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Good comments as ever from FAIR. Where in the US media did we hear
Jeremy Corbyn linking the UK's participation in the war-on-terror
nonsense, to the recent acts of terror in the UK?<br>
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<p>When a terrorist killed 22
at a May 22 concert filled
with young people in
England’s Manchester, most
journalists—especially US
ones—assumed it would help
the struggling Conservative
Party and its
standard-bearer, Prime
Minister Theresa May, win
the snap election she had
called for June 8, just 17
days ahead.</p>
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Bombing Shifts Political
Narrative as U.K.
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<p class="wp-caption-text"><em>The
<strong>New York Times</strong>
(<a
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href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=d88f3c1116&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">5/24/17</a>)
thought the Manchester
bombing would let Teresa
May “reassert herself as
Britain’s reassuring
grown-up, a trusted pair
of hands on security
issues — especially in
contrast with her main
rival, the Labour leader
Jeremy Corbyn.”</em></p>
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<p>That is, after all, the
conventional wisdom: In
times of crisis, like a
terror attack, the public
looks to its leaders for
tough talk and dramatic
action. <b>New York Times</b>
correspondent Steven
Erlanger <a
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style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">(5/24/17)</a>,
noting that May’s “easy
glide” to re-election had
run into trouble prior to
the bombing, wrote an
article on how the attack
“Shifts Political Narrative
as UK Election Looms”:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If the Manchester bombing
was a horrible tragedy for
Britain, it was a
political boon, however
unwanted, for Prime
Minister Theresa May.</p>
<p>Monday’s terrorist attack
has changed the narrative
of Britain’s election,
just two weeks away — and
in her favor. As the
incumbent prime minister,
Mrs. May inevitably speaks
both to and for the nation
from 10 Downing Street.
And having been home
secretary for six years
before becoming prime
minister, she is
knowledgeable and
comfortable with the
issues of security,
policing and terrorism.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Erlanger went on to report
that May’s opponent, leftist
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,
was seen to have a
“weakness” on security,
citing his “old sympathies
with Sinn Fein and the Irish
Republican Army.” Erlanger
quoted a historian’s view
that “there can only be more
questions” for Corbyn after
the bombing, which opened
him to attacks from
right-wing media for being
“soft on terror.”</p>
<p>But Corbyn took a bold and
unusual stand after the
Manchester horror. On March
26, just four days after the
suicide bombing, he gave a
speech on foreign policy and
terrorism that criticized
May’s role as home secretary
under former PM David
Cameron. Noting that she had
overseen cuts in public
safety funding that had
furloughed 20,000 police
officers, Corbyn said, “You
cannot protect the public on
the cheap.”</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text"><em>Jeremy
Corbyn’s anti-war speech
made headlines on <strong>Democracy
Now!</strong> and <strong>Common
Dreams</strong>, but
not in the <strong>New
York Times</strong>.</em></p>
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<p>More importantly, Corbyn
went on to say, “We must be
brave enough to admit the
war on terror is simply not
working.” A life-long
anti-war activist and critic
of British participation in
US-led wars, even under his
own party’s leaders, Corbyn
charged that British
interventions, particularly
in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya
and Syria, had made the
country less rather than
more safe, saying:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Many experts, including
professionals in our
intelligence and security
services, have pointed to
the connections between
wars our government has
supported or fought in
other countries, such as
Libya, and terrorism here
at home.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>While Corbyn’s dramatic
words were widely reported
in the British media, mostly
in the context of scathing
criticism, one struggled to
find them mentioned in the
US media—especially on the
TV news—despite the heavy
attention being paid to the
bombing, and to a later
truck attack on London
Bridge. Apparently, when it
comes to the US news media,
talking about such notions
is something to be left to
alternative outlets like <b>Common
Dreams</b> (<a
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href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=4f7b5fd140&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">5/26/17</a>)
and <b>Democracy Now!</b> (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=18c6b4cddb&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">5/26/17</a>),
and to the more radical
elements of the US peace
movement.</p>
<p>Although it’s hard to
imagine a presidential or
congressional candidate of
either major US party making
a similar speech following a
terror attack, Corbyn’s
views have been a non-story
in the view of most American
news editors.</p>
<p>A<b> USA Today</b> piece (<a
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href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=5f486f8540&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">5/26/17</a>)
had a one-paragraph preview
of Corbyn’s speech, making
sure to mention that his
“party is expected to
perform poorly in the June 8
vote.” <b>Bloomberg News</b>
(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=9fd5e17ad9&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">5/26/17</a>)
had a longer report on
Corbyn’s speech, though it
gave the last word to
Conservative critics who
said that Corbyn came from
“an extreme and ideological
world that is too quick to
make excuses for the actions
of our enemies and too
willing to oppose the
measures and people that
keep us safe”—though polling
found the British public <a
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style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">largely in
agreement</a> with his
view that the “War on
Terror” had made them less
safe.</p>
<p>Only the <b>Washington
Post</b> <a
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style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"> (5/27/17)</a>
suggested the possibility
that Corbyn might benefit by
linking the Manchester
terror bombing to British
policies in the Middle East,
at least if his intention
was to “galvanize his base.”
