Glenn Beck and CNN exposed

Glenn Beck's "expose" on "shocking" images and "hatefulness" from the Middle East is being touted as news. The banners are all over technorati.com and on mainstream webnews sites. Recall the tremendous hullabaloo over the "doctored" photo from a Reuters reporter during the Israel's assault on Lebanon this summer. The uproar on sites like the insane LGF is peanuts compared to the deep bias and disinformation that is passed off on CNN on a daily basis, from "expert" Wolf Blitzer to born-again-Christian Glenn Beck. Here is what the headliner promises to investigate:

"Radical Islamists are at war with the West. In a one-hour special, Glenn Beck will show you the shocking images -- rarely seen by American viewers -- that help fuel rage against the United States"

I only want to draw attention to just one of the many threads that can be pursued to discredit this flawed reporting. One of the "related" links featured on the CNN spead of the report links to "Middle East Media Research Institute" (memri.org) and sounds innocuous enough. A whois search of the ownership of the memri.org site reveals non other than a Col. Yigal Carmon, an Israeli former military figure who

"served in the IDF/Intelligence Branch from 1968 to 1988. From 1977 to 1982 he was the Acting Head of Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria and the Advisor on Arab Affairs to the Civil Administration. Following Col. Carmon’s retirement from the IDF he was Advisor to Premiers Shamir and Rabin for Countering Terrorism from 1988 to 1993. In 1991 and 1992 he was a senior member of the Israeli Delegation to peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington."

During his time in Military Intelligence, Carmon became a senior officer of its Unit 504, a small secret unit dedicated to "human intelligence" which was particularly active in Lebanon and administers Facility 1391, a prison described as "Israel's Guantanamo". Between 1994-1996, he argued that "public declarations made by Arafat and his associates contradicted the spirit of the Oslo accords and reflected their genuine intentions." [source]

Listing Yigal Carmon as a "related" link on a supposedly balanced site with the weightiness of CNN entirely discredits the purpose of Glenn Beck's report, unless of course the intention of this biased report is to further enflame already high tensions and to sow additional hatred towards Muslims and their respective countries. In the words of a much-despised John Bolton, who regrettably vetoed a credible response to Israel's Gaza atrocities--the Headline News crap by Glenn Beck is thorougly "biased and politically motivated."

Thanks to Terry Scott