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By Jamuka,
June 22, 2004 in General Discussion
Jamuka
Living in a Bubble
The BBC's very own Mideast foreign policy.
By Tom Gross
The BBC: Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais, from Saudi Arabia, who opened London's biggest mosque last Friday, is a respected leader who works for "community cohesion" and "building communities."
Not mentioned on the BBC: Some of the views of Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais. In his own words: In the name of Allah, the Jews must be "annihilated." They are "the scum of the human race, the rats of the world... the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs."
The BBC's Charter and its Producers Guidelines state: "Due impartiality lies at the heart of the BBC. All programs and services should be open minded, fair and show a respect for truth... [bBC reports should] contain comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom and throughout the world...."
The BBC makes many good programs when it comes to drama, comedy, sport, and science. But its enormous news division — by far the world's biggest — is another story. Using lavish public funding (courtesy of the British taxpayer) and an unprecedented worldwide news reach (its radio service alone, broadcasting in 43 languages, attracts over 150 million listeners daily), it is — in blatant breach of its own charter — virtually conducting its own anti-American and anti-Israeli foreign policy. Anyone who doesn't agree with its policies (Tony Blair, for example) finds himself at the mercy of BBC news coverage.
In January, criticisms made of the BBC in a report by an official commission set up by the U.K. government ("the Hutton enquiry") in regard to its Iraq-war coverage, were so scathing that both the chairman of the board of governors of the BBC and its director-general had little choice but to resign. Since then, the BBC has — for a while at least — been a little more adroit at disguising its prejudices. Instead much of its slant now lies in omission rather than in active distortion.
"B" MOVIE ACTOR
Last week, for example, almost every other news organization in the world (including those in the former Communist states) began their obituaries of Ronald Reagan by saying that many (including Mikhail Gorbachev) credit Reagan with helping to bring about the end of the Cold War. But the BBC online obituary ("World Edition," Sunday, June 6, 2004, titled "Reagan's mixed White House legacy," and running to almost 1,000 words — that's a full four pages if you print it out from the BBC website) didn't even mention the Cold War, let alone Reagan's calls to "tear down" the Berlin Wall.
Instead the BBC reminded us that Reagan was "a B movie actor," and stated that as president his "foreign policy was criticised for being in disarray." Accompanying photos were not of Reagan meeting Gorbachev, but of Oliver North, and of the invasion of Grenada ("a clumsy sham," according to the BBC text).
Even during his funeral last Friday, BBC World Service Radio began its bulletin by first referring to Reagan as a film actor before mentioning that he was president.
When I went to interview for a job at BBC news at the end of the 1980s, the BBC interviewers (comprising several senior news producers) literally scoffed at me when I suggested, in a mild way, that perhaps the BBC might devote a little more coverage to the eastern bloc.
But then the Cold War plays a very small part in the worldview of the BBC. They seldom showed signs of caring much about hundreds of millions of people living under Communist dictatorship then, and they are still very reluctant to acknowledge that it happened, let alone their own failings in reporting it.
I mention this because it helps explain the bubble they live in today with regard to the Middle East and Arab world. A bubble which has led them to seek to undermine, even delegitimize Israel, the region's sole democracy, while at the same time bending over backwards to excuse extremist Islamic clerics, and the worst of the Arab dictators.
The BBC doesn't seem to care that — as Jonathan Kay of Canada's National Post once put it — if Robert Mugabe walked into an Arab League summit he would be the most democratically legitimate leader in the room. The BBC's attitude appears to be that: Arabs don't deserve to have their human-rights situation mentioned. As far as their reporting is concerned, women, gays, and others don't deserve rights in Muslim countries.
PREACHING HATE FROM MECCA
Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais (referred to in the introduction to this article, and whose surname has also been transliterated by MEMRI and others as Al-Sudayyis [1]) is not just any imam, and his hate-filled sermons are not just delivered in some peripheral setting. He is the preacher at the Grand Al-Haraam mosque — the most important mosque in Mecca, the very heart of Islam.
"Read history," implored al-Sudais to his massed ranks of followers in another of his sermons, on February 1, 2004, "and you will understand that the Jews of yesterday are the evil fathers of the Jews of today, who are evil offspring, infidels ... calf-worshippers, prophet-murderers, prophecy-deniers...the scum of the human race whom Allah cursed and turned into apes and pigs.... These are the Jews, a continuous lineage of meanness, cunning, obstinacy, tyranny, licentiousness, evil, and corruption...."
Al-Sudais has repeated these words, or close variations of them, at several other sermons in recent years. It is because of these and other calls for violence against Christians, Hindus, and Americans, that the Canadian government last month denied al-Sudais a visa to enter Canada.
But none of this seems to have penetrated the BBC bubble. In its reports last weekend on TV, radio, and online, on Sheikh al-Sudais's visit to Britain, in which he lead 15,000 worshippers at prayer at the opening of the enormous new six-story Islamic center in east London, the BBC mentioned none of this.
BBC Online for example, last Saturday, gave the impression that al-Sudais was nothing but a benign, kindly cleric promoting (to quote the BBC) "community cohesion" between Muslims and their neighbors.
"The centre was opened as Friday prayers took place, led by one of Islam's most renowned Imams, and celebrations will continue throughout the weekend," said the BBC. "Worshippers had come to hear Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais, Imam of the Ka'ba, Islam's holiest mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.... With many unable to enter the new centre, some worshippers took to praying on a street behind the mosque using prayer mats and even newspapers." We are told that the center "will bolster London's reputation as a vibrant and diverse international city" and has a "spirit of modesty."
At the side of the BBC website, a video clip was flagged with the caption: "The BBC's Mark Easton: 'Events like today offer grounds for optimism.'"
It would be hard to imagine the BBC completely omitting diatribes such as al-Sudais's had they been made by a Christian leader — or had a prominent Israeli rabbi said anything similar about Muslims.
IS SOMETHING HAPPENING IN SUDAN?
The BBC efforts not to "offend" Arabs extremists even extend to their reports on ethnic cleansing and genocide. On both the occasions in the last week when I heard BBC World Service Radio refer to the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Sudan, the BBC took scrupulous care to avoid saying who the perpetrators were (they are Arab militias) and who the victims are (hundreds of thousands of Black Sudanese Africans — Muslims, Christians, and Animists). The BBC didn't make any mention whatever of the long history of mass slavery in Sudan, carried out by Arabs with non-Arabs as their victims; nor of the scorched-earth policies, and systematic rape being carried out there by Arabs.
Yet in one of these very same news bulletins, the BBC mentioned that "settlers" in Gaza were "Jewish" and the land they were settling is "Palestinian." I don't think I have ever heard the BBC refer to settlers in Gaza without mentioning their ethnicity or religion — which is, of course, relevant to the story (though many would dispute the historical and legal accuracy of referring to the territory as Palestinian). But the BBC doesn't appear to think ethnicity is relevant when it comes to real killing or ethnic-based cleansing.
That is apart from situations elsewhere, in which non-Arabs are perpetrators. In one of the very same bulletins in which the BBC failed to mention the ethnic make-up of perpetrator and victim in Sudan, it made sure to let us know that "Bosnian Serbs have admitted for the first time their role in the massacre of Bosnian Moslems a decade ago."
In another report last week, a BBC correspondent casually referred to "a fanatical rebel group" in Uganda. This contrasts with the term "Palestinian resistance group" that BBC reporters often use to describe Hamas, a group the BBC clearly doesn't find fanatical at all.
SO HAMAS ARE NOT GUILTY?
But then Hamas (along with Yasser Arafat, one of the most vicious murderers of Jews since Hitler) appear to enjoy a certain degree of sympathy at the BBC, which throughout the past four years of Israeli-Palestinian violence has constantly tried to obscure the true nature of the group by using misleading language.
There are innumerable examples of this; they occur almost daily.
"Over the years, Hamas has been blamed for scores of suicide attacks on Israel," says the BBC, thereby trying to suggest to listeners and viewers that Hamas has perhaps been wrongly accused of such attacks (even though Hamas itself has proudly and repeatedly claimed responsibility for them in mass celebratory rallies in Gaza, Jenin, and elsewhere.)
Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire indiscriminately in the heart of the northern Israeli town of Afula, killing two young Israeli civilians and wounding over 50 others. They themselves were then shot dead by Israeli policemen. The headline on the BBC website read: "Four Die in Israel Shooting Rampage," suggesting that four innocent people had died, possibly at the hands of the Israelis.
Again, when suicide bombers killed 26 Israeli civilians in attacks on Jerusalem and Haifa, the word "terror" was used by the BBC only when describing Israel's retaliatory (and largely non-lethal) attacks on Palestinian military targets. (By contrast, the BBC didn't hesitate to use the word "terrorism" last week, when one of its own correspondents, Frank Gardner, was shot and badly wounded by an al Qaeda gunman in Saudi Arabia.)
Some of the foreign BBC staff are quite open about their sympathies for Hamas. The senior BBC Arabic Service correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Fayad Abu Shamala, told a Hamas rally on May 6, 2001, (attended by the then Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin) that journalists and media organizations in Gaza, including the BBC, are "waging the campaign [of resistance/terror against Israel] shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people."
