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Iran Badge Story Aftermath
May 25th, 2006 at 07:57 Björn Hallberg
The Canadian newspaper that first published the story were at least honest enough to offer an apology. Although too little and too late, and directed at the wrong people.
Reuters - But the National Post, a long-time supporter of Israel and critic of Tehran, admitted on Wednesday it had not checked the piece thoroughly enough before running it.
“It is now clear the story is not true,” National Post editor-in-chief Douglas Kelly wrote in a long editorial on page 2. “We apologize for the mistake and for the consternation it has caused not just National Post readers, but the broader public who read the story.”
The story was based on a column by Iranian expatriate writer Amir Taheri, who said a law being debated by Iran’s parliament would force Jews to sew a yellow strip of cloth to their clothes. Christians would wear a red strip while Zoroastrians would wear a blue one.
Nice of them to apologize to their readers but not to Iran. The same goes for Canadian PM Stephen Harper who shows no remorse for having jumped the gun on the story and equated Iran with Nazi Germany as well.
Kurt Nimmo has written extensively on the disinformation campaign.
I find this tidbit from Nimmo particularly apt as it shows the real level of hypocrisy involved:
In fact, it would be spot on if Ahmadinejad had accused the Bush crime family of Nazi connections, as documents in the National Archives and the Library of Congress reveal Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the current resident of the White House, “served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942,” as John Buchanan reported for the New Hampshire Gazette on October 10, 2003. In other words, the Bush family has more to do with persecuting Jews (and plenty of Roma, homosexuals, political dissidents, communists, socialists, “deviant” artists, and others) than Iran ever will. But never mind. Bush’s neocons are waging a crusade against Muslim culture and facts will not be allowed to get in the way—not that most Americans, steeped in a ceaseless flow of propaganda vomit, know the difference.
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