And Reuters happily publishes every word.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a new verbal attack against Israel on Wednesday, saying he believed it would soon collapse, state media reported.
Ahmadinejad, who has sparked international outcry by referring to the killing of six million Jews in World War Two as a “myth” and calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” made the comments in a speech in the southern province of Khuzestan.
See the subtle bias in there? They use the modifier “verbal” in front of “attack,” thus making it less of an attack. After all, sticks and stones, hey? And now let’s count the paragraphs, and remember, that only the first two or three ever make it into the average daily’s “international” section.
“I’m sure that soon we will observe the collapse of the Zionist regime (Israel),” the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying, without elaborating.
That’s three. That’s where it ends. But just for good measure:
“The Holocaust was fabricated by the West in order to reach its goals,” state television quoted him as saying.
Last month, he told delegates at an international conference in Tehran questioning the Holocaust that Israel’s days were numbered: “Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out.”
Note again that they legitimize the Holocaust denial conference, and do not point out that it was, effectively, a Holocaust-denial conference. But this is al-Reuters, after all. Can’t expect them to not have an anti-Israel slant.
Or care about the truth.
If a lie is spoken many times, it puts a shadow of doubt in the minds of the people.
By them continuing to tout AhmAFuckingNutjob’s message that the holocaust is fake, they are refreshing that message in the minds of ordinary people and thereby (inevitably) reinforcing the doubt that people would have about it.
Thankfully, there are still people alive today who can still remember those horrible events and so can summarily dissmiss it as crap.
Now if another 30 years go by, you think that the Libby Press may be able to stuff the Holocaust down the memory hole? We will see, – especially since most of us should still be alive at that time….
(* See the subtle bias in there? They use the modifier “verbal†in front of “attack,†thus making it less of an attack. *)
Another fine example of Newspeak from our Newspapers…
I’ve been told many times not to hate, but that bullshit is getting very thin…
Thank you Meryl for pointing this stuff out.
We all know what projection is. Why does he continue to assert that Israel will collapse? The sad truth (sob!) is the Iranian economy is in bad shape. The regime is actually in danger of revolt because of gross financial mismanagement.