BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
Even as Iran's president insists he's not looking for a fight with the United States, a new report claims Vice President Cheney had mulled provoking one with an Israeli missile strike.
Cheney allegedly considered asking Israel to do the dirty work of attacking a central Iranian nuclear facility in hopes of inciting a war, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday.
The revelation of the White House's alleged hawkish behind-the-scenes thinking comes just days after Iran's deputy air force commander warned his country was prepared to retaliate if Israel "makes a silly mistake."
Still, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for the annihilation of Israel, publicly rejects the notion his country is headed for a faceoff with the United States.
"It's wrong to think that Iran and the U.S. are walking toward war. Who says so? Why should we go to war? There is no war in the offing," Ahmadinejad said in an interview aired last night on CBS' "60 Minutes."
When asked if he was hellbent on getting a nuke, Ahmadinejad answered with a "firm no."
"You have to appreciate we don't need a nuclear bomb," said Ahmadinejad, who arrived in New York yesterday to speak at the UN General Assembly. "We don't need that. What need do we have for a bomb?"
U.S. officials have suggested Iran's main goal is to develop killer nukes while hiding behind a bogus claim that its uranium-enrichment program is for civilian energy purposes only.
The White House has also accused Iran of supplying Iraqi militants with training and weapons to fight American troops.
Newsweek reported that Cheney's former Middle East adviser David Wurmser told a small group several months ago that the vice president had brainstormed ways to quash Iran's nuclear hopes by luring it into war.
"Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz - and, perhaps, other sites - in order to provoke Tehran into lashing out," Wurmser, who stepped down from his advisory post last month, reportedly told the group.
Such a strike would give the White House an excuse to launch attacks against military and other nuclear targets in Iran.
Citing two unidentified sources, Newsweek claimed it has corroborated Wurmser's remarks.
Wurmser's wife, Meyrav Wurmser of the neoconservative Hudson Institute think tank, told the magazine its claims were untrue.
A spokeswoman for Cheney, Lea Anne McBride, insisted the vice president "supports the President's policy on Iran," which calls for sanctions to pressure the country into giving up its ambitions for nuclear weapons.
"He makes it very clear that this is a situation that we're trying to handle diplomatically, and he supports the President's policy," McBride told the Daily News.
I've already posted today's front page - a slope-browed yet worthy successor to the chuckling, punning glee they exhibited for Saddam's execution headline a few months ago - a few times.
http://www.drudgereport.com/dn.jpg
Now let's look inside today's paper. (Excerpts only....please, I just ate dinner.) You can be forgiven for noting that, the day after 9/11, they didn't reach this kind of rhetorical overkill and constant tone of hysteria. But there's something else at work here, a bit of psychological legerdemain worthy of Ed Bernays himself. How best to ensure war with Iran? By assuming the sale: every one of these "news" stories reads as though we're already at war with Iran. Given the number of nimrods out there who still think Saddam did 9/11, you'd be risking your bankroll betting against Zuckerman here. Lincoln's famous quote begins you can fool some of the people all of the time; as far as the Ziocons are concerned, that's where it ends, too. That's all you ever really need.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_monstrous_idiocy.html
Monstrous idiocy
Editorial
The Columbia University dean who is sponsoring today's obscene appearance by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is deeply unworthy of the position he holds. In saying that he would welcome Adolf Hitler to campus, John Coatsworth revealed that he lacks the moral compass, historical perspective and human decency to be the head of the university's School of International and Public Affairs.
Coatsworth's invitation to the Iranian president was a gross abuse of academic freedom that he has been attempting mightily and futilely to defend. But there is no way, at least in civilized society, to defend Coatsworth's expressed openness to granting a forum to a man who was the world's most determined, most efficient mass murderer.
Here is what Coatsworth said in a Saturday interview with Fox News. So shocking were his comments that we quote verbatim to assure the reader that he actually said what he said: "If Hitler were in the United States and wanted a platform from which to speak, he would have plenty of platforms to speak in the United States. If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly run it."
