A funny thing happened to the New York Times on the way to
journalistic respectability; it called on Ursula Lindsey to bail it out, having
fallen into the pit of ugly blabbermouth. It happened only 4 days ago that the
NY Times published an article written by its own Bill Keller under the title:
“Adrift on the Nile” in which the author used all his skills, revived the old
stereotypes and repeated the now dead and buried talking points to once again
call on America and its allies to punish Egypt the way they did in the decades of the 1950s and 60s for refusing to hand itself over to the powers which then ruled
the world, but now have the ability to only tell pathetic publications like the
NY Times what points of view to advance and what to suppress.
A response to that article and to another one published a
day earlier in Forbes Magazine under the title: “Egypt crisis Extends to the
Indo-Pacific” came on this website under the title “The two Ugly Faces of
Ugliness.” The Forbes article is an open and public incitement to all
terrorists in the region to commit acts of terror and sabotage against Egypt and other
chokepoints. The authors of the article tell the would-be terrorists how to do
things to effectuate the most damage to installations, thus be most effective
at crippling them.
Stung by the fact that it found itself in company with the
Forbes Magazine inciters to terror, the New York Times called on Ursula Lindsey
to do something that will have the effect of blaming the victim for something
that did not happen, thus exonerate the NY Times for something that did
happened. Lindsey obliged and wrote: “The Tall Tales of Cairo” which the Times
published on August 29, 2013.
Poor Ursula must have raked her brains to find something to
write about because on this late date in August, she could only find something
that goes back to “Earlier this month, Egypt 's State Information
Service...” This done, she tells us what she is writing about: “It was galling
to be lectured about journalistic standards by the authorities of a country
whose own media have been peddling so much vitriol and fantasy recently … This
isn't journalism; it's disinformation.”
She tells of a front-page story that came in a local
newspaper describing an agreement that was struck between an Egyptian and an
American to divide Egypt .
This would be facilitated apparently by 300 armed fighters entering the country
from Gaza . She
acknowledges that “conspiracy theories proliferate around the world” and goes
on to explain that people are “feeling especially vulnerable these days, living
in a region torn apart by civil strife and threatened with outside military
intervention.”
Get you, Ursula; but who do you blame for all that? And she
responds: “Conspiracies have a particular hold in places like Egypt , where people are very
politicized and believe that there is more to every development than meets the
eye.” Shocking isn't it? Only in Egypt , Eh!
Oh no, not only in Egypt , she now tells us. “Private
TV Channels and newspapers are cheerleading the country's war on terrorism with
a vehemence described as post-9/11 U.S. news channels on steroids.”
She further informs us that: “one American channel has become popular here. TV
satellite channels have been showing segments from Fox News.” And she gives an
example: “A prominent Egyptian newspaper interviewed a Republican and quoted
him as saying that the Brotherhood climbed to power, backed by the Obama
administration.” By the way, that was an American Republican not an Egyptian
republican.
So then what's this whole thing about, Ursula Lindsey? And
she responds: “Their goal isn't so much to make people believe these conspiracy
theories as to [sow] confusion in order to avoid accountability.”
Accountability? Accountability about what, Lindsey? Or to you, editors of the
New York Times. About what, you ask? Ah
well … aren't you aware of the old saying: Ask me no questions and I'll tell
you no lies?
Try something more intelligent New York Times, or make a
strategic decision to stop blabbermouthing the kind of nonsense that can only
please your Jewish masters.