John Pilger, "one of the worst journalists writing in the English language," smears Obama

[uhnope]

Here's a video where this fake journalist tries to connect Obama to evil CIA activities, and says Obama is "fake" (1:00). You can see the Pilger BS that has caused his name to become a verb--to "pilgerize" is " to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion."

Any surprise that Pilger also hearts Putin and has been caught lying while smearing the Ukrainian government?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Criticism

English writer Auberon Waugh...in response to an article Pilger had written alleging Thai complicity in child trafficking (whose research was challenged), coined the verb "to pilger", defined as: to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion." The word was included in the Oxford Dictionary of New Words in 1991, but removed from the subsequent edition after Pilger complained.

William Shawcross has described him as "one of the worst journalists writing in the English language".[93]

The Economist '​s Lexington columnist commented on Pilger's account of the Arab uprising:

Next up is the egregious John Pilger, who thinks the Arab revolts show that the West in general and the United States in particular are "fascist." ... Maybe he hasn't noticed, but what most of the Arab protesters say they want are the very freedoms that they know full well, even if Pilger doesn't, to be available in the West. No doubt he believes they are labouring under some massive mind-control delusion engineered by the CIA.[94]

The New York magazine columnist Jonathan Chait responded to Pilger's 13 May 2014 column in The Guardian about Ukraine.[95] In the view of Chait, Pilger "defend[s] Vladimir Putin on the grounds that he stands opposed to the United States, which is the font of all evil" as a comical "attempt to cast land-grabbing, ultranationalist dictator Vladimir Putin as an enemy of fascism." [96] Pilger's column also contained a bogus quote from a non-existent Jewish Doctor which misleadingly gives the impression that the demonstrators expressed pro Nazi and antisemitic views while preventing the victims of the Odessa tragedy of 2 May from being rescued.

[rog]

1. May I just ask a quick question, please?

My question is this: How many times do you intend to post this same video? You had a post with this exact same title and content on Dec. 23.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/1017234336

Just curious ... thank you for your time.

.rog.

[uhnope]

8. thank you for your polite inquiry

I will post this every time someone else posts a video featuring Pilger. As planned, my video post ended up right next to this one http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017239070

[enough]

2. A smear repeated, no matter how often, remains a smear. (nt)

[Ford_Prefect]

4. This video was uploaded to YouTube in April 2011. Why do you re-post it here today?

[uhnope]

9. see post #8 nt

[jakeXT]

5. You don't like the CIA? Poppy Bush was proud of it.

Oddly, Obama doesn't mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Times story of October 30, 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation. Equally odd is that the Times did not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960.10

The British journal, Lobster — which, despite its incongruous name, is a venerable international publication on intelligence matters — has reported that Business International was active in the 1980s promoting the candidacy of Washington-favored candidates in Australia and Fiji.11 In 1987, the CIA overthrew the Fiji government after but one month in office because of its policy of maintaining the island as a nuclear-free zone, meaning that American nuclear-powered or nuclear-weapons-carrying ships could not make port calls.12 After the Fiji coup, the candidate supported by Business International, who was much more amenable to Washington's nuclear desires, was reinstated to power — R.S.K. Mara was Prime Minister or President of Fiji from 1970 to 2000, except for the one-month break in 1987.

In his book, not only doesn't Obama mention his employer's name; he fails to say exactly when he worked there, or why he left the job. There may well be no significance to these omissions, but inasmuch as Business International has a long association with the world of intelligence, covert actions, and attempts to penetrate the radical left — including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)13 — it's reasonable to wonder if the inscrutable Mr. Obama is concealing something about his own association with this world.

- See more at: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2012/07/05/barack-obama-his-mother-and-the-cia/

[nxylas]

6. Interesting that most of the sources named in your OP are right-wing

Auberon Waugh, William Shawcross, The Economist...only Jonathan Chait could be described as being on the left, albeit not very far to the left.

[Johnny Rash]

7. At the very least, this post provides "Food For Thought"!

Granted, this Post isn't for everybody!: The viewer is required to have an "Open Mind".

[Blue_Tires]

10. kick