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FOX ’News’ misstates (or Lies About) Pope John Paul II’s Position on Iraq

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 6 April 2005
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Neil Cavuto Misstates (or Lies About) Pope John Paul II’s Position on Iraq

Neil Cavuto (I’ll be generous, for now) vastly misstated Pope John
Paul II’s position on the Iraq war today (April 4, 2005) on Your World
w/Neil Cavuto.

Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
was a guest. (Fox identified him as being from the "Progressive Muslim
Unit," whatever that is.) Hussein was speaking about Pope John Paul’s
pacifism and about his frequent support for people on both sides of an
issue.

Ibish: "I think he impressed a lot of people in the Arab and Islamic
world by taking a strong stance against the war in Iraq and by taking,
by rejecting, you know, very categorically the idea of preemptive
warfare, and what have you. So, he was respected both as a religious
figure but also as a political figure who was able to be a friend of
Israel and a friend of the Palestinians at the same time. Something we
might want to..."

Cavuto, interrupting: "Well, to be fair, his views were not that
black and white on the war in Iraq, but, Hussein thank you very much."

Ibish: "No. I think you’re wrong about that."

Cavuto: "Well, we can argue but I don’t want to argue with you today because I like you."

Comment: No, Neil, Hussein Ibish is right and you’re wrong. The Pope
was adamantly against the Iraq war (see below). His views were very
black and white. Given Fox’s (cynical, in my opinion) wall-to-wall
coverage of the Pope’s life and death, it’s unseemly, to say the least,
to simultaneously denigrate him by lying about his political positions.

Houston Catholic Worker:

[O]nly peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united society.

The American Catholic:

War is never just another means that one can choose to employ for settling differences between nations.

CBS News:

The pope spoke out forcefully against the U.S. war in Iraq, and
reproached George W. Bush about it, both in public and private, at the
last of their four visits.

Reported by Melanie
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/04/04...

Forum posts

  • The point is: WHO CARES WHAT THE OLD QUEER DID OR DIDN’T APPROVE OF???

    • And who cares if you’re the only sick bas**rd who feels compelled to post the Reuglican line. Go get a life, dead ender. You red-state rhetoric is not welcome around here.

  • What exactly is the definition of news these days? Why is it legal for our media to lie to us on the public airwaves?