Shrillary Clinton: Al Jazeera Real News Unlike U.S. News
Al Jazeera better than some ::cough cough:: Fox ::cough cough:: American news
WHAT?!?
Okay, how on earth is Al Jazeera “real news” as opposed to what we have here in America? And why are all the Libtards saying that we need to tune in?
Is it REALLY because she thinks that the bad image America has overseas is due to Baywatch and WWE? Do you think she may have some examples and motives she isn’t mentioning by name?
Well, on the second part of that thought, she *is* a tad hypocritical, as in April of 2008, she, John McCain, and Pres. Barack Obama were on WWE Monday Night Raw advertising and promoting themselves. How can Hillary then turn around and say that wrestling is a bad image for America and it’s citizens? It makes the mind wonder!
“In fact viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United states because it’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff we do on our news, which is not real informative.” – Hillary Clinton.
First of all, Hill, you have appeared on many of these newscasts with the “argumentative talking heads” that you so despise. Second, you make it seem that a station outside of America is so much better than our own. Do you propose a way to remedy this ill?
For those who didn’t know:
Al Jazeera is a radio/television station in Doha, Qatar, which is located in the Middle East, that broadcasts few of our shows (some which aren’t being made anymore) and some of our news. How it’s real news when they don’t have an insider’s look is beyond me. The Al Jazeera channel was started in ’96 by an emiri decree with a load of the equivalent of $137 million dollars (sheesh) from the Emir Of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa.
The channel’s tremendous popularity has also, for better or worse, made it a shaper of public opinion. Its coverage often determines what becomes a story and what does not, as well as how Arab viewers think about issues. Whether in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, or Syria, the stories highlighted and the criticisms aired by guests on Al Jazeera’s news programs have often significantly affected the course of events in the region.
In Palestine, the station’s influence is particularly strong. Recent polling indicates that in the West Bank and Gaza, Al Jazeera is the primary news source for an astounding 53.4 percent of Palestinian viewers. The second and third most watched channels, Palestine TV and Al Arabiya, poll a distant 12.8 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
The result of Al Jazeera’s market dominance is that it has itself become a mover and shaker in Palestinian politics, helping to craft public perceptions and influence the debate. This has obvious implications for the peace process: how Al Jazeera covers the deliberations and the outcome of any negotiated agreement with Israel will fundamentally shape how it is viewed—and, more importantly, whether it is accepted—by the Palestinian public.
One reason, of course, for its dominance is its availability on satellite in the region that has, up until recently, been dominated by mainly state run television stations, giving the people of the region a new choice. Still, this has not kept the Al Jazeera network solvent, having to receive yearly loans from the state government. They have managed a low 40% income from advertising.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
The television station is only available in English in three cities across the United States, Toledo, Ohio; Burlington, Vermont, and Washington, DC, which many experts and analysts consider to effectively be a blackout. Oh, and it’s only available by satelite. Convenient, no?
Now, the silliest statement that Hillary has made yet:
“Our private media, particularly cultural programming often works at counter purposes to what we truly are as Americans. I remember having an Afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about Americans is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis because the only TV he ever saw was Baywatch and World Wide Wrestling.” – Sec. Hillary Clinton ( http://www.theblaze.com/stories/beck-calls-sec-clintons-promoting-al-jazeera-insanity/ )
What makes this statement so utterly moronic is that it’s obvious that they have had no idea what it’s like in America, and they choose only to judge us on the most (in my opinion) mind-numbing “entertainment” our country has to offer, aside from strip-clubs and cow tipping.
Another question to be asked of Hilly – why is it you and the folks on the left didn’t appreciate the “unpatriotic” monikers put on you by people of the right as defining you as UnAmerican, yet you can say the same thing – “counter purposes to what we truly are as Americans”? Why, Hillary, that’s more blatant hypocrisy and smacks of speech control, now doesn’t it?
Al Jazeera has only a one-sided opinion on what goes on in America, while we have views from all sides. If they choose to make an incorrect assumption on us, let them. We have our news, which, contrary to leftist opinion, is very informative and correct on a lot of issues, depending on what channel you are watching.
The only way to learn more about what’s going on is to delve in and actually research it, people! If you disagree, fine – find out about it and prove it to your satisfaction one way or another. Don’t let a biased radio/television set your views about your own country!
Have a blessed day!
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