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...Here comes the mother of all dilemmas for the U.S. networks. Qatar's Gulf Times reports that Osama bin Laden has instructed aides to kill him themselves rather than allow his enemies the pleasure, but that he has already recorded a final TV rant to be released after his death. Bin Laden reportedly calls for more attacks on America in his posthumous propaganda pitch, but will U.S. TV networks show...
Witness, for example, MIT economics professor Paul Krugman’s recent rant in The New York Times. Krugman begins with the smug declaration that Bush’s strategy is to treat crises not as “problems to be solved,” but as “opportunities to advance an agenda that [has] nothing to do with the crisis at hand.” He excoriates Republican proposals for economic stimulus as a ploy to “lock in permanent tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, using the Sept. 11 attacks...
...viewers heard a rebuttal from Mr. Ross delivered in fluent Arabic. And with it, the message that Washington plans to challenge Bin Laden in real time for the hearts and minds of the Arab world. The U.S. might have been helped in this respect by bin Laden's bizarre rant against the United Nations. The terrorist leader may have been trying to discredit the international body in anticipation of any progress in international efforts to broker a new Israeli-Palestinian peace breakthrough (which would undermine one of his key propaganda devices). But two days later, his Taliban hosts were...
...able, last weekend, to ambush him on the airwaves. Soon after Qatar's al-Jezeera TV broadcast the latest propaganda tirade from the Saudi terrorist on Saturday, the channel's pan-Arab audience was treated to a surprise live American rebuttal - delivered, like bin Laden's own rant, in fluent Arabic. The U.S. had introduced a new "secret weapon" to the propaganda war: Christopher Ross, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and State Department counter-terrorism coordinator, brought out of mothballs for his considerable experience and powers of persuasion in the Arab world...
...startled by the rhetoric employed by Epps, Jehn and McCarthy in their Op-Ed piece. What started as a principled attack on Hoxby’s resignation turned into ad hominem invective and a meandering rant against conservatives and living wage opponents. The writers passionately defend the PSLM sit-in as “in line with the rich and long tradition of principled, non-violent protest,” despite the fact that Hoxby never publicly said or implied anything to the contrary. They theorize that Hoxby’s resignation was merely a strategem against the living wage...