One More RIP: Aljazeera America

So Aljazeera America is biting the dust? No tears for the soon to be unemployed MSNBC rejects. Ahh the vagaries of journalistic prostitution.

I confess to being one of the elite viewers who watched AA in its early incarnation. That says more about the sad state of TV news than it does about the greatness of OPEC's house organ. Some of us like information and fair and balanced discussions don't work well for us.  AA still did old fashioned narrative news reporting offering a global perspective that was not always propagandistic. That might sound like faint praise but given the mutts of competition, AA was often Best Of Show.

Bye bye Aljazeera America. Wonder who gets their cable slot.

Free The Aljazeera 3!!!

I do not apologize for watching Aljazeera. As other news outlets choose to abandon the third person narrative for chatter Aljazeera becomes the premier news agency by default. Sadly, Aljazeera too, is devoting more time to talk shows but they are not yet as inane as "Outnumbered" as formulaic as "The Five" nor as failingly unfunny as "Red Eye."

I would like to put the Fox-bashing aside for a minute but it is hard to do so. When they have exactly one Asian correspondent who reports on activity in North Korea from the same location that he covers a missing airplane (was it Bangkok?) one has to wonder just how firm a grasp they have on a story. Meantime, Aljazeera sends flesh and blood reporters to the far corner of the world to mine the news.

In the course of pursuing the story, three British Aljazeera journalists have been incarcerated by the Egyptian government. 177 days and counting. The full story is here. http://tinyurl.com/k9sp6ec Judith Miller is the only Fox employee I know of who sacrificed her freedom to earn her journalistic cred. The rest of the pampered class seem to live in the Fox studio. Thank goodness  Qatar for Aljazeera.

More About Malik Obama and Barack Obama

In the previous post, Hoosierman references an Aljazeera article stating that Barack Obama is a full-fledged member of the Muslim Brotherhood. The following was lifted from the Comments section of said article. The commentator goes by the name Craven Moorehead.

HUH?
Muslim brotherhood members who have infiltrated the BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA II administration.Arif Alikhan – Assistant Secretary for Policy Development for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.Mohammed Elibiary – Homeland Security Adviser.Rashad Hussain – Special Envoy to the (OIC) Organization of the Islamic Conference.Salam al-Marayati – Obama Adviser, founder of Muslim Public Affairs Council and its current executive director.Imam Mohamed Magid – Obama’s Sharia Czar, Islamic Society of North America.Eboo Patel – Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.Valerie Jarrett - Senior Advisor to the President of the United States born in iran and and like Obama, an in the closet Muslim.John Brennan - CIA DIRECTOR who converted to Islam while stationed in Saudi Arabia.

If Barack Obama is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood that would connect a lot of dots. It would explain his love of deficits, his hostility to American prosperity, his objection to domestic oil production to say nothing of his policies in the Middle East. 

This blog has discussed Malik Obama before: http://obotomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-if-neil-bush-had-been-terrorist.html

http://obotomy.blogspot.com/2013/06/speaking-of-501-c-3-agencies-that.html

Oh, how I long for the days when brothers of presidents dealt coke, folded savings and loans and spread venereal diseases to their beloved spouse, cheated on Spanish tests, borrowed money from shady characters and urinated in public. But a brother on the terrorist watch list? That is a display of one-upmanship that might never be surpassed.