If you are a casual visitor to the Fox News (FN) channel
while randomly surfing the aether-on-cable as I sometimes do, you will have
noticed that FN suffers from a seemingly incurable disease. You will have
noticed that throughout the day, they do very little on that channel but praise
Israel
and everything Jewish while openly insulting their own president and his
administration. You may wish to call the phenomenon a bad habit, but where the
habit proves to be a full blown disease is when you see everyone unload on what
they call “the mainstream media” for not being like them. This is truly sick.
To be sure that it was not my bad luck which landed me
always on that channel at the very moment that someone was unloading on the
mainstream media, I once spent 3 solid hours between 6 o'clock in the morning
and 9 o'clock watching a female anchor and her two male colleagues unload
non-stop (and I mean absolutely, absolutely non-stop) venom of the most heinous
kind against their own president and his administration as well as the
mainstream media for not being like them. I felt like I was watching 3 sewer
pipes flowing raw sewage for 3 whole hours. The boob tube had transformed from
visual wasteland to sewage pipe pouring into a swamp.
This is a disease that has now metastasized – migrating to
the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the print sister publication of Fox News. The
manifestation of this move is an article that came under the title: “Anti-U.S.
Hostility Ramps Up in Egypt ”
and the subtitle: “Media Outlets Blast American Policies, Further Straining
Ties.” It was written by Maria Abi-Habib and Adam Entous with a contribution
from Jay Solomon and Leila Elmergawi, and was published in the Journal on
August 9, 2013.
As suggested in the subtitle, the article takes on the
Egyptian mainstream media – what the authors call “state and privately owned
media outlets” – attacking them the way that the Fox News anchors of raw sewage
attack America 's
mainstream media. The Journal authors do it to the Egyptian media outlets,
accusing them of being “already no strangers to demonizing the U.S. ” And they
do so even after admitting seeing posters put up by ordinary people in Cairo's
Tahrir Square that reflect the sentiments expressed by the media with regard to
America's constant attempts to meddle in Egyptian affairs.
They know this is the reality, and they know why it is so.
They know because the expert they consulted, Vali Nasr, told them about the
depth of public (that's public not just official) distrust of U.S. policies in Egypt . He went on to say that “America has few
fans in the country.” And he explained: “We're caught in a situation of having
to essentially try to find a balance between our values and our interests.”
What Nasr was not quoted as saying – whether or not he said
it – were the reasons why the people of Egypt ,
along with the rest of the region, distrust America this profoundly. It is that
they have known, loved and respected America till the time when its
foreign policy was snatched by the sort of people who now run the FN-WSJ
complex and the sort of people who appear on it. And even though the American
Constitution assigns foreign policy and the powers thereof to the Executive
Branch, the world has witnessed the Jewish lobby usurp those powers by threats
and blackmail, transferring them to the Legislative Branch where there exist
more lapdogs than civil servants serving the people who elected them. It is a
disgusting bordello that is no less stinking than the raw sewage pouring out
the Fox News channel.
What makes the odor even more unbearable is the filth that
they and their so-called progressive nemeses have joined hands and worked
together for decades to pour into the aether. It is filth and still more filth
by which they explain the reasons why America is resented and
disrespected in a place where it used to be loved and respected. Here is an
example of that filth: “The latest anti-American hysteria is a throwback to Mr.
Mubarak's three decades of rule, when state-owned media fixated on a common
enemy such as Israel or the U.S. in what
critics called a bid to rally the nation and deflect from government
shortcomings.” Nothing here about America 's policies and nothing
about a Congress of prostitutes operating under constant Jewish threats and
blackmail.
This is the sort of filth that the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NPR, Fox News and many others got
away with as they poured filth into the public domain absent outlets such as
this website to push back. But now it is different. Except for moments of
desperation such as this one when Habib and Entous were joined by Solomon and
Elmergawi, and were asked to write the kind of article they ended up writing.
It may be the gift that keeps on giving to people like me who welcome having
something to do responding to those people, but to others, it remains the sewer
that keeps on stinking.
Luckily, however, a comical relief can sometimes come from a
most unexpected direction. This time it came from Senator John McCain who
warned that “some representatives in the Congress want to sever America 's relationship with Egypt .” This is
like telling someone: Stop complaining about what I do or I'll stop pissing on
your carpet. And guess what the answer would be. It would be this: Stop pissing
on my carpet before I castrate you, and make it so that you'll have nothing to
piss with.
Maybe it is time to put this relationship on ice till such
time that America