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2016-08-24 Home Front: Politix

Media Myopia: Huma involvement with Islamist mag for a decade no biggie

[LI] The MSM can’t stop talking about Donald Trump having brought onto his campaign the Chairman of Breitbart News.

But Hillary’s closest aide being for 12 years an editor of an Islamist magazine that among other things blamed the US for 9/11? Meh!

On today’s With All Due Respect, guest co-host Alex Wagner seconded the excuse that the Clinton campaign is shopping. Said Wagner: "as you and I have both worked on magazines, we know that there are a lot of editors who do absolutely nothing but are listed on mastheads anyway."

John Heilemann similarly argued that while his title at Bloomberg Politics is Managing Editor, he doesn’t do any managing or editing. He went on to assert that not many voters care about Huma Abedin "one way or the other." Added Heilemann: "I know people on the right will hate me for saying that."

Heilemann and Wagner’s excuses don’t pass the smell test. For purposes of argument, let’s assume that in fact Huma didn’t do much work at the mag. But Huma surely knew what the magazine was about and what was in it: her mother was the editor-in-chief! So what was in it? Among other things, an article in essence blaming the US for 9-11. Another implying that women wearing suggestive clothing brought sexual violence on themselves. Another arguing that "single or working moms and gay couples with children should not be classed as a family," etc.

While dismissing the importance of Huma’s involvement with the mag, Wagner did acknowledge that her mother being editor-in-chief could be problematic for the Clinton campaign. But that misses the point, which is that Hillary Clinton has chosen as her longtime, closest adviser someone from a family that espouses these kinds of views. And far from rejecting her heritage, Huma chose to associate herself with that radicalism by, at the very least, having her name displayed as an editor for more than a decade.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-24 06:17|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Magazines have long been a tool of propaganda and radical inspiration. Abadin's connection to the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs should come as no surprise.

Johnson, Ian. "A Mosque In Munich" Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: 107

The most influential political movement to come out of this tradition was the Muslim Brotherhood, al ikhawan al-mulimum, more literally translated as the Society of Muslim Brothers (or Brethren), was founded in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna, a schoolteacher from a small town in the Nile Delta. At the time, Egypt was still under British colonial rule. It was modernizing quickly, going through wrenching economic and social changes: Cairo was industrializing, the peasants were moving to the cities, traditions were breaking up, and social mores were in flux. An avid reader of Rashid Rida's magazine [al-Manar], Banna was appalled by the combination of national opposition and rapid social changes.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-24 07:00|| 2016-08-24 07:00|| Front Page Top

#2 So shes just doing what main stream media does, fight America, inside or out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-24 09:00|| 2016-08-24 09:00|| Front Page Top

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