John Iadarola (https://twitter.com/jiadarola) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) hosts of The Young Turks and guest Abby Martin (https://twitter.com/abbymartin) discuss an apology from NBC News journalist Richard Engel who misidentified the group in Syria that was responsible for his kidnapping.
“For some reason NBC News Journalist Richard Engel found that even though they were kidnappers that the group responsible for his capture in Syria must surely be trustworthy when it comes to who they might possibly be. Turns out that was not the case. In the wake of a scandal involving Pundit Brian Williams falsifying facts it seems that NBC News must apologize yet again for a news story with false information, but rather than the Journalist being at fault it seems that it was a clever ruse on the part of the kidnappers, who claimed they were Shiite militiamen loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turns out that was not the case.
Some took to twitter and other social media, claiming that they believed it was Engel who was lying and not totally the victim.”
Is there more that NBC could do? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Read more here: http://rt.com/usa/250353-engel-syria-kidnapping-updated-details/
**********
Protest Via Gyroplane, Anti-Gay Rant, Slip And Capture?, False NBC Report – The Young Turks Hour 1, 4/16/2015
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTpcK80irdQgWCZbNRpSgdOgCgbhyHSgI
**********
Vote for The Young Turks to win a Webby Award here: http://pv.webbyawards.com/2015/online-film-video/video-channels-and-networks/news-information-channel
Comments
A Prayer for a better future
Dear God my heavenly father please listen to my prayer. The Republicans have the House and the Senate but please for world peace and a better life in the United States, do not give them the Presidency also. I appeal to you with this concern because the Republicans have distorted your teachings by becoming the big brother party, they want to see all our emails, they passed the Patriot Act to listen in on our phone calls and monitor what we access on the computer, they do not respect equal rights of gays, they took away our right to die with dignity, want to stop funding for planned parenthood, they want wages in the United States to remain low so we can compete with Vietnam and China so corporations can make more money at home, they want to spend $600 billion on defense and not look at how it is spent, they want our national debt to keep increasing by not balancing the budget any time soon, they will allow the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson to have a direct line to the White House to dictate policy, they don’t respect the Constitutions establishment clause and want one particular religion to creep into government, many have committed sedition by undermining our President and feel beyond being prosecuted, they prefer to bomb first and negotiate afterwards and the last thing is, our President has truly followed your teachings and is criticized by the Republicans who want to distort what you taught us. Again dear God, you gave them the House and Senate but please keep a balance of power so the Republicans don’t bring down this nation, allow another banking disaster and threaten world peace. Please give us the words to win the Presidency. Amen. Oh, and God, I almost forgot to ask, please bring our government to overturn Citizen United, because we know the Republicans will win the Presidency someday and we don’t want a foreign government to buy enough congressman to have direct influence on how our military is used. Small, documented campaign contributions will stop this. And one more request, since you displayed your power by parting the Red Sea, please attach helium filled balloons to the Constitution so it will float high enough that the Republicans can’t trample on it. Amen
David Clark