“This administration has financed a genocide in Gaza for the last year and every day you’re up there denying it,” Cosgrove told Miller before declaring, “People are sick of the bullshit in here, it is a genocide.”
In examining Cosgrove’s confrontation with Miller, Cabello highlights Peter Beinart’s recent appearance on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show The Reidout. Beinart is a political analyst and the author of the forthcoming book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. In this segment, Beinart strongly critiques the role of mainstream corporate media and its various personalities in covering the Israeli government’s response to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. And he makes these strong critiques on corporate media and to one of its personalities! It’s quite something. . . . As is Cabello’s segment in general, although I realize his style of presentation may not be everyone’s cup of tea.
What Hamas did on October 7 was evil in that it targeted civilians in a really horrifying way. But if you want to fight against that violence, you can’t do it effectively unless you understand that it’s within a larger structure of the violence of oppression. . . . [I]f you believe that all human life is precious, you have to believe that Palestinian life is precious too. Even strategically, if you don’t understand the context in which the October 7 attack happened, if you can’t distinguish between understanding and justifying, which are completely different things, you’re not going to have an effective strategy. And that’s [also] what happened after 9/11. We didn’t have a good strategy for dealing with Iraq and Afghanistan because we didn’t do the right analysis about why in fact those attacks happened.
. . . Good for Kamala Harris for [recently] showing genuine empathy and talking about Palestinians as human beings. But people are not going to take you seriously in that rhetoric if you keep unconditionally providing weapons – the same weapons that are killing people in Gaza and killing people in Lebanon. If these words are going to mean anything, they have to be followed by actions.
– Peter Beinart
Related Off-site Links:
Journalist Calls Out U.S. Spokesperson During Press Briefing – Arab News (October 9, 2024).
“It’s Genocide and You’re Abetting It” – Journalist Finally Tells U.S. Government Spokesperson What We’re All Thinking – Skwawk Box (October 9, 2024).
The Mainstream Media Has Failed Us After 7 October – Peter Beinart (The Guardian, October 7, 2024).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Jeff Cohen: Quote of the Day – February 28, 2022
• John Atcheson: Quote of the Day – October 19, 2019
• Bernie Sanders and the Corporate Media
• What Marianne Williamson Learned from Running for President
• The Exception to the Rulers
• Now Here’s a Voice I’d Like to Hear Regularly on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
• Reacting to the Effects, Not the Cause, of What Ails Us
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