Terrorism News Today

So I get home this evening, and turn on Al Jazeera (my prime source of English language TV news in Madrid other than CNN International) and to my shock, they have the nerve (not to mention terroristic tendencies) *not* to be reporting on the U.S. election, even though the first results are probably a mere eight hours away.

How else am I to understand the minutiae of exit polling methodology, and how unreliable it can be but that the TV networks will use it anyway to predict the outcome of the election, perhaps before polls close in some states? Plus I need the hours and hours of advance "analysis" from "experts" wishing people good luck in supressing their latent racism when they go to vote.

Instead, Al Jazeera, in its unpatriotic, anti-American ignorance of what's important in the world, has a report from Goma, Congo, (where, unlike most U.S. news organizations, they actually have a reporter on the ground) which is surrounded by rebel soldiers, as government soldiers plunder, rape and kill civilians in their retreat from the town. Meanwhile, one quarter of a million people have fled their homes in the region, while the international community wrings its hands.

It's as if Al Jazeera is intentially provoking charges of being a terrorist news organization.

Speaking of, does that make me a terrorist if I watch it while supporting Barack Obama for president? (I've also been known to watch The Daily Show with John Stewart.) If so, my future traveling experience may revert to the several years I was on the terrorist watch list because (I believe) I have the same name as an IRA member who was, incidentally, killed 10 years ago by the British Army in Northern Ireland.

Good to know that the government agencies who compile those up-to-date lists aren't monitoring the internets, becuase I have a plane to catch Friday.

Comments

[saliman]

You know, if you want to be credible, you need to state facts and reference them. your acusations of Aljazeera being anti-American, is ridiculous!

Aljazeera tells the truth, that you don't hear in the America Media. It tells you what you need to know, and not what you want to hear.

I can understand that it is difficult for people like you to accept reality, because your patriotism is what's keeping you ignorant.