CNN Weeps for Jihadist Hezb’Allah Grand Ayatollah

This is what the American people are being force-fed on a daily basis. This is nazi propaganda, shilling for this century's Hitlers.

CNN's Cheerleader for
Hezbollah Honest Reporting (hat tip Richard)

CNN's Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs professes her
respect for an extremist sheikh and spiritual father of a terrorist
organization.

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"Today we lost a merciful father and a wise guide," said
Hezbollah's leader Sheikh Hassan
Nasrallah, referring to the death of 75 year old Lebanese Grand Ayatollah
Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, seen as one of the original spiritual guides of the
terrorist organization.

But Fadlallah was being mourned by a far more surprising
source - CNN's Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs, Octavia Nasr, who Tweeted the
following on her personal
page:

HonestReporting has previously
exposed a former CNN employee who let her personal politics influence her
professional life. In that case, former CNN producer Nidal Rafa, a
Palestinian, was videoed haranguing current Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister
Danny Ayalon at a media event. Rafa crossed the line
from media professional to agenda driven activist, breaching professional media standards and blatantly exposing
her personal politics.

In this latest case involving CNN, Octavia
Nasr's Lebanese background should not, in itself, be an impediment to
maintaining high journalistic standards. However, we have to question these
standards when she expresses her respect for Fadlallah, whom she describes as
one of "Hezbollah's giants".

Is Nasr a Hezbollah sympathizer? This is disturbing enough
given that the group is designated a terrorist organization by the US and is
committed to the destruction of Israel. And which of Fadlallah's
individual views does Nasr admire?

Is it Fadlallah's praise
for the massacre of eight Israeli students at Mercaz Ha-Rav Yeshiva in
Jerusalem on March 6, 2008? Or perhaps it was the fatwa (religious
opinion) to the suicide bomber who attacked the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut
in 1983. Fadlallah supported the seizure and hostage-taking at the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran in 1979, backed suicide bombing attacks in 2002, and praised Iran's
efforts to build long-range missiles as the "pride of the Islamic world" in
2008.

Fadlallah has even engaged in
Holocaust denial. In an interview with Al-Manar TV on March 21, 2008, Fadlullah
stated:

The Hebrew state is preparing
to celebrate its 60th anniversary – 60 years since it plundered Palestine – in a
festival, which will be attended by the countries of the world, most of which
still support the Zionist state and consider the resistance movement to be
terrorism. This is what led German Chancellor Merkel to visit that plundering
country, which extorted and continues to extort Germany, using as a pretext the
German Hitlerist-Nazi past, and the placing of the Jews in a holocaust.
Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this holocaust beyond imagination.
They say there were six million Jews – not six million, not three million, or
anything like that… But the world accepted this [figure], and it does not
allow anyone to discuss this.

Is this the sort of extremist
figure that CNN's Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs should be professing her
respect for?

A "Relative
Moderate"?

Many obituaries in the
international press have described Fadlallah as something of a "relative
moderate". According to Reuters,
however, at the hospital when a nurse asked the ailing
cleric what he needed, he replied: "For the Zionist entity to cease to
exist."

Octavia Nasr's
position at CNN has been fatally compromised. CNN cannot continue to employ an
apparent Hezbollah sympathiser in such a senior post. Please send your
considered comments to CNN calling on the news organization to take the
appropriate action - http://edition.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?112

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