The famous Hezbollah stance on freedom of the press

Hezbollah is really, really mad that CNN fired its Mideast editor for Tweeting praise of their recently dead spiritual leader.

The Lebanese militant Hezbollah has denounced CNN’s decision to fire a Middle East editor for posting a note on Twitter expressing admiration for the country’s late top Shiite cleric.

[…] Hezbollah’s spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi says CNN’s decision amounts to “intellectual terrorism” and reflects the West’s “double standards” in dealing with the Mideast.

He said in a statement issued on Friday that the decision to fire Nasr – a Lebanese who worked for CNN for two decades – exposes America’s false claims regarding freedom of expression.

Yes, the Hezbollah regard for freedom of expression is world-renowned.

Lebanon’s army largely stood aside as the Shiite militiamen scattered their opponents and occupied large swaths of the capital’s Muslim sector early Friday — a sign of how tricky Lebanon’s politics have become.

In one instance, the army stood aside as Shiite militiamen burned the building of the newspaper of their main Sunni rival — acting only to evacuate people and then allow firefighters later to put out the blaze.

World-renowned, I tell you.

Hezbollah gunmen seized large parts of Beirut and shut down a pro-government TV station and newspapers today as Lebanon teetered on the brink of a full-scale civil war.

World renowned.

Gunmen firing rocket-propelled grenades surrounded the headquarters of Mr Hariri’s Future Television and his movement’s Al-Mustaqbal newspaper early today. “All media channels have shut down and were placed under the control of the army after we received threats from armed elements of Hezbollah,” a company official said.

Why, you’d almost think that Hezbollah doesn’t really care at all about media freedom. And that this is yet another club with which to bash the West. Of course, they may just be upset that their cheerleader has been removed from her senior post at CNN, from which she has been able to influence their Middle East media coverage for decades.

I’m amazed Hezbollah haven’t blamed the Zionist-controlled media yet.

Give them time.