Coatsworth is grievously wrong on so many counts. His belief that Hitler would be invited to speak across the U.S. is an insult to America's character. And his thought of engaging the guiding force of the Third Reich in collegial debate is simply monstrous. In your worst nightmare, you can imagine the topics.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_iranian_madman_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_walks-2.html
Iranian madman Ahmadinejad walks among us
BY PETER KADUSHIN, KERRY BURKE, and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Hatemonger Mahmoud Ahmadinejad landed in a hornet's nest of outrage yesterday as Columbia University prepared to welcome him with open arms today and stuck by a dean's outrageous assertion that it would let Adolf Hitler speak, too.
The Holocaust-denying Iranian tyrant jetted into New York as students, faculty and political leaders protested Columbia's decision to roll out the red carpet.
"It's a stain on the university," said sophomore Elizabeth Friess, 20. "You can't have an open debate with someone who wants to wipe out Israel. There is no reasoning with someone like that."
Emotions ran high on the Morningside Heights campus as students blew whistles to drown out a classmate who defended Ahmadinejad's right to speak.
Columbia threw fuel on the fire of protest by refusing to disavow a dean who said the university would have gladly let the architect of the Holocaust speak.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_what_can_we_learn_from_a_monster-5.html
What can we learn from a monster?
Michael Goodwin
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
The Ivy League ain't what it used to be. Then again, maybe it is - some of its leading lights are still willing to play footsie with Hitler and his murderous heirs.
The admission from a Columbia University official that he'd have der Fuhrer himself over for a chat makes mush of the school's high-minded defense of the invitation to Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The shocking comment reveals the dopey thinking behind the invitation to Ahmadinejad in the first place.
Opening the door to every global psychopath is not principle. It is pure provocation. It is not defending freedom of speech. It is embracing moral equivalency, a lazy leftist dogma that says all "ideas" are equally deserving of being taken seriously. That Columbia has fallen into the value-less trap shows that an expensive education doesn't buy common sense.
So you wanna wipe Israel off the map, Mr. Ahmadinejad? Well, come on over and we'll talk about it. Start a nuclear war? Golly gee, pull up a chair and let's explore what you're thinking.
And what exactly would Columbia ask Hitler? Dean John Coatsworth, acting head of the School of International and Public Affairs, told Fox News he'd invite Hitler to campus as long as the man who engineered the Holocaust would "engage in a debate."
Debate? That some people can't distinguish debate from depravity shouldn't be shocking. What is shocking is that they run one of America's most prominent universities. They are the perfect academic examples of Ralph Waldo Emerson's brilliant observation that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Sadly, Columbia has made this mistake before. Its president in 1933, Nicholas Butler, invited Nazi Germany's U.S. ambassador to speak on campus. The outrage was compounded when he threw the Nazi a cocktail party.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_jewish_hero_funded_hall_where_thug_will_-1.html
Jewish hero funded hall where thug will speak
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
WHEN IRANIAN DESPOT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes the stage at Columbia University today, it will be in a building funded by a billionaire Marine hero who gave generously to Jewish causes.
Alfred Lerner Hall, the main student center, was named for the late Jewish philanthropist who donated $25 million to the school.
It is an "obscenity" that the Iranian is speaking there, said Rabbi Gerald Skolnik of Forest Hills Jewish Center in Queens, to which Lerner also gave. "To have a Holocaust-denying, nuclear-aspiring hatemonger speaking in a hall that bears his name in the interest of 'free speech,' it's just the wrong person in the wrong place."
Lerner, who died in 2002 at 69, was born in Brooklyn to Russian immigrants. He was a 1955 Columbia graduate and a Marine pilot. He became chairman of MBNA Corp. and owned the Cleveland Browns football team. Lerner donated a fortune to the Cleveland Clinic and created a fund to help families of first responders killed on 9/11. He also gave generously to the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, which assists aging unsung heroes from World War II who helped save Jews during the Holocaust and educates teachers about the genocide.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_how_we_can_bring_him_down.html
How we can bring him down
U.S. can undercut the tyrant of Tehran by fueling a popular revolt inside Iran
By J. SCOTT CARPENTER
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
This week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad again darkens the doorstep of America to address the United Nations. There he is likely to express outrage that New York refused his request to visit Ground Zero.
