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Join Telegram ChannelMainstream media in the United States raised eyebrows this weekend with laudatory coverage of terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was hailed as a “father figure” with a “propensity for cracking jokes.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have confirmed that the leader of the terrorist organization Hezbollah died during its attack on the group's headquarters in Lebanon on Friday. The Israeli military said Nasrallah was responsible for the killing of numerous Israeli civilians and soldiers, as well as the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities around the world.
“He's responsible for hundreds of American deaths, and yet the media here in America makes him out to be a good guy,” Ainsley Earhardt said Monday on “FOX & Friends” as favorable headlines appeared on screen.
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Mainstream media in the United States raised eyebrows this weekend with its laudatory coverage of terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah. (Al Manar Television/Reuters)
The Associated Press, the New York Times and the Washington Post have all been criticized for covering the terrorist leader's death. Steve Doocy called it “rather curious” that the press could describe Nasrallah in such glowing terms.
The New York Times faced significant backlash for suggesting that Nasrallah “maintained that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians” in an article that did not include any kind signature.
Popular porn personality Comfortably Smug responded: “Insane New York Times article with no byline. Literally NO MENTION of terrorism and talks about it like a humanitarian.”
Indeed, the word “terror” does not appear in the Times article.
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A woman reads the Quran at the site of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Sunday, September 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Another Times article noted that the terrorist had “a propensity for cracking jokes” and “never pushed hard Islamic rules, such as the veil for women in Hezbollah-controlled neighborhoods.”
“No more pretenses. The New York Times no longer even puts names in the signature of its pro-Hezbollah articles. It is just the newspaper, anonymously as an institution, selecting and framing its version of the information: that Israel killed a world-loved holy father figure,” responded a reader on X.
The Associated Press was also criticized for calling Nasrallah a “powerful regional force” and insisting that he “was also seen as a pragmatist compared to the incendiary militants who dominated Hezbollah after its creation in 1982”, noting that he was considered an “extremist in the United States.” and much of the West.
“Wearing glasses and sporting a bushy gray beard like many Shiite clerics, Nasrallah's image was far from that of a militant who commanded thousands of heavily armed, well-trained and battle-hardened followers,” the statement added. AP about Nasrallah. “He often paused in his speeches to make jokes or break into the local dialect.”
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An IDF briefing board showing how it decimated Hezbollah's chain of command in recent strikes. (IDF Spokespersons Unit)
An IDF veteran responded on X: “He was a terrorist and he was evil. You missed that part.”
Another user said the AP should send flowers, while another added that the AP was “disgusting.”
The Washington Post wrote that Nasrallah was “viewed as a father figure” in an article saying he was “condemned by his enemies as a terrorist.”
“Among his supporters, Mr. Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, moral compass and political guide. He was hailed as the man who empowered Lebanon's once oppressed and impoverished Shiite community, and l “protected Israeli incursions by making Hezbollah a formidable deterrent,” wrote Liz Sly, the Post's global affairs correspondent.
The Columbia Journalism Review published an article titled “The Life and Death of Hassan Nasrallah,” which mentioned the words “terrorism” or “terrorist” only once, quoting a State Department official who called the Hezbollah from “maybe the A team”. terrorists.”
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Peter Aitken, Lorraine Taylor and Landon Mion of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.