Archive for May 4, 2007
“The IU researchers found that O’Reilly called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.” (thanks Riad)
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
So MEMRI sent this dispatch this morning: “Documents Exposed by Egyptian Government Weekly Indicate Ties Between Iraqi PM and Iranian Revolutionary Guards.” 2 hours later it sent this: “REVISED VERSION – PLEASE DISREGARD THE PREVIOUS SPECIAL DISPATCH #1573. Documents Exposed by Egyptian Government Weekly Allege Ties Between Iraqi PM and Iranian Revolutionary Guards.”
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
Ryan Crocker, the United States ambassador to Iraq, confirmed that he met with the Iranian foreign minister and that they exchanged phone numbers and emails. But he stressed that “it was not a date.” But was it “an emotional meeting”, I wonder? (Somebody find me the link NOW).
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
The beauty of Saudi media. So Al-Arabiya was running a silly American documentary about disaster stories. They translated “a date” as “emotional meeting” (liqa’ `atifi). I was amused.
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
I watched that Republican debate yesterday–although American debates are never debates per se like in French politics (a debate like we last saw in Paris could not take place here). Politics is too scripted in the US to make room for debates. But you watch the Republican contenders and you feel that some of them [...]
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
“The top American commander in Afghanistan said Thursday he was investigating claims that dozens of civilians were killed and wounded recently by American airstrikes in the Western province of Herat. The commander, Gen. Dan K. McNeill, told reporters that he was still reviewing the incident, which he said began when a joint American and Afghan [...]
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
Socialist-for-Dahlan-gangs. Segolene Royal is supposed to be a good alternative to the foreign policy of Sarkozy. Yet, in her references to the Palestinians, she keeps referring to “Palestinian moderates.” So she is actually talking about Dahlan gangs. Imagine: these are the Palestinian “moderates” that Western governments find to be exemplary.
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
““We don’t see anything happening in Iraq in implementation,†Prince Saud said in the interview. “Our American friends say there is improvement: improvement in violence, improvement in the level of understanding, improvement in disarming militias. But we don’t see it.—
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
Madraaaassaaaaaaaa in Brooklyn? “In The New York Sun, a column by Daniel Pipes, the director of the Middle East Forum, a conservative research center that says its goal is to promote American interests in the region, declared that “A Madrassa Grows in Brooklyn,†contending that the school would generate problems and promote an “Islamic outlook.—
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
“In the fall, before their vote on tenure for Finkelstein, members of the DePaul political science department received an unsolicited packet from Dershowitz containing his “dossier of Norman Finkelstein’s most egregious academic sins, and especially his outright lies, misquotations, and distortions.” This kind of intervention in a tenure case is virtually unprecedented. It’s one thing [...]
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
“The American Jewish Committee was slated to present Uribe with a “Light Unto the Nations Award†on Thursday night at its annual meeting in Washington. A statement released by the AJCommittee in advance of the dinner said the honor reflected the Colombian leader’s “relentless pursuit of peace, security and prosperity.†The fete shone as a [...]
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad
“But some of Berkshire’s wealth comes from PetroChina, whose parent company supplies a large part of the money that underwrites Sudan’s military — as well as the janjaweed, according to the United States and the United Nations. The infusion of Berkshire stock places the Gates Foundation in conflict with its own efforts to help victims [...]
Posted on May 4, 2007 by As'ad