By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--July 18, 2013
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[C]ontinuous broadcasts of protest demonstrations by Mursi supporters at the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo, compared with the more limited coverage of the anti-Mursi demonstrations in Tahrir Square;[1] exclusive and continuous coverage from the headquarters of the Republican Guard on July 8, 2013, where dozens of MB supporters were killed by army gunfire when they tried to storm the headquarters where Mursi is being held, while repeatedly displaying pictures of the dead and calling the events "a massacre"; the vast majority of text messages from viewers that the channel runs as subtitles at the bottom of the screen convey support for the MB; an incident that the channel's correspondent provoked during an Egyptian army press conference on July 8, 2013, during which she attacked the army's behavior and was expelled from the auditorium by the other correspondents;[2] and claims raised in the Facebook account of one of the channel's presenters, Ahmad Mansouron, purporting that provisional president 'Adly Mansour is Jewish.MEMRI also reports that some attempts are being made by the Egyptian military and other anti-Muslim Brotherhood supporters to have Al Jazeera's Egyptian broadcast license revoked for it entirely one-sided reportage. In the meantime, Al Jazeera America is about to debut on U.S. cable systems across the country. The Muslim-owned news network based in the oil-rich nation of Qatar bought Al Gore's Current TV cable network in December of 2012 netting Al Gore a windfall profit of some $100 million. In May the nascent network announced that it wanted to hire "800 American journalists" and has already hired several high profile Americans such as Michael Viqueira and former CNN business reporter Ali Velshi. The network also hired Soledad O'Brien after she was fired by CNN. On the other hand, Former Al Jazeera anchor Dave Marash, who came to the network from Britain, quit Al Jazeera because he realized that it was not a free and open news source but was controlled by the Qatari government all the way down the line. Simply put, any American that goes to work for Al Jazeera is a traitor to his country and to western civilization.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
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