[Peace-discuss] at SignOn: NPR, CFR: Don't Enable Elliott Abrams' Smear Campaign on Chuck Hagel

[Robert Naiman]

Well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about this. What you say
wasn't my intention in the words that I chose.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
<galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

> Sure it does. The petition calls on the president of NPR "not to enable
> the smear campaign of Elliott Abrams."
>
> I'm sure that Knell (great name) is supposed to think, "Oh, OK: I won't
> 'enable' Abrams' campaign - by interviewing as well someone who says
> something different (which of course I already do)."
>
> What the petition says is, don't pull Obama's beard - don't air criticism
> of his stalking horse.
>
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> wrote:
>
>
> It doesn't call for NPR to not say something. It doesn't call for any
> specific action. It just says "not enable."
>
> I think there two acceptable paths:
>
> 1) not have someone like Elliott Abrams on as a guest
> 2) have him on, but have him seriously challenged.
>
> NPR did neither one.
>
> The BBC, if they were going to do an interview like that, would have
> someone who was prepared to really challenge, either a reporter who was
> prepared to really challenge, or another guest who was prepared to really
> challenge, *at the same time.* It doesn't undo the damage of a smear to
> have someone else on at another time who says something else.
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> And it calls for NPR *not* to say something.
>>
>> NPR has become a shameful apologist for government crimes, but the cure
>> for bad speech is more speech, not less.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The point here is Elliott Abrams, not Chuck Hagel or Barack Obama.
>> There's nothing in the petition that says I support Obama or Hagel. It's
>> all about Elliott Abrams.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Carl G. Estabrook <
>> galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> And give Obama cover for his child-murders?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Robert Naiman <
>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you help me get this rolling?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://signon.org/sign/npr-cfr-dont-enable-elliott?source=c.url&r_by=1135580
>>>
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>>> Policy Director
>>> Just Foreign Policy
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>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>
>
>


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Just Foreign Policy
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