In an article headlined
“Manchester Bombing Makes
Terrorism Central Campaign
Issue in June Elections,” <b>Post</b>
correspondents Karla Adam
and Michael Birnbaum quoted
Tim Bale, a politics
professor at Queen Mary
University in London. He
said while the Corbyn speech
would predictably outrage
Conservatives, “If his aim
is to mobilize his core left
liberal vote, then it could
work,” adding, “Now, how
that will play with the
majority of voters is
another matter.”</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text"><em>The
expert the <strong>New
York Times</strong>
turned to for a take on
Corbyn’s speech.</em></p>
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<p>As for the <b>New York
Times</b>, it largely
ignored Corbyn’s remarkable
speech, though one article (<a
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cited his quote about
security officials seeing a
link between UK military
actions and domestic terror
attacks. (The <b>Times</b>
then cited British Defense
Minister Michael Fallon
retorting that his speech
showed Corbyn was “unfit to
be prime minister.”) There
was also a second-hand
reference the same day: An
article (<a
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style="color:
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about right-wing <b>Daily
Mail</b> columnist Katie
Hopkins quoted her <a
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Corbyn had given a “rancid
speech” calling the war on
terror a “failure.”</p>
<p>That was it. Although the <b>Times</b>’
bureau in London surely must
have noticed after the
speech in question that
Corbyn and his Labour Party
continued their rise in the
polls, they filed no article
discussing the phenomenon or
the speech itself.</p>
<p>In “Theresa May Doesn’t
Crack and Jeremy Corbyn
Keeps His Cool in UK
Debate,”<a
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style="color:
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the <b>Times</b>’ Erlanger
and colleague Stephen Castle
reported on a pseudo-debate
between May and Corbyn. (May
had refused to share the
stage with Corbyn, so each
candidate instead faced
questions alone with the
moderator.) The two
journalists wrote only that
Corbyn in the debate was
“challenged over his comment
that the war on terror was
‘not working,’” failing to
note that that line had been
not a “comment” but rather
part of a major foreign
policy speech analyzing the
roots of terrorism in the
country, and how to combat
it.</p>
<p>When the voting was over,
US media had to report the
obvious: that Corbyn and
Labour, though failing to
best May and the
Conservatives, had actually
come out ahead in the
election, defying pundit
predictions to gain 32 seats
and knocking the
Conservatives out of a
majority in Parliament. As
the <b>Times</b> story’s
headline read (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=bbc16bff4a&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">6/9/17</a>):
“Jeremy Corbyn Lost UK
Election, but Is Still Its
Biggest Winner.”</p>
<p>But like most of the US
media coverage in that and
succeeding days, <b>Times</b>
journalists Castle and
Katrin Bennhold attributed
Corbyn’s success to his
being a better, more
people-friendly campaigner
than the “wooden, robotic”
May, to his “Sanders-like”
appeal to young voters, and
to his party’s socialist
manifesto, which called for
better funding for the
National Health Service,
re-nationalization of public
transit and free college
tuition, among other
measures. (Of course, before
the election, the <strong>Times</strong>‘
pages were describing this
same manifesto as a
“proto-Marxist program” that
would doom Labour to the
political wilderness—<strong>New
York Times</strong>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2755d01e42&e=690cba8393"
target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">6/3/17</a>; <strong>FAIR.org</strong>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=ca25a17ac2&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">6/8/17</a>.)</p>
<p>No doubt Corbyn’s
personality and domestic
policies were factors in his
strong electoral
performance, but there’s
also no doubt that his
contrarian stand on
terrorism, laying much of
the blame on Britain’s
militarist foreign policy
and intervention in Middle
East conflicts, was
critical. Yet this got no
mention at all.</p>
<p>Writing for the news site <b>Nation
of Change</b> (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=f46e664d2d&e=690cba8393"
style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;">6/25/17</a>),
Canadian journalist Derek
Royden ventured to say what
no journalist in corporate
US media has:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Unlike most of the
leaders of major Western
political parties, Jeremy
Corbyn chose to be honest
rather than treating
citizens like children,
and to the surprise of
many he gained support. In
the end, his party picked
up 32 seats and a larger
“government in waiting”
role in a hung parliament.
It also turned out that
the Labor leader was
correct in pointing to the
war in Libya as a more
important factor than the
concerns articulated by
May [about excessive
internet freedom and too
much concern for human
rights].</p>
</blockquote>
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responded to a terror
attack by rejecting the
policies that promote
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<p>This isn’t the first time
voters have defied the
conventional wisdom about
how they are supposed to
respond to crises. After the
Pulse nightclub attack in
Orlando in June 2016, <b>NPR</b>
“counterterrorism
correspondent” Dina
Temple-Raston speculated
that the attack might affect
the US elections, since, she
said, after a major bombing
in Madrid just before the
2004 elections, “the more
conservative candidate ended
up winning.”</p>
<p>The problem with this
analysis? The conservative
People’s Party actually lost
that election to the
Socialists, who had
campaigned on a platform of
withdrawing Spanish troops
from Iraq (<b>FAIR.org</b>,<a
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style="color:
#336699;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"> 6/15/16</a>).</p>
<p><em>Read the original post
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