One factor can be said about propagandists of the establishment media: they never let the public get to the point where they can control it. And they are n’t nearly as subtle as they believe they are.
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The contrast could n’t be more stark. When Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla. ) died last summer, the Associated Press article was” Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, security bird who called human-caused climate change a’ fake,’ dies at 89″. However, AP ran a bit titled” Charismatic &, crafty: A look at long-time Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah” after Hezbollah top canine Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli attack on Friday. After howls of outrage and waterfalls of ridicule, AP altered its title, but it was n’t by any means alone. In their coverage of Nasrallah’s dying, some establishment media outlets have made it undeniable: they love jihad evil mass murderers far more than they do patriots or perhaps creation Democrats.
Even after it was revised, AP’s history reads like something out of a Hezbollah lover publication. Nasrallah was” an intelligent tactician”. He was “idolized by his Palestinian Shiite supporters and recognized by millions of people in the Arab and Muslim globe.” He also “held the name of sheik, an honourable meant to signify the Shiite monk’s heritage dating again to the Prophet Muhammad, the leader of Islam”.
Nasrallah was even, AP tells us,” a flaming statesman” who was “viewed as an extremist in the United States and much of the West”. Notice that while Nasrallah was only an “extremist” in the U. S. and the West, the statement that he was an “astute tactician” is presented as calm, objective reality.
AP was n’t alone. Not to be outdone, the Washington Post said that “among his followers, Mr. Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a spiritual map and a social link. He was praised for empowering Lebanon’s once-distributed and underdeveloped Iranian community and shielding it from Jewish incursions by making Hezbollah a formidable deterrent force. He delivered a “folksy still express sense that established him as a skilled orator.”
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The WaPo also went so far as to honor Nasrallah the public’s coveted target status:” The death of his 18-year-old child, Hadi, in a battle with Israel in 1997 burnished Mr. Nasrallah’s leadership credentials, establishing him as a man who had shared in the suffering of those battling the Jewish occupation”.
The New York Times quoted as being just as hagiographic, noting that” Mr. Nasrallah created a force of thousands of grassroots fighters — schoolteachers, butchers, and truck drivers — and used religion to motivate them to fight until the day they were told they would have a guaranteed spot in heaven.” Hezbollah’s Shiite Muslim community “enjoyed tremendous devotion from him, who saw in him a charismatic religious and political figure and military strategist who had dedicated his life to the fight against Israel and American influence in the Middle East.”
None of these three admired news outlets cared to mention the fact that Hassan Nasrallah was viewed as a portly, endearing lug who led a “resistance” struggle. None of them quoted one of his most notorious sayings:” If they ( Jews ) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide”.
That was in 2002. However, Nasrallah did n’t become mellower as people grew older. A representative for the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN announced early in August 2024 that Hizballah “would begin deliberately targeting Israeli civilians,” according to the Jerusalem Post. Twelve Druze children were killed playing soccer in a field when a Hizballah rocket went off.
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Let the entire world hear me, Nasrallah remarked in a passionate way as far back as 2002 regarding his Iranian masters ‘ hatred for the United States. Our hostility to the Great Satan]America ] is absolute….  , Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September,’ Death to America ‘ will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: ‘ Death to America. ‘”  ,
In short, Hassan Nasrallah was a bloody jihad terrorist who was responsible for the 1983 killing of 241 Americans at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. The fact that he was portrayed by AP, the Washington Post, and the New York Times as a wise, avuncular, visionary leader in his death only highlights the unpleasant but undeniable fact that they despise America just as much as Hassan Nasrallah did.