Ex-President Clinton, We Found Your Press Team
Israel Hasbara Committee has a post up (h/t Michele Malkin) that makes me think of Bill Clinton over the past week.
It seems the French media company, France 2, has decided they have to defend their reputation. they’ve taken three critics of their reporting to court for defamation. The defamation occurred when these three questioned the veracity of footage allegedly showing Israeli soldiers killing a young palestinian boy.
The media crying slander based on a law most likely designed to protect the public from defamation by the media?! Now that’s justice with a unique French twist.
Now that’s a trick Bill Clinton would admire. Not defending one’s work by looking at the facts, but calling slander and filing a lawsuit to shut one’s critics up.
France 2 TV seeks revenge upon the local whistlebl
The political and court situation in France can be very awful, and that’s certainly the case now, what with France 2, the TV channel that conducted the fauxtography with a Muslim boy named Mohammed al-Dura, now suing three local media monitors who da…
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