I was interviewed briefly as part of Shedrine Tadros's excellent piece for Al-Jazeera English on how blogs and the web are impacting the 2008 campaign:
And, yes, this does mean I'm a terrorist.
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24 Jul 2008 05:22 pm
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I remember when the war first kicked off, how al-Jazeera was demonized as a terrorist megaphone. I wonder how much of that is true.
And, yes, this does mean I'm a terrorist.
After all, you just used "impact" as a verb.
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So your name was spelled "Igylesis" on the segment, which may be the Arabic spelling, although I'd expect an "al-" in there somewhere.
Igylesis?
Looks like al-Jazeera is using your spellchecker.
"And, yes, this does mean I'm a terrorist."
Oooooh, you know that's going to get quoted in the right-wingnutosphere someplace.
So MY, did they also invite you to the birthday party they threw, on air, for Samir Al-Quntar? You know, the guy that shot an Israeli in front of a four year old girl and then bashed her head in with a rifle butt? The same guy that is being treated as a hero by much of the Arab world? Al Jazeera is a mouthpiece for terrorists and has no business being on Western cable. Pathetic.
Sen. Obama mentioned bloggers in a postive context in his speech today in Germany, suggesting Iranian bloggers were a kind of modern dissident producing virtual Samizdat (that was the implied context). It may be the first mention of bloggers in a historic speech ever.
has no business being on Western cable.
This is by far the funniest phrase I've read all week.
Scythia - you need to read more.
you need to read more.
You're probably right. Time to turn off the computer.
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They dare profane the honored redoubt of QVC and Oxygen and Spike!
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Matt wrote:
And, yes, this does mean I'm a terrorist.
That is so insensitive to all the victims of terrorism out there. And you probably think that Obama's speech had nothing to do with Hitler (Didn't you read this Telegraph article, titled "Germany seduced by 'Messiah' Barack Obama"?)
Now I know that liberals should never have anything to do with responding to or protecting against terrorism. / wingnutty ranting
If Matt's a Cheetos-eating, Wendy's visiting "terrorist", then I'm a supervillain on a par with the Joker.
"I'm a supervillain on a par with the Joker."
Blasphemy.
Stupid is as Stupid does......
You know, the guy that shot an Israeli in front of a four year old girl and then bashed her head in with a rifle butt?
Because seriously, danceswithgoats is a humanitarian who deeply cares about the sanctity of human life.
The text appears to no longer be available on the Daily Telegraph web site. This sounds like an article that was published early this afternoon by somebody named Andy Martin on the Israelinsider which was removed several hours later. I suspect that it has been removed from both web sites because they discovered that Andy Martin is a first class whackjob. In the article, Mr. Martin makes the claim that Senator Obama is the 21st centurys' Hitler who has received a royal welcome in Berlin, just as Hitler did when he acceded to power in 1933. In the unlikely event that anybody is interested, the article is still available in Google cache.
This has to be the most insane article I have ever read, but apparently it is a typical screed by Mr. Martin who belongs in the loony bin. He makes even Richard Steven Hack look sane
Heck, you'd think that IsraelInsider had a habit of publishing crazy people, and that no-one should take it seriously.
Re SchLoCkbuster
Apparently, the folks at Israelinsider as well as the Daily Telegraph thought that Mr. Martin was far over the line of insanity.
However, if one goes to Mr. Martins' web sit one will find that he hates Israel even more then Mr. Hack, Mr. Trevor, Mr. Williams, Mr. Marshall, Mr. El Cid, etc. do.
Re Ed Marshall
I'm sure that Mr. Samir Al-Qunta is one of Mr. Marshalls' heros.
No, but the narrative is more complicated than the one I've heard.
He was 16 and the Nasser Operation was one of a bunch at the time where the aim was to take hostages in a context where Israel had occupied South Lebanon and was locking away Lebanese more or less to bargain with in the same way.