The best the BBC could do in response to requests from Israel that they distance themselves from these remarks at the time, was to issue a statement saying, "Fayad's remarks were made in a private capacity. His reports have always matched the best standards of balance required by the BBC."
Indeed, today, three years later, the BBC is continuing to use Abu Shamala as much as ever. He was, for example, one of the BBC reporters in Gaza last month, who contributed to the BBC's highly slanted reporting (on both the BBC English and Arabic services) of Israel's operation to root out Hamas bomb-makers in Rafah in the southern Gaza.
A MINUTE'S SILENCE FOR SHEIKH YASSIN
Back in London, BBC staff are careful to promote sympathy for Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in more subtle ways. Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat member of the British parliament, declared in January that she would consider becoming a suicide bomber if she were Palestinian (and subsequently led a minute's silence in March — in the House of Commons no less — for the deceased Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin, who issued orders for dozens of suicide attacks against Israeli civilians). Since then, Tonge's invitations to appear on BBC have noticeably increased.
She was sacked by the Liberal Democrat party leader as parliamentary spokesman for children's issues for these remarks, but this hasn't bothered the BBC, who now invite her on both radio and TV to discuss the Middle East.
In one case, in February, BBC Radio 4's Flagship morning news program Today actually sent her off to "Palestine" (at the BBC's expense), after which they broadcast her "diary," in which she further defamed Israel and reiterated her sympathy for suicide bombing. She has also repeated her support for suicide bombers on air on the BBC on other occasions.
Similarly, there is the case of Oxford University literature lecturer Tom Paulin — who among other things has compared Jewish settlers to Nazis, has said they should be "shot dead," compared the Israeli army to Hitler's SS, and said he could "understand how suicide bombers feel." He continues to be invited as a regular guest commentator by the BBC; indeed, he is one of the two or three most frequent contributors to their most widely screened program on the arts.
DON'T MENTION LIMB AMPTUTATION
Those who dare criticize Arab extremism are dealt with somewhat differently by the BBC.
For example, Robert Kilroy-Silk — who does not appear on BBC news but hosted a daytime chat show — was immediately taken off air after he wrote in a non-BBC newspaper article in January that Arabs were "suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors." He swiftly apologized and the newspaper in question acknowledged that he had written "Arab governments" and this was inadvertently changed to "Arabs" as a result of an editing error. But Kilroy-Silk was rapidly sacked by the BBC nevertheless.
However, Kilroy-Silk's remarks — as many Arab moderates who welcomed them, such as the Egyptian human-rights campaigner Ibrahim Nawar, have pointed out — were not wholly inaccurate. Limb amputation and repression of women are enshrined in Saudi law, and suicide bombing of Israelis and Americans strongly encouraged by some in government circles. Paulin's comments, on the other hand, were both blatantly biased and incendiary.
Kilroy-Silk — whose article appeared just a few days before Tonge's suicide-bomb remarks — apologized. He said he "greatly regretted the offence caused" by his remarks. But this wasn't enough to satisfy the BBC. Paulin and Tonge have offered no such apology; but then the BBC gave no indication they would expect one.
When Harvard University later withdrew an invitation for Paulin to lecture, the BBC seemed to think it was all a bit of a joke. BBC news online commented: "[Paulin's] knockabout style has ruffled feathers in the US, where the Jewish question is notoriously sensitive."
"THE STUFF OF LEGENDS"
The BBC rarely misses an opportunity to denigrate Israel or its prime minister. One program even staged a mock "war crimes" trial for Ariel Sharon. (The BBC verdict — that Sharon has a case to answer — was never in doubt.)
Yasser Arafat, though, receives a very different treatment. One particularly cosmetic exercise was a 30-minute BBC profile of Arafat which described him as a "hero," and "an icon," and spoke of him as having "performer's flare," "charisma and style," "personal courage," and being "the stuff of legends." Adjectives applied to him included "clever," "respectable," and "triumphant." He was also inaccurately referred to as "President." [2]
This was broadcast on July 5, 2002 — just two weeks after President Bush had called for a change in Palestinian leadership following revelations about Arafat's links with suicide-terror attacks. But then the BBC knew that they would get this kind of approach when they asked the notoriously anti-Israeli journalist, Suzanne Goldenberg (formerly Jerusalem correspondent for the London Guardian, now the Guardian's Washington correspondent) to make the program.
A particularly blatant example of bias, perhaps, but not an isolated one. The BBC rarely mention Arafat's dictatorial rule, his endemic corruption, or the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade — the terror group he set up after launching the current Intifada, a group which, in recent months, has outstripped Hamas in the number of terror attacks perpetrated against Israeli civilians. As for Hamas, Sheikh Yassin was recently described by one of BBC radio's Gaza correspondents, Zubeida Malik, as "polite, charming and witty, a deeply religious man."
DID SOMEONE SAY DOUBLE STANDARDS?
The BBC's double standards are clear to almost everyone except, it seems, the BBC itself and its sympathizers in the press. A BBC spokeswoman for example, told the Guardian (May 23, 2002) after the BBC was accused by British Jews of being a prime force in inciting renewed anti-Semitism in the U.K., that "The BBC's reporting about the Middle East is scrupulously fair, accurate and balanced."
The official BBC line has not changed since then, even after the scathing criticism of the Hutton report. Such are the level of arrogance and the spirit of denial that permeate the BBC newsroom. Indeed, recent denials of political bias have been stronger than ever. Of course, the BBC would be in danger of losing its enormous public funding if they were admitted.
For a short while after the Hutton report was published in January, BBC staff were a little more careful in their attacks on Israel. But recently they have returned to old ways, with at least four anti-Israeli TV documentaries airing in recent weeks. That makes a total of 20 major documentaries the BBC has made on Israel since 2001 (all but one attacking Israel.) That is three times more than the number of documentaries the BBC has made on any other single country, with the exception of Britain.
Meanwhile, to my knowledge, the BBC has made no documentaries about human-rights abuses in the Arab world; or about Palestinian schoolbooks; or about the Palestinian Authority's incitement of the Palestinian population; or about the Palestinian Authority's funding of terrorism allegedly with the use of European Union aid funds.
The problem is not that every individual correspondent is biased. Whereas some, such as Orla Guerin, make almost no attempt at balance, others, such as James Reynolds in Jerusalem, do make a genuine effort to be fair. The problem is that the culture that permeates the BBC, a habit of thought that has become engrained throughout the network, allows only one worldview, in which the U.S. and Israel are vilified well beyond any reasoned or justified criticism of anything these states have actually done.
Hiring practices reinforce this. Recently, Ibrahim Helal, editor in chief of the much-criticized al Jazeera TV network was hired by the BBC World Service Trust. The job the BBC wanted him for? To advise on balance in Middle East coverage, and head "media training projects," i.e. to train BBC (and perhaps other journalists) into "understanding the Middle East better."
OCCUPIED WEST BANK OF THE SAHARA?
This culture makes it all but impossible for anyone who thinks differently to gain or hold a job at BBC news. Who at the BBC can name the leader of the Polisario Front, fighting for independence against a 25-year Arab occupation of the Western Sahara (a territory bigger than Britain)? Who at the BBC has done a report about all the Arab settlers that the Moroccan government has been bussing into the area to take the land of the indigenous Saharawi people, since Morocco annexed it 25 years ago?
This article has been limited to BBC news programming. But even elsewhere there is anti-Israel (and some would argue anti-Jewish sentiment). Each summer, for example, BBC Radio 3, a station largely devoted to classical music, carries a broadcast of "The Proms." The Proms are a British institution, a jovial annual event at the end of the British summer during which classical favorites and (on the Proms' final night) tunes such as "Rule Britannia" and "Land of Hope and Glory" are sung by the audience with great fanfare and light-hearted flag-waving at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Yet on the evenings of August 13 and August 20, 2002, the BBC Radio 3 producers decided to fill the time during the interval in their live broadcast (there are no commercials on the BBC) with a recitation of poems that compared Israeli actions to those of the Nazis and asked Holocaust survivors why they had "not learnt their lesson."
A GLOBAL PROBLEM
The BBC's Middle East problem is not just a British problem but also an international one. The BBC pours forth its worldview not just in English, but in almost every language of the Middle East: Pashto, Persian, Arabic, Turkish. Needless to say it declines to broadcast in Hebrew, even though it does broadcast in the languages of other small nations: Slovene and Slovak, Macedonian and Albanian, Azeri and Uzbek, Kazakh and Kyrgyz, and so on. (It doesn't broadcast in Kurdish either; but then the BBC doesn't typically concern itself with the rights and aspirations of persecuted Kurds in Muslim-majority states like Syria and Iran. We didn't hear much on the BBC, for example, when dozens of Syrian Kurds were killed and injured by President Assad's regime two months ago.)
Throughout the world the BBC enjoys exceptional influence. An article last month in the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz, for example, quotes a leading Lithuanian campaigner against anti-Semitism as saying that inflammatory and biased international BBC news coverage against Israel was helping to revive anti-Semitism in Lithuania against those few Jews remaining who were not murdered in the Holocaust.
