🔮Pager Bombs & Sympathy Crumbs: Hezbollah Gets a Puff Piece...
📰 THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: Explosive (literally) When Journalism Forgets Who the Terrorist Is By: Daphne McCringe, Chief Correspondent for Credulous Weeping & Absurd Rewrites * This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. Then it’s all gloves off. In what might be the most misguided Pulitzer bid since CNN asked the Taliban for fashion tips, the Associated Press has published a full-length, soft-focus, tear-soaked elegy on Hezbollah members injured by Israel’s exploding pagers . Titled something like "Hearts, Homes, and Hezbollah: The Tragedy of Terrorists with Burnt Thumbs," the piece attempts to paint rocket-firing militants as misunderstood boy scouts with beepers and bad luck. The article opens with a dramatic image of a Hezbollah "religious teacher" who, while passing on spiritual wisdom to other armed radicals, happened to be holding a pag...