Sunday, January 07, 2007

Those wingers can get you killed.


I realize this is old news by now, but it's worth pointing out a somewhat unpleasant consequence of the wankersphere's hysterical denunciation of the "Jamil Hussein" AP story -- Hussein has been arrested.

Thanks, folks. When it came to stroking your egos and howling about "liberal media bias" versus putting someone's life in danger, well, I'm guessing that wasn't all that tough a decision, was it?

Good job.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

If Hussein doesn't survive, that's two deaths we can pin on Michelle Malkin (morally, if not legally). In fact we could pin it on all the wingnuts who participated in this propaganda pile on, KKKate included. If they think that's unfair, well...that's just too bad.

Anonymous said...

Do you think Malkin will visit him? (If he's still alive, that is?)

Do you think Malkin is making security arrangements (even though she believes Bagdhad is as safe as any large US city)?

She was clearly wrong. Again. And she's not going to apologize because she's a nauseating piece of shit.

Anonymous said...

This is just ghastly. And what do we hear from right-wing bloggers??

*CRICKETS*

Anonymous said...

Let me get this straight: some guy named Jamil Hussein leaks information to somebody, other people don't like what he is saying and doubt he even exists; it is proven he does, in fact, exist and the Left celebrates having a stick with which to poke the Right in the eye; his employers now discover his duplicity because of the uproar by Left and Right over his existence, and they arrest him. Somehow, this is the fault of the Right?

The air on Planet Lefty must not contain enough oxygen to support higher brain function: Jamil Hussein chose to be a source of information, and had to know that his employers would be angry about such behaviour. How can this be anyone else's fault?

Of course, I am forgetting the Left's inherent propensity to deny that anybody should be held responsible for their own decisions or actions.

Anonymous said...

That's right, Hooligan. That darn Hussein persisted in talking to people about public events even though he knew that he lived in a country with no tolerance for free speech or the rule of law. He had it coming to him, and it certainly isn't Malkin's fault for working day and night to expose him...

Anonymous said...

Adam,

It is tragic that such things happen. It is sad to think that a courageous man, for he must surely have been that to have acted as he did, may end his days imprisoned, or worse.

It does no good to deny, however, that Hussein made a conscious choice to act as he did. In fact, it belittles his actions to do so. To speak up, as a free man, in a less-than-free society is a brave thing to do and Iraq could use more like him. Would it be stretching the truth, do you think, to say that if Iraq did have more like him it would not be the place it is today?

CC said...

hooligan:

Will you please stop making shit up? As many whingers pointed out, Hussein was quoted by the AP in some 60 news pieces and at no time during any of that did he appear to be in any danger. It was only after the Retard-o-sphere went totally, fucking batshit-crazy with outrage trying to prove he didn't exist that he was arrested.

More significantly, given how the Right likes to lie, it may even be that he was not arrested for what he actually did, but for what the Right claims he did. And given the Right's track record for accuracy, I think we can safely assume that much of what they wrote was utter crap.

So knock it off with the fake piety and sympathy. Jamil Hussein was apparently doing just fine, until the Right went bonkers and decided to destroy him. Let's not make this his fault, shall we? We already know who's responsible.

Anonymous said...

It's disgusting to hear some of these people cry and moan about accountability and responsibility, then power up the denial and finger pointing machines when they make a mistake.

Responsibility: A virtue best possessed by people other then myself.

Scotian said...

CC:

They weren't out to destroy JH, they were out to destroy AP. JH is yet another piece of the collateral damage that routinely follows in the wake of such witchhunts that those conducting such see as necessary and unavoidable costs of winning the war (whatever war it is from Iraq to the media to their fellow citizen that feels differently than they do). After all it is not their skins or those that they love in the line of fire/harm so what does it matter to them? (Yes, this is meant bitingly for those that can't tell)

Hooligan:

The sequence was that AP used JH as a source on a rather ugly story dealing with the execution by burning in the middle of the street of I think it was 6 Iraqis. The American conservative blogosphere and media machine went nuts trying to disprove the existence of such a person to claim this story as evidence of their believed liberal media conspiracy out to misreport what really is happening in Iraq. After nearly 2 months of this it is finally confirmed that JH exists and is a captain in the police in Baghdad just as AP had originally claimed he was and the conservatives were shouting was a fictional creation. Unfortunately as a result of his identity being conclusively confirmed in such a loud/public manner he is arrested for having talked to the AP/media and AP lost a credible source with a good position for gaining further stories of what is really going on in Baghdad/Iraq. However the left blogosphere is not to blame since all they did was react to this crusade of Malkin's among others like Powerline against AP since this is a tired myth we hear time and again from the NA conservative movement. If this man is tortured or dies as a result of all this then it is those same right wingers like Malkin and Hinderaker that are culpable/responsible for it. I wonder how they would react with real blood on their hands as a direct result of their actions. Somehow I don't think it would faze them much if at all which speaks volumes as to the vacuity of their souls if such were to happen and that was their response.