The English-language version of the BBC seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. My friend Kamran al-Karadaghi, an urbane, moderate, and thoughtful Iraqi, who was for a decade the political editor of the Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat in London, and who until last week served as head of Radio Free Iraq, tells me that the BBC Arabic-language service is not just far worse than the English-language BBC. It is "even worse," he says, than al Jazeera, in the vitriol it pours out against America and Israel.
[1] For more on these and other quotes, see here and Steven Stalinsky's "Kingdom Comes to North America" (after which the Canadian government rescinded al-Sudais' visa request).
[2] For many other examples contrasting BBC coverage of Sharon and Arafat, see the well-compiled reports by London lawyer Trevor Asserson at www.bbcwatch.com.
— Tom Gross is a former Middle East correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and the New York Daily News. Among his previous pieces for NRO are "All The News That's Fit to Print? The New York Times and Israel" and "Jeningrad. What the British media said."
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Went to the bbcwatch site and clicked on the first link about Iraq. To my surprise, the actual report was not so much about the war in Iraq, but more on the BBC reporting in Israel!! It comes as o surprise then to learn that Trevor Asserson was called to the Israeli Bar in 1992.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3780339.stm - talking about Reagan's achievemens in bringing down the Berlin Wall.
13:15) Hamas: BBC reporter expressed solidarity
By Douglas Davis
LONDON Ã A senior BBC correspondent in the Gaza Strip is reported to have told a Hamas gathering that journalists and media organizations are "waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people."
The alleged remarks, by BBC Arabic Service correspondent Faid Abu Shimalla, were reported on the Hamas Web site, which said they were made at "an impressive and well-attended ceremony" earlier this month to honor some 140 Palestinian, Arab, Islamic, and international journalists and attended by Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
A BBC spokesman last night confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that Shimalla has been the Gaza Strip correspondent of the BBC Arabic Service for the past five years, but he said the BBC was unable to locate the Web site and could not comment further.
He noted, however, that Shimalla is "a senior and experienced journalist who knows the requirements for impartiality."
At the ceremony, Hamas official Ismail Abu Shanab said journalists should be honored for "the special role they have played through their cameras, pens, and skills, as well as through their rare courage and daring which they have demonstrated by their joining the nation struggling fiercely against the enemy."
He praised their "accurate depiction of the terrorism employed by the Zionist enemy and its vile crimes, as well as the outstanding courageous portrayal of our children and martyrs."
Speaking on behalf of the journalists, Shimalla, who is described as a correspondent of the BBC, thanked the Hamas movement for holding the event, "despite the pace of current events and the sensitive circumstances applying to journalists and media organizations, which are waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people."
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/05/24/L...News.26879.html
^ Another reputable source! Bravo!!
"A senior BBC correspondent in the Gaza Strip is reported to have told a Hamas..."
"The alleged remarks, by BBC Arabic Service correspondent..."
Another reputable source! Bravo!!
I'm curious to know your methods at how you decipher what IS a credible source and what ISN"T. Please enlighten us all. There is an old American saying and it goes like this "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck". And here is more on your beloved Beeb.
The New York Times covers up for Palestinian child bombers
By Alex Safian June 21, 2004
Used by permission of CAMERA - Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.
Why do Palestinian children become human bombs, willingly strapping on suicide belts and slipping into Israel to kill as many Jews as possible? That's the key question which the New York Times has once again failed to answer, this time in an otherwise informative story by Greg Myre - "Israel Says Children Enlist Children as Suicide Bombers," June 13, 2004.
While Myre pulls no punches when it comes to telling readers how Palestinian children are now recruiting their classmates and cousins to become suicide bombers, he shies away from telling readers why Palestinian kids have taken up this grisly task.
In Myre's rendition the child recruitment is a mystery -- he reports only that "some Palestinian leaders have condemned the use of teenagers, and opposition to the practice is widespread among ordinary Palestinians ..." Could the Palestinian kids have been indoctrinated in their schools? Myre casts doubt on this, reporting at face value the claims of one Palestinian school official that he tries to keep politics out of the classroom, "This place is for education and we don't want to talk about politics."
Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Far from being opposed to child suicide bombers, Palestinian society and Palestinian leaders revel in child "martyrdom," and the Palestinian media and schools do all they can to encourage a cult of death among children. The paramount Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, for example, stated in an interview on Palestinian TV that:
... this child who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a shahid [martyr]... We are proud of them ... (PATV, Jan. 15, 2002 cited in Ask for Death, Palestinian Media Watch.)
While Arafat's words certainly carry weight among Palestinian children, perhaps the most effective recruitment tool has been music videos which are broadcast for hours on end by official Palestinian television (there is no independent television under Arafat's rule). The videos are a call to death and martyrdom for Palestinian children, promising the glories and pleasures of heaven to the young "warriors for Allah":
How sweet is the fragrance of the shahids, how sweet is the scent of the earth, its thirst quenched by the gush of blood flowing from the youthful body. (Quoted by
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook in the Jerusalem Post, January 29, 2004)
Another music video also aimed at children and broadcast repeatedly told young viewers that:
Oh, young ones: Shake the earth, raise the stones.
You will not be saved, O Zionist, from the volcano of my country's stones.
You are the target of my eyes, I will even willingly fall as a shahid [martyr for Allah].
Allahu akbar [god is great]! Oh, young ones!
(Quoted by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crookin the Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2004)
Yet another music video shown repeatedly on Palestinian TV centered on a Palestinian child who had been killed at the start of the present violence in October 2000. A young actor portrays the child in paradise, flying a kite and running on the beach, and encouraging other Palestinian children to follow him in martyrdom, "I am waving to you not in parting, but to say, 'Follow me.' " (Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook in the National Post, April 8, 2004)
As for the claim that Palestinian parents oppose such suicide bombings, news reports, including in the Times, indicate the opposite. For example, a few months ago Myre's colleague James Bennet reported that "Many Palestinian parents have praised their sons and daughters for carrying out suicide attacks, hailing them as heroes and martyrs." (New York Times, March 25, 2004)
Palestinian support and encouragement for child suicide bombers is an ugly reality. The Times' reluctance to deal with this ugly reality will help only to perpetuate it.
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lol, its not even the Beeb, this time he has posted and its actually the New York Times!! Again a right wing zionist jewish propoganda site.
Jamuka, you quote from Israeli media machines that extoles the virtues of anyone that praises Isreal, and denigrates anyone who chooses to go against them...and then you give a stupid duck saying as proof. lol
You did not answer my question. Please tell me by what methods did you arrive to conclude that an Israeli based media 'extoles the virtous of anyone that praises Israel, and denigrates anyone who chooses to go against them'?? What were the methods used? Please enlighten us all.
Did you by any chance conclude that it's bias based on the following factors?
i) just because it is Israeli based thus it must be biased
ii) Only British based media like the BBC (with it's untold amount of scandals) is to be trusted
I wish to know your methods in deducing which media is deemed biased and whic is not. Pleas, do tell.
First of all, whats with the third post? It had nothing to do with the Beeb, it was about Palestine
Now, how did I come to the conclusion that the post is biased? Quite simple really.
Israel is at war with Palestine. You quote from an Israeli source that says that a BBC correspondant is "alleged" to have made certain remarks.
A search on Google finds a small number of Jewish and American sites, that each quote word for word from the Jerusalem Post. No further evidence is given from any other sites that actually comments onthe validity of the story.
Internet sites that claim no affiliation to any particular groups are inherently more trustworthy than those that work for a country at war. The BBC may have its share of scandals, but it is by no means as prejudiced as the sites that you quote from.
'extoles the virtues of anyone that praises Israel, and denigrates anyone who chooses to go against them'
eg BBC!
Also, does the BBC not cover the barbaric suicide attacks carried out by Hamas?
Did you even read the article? It talks about a journalists bias who works for the Beeb. Doesn't that strike any warning bells?
Quite simply eh? I bet you do!
So I guess by your logic if Sikhawareness were to quote about the atrocities committed by Hindus against Sikhs in 1984 and Operation Blue star, it must be false because Sikhs by and large support independance from the Indian Union and this is a site run by Sikhs!! Is that what you're trying to say? Please clarify and enlighten us further.
Are you joking or are you that ignorant? Go on living in your make belief world and put your head deeper in the sand pit for believe me when I say this, reality is far different from what you contend.


