Muslim Brotherhood tweets video alleging Jews control U.S. media, in apparent dig at Jon Stewart

[King_David]

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party is the most powerful in Egypt and is allied with President Mohamed Morsi, posted a message from its official Twitter feed late Tuesday that linked approvingly to a video that suggests Jews control the U.S. media. The tweet appeared to be a dig at Jon Stewart, the host of the “Daily Show,” who recently aired a searing segment criticizing Morsi for his government’s imprisonment of a popular TV host and political satirist named Bassem Youssef.

The Arabic-language video, a clip from the Islamist-friendly TV network al-Jazeera Arabic, is actually from 2010. It focuses on a spat between Stewart, who is Jewish, and former CNN host Rick Sanchez. Sanchez was fired for alleging that Jews control the media and for criticizing Stewart, calling him “bigoted” and suggesting that, as a Jew, Stewart does not belong to an authentic minority group. The al-Jazeera Arabic segment suggests that American media have a double standard in which Jews are afforded special privileges and their critics silenced. It also backs Sanchez’s insinuation that Jews control the media and suggests that they enforce this double standard.





http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/03/muslim-brotherhood-tweets-video-alleging-jews-control-u-s-media-in-apparent-dig-at-jon-stewart/

[Deep13]

1. Guess the revolution isn't quite done yet.

Egypt is a multi-confessional state. They can't have an Islamic polemicist running it.

[DollarBillHines]

2. It won't be over for the foreseeable future

We manufactured it and we fucked it up.

Review all of the nations involved in the all-glorious 'Arab Spring' and see how it is going.

We were de-stabilizing the whole of North Africa and we fucked it up, totally.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Yes. It was better for the west to either back or tolerate dictators.

They may have been bastards, but at least they were "our" bastards.

[Scootaloo]

8. They take a while

Ours didn't settle out until over a decade after we kicked it off, after all. And then there's the French, and the Russians, neither of whom could settle for just one revolution...

Expecting Egypt to go from military autocracy to libertine western-style democracy in under three years is fantasy, especially when many of the people with such expectations are from a nation that took a a century to figure out slavery was a bad thing... and another hundred to figure out that oppressing the descendants of those slaves was also bad.

[Deep13]

10. And then made the Middle East suspicious of everything...

the American government or companies do by imperialist economic and military policies. I guess it's hard to expect others to learn from our mistakes when we don't.

[King_David]

11. Cut them some slack huh ?

As long as there's no Zionists?

I'm sure any day now the Muslim brotherhood will shed their mysoginist ,antisemitic,homophobic,racist attitude and become a beacon of human rights.

[Scootaloo]

13. I'm pretty sure they won't, actually

But I'm also pretty sure the people of Egypt will get their fill and shed the Muslim Brotherhood eventually.

I'm also pretty sure that no matter what, you're going to hate the people of Egypt, anyway.

[King_David]

14. I most certainly don't hate the people of Egypt

at all..I feel for them and want them to unshackle themselves from their hateful leaders.

Because you have hate for certain ethnic groups ...don't believe any of us on DU have , I keep telling you that this is a Democratic Party supporting liberal site... That's why we post here ... And you?

[Scootaloo]

15. Really? That's nice of you to say.

'Cause I'm talking about Egyptians and how it's silly to expect a revolution to bear fruit in so short a time, and you come off with a snarkassed "just cut them some slack, huh?"

And which ethnic groups do I hate exactly, David? I mean... besides the Dutch. Fuck wooden shoes and their funky language. Monsen de helte keel onder borger skoeder huden... no wonder they're called the low country.

[King_David]

16. Anyone ever tell you your "jokes" are not that funny ?

But what is really funny ... Is you telling other people they are bigoted.

[Scootaloo]

17. Still waiting, buddy.

What ethnic groups do I hate, and how do you reach this conclusion? I'm curious.

[King_David]

19. Buddy ?

When talking about me ,you idiotically stated :

I'm also pretty sure that no matter what, you're going to hate the people of Egypt, anyway.

And your waiting for a "civil" reply from me??????

WTF ?



What a funny joke , ha ha ha

[Scootaloo]

20. I don't expect civility from you, no

I just expect an answer.

I spoke of the people of Egypt and how their revolution isn't going ot be an overnight thing. Your response was a clearly sarcastic "cut them some slack, huh?" and then a nonsense tirade about how the Muslim Brotherhood will become sunshine and daffodils, which you - idiotically - tried to put in my mouth.

It's clear that you do not believe that the people of Egypt deserve any slack at all. Why is that, if it's not hostility towards them?

[King_David]

21. Please don't confuse the Muslim Brotherhood whom i was talking about with the people of Egypt,

They not the same thing and I don't conflate them like you are doing right now.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

12. How long did Moses walk the tribes of Israel in the desert for?

Only to invade the Canaanite lands and destroy the inhabitants there?


On a unrelated note, the more things change...

[King_David]

18. Wow prejudice go back to "Moses "

Who probably was mythological figure .

He does represent Jews tho.

Bizarre post that, or maybe it explains a lot.

[DonCoquixote]

27. ok, I masy be anti zionist

but digging up the bible is low. We need less myth, as that fool god of abraham meme is the source of the problem, on both sides of Jerusalem.

If god is so great, those who worship him do a bad job of showing it.

[zbdent]

4. That's odd ...

I remember the KKK guy on Howard Stern saying the same thing.

I didn't hear him endorsing Democrats ...

[azurnoir]

5. how terrible and Jon Stewart of all people too

I remember a few years back when he came under fire from the other side so to speak for having Mustafa Barghouthi and Anna Baltzer on as guests, but this was way over the top, and from al Jazeera too
did youy know they purchased Current from Al Gore and will be on American cable news channels?

[King_David]

6. You read the article?

Terrible for Jon Dtewart? Huh?

[azurnoir]

7. Did you read my comment?

I thought it not only terrible but that they would choose Jon Stewart off all people not that is terrible only for Stewart, sorry you misunderstood

[sabbat hunter]

22. they have to convince

American cable providers to carry the channel. Many were dropping Current before Gore sold it, due to terrible viewership.

[azurnoir]

23. mine still carries it

but I'm still kind if surprised at MB's choice of example. it would be a progressive/liberal/leftists dream to have Jon Stewart in control of American media

and apparently they've never heard of Ted Turner or Rupert Murdock, they're bigoted fools

[Scootaloo]

9. I long to see Stewart's response.

[delrem]

24. Considering all the things "Jews" are often said to "control"...

which is, like, everything - the destiny of the human race, according to some of the deepest and strangest antisemitic plot lines - if I were a Jew I'd be secretly pleased. These paranoiacs think soincredibly highly of the innate intelligence and power of the Jewish people, that as a people Jews can accomplish such things, and without the majority of the rest of world even having a clue. In a world of 7 billion people and 20 or 30 million Jews. whew!

There's going to be total cognitive dissonance in such a paranoid view, of course - as is seen esp. in such rude antisemitic statements that Jews are the descendants of apes and pigs, etc. But I think that dissonance is just a reaction after the unreal esteem.

I wonder, is there much of a record of antisemitic conspiracy theories originating in the far east, where the Abrahamic religions haven't taken such firm root?

[King_David]

25. I'm a Jew and I take offense

These are not benign "paranoid theories" , they have been shown in history to be deadly to massive amounts of people amongst the Hebrew tribes.

[delrem]

26. I didn't say that you, as a Jew, shouldn't take offense! Quite the contrary.

Racial prejudice is racial prejudice, however it's packaged.

I was just noticing the kind of cognitive dissonance present in the contradictory aspersions.