From Al Gore to Al Jazeera

Of all the Arabic television channels that I watch from time to time, nothing has jolted me more than the Al Jazeera anchor who, while speaking Arabic, pronounced the name of El-Baradei (the Egyptian who used to head the UN nuclear watchdog) the English way. When so pronounced during an Arabic conversation, the name – as common as it is in the Arab world – sounds so jarring, I immediately concluded this anchor had never heard or read the name in Arabic. This meant that the news which he and Al Jazeera have been reporting was gathered from foreign sources even when they pertained to Arab affairs. What a let down that was.

Moreover, I visit the Al Jazeera English website from time to time. I find the texts and the video clips to be closer in resemblance to the American websites of the mainstream media than the Arabic websites. In addition, when the English Channel, Al Jazeera America (AJAM) was launched, the website ceased to look like an American mainstream and started to look more like a Jewish extremist website. And you can tell from this that I have no affection for that television channel. So why am I writing about it?

To be accurate, I am not writing about it; I am writing about someone who wrote about it. That someone is Clifford D. May who wrote: “Al Jazeera Comes to America,” a column that also has the subtitle: “A foreign dictator's media operation, right in your living room.” It was published on August 29, 2013 in National Review Online. The subtitle heightened my curiosity and prompted me to read the article because I remembered seeing May as he participated in discussions on Al Jazeera. I wondered if he was mad at them because they did not pay him enough or something. Or maybe they did not pay him at all. I was curious.

Needless to say that reading the article, I was disappointed to find that Clifford May was not reporting on a personal dispute he was having with the cable company. Instead, he had assumed the traditional role of the Jewish totalitarian that is wearing the uniform of defender of democracies. In case you don't know, this is a variation on the wolf in sheep's clothing. But you ask: What's his beef? Here it is: “I'm suggesting Al Jazeera America will have a mission, drive specific messages and observe certain prohibitions.” Whoa! Did you get this? May is upset because Al Jazeera will have a point of view. Can you believe it? A cable channel that has a point of view rather than be neutral like Fox News or MSNBC. Scandalous. What has the world come to?

But where is the scandal here? Is it that a cable channel was predicted to develop a point of view, or is it that the president of a foundation masquerading as being for the “Defense of Democracies” was caught mouthing off sentiments like those of a Nazi chief of thought control? Well, the author tells you why he is having these sentiments. It is that the owners of the cable company are “dictators who happen to fund Hamas and the Muslim brotherhood.” There is also the fact that Walter Russell Mead said Al Jazeera is Qatar's press poodle. If this were not enough, there is Shibley Telhami who said Al Jazeera gave voice to Osama Bin Laden. Want more? Here is more: Fouad Ajami wrote that the network “is not subtle television.” This is enough to get you to swear in Italian: Mamma mia. What? Are these swearing words?

This said, the author of the column tells of the people that the Arabic Al Jazeera has featured over the years. There is Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi who praised Imad Mughniyah, but the author does not say that the praising happened on air on Al Jazeera. Nevertheless, he says that Qaradawi favors the “spread of Islam until it conquers the entire world.” Hey, my friend, this sounds like that thing calling itself Christian broadcasting something. And there is that other one: Jews for Christ or some such name. Does it mean Clifford May will soon be going after these stations as well?

Till this happens, you ask: What to do? To answer the question, he gives this example: “Last month, 22 Al Jazeera staffers in Egypt resigned over their employers' 'biased' coverage.'” And this is what causes May to try and nudge the Canadian and American staffers who just joined Al Jazeera: “Soledad (O'Brien,) Joie (Chen,) Sheila (MacVicar,) John (Seigenthaler,) David (Shuster,) Ali (Velshi): I'm sure you've heard the persistent rumors that Qatar is financing al-Qaeda groups in Syria. What would your employers say if you proposed to investigate?” Rather than wait to see what will transpire, and how the new hires will respond, he mentions Christopher Harper who found the Al Jazeera coverage to have “an anti-American undercurrent.” And he gives two unconvincing examples to illustrate this point.

All of that being so very thin, you wonder why he bothered to start writing the article in the first place. And you discover why, when he at last begins to show his true colors: “Al Jazeera America's first guest was Stephen Walt, the Harvard Professor who, in the words of Jeffrey Goldberg, 'makes his living scapegoating Jews.'” Oh yes, that's what it's all about. It's about a cable channel that he does not see ever becoming Jewish enough even though it is showing tendencies of being as extremely Jewish as extreme can be.

But how to make sure that AJAM will not, in time, start to look like the parent company? You want to know how? I'll tell you how. It is that the Jews have the lethal weapon which helps them achieve their goals. They have a dagger they will plant deep into the heart of the American democracy – which is what they normally do when they want something that is not theirs. They know how to use the Congress whose powers they will employ to rape the process of making laws, and pass the bills that will place Jewish interests above American interests. And they will get what they want as they always do – courtesy of the Congress of imbeciles.

Look how it all begins with the use of an apparently innocent interjection placed between parentheses: “Al Jazeera was available in 48 million households. We customers don't get to decide which network we receive (a situation I wish Congress would address.)” Give it time, my dear reader, and you'll see this thing mushroom to become the laws that will trigger the class action lawsuits that will force Al Jazeera to pay billions of dollars or flee an America that is ruled by the moral clarity of Jewish ambiguity. Don't ask me what that is; I haven't a clue.

Finally, Al Gore who made this whole thing possible by selling his cable company to Al Jazeera for hundreds of millions of dollars may be offered his old company back free of charge.