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Carl's Jr. Is Literally Blowing Up Their Old Advertising This Weekend
Post author By Constantine Spyrou
Carl's Jr. and Hardee's really want to move on from their advertising model of the past. They're going to get rid of their old brand image by literally obliterating it.
Their parent company, CKE Restaurants, announced in a press release that they will be teaming up with creative ad agency 72andSunny and YouTube channel "The Slow Mo Guys" to blow up everything that represents the past advertising model. This event, titled "The Purge," will be live-streamed on Twitch this Saturday from 2-4 pm PDT and hosted by the Slow Mo Guys and CKE's new characters, Carl Hardee Sr. and Jr.
Everything from mechanical bulls, a giant crate of bikinis, flammable tanning oil, and meat-scented cologne are all up for annihilation as fans watching the live stream can choose what and how it will get wrecked. Rocket launchers, forklift trucks and even Jr.'s ex-girlfriend are some of the options available for viewers to select to demolish stuff with.
All of the destruction will be captured in slow-motion and available on instant replay by the Slow Mo Guys as well to create an epic montage of explosions and chaos.
The livestream represents the brand's desire to have fun with its past, but also to trash it and move forward with a new campaigning model that focuses on the quality and innovation surrounding food at both Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants.
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The Danger in Stereotyping Individuals
Posted on March 27, 2022 by forloveofgodandcountry
by Diane Rufino, March 26, 2022
Human beings come in all shapes, sizes, forms, and appearances, and with the passing of time, we are seeing an even greater diversity, mostly of a progressive nature. The so-called "window-dressing" is becoming more audacious and alarming. But one thing is clear – a person's gender identity is stamped at birth by his or her sex chromosomes. The chromosomes (XX for female and XY for male) are in almost every single cell of the body and are unchanging. Gender, therefore, is biologically defined. Aside from surgery and hormone treatments (including psychology sessions), a person's physicality, or physical features, are also set by his or her DNA, the blueprint for life.
It is true that we are not all alike, and in fact, many of us are not alike. But we nonetheless treat each other with kindness and compassion, as we are supposed to. We are all God's children. We respect their choices but we, as being created and endowed with a free conscience, do not necessarily have to accept or support those choices. We tend to accept them, out of respect, civility, and a desire to life in a peaceful community.
The problem is that along the line of history, people have decided to divide individuals according to their God-given, genetically-acquired features in order to claim superiority in one way or another. This is where stereotyping comes in. In particular, I want to address "invidious stereotyping," which means to be characterized in an objectionable manner, based on an unpleasant or offensive trait.
When individuals are stereotyped, they are demeaned, marginalized, and diminished in society, relegated to a second-class status. When this happens, it is easy to discriminate against them, segregate them, phase them out of society (eugenics; ethnic cleansing), and even murder and annihilate them. We've seen all this throughout history and it has disturbed us greatly.
Take the unborn, for example. They are marginalized because they are not seen by many as "persons." Yet they are. Every pregnancy, especially into the second trimester, involves two distinct lives, defined again by their DNA. Each life should be protected and in a compassionate and rational world, they would be. An unborn child may not be wanted by its natural mother, but there are plenty of people who would love the chance to give that child a home and plenty of love. This blatant disregard for the unborn and the greater weight by the courts to the mother has led to the abomination that has been abortion.
Take African-Americans as another example. Africans were seen as an inferior, backwards and barbaric people back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thus justifying slavery in the 18th century. We can't but conjure up images of Sambo, Jim Crow, the Savage as representative of black men, and Mammy, Aunt Jemimah, Sapphire, and Jezebelle as representative of black women, and the characterization they helped institutionalize – the stereotype of a simple-minded, lazy, happy black person who was happy to serve and to be taken care of ("a happy slave"). Black women, in particular, were characterized as dominant, controlling, nurturing caretakers, except for Jezebelle, which is the only caricature that hints to the sexual nature of black women.
The ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1884, stated authoritatively that "…the African race occupied the lowest position of the evolutionary scale, thus affording the best material for the comparative study of the highest anthropoids and the human species." This invidious characterization of African-Americans as apelike savages was exceptionally pervasive. For example, in 1906, the New York Zoological Park featured an exhibit with an African-American man and a chimpanzee. And then several years later, the Ringling Brothers Circus exhibited "the monkey man," a black man was caged with a female chimpanzee that had been trained to wash clothes and hang them on a line.
Racial stereotypes that portray blacks as "mentally inferior, physically and culturally unevolved, and apelike in appearance" were supported by prominent white figures like Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Theodore Roosevelt publicly stated that "As a race and in the mass, the Negroes are altogether inferior to whites."
In the infamous 1856 Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford,Chief Justice Roger Taney, the court members acknowledged such stereotypes and concluded that persons of African origin were an inferior race and suited only to serve the more advanced and civilized races. Taney wrote:
"In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument…They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit
A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States. He cannot become a citizen of the United States, nor will he be entitled to sue in its courts, nor to any of the privileges and immunities of a citizen in another State.
When the Constitution was adopted, they were not regarded in any of the States as members of the community which constituted the State and were not numbered among its "people or citizens." Consequently, the special rights and immunities guaranteed to citizens do not apply to them. And not being "citizens" within the meaning of the Constitution, they are not entitled to sue in that character in a court of the United States, and the Circuit Court has not jurisdiction in such a suit.
Every citizen has a right to take with him into the Territory any article of property which the Constitution of the United States recognizes as property. The Constitution of the United States recognizes slaves as property and pledges the federal government to protect it. And Congress cannot exercise any more authority over property of that description than it may constitutionally exercise over property of any other kind. The act of Congress (ie, the Missouri Compromise), therefore, prohibiting a citizen of the United States from taking with him his slaves when he removes to the Territory in question to reside is an exercise of authority over private property which is not warranted by the Constitution, and the removal of the plaintiff by his owner to that Territory gave him no title to freedom." {Note: The Dred Scott ruling declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional and unenforceable].
The stereotypes of blacks in our American history has been a severe blight and stain on our nation's image and continues to infect race relations. Slavery sent the message that blacks were an inferior race of people, uncivilized and barbaric, suited only to serve the more advanced races. And Jim Crow institutionalized the notion that blacks were nothing more than second-class citizens. Race seems to always be an issue and a sore spot for discussion. Sadly, it continues to fuel the allegations of racial intolerance and racial tension.
Who can forget the horrendous plight of the European Jews under the crushing and ambitious political agenda of Adolf Hitler and the German Nazi regime? Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, created a masterful propaganda scheme to convince the German people that Jews were a despicable, conniving, and genetically-inferior race for the ultimate goal to segregate them out of all aspects of German society and ultimately engineer a genetically-superior "master German race."
In Nazi caricatures, Jews were usually depicted as having large hook-noses, and dark beady eyes with drooping eyelids. Exaggerated or grotesque Jewish facial features were a staple theme in Nazi propaganda and, less frequently, in Soviet propaganda. The idea of the large and crooked (hooked) "Jewish nose" remains one of the most prevalent and defining features to characterize someone as a Jew. This widespread stereotype can be traced back to the 13th century. In Nazi propaganda, Jews were drawn to look like hideous, hairy, demented-looking creatures with large noses. They were also compared to rats, as if they were vermin.
Jews tend to be portrayed as scheming individuals, greedy and miserly. Lastly, they are characterized as having a distinctive way of speaking.
Demonizing and demeaning Jews made it easy for the Nazi leaders and the German people to look the other way at the systemic genocide of over 6 million German and European Jews in ghettos and concentration camps, all for the ethnic cleansing and purification of the German race.
Again, the demeaning of persons of African ancestry has been a huge stain on our country's history. But another case of stereotyping has also had a stain on our more recent history, and that form of stereotyping took the form of characterizing gay men as "freaks" and generally ignoring them, their charades, and their devasting epidemic. In his magnificent book "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic" author Randy Stilts explains in great detail how the demonization and stereotyping and intolerance of "distinct classes of outcasts and social pariahs" led to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980's and the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
In his prologue, Stilts wrote:
"By October 2, 1985, the morning Rock Hudson died, the word was familiar to almost every household in the Western world….. AIDS.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome had seemed a comfortably distant threat to most of those who had heard of it before, the misfortune of people who fit into rather distinct classes of outcasts and social pariahs. But suddenly, in the summer of 1985, when a movie star was diagnosed with the disease and the newspapers couldn't stop talking about it, the AIDS epidemic became palpable and the threat loomed everywhere.
