Wednesday, January 12, 2011

A right-wing Lebanese Forces propagandist lectures to the New York Times

"The New York Times is usually better than this. Eli Khoury, one of the founders of the Lebanon Renaissance Foundation and publisher of the news website NOW Lebanon, once made a trip to the offices of the New York Times editorial board after they published some obnoxious articles about Lebanon’s pro-democracy movement.
“I said, ‘Listen guys,’” Khoury told me. “‘Lebanon is a country that didn’t need the help of the U.S. Army. You guys didn’t have to bomb our country. We’re talking about a bunch of grassroots democrats who went into the streets and seized their own thing with their own hands. And they expect democrats in the rest of the world to support them.’ Since then the New York Times has not done one single bad story about Lebanon.”"  Of course, this Khury is a right-wing Lebanese Forces supporter who used to work for Saatchi and Saatchi before opening his own shop.  Do you think that the editorial board of the New York Times would listen to lectures from the other side, or in Lebanon there is only one side--just as in the Arab-Israeli conflict--by the lousy standards of the New York Times. (thanks "Ibn Rushd")