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WATCH: CNN's Wolf Blitzer challenges Hamas spokesman on blood libel comments (Original Post) King_David Aug 2014 OP
Wolf challenges Hamas leader Posted at 8:09 pm by: Wolf Blitzer King_David Aug 2014 #1
Who was the genius in Hamas who picked a P/R spokesman to the US named Osama? Fozzledick Aug 2014 #2
If I'm understanding right... Scootaloo Aug 2014 #3
yes poor Wolf he said he wanted denial azurnoir Aug 2014 #5
This Makes a change from Mistranslation or MEMRI has an agenda King_David Aug 2014 #7
All the guy had to say was sabbat hunter Aug 2014 #6
I think he's well-aware of "gotcha" hooks, though Scootaloo Aug 2014 #8
he never even sabbat hunter Aug 2014 #9
Wish Blitzer MFM008 Aug 2014 #4

King_David

(14,851 posts)
1. Wolf challenges Hamas leader Posted at 8:09 pm by: Wolf Blitzer
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:08 PM
Aug 2014
http://situationroom.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/04/wolf-challenges-hamas-leader/

In a tense interview, Wolf Blitzer challenges the Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan on comments he made suggesting that Jews killed Christians and mixed their blood in holy matzo.

Fozzledick

(3,860 posts)
2. Who was the genius in Hamas who picked a P/R spokesman to the US named Osama?
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:13 PM
Aug 2014

Didn't they realize how that would resonate to a US audience, or didn't they care?
Either way it kind of gives their game away.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
3. If I'm understanding right...
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:45 PM
Aug 2014

And there's no guarantee I am, this guys' English is clearly learned from someone who learned it as a second or third language... I think he's trying to explain to Blitzer that he was comparing Feiglin's writings, to the claims made against Jews. Or something to that effect. Between the language hurdles and the dude's evasiveness, any point he's trying to make is dashed.

Poor Wolf, having to sit through a bunch of evasive gibberish that never reaches a point.

King_David

(14,851 posts)
7. This Makes a change from Mistranslation or MEMRI has an agenda
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 06:53 AM
Aug 2014

Or English isn't there 1st language or Blowback or ( fill in the gap)

sabbat hunter

(6,831 posts)
6. All the guy had to say was
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 06:37 AM
Aug 2014

No, I do not believe that.

It has nothing to do with what his first/second or third languages are.

"No" is a simple word.

This man could not bring himself to say that.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
8. I think he's well-aware of "gotcha" hooks, though
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 01:13 PM
Aug 2014

"No, I do not believe that" would be met with Wolf of course going "But you're saying it right here!" and then there's the go-around as Hamdan has to defend himself against being called a lair and all that. You don't become a spokesperson for an organization like hamas without knowing how to avoid traps like that.

So instead, he tried to skip that merry-go-round, and attempt to explain where he was coming from to say that.

Basically, either way he's in a weak position, and opted to go for offensive in the debate, rather than letting Wolf push him intgo a corner.

sabbat hunter

(6,831 posts)
9. he never even
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 05:48 PM
Aug 2014

tried to deny it, he went off on tangents, changed the topic. But never even tried to address the question.

Which probably means he does believe it, or at least is willing to use that blood libel to incite hatred against all Jews.

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
4. Wish Blitzer
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 03:16 AM
Aug 2014

would have grilled all the Israeli representitives as lustily as this. Didnt happen. May have but I didnt see it and I watched quite a bit.

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