Like that visit would have been, his speech will be designed to divert attention from what may be the most urgent question facing the international community - whether the apocalyptic leaders of the Islamic republic can be stopped from acquiring the nuclear weapons necessary to implement their pledge to wipe Israel off the map.
So far, the UN has proven to be its usual dysfunctional self. A strategy of compelling Iran to end its nuclear program by imposing broad-based sanctions has proved illusory. The Bush administration has repeatedly stated that no option is off the table - including a military option - but has given those words little content, instead stressing diplomacy as the only way forward. The result is that Ahmadinejad arrives in New York brimming with confidence that the West is busy negotiating with itself while his nuclear program proceeds undeterred.
When he takes the UN rostrum, President Bush must place America firmly on the side of the Iranian people. He need only recall his 2005 State of the Union address and promise actions to match those stirring words: "As the Iranian people struggle for their freedom, America will stand with them." Investing in the Iranian people - now, while there is still time - is the best way to effect peaceful change in Iran without resort to military force.
Carpenter is Keston Family Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Until two weeks ago, he was U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Near East Affairs.
Warmonger much?
How it must've burned Zuckerman to have to squeeze this NEWSWEEK story in there, too - albeit around page 17. But it illuminates a truth you'll never see in anything commisioned for a Morty Zuckerman publication: mainly, that nothing is going to stop Regime Change II from happening. It's only a matter of deliberately over-reacting to the next fabricated crisis as a cover story to justify invading.
Read the item below and then explain to me again how only crazy people could believe 9/11 was anything but what it was: flying Nazi demons in turbans hitting us with everything they had, and aiming for the soft spot right right between our goodness and our freedom. Because things like You Crazy Nazis dream up - inside jobs, false flags, wars fought on false pretexts - well, they just don't happen in real life!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/24/2007-09-24_cheney_eyed_israeli_strike_on_iranian_nu.html
Cheney eyed Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear reactor - mag
BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, September 24th 2007, 4:00 AM
Even as Iran's president insists he's not looking for a fight with the United States, a new report claims Vice President Cheney had mulled provoking one with an Israeli missile strike.
Cheney allegedly considered asking Israel to do the dirty work of attacking a central Iranian nuclear facility in hopes of inciting a war, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday.
The revelation of the White House's alleged hawkish behind-the-scenes thinking comes just days after Iran's deputy air force commander warned his country was prepared to retaliate if Israel "makes a silly mistake."
Still, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for the annihilation of Israel, publicly rejects the notion his country is headed for a faceoff with the United States.
"It's wrong to think that Iran and the U.S. are walking toward war. Who says so? Why should we go to war? There is no war in the offing," Ahmadinejad said in an interview aired last night on CBS' "60 Minutes."
When asked if he was hellbent on getting a nuke, Ahmadinejad answered with a "firm no."
"You have to appreciate we don't need a nuclear bomb," said Ahmadinejad, who arrived in New York yesterday to speak at the UN General Assembly. "We don't need that. What need do we have for a bomb?"
U.S. officials have suggested Iran's main goal is to develop killer nukes while hiding behind a bogus claim that its uranium-enrichment program is for civilian energy purposes only.
The White House has also accused Iran of supplying Iraqi militants with training and weapons to fight American troops.
Newsweek reported that Cheney's former Middle East adviser David Wurmser told a small group several months ago that the vice president had brainstormed ways to quash Iran's nuclear hopes by luring it into war.
"Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz - and, perhaps, other sites - in order to provoke Tehran into lashing out," Wurmser, who stepped down from his advisory post last month, reportedly told the group.
Such a strike would give the White House an excuse to launch attacks against military and other nuclear targets in Iran.
Citing two unidentified sources, Newsweek claimed it has corroborated Wurmser's remarks.
Wurmser's wife, Meyrav Wurmser of the neoconservative Hudson Institute think tank, told the magazine its claims were untrue.
A spokeswoman for Cheney, Lea Anne McBride, insisted the vice president "supports the President's policy on Iran," which calls for sanctions to pressure the country into giving up its ambitions for nuclear weapons.
"He makes it very clear that this is a situation that we're trying to handle diplomatically, and he supports the President's policy," McBride told the Daily News.