YOU'VE GOT OT LOVE AMERICA!

Watching Anderson Cooper interviewing Black Panthers about Trayvon’s murder… Anderson is a good interviewer…. Serious direct and committed to get the point out…Rev. Mikhail Muhammad was accusing and calling the names on America… I value this freedom we have. We don’t have to agree with any one, but allowing one to speak his point of view, however ridiculous it is, makes our nation a great nation. I am proud of my nation.

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MikeGhouse is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. He is a professional speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, civic affairs, Islam, India, Israel, peace and justice. Mike is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity show on Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he writes weekly at Dallas Morning News and regularly at Huffington post, The Smirking Chimp and several other periodicals. His daily blog is www.TheGhousediary.com

Zakaria, Kristof and Ghouse on Middle East

Those who watch and read multiple sources of news and information are fairly similar and accurate in their assessment of the situation in the Middle East, except those who just watch American News media, forget about the Fox news watchers.

In the last few weeks, I found similarities in the takes of Nick Kristof, Fareed Zakaria and myself.  Between Kristof and me, four articles have a similar take and one has an identical paragraph that I wrote on 25^th and he wrote the same on 26^th.

Full story at: http://theghousediary.blogspot.com/2011/02/fareed-zakaria-nick-kristof-mike-ghouse.html

Competetion in media is good for America

I was at lunch with my daughter and the topic came about Middle East; I was taken back that she was mirroring exactly what Fox and CNN (to an extent) do, exaggerate and highlight an isolated incident as the norm.

The events in the Middle East have gotten the right wingers by their balls, I just wrote this yesterday . They cannot sell lies to Americans anymore.

The LA Times reports the possibility of Aljazeera on Cable networks in the US.  In Los Angeles, KCET-TV provides online streaming coverage from the network and includes an Al Jazeera English report in its broadcast lineup.

We have better cars today, better television sets and now it is time for better news, and competition will do that. We welcome Aljazeera.

Mike Ghouse offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day - http://www.mikeghouse.net/

Integrity of American Media

We have to seriously question our own integrity in reporting of events.

Had Aljazeera not reported these events in the Middle East and if the American Media had the monopoly – would they have reported these events as acts of terrorism? Would our media selectively shown a remote and perhaps unrelated event as the acts of “extremists”?    

Didn’t our fascist leaning President wanted to Bomb Aljazeera? Now we have to question al that was reported in the past, was that the whole truth? 

It is good to have competition; it minimizes the temptations of the media to misrepresent the situations. I welcome Aljazeera.

Glen Beck barks in the dark

 
When you shoot in the dark, it is likely to hit some one.

An idiot randomly says things hoping the shoe may fit someone at any given time, but that should not encourage the one to support the idiot, in the long run; he will nail every one unintentionally.

Glen Beck apologizes for comparing reformed Judaism to radical Islam. That is how much the man knows about Judaism, Islam or anything.  

I am glad the Jewish groups took action; actually we all need to join hands together against stupidity. Muslims should join them and vice versa.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/joannabrooks/4299/glenn_beck_apologizes_for_comparing_reform_judaism_to_%E2%80%9Cradical_islam%E2%80%9D/