Wolf Blitzer: From AIPAC Lobbyist to CNN's Chief News Anchor

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Why does a former editor at AIPAC have a job as a news anchor at CNN?

What does it mean to "objective" journalism when an individual with a record as a blatantly pro-Israel propagandist is afforded power to mediate information?

Watch this video of Ron Paul on CNN from 5/2/2008.

What are Wolf Blizter's first questions?
1. Why haven't you officially dropped out of this race yet?
2. The other Republican challengers, basically all of them, have endorsed John McCain. You're not ready to do that yet, are you?

Says Ron Pauls book reminds him of the Communist Manifesto, nice one Wolf.

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Question: "Why do the native Palestinians have to suffer and make room for Israel to exist?"
"...To reject Zionism is racist..." -Wolf Blitzer

OFFTOPIC: Towards the end you will see the aftermath of the 2006 Ramallah Gaza beach massacre caused by Israel. 9 civillians killed, including 3 children and the including nearly the entire family of seven-year-old Huda Ghaliya as well as 30 others injured. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed condolences for the deaths, but did not accept responsibility for the casualties. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni agreed and suggested that "There is a situation in which maybe â€¦ this was an explosive that was put on the beach for future attacks on Israel.". The following day the military wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has said it will no longer respect a self-imposed 16 month old truce. Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad told the BBC that Israel's attacks justified the move to end the truce.
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Over the years the Israelis and their American Jewish friends have spent much time and effort building up the Washington Institute as well as positioning their people in key positions, both in and out of government. A few examples: Wolf Blitzer, former editor of the lobby's newsletter, Near East Report, became Washington correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and then, with much help from "the lobby", was promoted to his current still expanding role at CNN.
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Any lingering doubts about the pro-zionist lamestream media?

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Why does a former editor at AIPAC have a job as a news anchor at CNN?
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All I can say is lets be glad that we have the internet. The free flow of information is our last line of defense against the media propaganda.

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Yep he is in that club that ensures the stories are at best believable, but mostly just propaganda

That's the way main stream media is today

Frustrating, annoying and biased

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Wolf has been one of the fairest MSM reporters to Ron Paul throughout the campaign. CNN still sucks balls though.

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Got funny rep off this thread: "I can't believe they still hire Jews to work in the news. That is just crazy."

I don't think it's that they get hired voluntarily, job interview style.. I believe pro-Israel interest groups have a ton of clout when it comes to US Media, and use this clout accordingly, to further their interests. They lobby to get their people in key positions, as Wolf Blizter was.

CNN Caves In To Israel Over Its References To Illegal Settlements

By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent
Independent (UK) 03 September 2001

Just as the BBC last month ordered its reporters to use the phrase "targeted killings'' for Israel's assassination of Palestinians, CNN - under constant attack from right-wing Jewish pro-settler lobby groups - has instructed its journalists to stop referring to Gilo as a "Jewish settlement''. Instead, they must call the settlement, built illegally on occupied Arab land outside Jerusalem, "a Jewish neighbourhood".

Arabs have long protested over CNN's reporting of the Middle East - especially its pejorative use of the word "terrorist'' - but they are likely to be outraged by this latest "softening" of the station's reporting in Israel's favour. Some of the land on which Gilo is built was taken from the Palestinians of Beit Jala - Gilo is Hebrew for Jala - but no hint of this historical background will be permitted on CNN. Israeli soldiers in Gilo have been involved in nightly battles with Palestinian gunmen in Beit Jala.

The instruction from CNN's headquarters in Atlanta is straightforward. "We refer to Gilo as 'a Jewish neighbourhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem, built on land occupied by Israel in 1967','' the order states. "We don't refer to it as a settlement.''

This extraordinary climbdown in favour of the Israelis follows months of internal debate in CNN, which has been constantly criticised by CNN Watch, honestreporting.com and other pro- Israeli pressure groups in the United States which monitor all its reports on the Middle East.

Many journalists at CNN headquarters are angered by the new instruction. "There's a feeling by some people here that what we are doing is searching for euphemisms for what is really happening," one of them told The Independent yesterday. "We've managed to eliminate the word 'terrorism' - we now talk about 'militants' - because we know that the word 'terrorist' is used by one side or another to damage the other side. But now there's pressure on us not to use the word 'settler' in any context - but to just refer to the settlers as 'Israelis'."

In the past, CNN used "terrorist" only about Arabs - the Israeli settler who murdered 29 Palestinians in a Hebron mosque in 1994 was always called an "extremist" on CNN - and at one point described Arab protests at the illegal settlements built by Jews on Palestinian land as "conflicting heritage" claims.

However, by censoring the word "settlement" for Gilo, CNN is perpetrating a lie. Gilo was illegally annexed by Israel after the 1967 war - not just "occupied" as CNN wishes its viewers to believe - and far from being a "neighbourhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem", it was built on land which Israel - again illegally - used to extend the boundaries of Jerusalem.

"There has been an intense internal debate over the use of words," the CNN reporter said. "And sometimes we still do use the word 'settlement' about Gilo. In fact, we don't necessarily say all that stuff about 'occupied by Israel in 1967'. But we're having problems. There are many small pro-settler Jewish groups who're trying to win the war of words."

A CNN spokesman in Atlanta said last night: "We have no response to make to you. We don't want to get into a discussion on this .. In fact we'd rather not say anything about this at all."

* Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in gun battles in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday, creating a violent backdrop for the arrival of the European Union's foreign policy representative, Javier Solana. He was due to help lay the groundwork for a meeting between the Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, and Israel's Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, which might be held in Italy at the end of the week.
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Zionist filth

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Webwork is about to finish the puzzle and it begins to make sense. Once you completely get it, you'll watch the news from a different angle, people will call you "weird" or "extreme" or worse. You will feel isolated with your thoughts and the whole world will tell you 'you got it all wrong'. I mean serious folks nodding their heads, clearly unhappy and even shocked will disapprove your "obnoxious thoughts" while you know they are wrong because you researched the matter.

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Subtle propaganda at its finest.

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