Bill Maher is never wrong

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So I know he won’t apologize for this Sometimes Bill Maher says some smart, insightful things, but he’s frequently dead wrong on politics. He loves to pontificate, but he won’t work hard enough to get it right. (In other words, he’s no John Oliver.)

He’s a guy who ridicules religious extremism but sounds like the most extreme neocon nutjobs when it comes to Israel, because 9/11, etc. and all Muslims are evil and violent.

Plus, he’s just gotta be an asshole. He can’t help it. He thinks it makes him “edgy”, I guess. So he says crap like this:

The backlash was immediate:


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Image vs reality

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So the Israelis just bombed a rehab hospital into rubble:

Only after the facility was under heavy fire and in the process of being abandoned did Alashi receive a phone call from the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) relaying a message from the Israeli army. A women who identified herself as a delegate of the ICRC said, “the Israelis asked ‘how much time do you need to evacuate,’” said Alashi, answering “two hours.” However, within an hour when the woman called back and said the Israeli army “will halt the bombings, and not bomb the hospital any more,” the facility was already in rubble. Alashi responded, “Are you joking, are you making a mockery of me? I told her it’s too late they have already destroyed it.”

Your librul media covers Gaza

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Just yesterday, I was reading and watching this guy’s heartbreaking coverage of the Israeli missile attack on a Gaza beach that killed four little kids playing soccer, and thought, “Now, there’s a real reporter.” Because I’ve had to cover tragedies, and let me tell you, it’s not easy. Ayman Mohyeldin did a remarkable job under difficult circumstances. Today, Glenn Greenwald reports he’s been pulled by NBC. I could pretend to wonder why, but I don’t. Because as always, our media moguls decide what we’re allowed to see:

Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately.

According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another correspondent, Richard Engel, along with an American producer who has never been to Gaza and speaks no Arabic, into Gaza to cover the ongoing Israeli assault (both Mohyeldin and Engel speak Arabic).

Mohyeldin is an Egyptian-American with extensive experience reporting on that region. He has covered dozens of major Middle East events in the last decade for CNN, NBC and Al Jazeera English, where his reporting on the 2008 Israeli assault on Gaza made him a star of the network. NBC aggressively pursued him to leave Al Jazeera, paying him far more than the standard salary for its on-air correspondents.
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Malaysia jet reported shot down over Ukraine

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We have no way of knowing right now what actually happened, but even rumors are enough to make the situation in the Ukraine that much more volatile:

(Reuters) – A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official said.

Raising the stakes in the East-West showdown between Kiev and Moscow, the official blamed “terrorists” using a ground-to-air missile and Ukraine’s prime minister called the downing of the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur a “catastrophe”.

A Reuters correspondent saw burning wreckage and bodies on the ground at the village of Grabovo, about 40 km (25 miles) from the Russian border in an area where pro-Russian rebels have been active and have claimed to have shot down other aircraft.

The Boeing 777 came down near the city of Donetsk, stronghold of pro-Russian rebels, interior ministry official Anton Gerashchenko said on Facebook, adding it was “shot down with a Buk anti-aircraft system by terrorists” – the term the Kiev government uses for militants seeking to unite eastern Ukraine with Russia. The dead were 280 passengers and 15 crew.

Judge rules against CA death penalty

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Another state done with it:

California’s system for imposing and carrying out the death penalty is so long and drawn-out that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

Ruling in the case of Ernest Dewayne Jones, who was condemned to death in 1995 and has yet to be executed, Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said that to take “nearly a generation” to decide on Jones’ appeals is unconstitutional.