Suddenly, there were children with AIDS who wanted to go to school, laborers with AIDS who wanted to work, and researchers who wanted funding, and there was a threat to the nation's public health that could no longer be ignored. Most significantly, there were the first glimmers of awareness that the future would always contain this strange new word. AIDS would become a part of American culture and indelibly change the course of our lives.
The implications would not be fleshed out for another few years, but on that October day in 1985, the first awareness existed just the same. Rock Hudson riveted America's attention upon this deadly new threat for the first time, and his diagnosis became a demarcation that would separate the history of America before AIDS from the history that came after.
The timing of this awareness, however, reflected the unalterable tragedy at the heart of the AIDS epidemic. By the time America paid attention to the disease, it was too late to do anything about it. The virus was already pandemic in the nation, having spread to every corner of the North American continent. The tide of death that would later sweep America could, perhaps, be slowed, but it could not be stopped.
The AIDS epidemic, of course, did not arise full-grown from the biological landscape; the problem had been festering throughout the decade. The death tolls of the late 1980's are not startling new developments but an unfolding of events predicted for many years. There had been a time when much of this suffering could have been prevented, but by 1985 that time had passed. Indeed, on the day the world learned that Rock Hudson was stricken, some 12,000 Americans were already dead or dying of AIDS and hundreds of thousands more were infected with the virus that caused the disease. But few had paid any attention to this; nobody, it seemed, had cared about them.
The bitter truth was that AIDS did not just happen to America; it was allowed to happen by an array of institutions, all of which failed to perform their appropriate tasks to safeguard the public health. This failure of the system leaves a legacy of unnecessary suffering that will haunt the Western world for decades to come.
There was no excuse, in this country and in this time, for the spread of a deadly new epidemic. For this was a time in which the United States boasted the world's most sophisticated medicine and the world's most extensive public health system, geared to eliminate such pestilence from our national life. When the virus appeared, the world's richest nation housed the most lavishly-financed scientific research establishments – both inside the vast governmental health bureaucracy and in other institutions – to investigate new diseases and quickly bring them under control. And making sure that government researchers and public health agencies did their jobs were the world's most unfettered and aggressive media, the public's watchdogs. Beyond that, the group most affected by the epidemic, the gay community, had by then built a substantial political infrastructure, particularly in cities where the disease struck first and most virulently. Leaders were in place to monitor the gay community's health and survival interests.
But from 1980, when the first isolated gay men began falling ill from strange and exotic ailments, nearly five years passed before all these institutions – medicine, public health, the federal and private scientific research establishments, the mass media, and the gay community's leadership – mobilized the way they should in a time of threat. The story of these first five years of AIDS in America is a drama of national failure, played out against a backdrop of needless death.
People died while Reagan administration officials ignored pleas from government scientists and did not allocate adequate funding for AIDS research until the epidemic had already spread throughout the country. People died while scientists did not at first devote appropriate attention to the epidemic because they perceived little prestige to be gained in studying a homosexual affliction. Even after this denial faded, people died while some scientists, most notably those in the employ of the United States government, competed rather than collaborated in international research efforts, and so diverted attention and energy away from the central struggle against the disease itself. People died while public health authorities and the political leaders who guided them refused to take the tough measures necessary to curb the epidemic's spread, opting for political expediency over the public health. And people died while gay community leaders played politics with the disease, putting political dogma ahead of the preservation of human life.
People died and nobody paid attention because the mass media did not like covering stories about homosexuals and was especially skittish about stories that involved gay sexuality. Newspapers and television largely avoided discussion of the disease until the death toll was too high to ignore and the casualties were no longer just the outcasts. Without the media to fulfill its role as public guardian, everyone else was left to deal – and not deal – with AIDS as they saw fit.
In those years, the federal government viewed AIDS as a budget problem, local public health officials saw it as a political problem, gay leaders considered AIDS a public relations problem, and the news media regarded it as a homosexual problem that wouldn't interest anybody else. Consequently, few confronted AIDS for what it was – a profoundly threatening medical crisis.
Fighting against this institutional indifference were a handful of heroes from disparate callings. Isolated teams of scientists in research centers in America and Europe risked their reputations and often their jobs to pioneer early research on AIDS. There were doctors and nurses who went far beyond the call of duty to care for its victims. Some public health officials struggled valiantly to have the epidemic addressed in earnest. A handful of gay leaders withstood vilification to argue forcefully for a sane community response to the epidemic and to lobby for the funds that provided the first breakthroughs in research. And there were many victims of the epidemic who fought rejection, fear, isolation, and their own deadly prognoses to make people understand and to make people care.
Because of their efforts, the story of politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic is, ultimately, a tale of courage as well as cowardice, compassion as well as bigotry, inspiration as well as venality, and redemption as well as despair. It is a tale that bears telling so that it will never happen again, to any people anywhere."
Randy Stilts, pictured above, was the first openly-gay reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1985, he found out that he had was HIV-positive, and in 1992, he contracted pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. He passed away on February 17, 1994.
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) – https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/60/393/
Randy Stilts, AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1987.
Laura Green, "Negative Racial Stereotypes and Their Effect on Attitudes Toward African-Americans," Virginia Commonwealth University. Referenced at: https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/links/essays/vcu.htm
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Talking Handjobs and Coke Parties With 'Girls' Star Andrew Rannells
Elijah himself, Andrew Rannells, talks Sunday night's episode of 'Girls,' from dancing at an Iowa rager with Lena Dunham to pantomiming sexual acts on extras from Nebraska.
Kevin Fallon
Senior Entertainment Reporter
Updated 04.14.17 12:24PM ET / Published 01.18.15 9:30PM ET
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Dearest Andrew Rannells, please forgive us for that headline.
The Girls star, so good and fun and sassy and the gay best friend we all wish we had (or were), is a candid delight during a recent interview about his role as Elijah on the HBO comedy. He's so candid and game, in fact, that our interview about his scene-stealing arc on this season swiftly—and entertainingly—devolves to the finer points of pantomiming a handjob.
But when you're a colleague—and more so when you're a friend—of Lena Dunham's, you really have no choice to embrace frank discussions of such blush-inducing sides of life, including but not limited to: homeless women fisting themselves, jacking off frat boys in bathrooms, and Allison Williams having her ass eaten out.
All, of course, are references to the first few episodes of Girls stellar new season, which on Sunday night's most recent episode, found Elijah following Hannah to Iowa, like a flamboyant and bored lost puppy.
Elijah's surprise arrival in Iowa is a two-fold joy. For one, it provides the occasion for yet another spectacularly wasted dance party—this time featuring Elijah and Hannah drunk out of their minds at an Iowa rager, the two dancing together to Lil Jon's "Get Low," and Elijah giving an undergrad "straight boy" a handjob in a bathroom. But Elijah's appearance also serves as a focusing of the creative lens, providing a benchmark through which we can measure the actual growing up of Hannah, and how crippling her arrested development in Iowa might actual be.
When Rannells and I start talking, it's days after he and Dunham—great friends in real life as well as on-screen—had just returned from walking the Golden Globes red carpet, where they may or may not have been mistakenly identified by the E! channel, hilariously, as "Liza Minnelli and Guest." He also had not only just wrapped the fourth season of Girls, but a sensational run on Broadway as Neil Patrick Harris's replacement in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and a movie shoot opposite Anne Hathaway in a hotly anticipated Nancy Meyers flick (playing a character who supposed to be a woman, to boot).
We discussed all that and more. Like handjobs. And coke parties. And ass eating. Sorry, Andrew Rannells.
Before we chat about Girls, I have to ask about the "Liza Minnelli and Guest" thing at the Golden Globes. Did E! really label you guys as that or was it Photoshopped?
[Laughs] Well, I don't know. Somebody sent that to me as allegedly a mistake that happened live on the air. I don't know if it was actually that. Now somebody is saying that it's something The Soup did. So I don't know if it's real or not, but it brought Lena and I a lot of joy regardless. Part of me hopes that it's real, and part of me doesn't care because it's hilarious either way.
It's cool that you got to be Lena's date to the Globes, too.
Oh my god, I'm so happy that she asked. The tickets to that event are pretty scarce, even if your show is nominated. So to be included in that group, I was very touched that she did that. She's a good friend.
