Re: Skwawkbox: Hasan’s screeching u-turn on Times’ claims against Labour highlights appalling journalism Archived Message
Posted by brooks on April 9, 2019, 4:29 pm, in reply to "Skwawkbox: Hasan’s screeching u-turn on Times’ claims against Labour highlights appalling journalism"
Hasan seems to be in a permanent state of inner conflict. He wants to be seen as cutting edge and progressive, and probably believes that he really is, while also not wanting to alienate the liberal establishment. So he ends up jumping on a lot of state propaganda bandwagons, getting knocked off, saying he was never really on, and generally looking like the waffling, unprincipled hack that he is. Here's where he denounced anyone who questioned the Douma CW narrative as "Assad apologists": DEAR BASHAR AL-ASSAD APOLOGISTS, Sorry to interrupt: I know you’re very busy right now trying to convince yourselves, and the rest of us, that your hero couldn’t possibly have used chemical weapons to kill up to 70 people in rebel-held Douma on April 7. Maybe Robert Fisk’s mysterious doctor has it right — and maybe the hundreds of survivors and eyewitnesses to the attack are all “crisis actors.” etc https://theintercept.com/2018/04/19/dear-bashar-al-assad-apologists-your-hero-is-a-war-criminal-even-if-he-didnt-gas-syrians/
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