I think the idea that he meant to kill that girl is patently stupid. He may well have butt-stroked her in an attempt to keep her from calling out to the cops and killed her inadvertantly but if his aim was just to carry out a big murder he could have just hosed the place down with bullets.
It's also absolutely possible that the cops screwed the whole thing up and killed everyone in there exactly the way he tells the story.
Either way, it was in the context of the first invasion of Lebanon and if no one swung for Sabra and Chatila what a 16 year old kid did thirty years ago is pretty weak tea to get excited about.
Shedrine Tadros - seriously hot. Reason enough to watch al-Jazeera.
For SLC - listing the war crimes and brutality of the Israelis against the Palestinians and the Lebanese would take far too long, but in comparison to this one dude you're bitching about, it's no comparison.
I of course am on record that it would be better to be bashing the heads in of the Zionist freaks who are running Israel - and the ones in this country supporting them - rather than attacking Israeli civilians.
In any event, the Wikipedia description of the incident is rife with "he said, they said" conflicts. I can well believe Kuntar or someone on his team killed the hostages when it was apparent he couldn't kidnap them. But I wonder how many "eye witnesses" were standing around while there was a gun battle going on between his team and the cops. Something doesn't add up.
BTW, that's SHERINE Tadros, not "Shedrine". I checked on Google.
Hey JoeJoeJoe, Iranian bloggers are a modern force for dissidence, and they take way more risks with their lives than most American bloggers, especially reich wing bloggers.
BTW, that's SHERINE Tadros, not "Shedrine". I checked on Google.
Spell it anyway you want. There is no accepted way to translate Arabic characters to Roman characters and if anyone tells you there is go out of your way to find alternate ways to phonetically spell what you want to say and one of the fifty or so attempts at standardizing a way will probably back you up.
Not to interrupt the Israel discussion or anything,but what is up with the homage to Freddy Krueger shirt, Matt? Did they surprise you with hidden cameras or something?
Uh, Ed, I was going by the al-Jazeera video itself as well as Google. And Sherine doesn't seem all that Arabic to begin with.
I tend to believe things should be spelled the way the people who named them spell them. Same with pronunciation. I argued in high school with my English teacher that "Rio Grande" should be pronounced "Ree-oh Graan-day", the way the Spanish teacher was teaching me Spanish to pronounce it, not "Ree-Oh Grand".
Of course, if the alphabet they use isn't the English alphabet, all bets are off (pardon the pun.) But it still works for pronunciation.
"And, yes, this does mean I'm a terrorist."
The very fact that you have to say this, even sarcastically shows the level of "freedom" you have in America.
A paranoid failed police state. Enjoy!
Persian - I'm familiar with the risks that Iranian bloggers take (and other bloggers in repressive regimes). I just thought it was cool that Obama recognized the kind of internet writers known as "bloggers" in a speech that will probably be heard (at least in excerpts) by over a billion people. So much of the press that bloggers get condenses down to "bloggers are weird" that it's nice to hear bloggers in Iran getting some credit.
Tadros is an Egyptian name and the Cairene Arabic is slightly unique in using a "d" sound. I'm just making a guess but I bet your former usage sounds more like home her name sounds at home and the latter is a bastardizion from Modern Standard Arabic to English.
Oh I see, cool. I'm glad Obama said it.
Nice work. But if I may be completely shallow...
Matt, you need your beard back. And get rid of that striped shirt. Actually, no. Keep the shirt. Just don't wear it on TV again.
"Attackerman" on the other hand, should go see a barber. What is he, the punk rock Hasidim?
It doesn't mean you are a terrorist, MY, but it does mean you are contributing to an organization that, as mentioned in previous comments, is classy enough to throw this creepy birthday party:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1818.htm
It doesn't mean you are a terrorist, MY, but it does mean you are contributing to an organization that, as mentioned in previous comments, is classy enough to throw this creepy birthday party:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1818.htm
Bottom line: Matt misspelled her name.
If you do a Google on "Shedrine Tadros" you get three hits - one is Ackerman, and the other two are references to Yglesias on this very video.
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