I'm curious what it's like to walk a red carpet with Lena Dunham and bear witness to the questions that she's asked. I can imagine they veer towards absurd.
Oh yeah. At that event at least—because I've been with her elsewhere where people ask the most batshit things possible—people were mostly just so excited to see here. And I think the overall tone of that event is light and fun and respectful. Plus, we got to do shots with Mario Lopez.
That's good to hear. Because I could see it easily going, "Lena! Hi! We love Girls! What are you wearing? What do you make of that rape controversy from your book?"
I know. I know. But there was none of that. Everyone we spoke to was great and on topic. I think she obviously has to field a lot of questions about her work and about her life. But that particular night, the mood was pretty light.
So in the first few episodes of this season of Girls, there's the resounding theme that the girls are at least trying to grow up a little bit. Do you think that's true of Elijah, too?
I think so. I think he's still behind the girls, though. Girls mature faster than boys do, as we were always told in middle school. I think that's true this season, too. Hannah's making these great strides towards pulling her shit together and going on this grad school adventure. I think Elijah just wants to have something to do. I think he co-ops her experience a little bit and thinks he can join her. He doesn't need his own thing—he'll just take a little piece of Hannah's. He's still behind, I think. He's looking for what his next move is, and what his goals should be. But I have hope that he will figure it out.
He seems to even immediately validate his decision to go to Iowa just because someone at the airport mistakes him for Blake Lively's husband. Like, that's enough for him.
[Laughs] I mean, please. That would be enough for me! I'd be thrilled.
I loved the little bit where he said that he fled New York because he saw a homeless woman fist herself on a stoop.
That is a real story.
Stop. It isn't.
It's not my story. April, who is one of our hair and makeup people, she told Lena and I that story, that she saw a woman fist herself on her stoop. And while we were skeptical of its validity, we still included it in the episode. I think that would make anyone flee the state.
After Elijah said that I started racking my brain for the most grotesque New York experiences I've had. I don't think I've had anything to rival that. Have you?
No that. But when I first moved here I watched a woman, who appeared to be homeless but you never know, on the subway hike up layers and layers of coats and a skirt and god knows what else she had on and just piss on the train. That was a month after living here. Like, "This is New York. That woman is urinating." I was 19, and that is still the craziest thing I've seen.
Then there's other fun part of Hannah's move to Iowa, where she's marveling at how big the apartment she's looking at is and that it's only $250 a month. Have you ever had that experience, of moving out of New York City and realizing you could buy a palace for a quarter of what you're paying for your shoebox?
Oh hell yeah. I mean I love that Zillow app on my phone that shows you what's for sale. Whenever we're traveling my boyfriend and I are like, "What can we buy here in Baton Rouge? What's available?" But I really experienced it the first time I went on tour. I was on tour with Jersey Boys years ago and we would get to St. Louis or Cleveland, and I would share an apartment with this girl. We would just get these obscenely large apartments just because we could. They were in these huge-ass buildings with multiple bedrooms that we never went into. We just wanted the space, because I lived in a studio apartment in Midtown at the time. So the idea of having multiple doors in a place was exciting.
The other funny thing about moving from the city to the suburbs, which you see in Hannah and Elijah, is that you adopt this mindset that you're wiser or more cultured or feel like you have something to share than everyone around them.
Yeah, absolutely. Which is such bullshit. I've certainly made that mistake, not recently, but in my past. That you come from New York and you feel like you've got an edge and a leg up on everyone else in the world, which is not actually the case.
So the big cornerstone of this week's episode was the Iowa rager that you guys go to, giving us another glorious montage of Hannah and Elijah dancing in slow motion.
So much dancing. I know. She's a good dancer, that girl. You know? I love it. I love getting to dance with her, so I always get excited when I see in the script that there's a large party like that. And when you shoot those scenes and you've got all those background dancers who are there and want to have fun and want to be good and everybody is excited to dance with Lena Dunham, it's a really crazy atmosphere to work in.
Were they actually playing "Get Low" when you were shooting the scene?
Yeah, they played that. For that sequence they actually got to play the song the entire way through. Normally, technically speaking, what happens is that they'll play the first couple of seconds of it and then, because of the dialogue, they can't play the song over it, for editing purposes, so they just cut it out and there's a click track playing. And then there's just hearing beats that you have to dance to with no music. It's the most awkward and humiliating thing.
That sounds like the strangest experience, dancing to clicks.
For this one we got to dance to the actual song, but in Season 2 when we did the coke episode and Lena and I are lipsynching to "I Love It"—that was one of the crazy ones where the song would drop out and there was just a beat. Everyone in the Green House had to pretend to be dancing to it.
And you had to pretend to shout over the music that's not actually playing.
Yeah. [Adopts whiny baby voice] Our job is so hard! Playing pretend is hard!
So now is the time that we talk about the handjob scene in the bathroom.
[Laughs] Ok.
People always ask women about shooting graphic sex scenes, about what it's like to shoot something like that. But is it different when you're a guy doing a scene like this, which is played for laughs? Is it silly? Or awkward?
I know. It was weird because it was awkward and he was very young. He was of age, but he was a young actor who was fairly new to the city. After our first take, which was rightfully awkward, he said to me, "I'm from Omaha, Nebraska, too." (Laughs) Which I think was in an effort to, like, bond, but really just made it more awkward. Like, I can't think about this right now. It was the right amount of awkward, I feel like. Had either one of us been too into it I don't think it would've been as funny.
When you're thinking about playing that scene how specific do you get? Do you think about how fast to make the jacking-off motion, or what size the penis is that you're jacking off?
All of those things. I would say my big for question for Lena, who directed that episode, was, "Who gives a handjob?" What am I, a high school girl? Like, who gives a hand job? And she was like, "Well you're trying to be youthful," which made sense to me. But that was my biggest question. "Like, shouldn't I blow him?" Who's getting a handjob these days?
Then are there more explicit sexual encounters in store for Elijah this season?
Umm, no. Between you and me, that's it for the sex. I don't get any more sexy time.
So he doesn't get his own Marnie ass-eating scene?
No. No, she really took one for the team on that one. Nothing's going to top that. That was pretty special.
I'm sure when you see that in a script you expect it to cause a stir, but did you expect the reaction to be as scandalized as it was?
I mean I was really shocked. Allison told me after they filmed it. She was like, "He motorboats my butt." I was like, "That's not possible." She told me exactly what happened I was still, like, that's not possible. And then we watched it at the premiere I was like, "Oh, right. That's exactly what she explained." But I still couldn't wrap my head around it. Good for her. Good. For. Her.
So next you're in a big Nancy Meyers movie, The Intern.
I know! I can't believe it. I play Anne Hathaway's business partner. She runs an Internet startup company and I play her business partner. Her characters faces this idea that the character is expanding really quickly and should they bring in an outside CEO to run this business that she started on her own, and maybe it's time now to expand and include an outside eye. So my character is there to help her figure out his struggle. That movie was so unexpected, that I got to be a part of that, mainly because that part was written for a woman.
It was written for a woman?
Yeah. [Laughs] I pulled a real Jodie Foster on this one. It was written for a woman, and I guess in the casting process—I had auditioned for another part that fell in between the cracks of ages and types, and then Bernie Telsey, the casting director for this movie who cast me in a few shows on Broadway, suggested to Nancy that since they were having trouble casting that part that maybe they should open up to changing the gender. Maybe if Andrew reads it, maybe that's it. Luckily Nancy was open to it, and I couldn't be more surprised that worked out. Her name was Candace, so I thought there was no way I was ever going to book this job.
What did the name end up being?
Cameron. I really was a proponent of keeping it Candace and just making the audience confused.
Like Tilda Swinton in Snowpiercer, who just continued to be referred to as "sir" and "he"?
Yeah, me and Tilda. That's how it works.
So you got to shoot quite a bit with Anne Hathaway then?
All my scenes were with Anne. She is fantastic and was so much fun. We really hit it off. She's a big musical theatre fan, so there was some singin' on that set.
You have the chance now, then, to settle the score on the validity of the Hathahate phenomenon.
Oh it's nonsense. I don't know those things come about, or where that wave of negativity stems from. But she's lovely. So professional and so nice and was so welcoming on that set. And continues to be! Shortly after that—a couple of days after I wrapped—I opened as Hedwig on Broadway and one of the first huge flower arrangements that came into my dressing room was from her, which was so generous and so thoughtful. She was still working 16-hour days on that movie, but the fact that she clocked that and remembered it—she's the real deal.
Has your body recovered from doing Hedwig yet? It seems like such an assault on the human body to perform that role.
It's nuts. I had mystery bruises and cuts and things. My boyfriend would be like, "What the hell!? Where is that from?" But it was so rewarding. I felt so fortunate that I was asked to do that. It was so great. It was a great year of Girls and then I got to do The Intern, which was so exciting. But then to get to return to Broadway after all that, I couldn't have asked for a better show back.


