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Why are so many journalists like Phillip Adams out and out bigoted liars?
Gerard Jackson
Phillip Adams ranks as one of Australia’s most vicious and certainly most dishonest leftwing columnists. This apologist for just about every communist regime that ever existed (he was a great admirer of Mao’s murderous Cultural Revolution) thinks Americans are being carted off to a Republican Gulag (funny thing though, I never remember him ever condemning the real thing) such is his mephitic state of mind.
On 1 April — the irony obviously eluded him — he was in full lying mode, asserting, with his usual pompous way, that the 1968 Chicago rioters were just a bunch of fun-filled “yippees” who were wantonly set up by Mayor Daley’s fascist police (Yippie, it was fun once, The Australian).
For those of us who are old enough to remember, and Adams is, the 1968 riots were marked by two groups of students: those in Czechoslovakia who courageously stood up to Soviet tyranny by throwing themselves at its tanks (these are the students the socialist Adams never mentions) and those Western students who rioted against democratic governments while screaming mindless left-wing slogans.
These were the spoiled brats of an affluent West who joined the Hanoi war movement. In his shabby attempt to romanticise the riots that broke up the 1968 September Democratic National Convention in Chicago Adams is lying about those who deliberately brought about that particularly violent event.
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of these vicious riots, the mendacious Peter Wilson of The Australian told readers that the Chicago police had been ordered to “crack their [rioters] skulls”. (This is the same lying Wilson who maliciously accused US troops of murdering journalists Murdoch’s own Eason Jordan: more damning evidence). His colleague Cameron Stewart described how protesters were “clubbed by police on the city’s streets…’ Not to be out done, Jennifer Hewitt of the Age wrote about protesters being beaten back by “tear gas and batons”.
(There is no doubt in my mind that it was the rioters’ treasonous backing for Hanoi’s communist dictatorship that elicited support, and still does, from these so-called journalists)
The leaders of the phony anti-war movement were never against war in South Asia East. These hypocrites fully supported communist aggression against the South. They never once uttered a word of condemnation of Ho Chi Min’s Stalinist regime, of the mass murder of peasants he ordered; nor did they protest the Hue massacre in 1968 when thousands of Southerners were systematically butchered by communist troops.
They never once called for the North to hold free elections, free all political prisoners, respect human rights, etc. All they ever called for was the destruction of the South. And when it came to the final murderous consequences of the Stalinist victory, there was only arrogant silence. But for many of Hanoi’s victims it became the silence of the grave.
In short, they were liars and hypocrites — and still are. But the likes of Wilson, Stewart, Hewitt and Adams will never tell their readers that. Just how rotten this lot leftists really are can be gauged from Stewart’s claim that US “soldiers were mauled” during the Tet Offensive. This is pure left-wing propaganda through and through. Two things are established beyond any doubt:
1. The Tet Offensive was a complete military a disaster for the North. Far from being mauled American and South Vietnamese troop utterly destroyed the Viet Cong as an effective fighting force.
2. The North broke the Tet Truce. Therefore Stewart is either incompetent or a calculating liar.
Another left-wing lie that journalists have perpetuated about the so-called peaceful demonstrators is that they were set on by Chicago police on the orders of Mayor Daley. As is invariably the case with the Left, the truth turns out to be the very opposite of what they state. These so-called protestors went to Chicago for the sole purpose of provoking a riot. It was Tom Hayden who said:
We should have people organised who can fight the police, who are willing to get arrested. No question, there will be a lot of arrests. My thinking is not to leave the initiative to the police....We don't want to get into the trap of violence versus passive action.
In short, the police must be provoked. They succeeded. The organised violence also had the added bonus, from this thug’s point of view, of involving innocent people. It was great stuff for a collaborating media. Hayden strongly hinted at the coming violence when in June that year he publicly announced that
we are planning tactics of prolonged direct action [code phrase for violence] to put the heat on the government....responsibility for any violence that develops lies with the authorities, not the demonstrators.
He also stated that “the era of organised, peaceful and orderly demonstrations is coming to an end and other methods will be needed”. As far back as November 1967, Jerry Rubin, a well-known Maoist, was openly advising so-called protesters to bring fake IDs, smoke bombs, football helmets, and “blood to throw [it looks good on TV],...Also football helmets..” to the Democrats’ Convention.
Michael Rossman, a friend of Ruben’s, broke ranks over the organisers’ plans to provoke a riot. In a column he wrote for the San Francisco Time he presciently warned:
This style of organising was dangerously irresponsible. For the formless publicity building the magical beckoning symbol of music projects an image that is recklessly and inescapably slanted. It promise grooving and warmth, and does not warn that joy much be won from within — not absorbed from others — in a landscape of total hostility whose ground conditions may well be the terror and death of one's brothers...and once triggered, the energies there may not soon subside.
No wonder Daley was prepared for the worst. He knew what was coming. Even though there is now no doubt that the Chicago riots were premeditated leftwing scum like Adam and his fellow travellers in the media are still telling Australians that the left-wing rioters were really peaceful protestors who were set upon by Daley's uniformed thugs
That Adams’ perverse views on Pol Pot clearly mark him out as a dissembling bigot. At his most bizarre he asked “who suffered the most. . . . The Cambodians as victims of themselves”. Does this clown think these people committed mass suicide? More than 2 million Cambodian were murdered by a communist regime. One of the worst crimes committed in this totalitarian century. Yet Adams could not bring himself to accept that communism was the real criminal.
When Adams interviewed (I think it was 1989) Dr Haing Ngor, author of Surviving The Killing Fields, on his radio show, Adams couldn’t bring himself to accept Ngor’s observation that communist ideology was responsible for the mass slaughter in Cambodia and Mao's China.
The Cambodian tragedy is not the only striking example of his callousness. Making light of Saddam’s appalling crimes while sneering at his victims’ plight Adams’ derisively asked: “Where are the bodies of evidence?” This pusillanimous excuse for a man quickly changed his mind when Christopher Hitchens publicly took him to task for his snide exculpation of Saddam and his indifference to those who suffered under this thug’s sadistic regime.
Note: How’s this for another example of media corruption. A US-Iraq force recently raided terrorists who were hiding in the Mustafa mosque near Sadr City. These sadists had captured three Iraqi soldier and hideously tortured them. They then disembowelled them while they were still alive.
And with whom did our journalists side with. The sadistic terrorists, of course. Although the raiding force carefully documented, including photographing, everything it did and then passed the information on to the media Murdoch’s Australian still published a report by so-called “correspondents in Baghdad” supportive of Moqtada al-Sadr vile accusation that US troops had committed a massacre. These phony reporters also neglected to mention that the said terrorists were in the pay of Moqtada al-Sadr.
The ABC (Australian Brainwashing Corporation) wasn’t much better. Although it quoted Major General J. D. Thurman as denying charges of a US massacre it too refused to report the real story. This is called lying by omission.
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Phillip Adams: loving anti-Semites and hating President Bush
Phillip Adams’ anti-capitalist lunacy
Philip Adams’ socialist hypocrisy
Phillip Adams and the moral bankruptcy of the left
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Philip Adams’ anti-Semitic friends
Gerard Jackson is Brookes’ economics editor
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 10 April 2006