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Кати Върдж () е плодовита канадска писателка, авторка на произведения в жанровете еротична литература, съвременен и паранормален любовен роман. Пише под псевдонима Катрин Фокс (Cathryn Fox) и с писателката Паула Фокс под съвместния псевдоним Тейлор Кийтинг (Taylor Keating).

Биография и творчество
Кати Върдж е родена в Канада. Завършва висше образование с бакалавърска степен по бизнес администрация, специалност счетоводство и икономика. След дипломирането си работи по специалността си като държавен счетоводител. Бързо в кариерата си разбира, че корпоративният живот не е за нея, и започва да пише съвременни и паранормални любовни романи.

Първият ѝ му роман "Pleasure Control" от поредицата "Игри с удоволствие" е публикуван през 2006 г.

Кати Върдж живее със семейството си в Нова Скотия.

Произведения

Като Катрин Фокс
 частична библиография

Самостоятелни романи
 Primal Instincts (2008) – с Лиза Рене Джоунс
 One on One (2009)
 Hotter Than Hell (2009)
 Hell's Angel (2009)
 Dance of the Dragon (2009)
 Web of Desire (2009)
 Knocking on Demon's Door (2010)
 Raise a Little Hell (2010)
 Holiday Spirit (2012)
 Hands On with the CEO (2014)
 Panther's Pleasure (2016)
 Breath of Fire (2016)

Серия "Игри с удоволствие" (Pleasure Games)
 Pleasure Control (2006)
 Pleasure Prolonged (2006)
 Pleasure Exchange (2008)

Серия "Плежър ин" (Pleasure Inn)
 All Tied Up (2009)
 All Worked Up (2009)
 All Lit Up (2010)

Серия "Рискувай, за да спечелиш" (Playing For Keeps)
 Slow Ride (2015)Дългото пътуване, фен-превод
 Wild Ride (2015)
 Sweet Ride (2015)

Серия "Без правила" (Breaking the Rules)
 Hold Me Down Hard (2013)
 Pin Me Up Proper (2015)
 Tie Me Down Tight (2016)

Серия "Досие" (Dossier)
 Private Reserve (2017)
 House Rules (2017)
 Under Pressure (2017)
 Big Catch (2017)
 Brazilian Fantasy (2018)
 Improper Proposal (2018)

Участие в общи серии с други писатели

Серия "Съблазнителни приказки" (Alluring Tales) – с Виви Ана, Силвия Дей, Делила Девлин, Мила Джаксън, Лиза Рене Джоунс и Саша Уайт
 Awaken the Fantasy (2007)
 Hot Holiday Nights (2008)

Разкази
 Lover's Locket (2007)
 Web of Desire (2008)
 Peaches and Cream (2008)
 Blood Ties (2009)

Като Тейлор Кийтинг

Серия "Бодигард" (Guardian)
 Game Over (2010)
 Mind Games (2011)
 Fair Game (2012)

Източници

  Биография и библиография като Катрин Фокс и като Тейлор Кийтинг във "Fantasticfiction"
  Биография и библиография в "Goodreads"
  Биография в официалния сайт
  Биография и библиография в "Freshfiction"
  Информация в Библиотеката на Конгреса на САЩ

Външни препратки
  на Катрин Фокс

Канадски автори на любовни романи
Писатели на еротична литература

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Seymour Bernstein, composer for Manduca Music Publications will be featured in our May studio concert. He has just completed a documentary entitled Seymour: An Introduction directed by actor Ethan Hawke.


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A Prescription Explosion
Bad Behavior, Impossible Demands, Long Island, New York, Pharmacy, USA | Right	| August 9, 2021
I work as a pharmacy technician at a well-known pharmacy and convenience store. A man comes up to the counter and asks for a refill on his prescription. The pharmacist informs me the doctor did not call it in yet.
Me: "I'm sorry, sir, the doctor still did not call in your refill."
Customer: "Can you call him now?"
Me: "Of course!"
I call his doctor, but they have already closed for the day.
Me: "They left for the day. We can give you a few pills to hold you over."
Customer: "No, I don't want that! Every time I come here there is a f****** problem!"
Me: "What would you like me to do, sir?"
The customer walks away in a huff. I think this is the end of it until the phone rings thirty minutes later.
Customer #2: "Yes, my husband was just there and told me the doctor did not refill his prescription and you told him, 'What would you like me to do?' What kind of s***ty customer service is that? I work all f****** day. I don't need this s***."
Me: "Miss, I don't know what to tell you. I called the doctor and they had left for the day, so I offered your husband a few pills to hold him over and he refused that, as well."
Customer #2: "There had better be a prescription there tomorrow or I will blow up your f****** store."
Me: "Miss, that probably would not be a good idea considering I have your name and address right in front of me." *CLICK*
Some people are not too bright.
You Literally Have To Try To Work This Slowly
Coworkers, Jerk, Lazy/Unhelpful, Long Island, Military, New York, USA | Working	| November 10, 2020
In 1951, my mother is a young bride living just off the Air Force Base with my dad. Because she has a background in office work, she is recruited for a job on base. The work is beyond tedious.
I don't remember the exact nature of the job. Essentially, there is a table with bundles of about twenty-five financial forms that need to be checked against a master list to make sure all information is correct.
Mom is in an office with about five other women who are also doing the checking.
Mom finishes her first bundle of twenty-five and rechecks them, puts a notification that they have been checked and approved, puts them in the collection area, and picks up another bundle. The job is a seven-hour, five-days-a-week position, and by the end of the day, she has finished about half the bundles on the table. When she gets ready to leave, the other wives in the room do not return her "Goodnight" and will not speak with her at all.
The next day, one of the older women catches Mom as she goes to her desk.
Woman: *Bellowing* "YOU! YOU! Are you trying to show the rest of us up?"
Mom: "What do you mean?"
Woman: *Snapping* "You are only supposed to do one bundle a day! One! That's all any of us are able to handle, so stop making a mess just to show us up. You do one bundle and that's it!"
So Mom, who wanted to avoid trouble, tried to take all day to do one tiny bundle of forms. She described how she would sit with a single form and match each and every letter to the grand list, then do it again, spending maybe two or three full minutes on each form. She would take a breather between forms. But even doing this, she was still done within two hours.
Meanwhile, she said, the other women in the office were doing their nails, reading magazines, doing crossword puzzles, or just plain gossiping. At the end of the week, no one was talking to her yet and she was planning on quitting.
What saved her was the boss coming into the office and asking if anyone knew steno and touch typing. Mom practically jumped into his arms like an over-eager puppy.
That's how Mom wound up being a general secretary for all the base big wigs and, happily, making a lot more money than checking financial forms against each other.
I assume that, sixty-plus years later, some of those ladies are still sitting there, checking forms and doing their nails.
Sneaking Into The Kitchen To Cut Some Cheese
Funny Kids, Home, Long Island, New York, Parents/Guardians, Revolting, Sons & Daughters, USA | Related	| October 22, 2019
(I am watching television in the living room. It is past my eight-year-old daughter's bedtime, but for some reason she feels she is able to sneak past me into the kitchen to get a late snack. I am watching her attempt to sneak by, wondering how long I should let this go for, when she trips, falls, and lets out a huge fart. I can't help myself and burst out laughing.)
Me: "That was hysterical! I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying!"
Daughter: "Just wait until you smell it; you'll really be crying!"
Tiptoe Through The Blueberries, With Me
Grocery Store, Jerk, Long Island, New York, USA | Right	| September 11, 2019
(I'm working in the produce department at our local supermarket when a customer spills several containers of blueberries in the aisle. I'm guarding the aisle while my coworker goes to grab a broom and dustpan. The produce section basically has two aisles with produce displays in between, so there is an easy way to go around the blueberry mess. [Customer #1] approaches me, pushing a shopping cart.)
Me: "We have a bit of a mess right here. If you could just go around–"
Customer #1: "Oh, don't worry. I'll be careful!"
(The customer then proceeds to shove past me and picks up the back of the cart so only the first two wheels are on the ground, and then tip-toes THROUGH the mess of blueberries on the floor, squishing and smearing the mess further as she goes.)
Me: "Or you could do that…"
Cancer And Comas And Cash, Oh My
Bad Behavior, Clothing Store, Liars/Scammers, Long Island, New York, USA | Right	| August 27, 2019
(My store has a really lenient return policy. We'll even return things past the return period as long as the customers have their receipt, albeit for the item's current, often much reduced, price.)
Me: "Hi. How are you doing today?"
Customer: "I need to return this s***."
Me: "Oh… kay… Do you have your receipt?"
Customer: "Yeah, yeah, right here."
(She has two bags of kids' summer clothing. It is April and the receipt is from a year ago, WELL past the full return period of three months.)
Me: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but these are from last summer."
Customer: "So what? I have my receipt! They've never been worn; they have their tags on and everything!
Me: "Yes, but I can't give you the full refund. It says right at the bottom that returns must be made within ninety days for a full refund. I can return them for you, but only for their current prices."
Customer: "And how much is that gonna be?"
Me: "Probably not much, to be honest. These items are from last year."
Customer: "So, how f****** much?!"
Me: "All right, well…"
(I scan a few of the items and they come up about a fifth of their original prices.)
Customer: "WHAT? YOU'RE RIPPING ME THE F*** OFF!"
Me: "I'm sorry you feel that way, but this is our policy."
Customer: "You're all a bunch of liars and scammers! I didn't have time to come here before now!"
Me: "That—"
Customer: "My mother has cancer!"
Me: "I'm… sorry about that."
Customer: "Yeah! I haven't had any f****** time to do anything! I'm with her twenty-four-f******-seven. I take care of her!"
Me: "I am really sorry, but there isn't anything I can do. You can talk to a manager, but I don't even think they can override this."
Customer: "I can't believe this. You won't give me my money back because my mother is in the hospital dying of cancer."
Customer: "This is bulls***. You're bulls***. This place is bulls***. You're f****** scamming customers and screwing me out of my refund. It isn't my fault my f****** mother is dying! She has cancer!"
Customer: "I can't believe you. You must hate people with cancer, like MY MOTHER IN THE HOSPITAL WHERE I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF HER DAY AND NIGHT."
(She crams stuff back into her bags until they rip. I give her new bags but have no idea what to say.)
Customer: "My mother is dying and f****** has cancer and she's in a coma, and you a**holes won't refund me even though I have my receipt and had no idea there was a time limit."
(She walked out, still ranting. To this day, I have a weird suspicion that she was lying about her mother with cancer, just from the way she was talking about it, probably as some kind of sympathy ploy, which frankly makes her behaviour even WORSE.)
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence E - M.
Correspondents include: Anthony Eden on not accepting the order of the garter, building up the Conservative Front Bench and broadening the party's appeal (2); Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe] on finding United States accommodation for WSC on the Riviera [France] and on a statement concerning the crisis in January 1945 over pulling troops out of Alsace (3); Frank Cook [Charge d'Affaires, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia] on the gift of a picture from Bitwodded Makonnen, Prime Minister of Ethiopia; Patrick Scrivener, Foreign Office, on the picture (4); Robert Howe, British Minister in Ethiopia, on the picture (2); Keith Feiling on his biography of Neville Chamberlain (3); 2nd Lord Fisher; Sir Newman Flower, Director, Cassell and Company Limited, giving WSC a copy of his short story "Man Overboard"; Desmond Flower, Director, Cassell and Company Limited; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Bruce Fraser [later 1st Lord Fraser of North Cape], Commander-in-Chief British Pacific Fleet, on the surrender of Japan and the condition of the Japanese and of British prisoners of war; Felix Frankfurter, Justice, United States Supreme Court, in tribute to WSC; Gerald French; General Sir Bernard Freyberg [General Officer Commanding, New Zealand Forces] on withdrawing his forces from Italy and becoming Governor General of New Zealand; Sir George Harvie-Watt; Pieter Gerbrandy, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, on the situation in the Dutch East Indies [later Indonesia]; James Chuter Ede, Home Secretary, on the Armistice Day ceremony (2); Leslie Graham-Dixon; Sir Cecil Graves; Robert Graves, on "The Golden Fleece" and [? "King Jesus"]; King George II of Greece on the formation of the new Greek Government and British policy on Greece; Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then 1st Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] on United States reaction to members of the new British Cabinet; a representative of the Populist Party, Greece, protesting against British policy; Douglas Guthrie [Lecturer on the History of Medicine, University of Edinburgh]; 1st Lord Hailey [Chairman, International African Institute] on African reaction to WSC's loss of the General election; Roy Harrod [former statistical adviser to WSC] on standing as a Liberal candidate and Anglo-United States economic co-operation (2); Nina, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon [President, Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society]; Averell Harriman and Kathleen Harriman; "Bert" [Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur Harris] thanking WSC for his support; Sir Alan Herbert (2); Major-General Sir Percy Hobart, Commander 79th Armoured Division, in tribute to WSC and his support for the tank (2); Major-General Leslie Hollis [Senior Assistant Secretary, War Cabinet]; Harry Hopkins (2); Louis Abraham, Clerk to the Committee of Privileges; William Hughes; Harold Ickes, United States Secretary of the Interior (2); Bruce Ingram, [Editor] Illustrated London News, sending a letter from 1st Duke of Marlborough; Amir Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq; Lieutenant-General Sir Charles King, on his return from South East Asia Command (2); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to WSC] on subjects including German air superiority in the Battle of Britain (2); Maharaja of Kapurthala in tribute to WSC; Vice-Admiral J Kauffman, United States Navy; John Keeling; Marina, Duchess of Kent; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Keyes, asking WSC to postpone a visit to Belgium, to avoid supporting the anti-monarchist government, and on the harm done to King Leopold of Belgium; Eva, Lady Keyes, on 1st Lord Keyes's death (2); 1st Lord Killearn [earlier Sir Miles Lampson]; King George VI; Patrick Kinna [former Secretary to WSC] on his past work for WSC (4); Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to the King]; Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, in tribute to WSC and on his popularity in the United States and Canada (2); Judith, Lady Listowel, on the deportation of Hungarians from Slovakia [later Czechoslovakia]; Sir Alexander Korda; Dame Vera Laughton-Mathews, Director, Women's' Royal Naval Service]; Lord Leathers [former Minister of War Transport] in tribute to WSC; "Charley" [7th Lord Londonderry, earlier Lord Castlereagh, former Secretary of State for Air] on a disagreement with WSC over German air superiority in the Battle of Britain, and estimates of German air strength since 1935 (2): Edith, Lady Londonderry, on WSC's popularity in Ulster [Northern Ireland]; 3rd Lord Long on subjects including British officers in European resistance movements (2); Sir Frank Alexander, Lord Mayor, on honouring Chiefs of Staff and Heads of Forces; Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden]; Sir James Marchant; 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Sir Henry Mond] on police casualties in Palestine; Sir Ralph Metcalfe, Director of Sea Transport; Manuel Avila Camacho, President of Mexico, in tribute to WSC; Don Alfonso Rosenzweig Diaz, Mexican Ambassador to Britain; Decima, Lady Moore-Guggisberg, Honorary Organiser and Director General, British Navy, Army and Air Force Leave Club; 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson, President, Royal College of Physicians] inviting WSC to the College Dinner; Sir Clive Morrison-Bell; Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten [later 1st Lord Mountbatten of Burma] Supreme Allied Command, South East Asia; Malcolm McCorquodale on the loss of his seat and of the General election; 1st Lord McGowan, Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited [ICI] (6); Brigadier-General Angus McNeill on Palestine and attacks on WSC from Conservative colleagues.
Other subjects include: the sittings for a drawing of WSC by Augustus John; requests for signed photographs of WSC.
Also includes: notes and copies of correspondence by John Peck, John Colville and John Martin, WSC's Private Secretaries; a pamphlet by Felix Frankfurter on Franklin Roosevelt; the programme for Armistice Day; WSC on the new policy towards Greece; a memorandum by Sir Gilbert Campion, Clerk to the House of Commons, on serving legal processes against MPs; an Air Ministry pamphlet on the Battle of Britain; ICI Organization Charts and a print of McGowan's speech on ICI's achievements during the war.
Battle of Britain (1940)
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965), Knight, statesman and Prime Minister


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