FAUX's Cavuto: Is NY Times in mourning over Iraq hangings?

[edbermac]

On the January 16 edition of Fox News' Your World, host Neil Cavuto asked if The New York Times is "in mourning again" as a result of the recent hanging deaths of Saddam Hussein's half brother and another Saddam deputy, or as Cavuto put it, "because murderers in Iraq face justice." As Media Matters for America noted, Your World guest host Stuart Varney had suggested on December 29 that The New York Times mourned the death of Saddam Hussein. The conduct of the hangings has met with widespread criticism, including President Bush's statement in a January 16 interview that the Iraqi government had "fumbled" the executions.

To begin the segment, Cavuto introduced Greg Gutfeld "of the dailygut.com" and Brigitte Gabriel, president and founder of the American Congress for Truth, claiming that they "want to know why The New York Times is such a big advocate for convicted mass murderers in Iraq." Gutfeld said that he does not know why the Times "keep calling it a botched execution," adding: "It's not a botched execution if somebody dies." When Cavuto noted that Saddam's half brother's "head came off," Gutfeld added: "But it's not like he's going to need it."

Gutfeld later claimed "that The New York Times is worried about a dwindling readership" because "frankly, almost all people on death row are liberals, so every time somebody is executed, they lose a reader." After Gutfeld asserted that "I don't think it's all right to judge on how they execute their criminals," Cavuto claimed that the executions were a result of "a sovereign government doing its own thing." Yet moments later, Gabriel contradicted their assessments without challenge, saying that "if this was a truly Iraqi execution without the influence of the civilized United States, these guys would be hanged in town square with people throwing their shoes at them."

Gabriel also claimed that "the rest of the Arabic world is not really bothered by" the executions and that it doesn't "give a darn" about them. She claimed to have "looked at all the Arabic media," saying that it is "a nonstory." However, one day later, on January 17, the Times reported that "according to experts across the region":

The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein and two lieutenants in Iraq by its Shiite-led government has helped to accelerate Sunni-Shiite sectarianism across an already fragile Middle East.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200701170011

It's not like he's going to need it?? What a knee-slapper!! :sarcasm:

[MidwestTransplant]

1. I can't tell if they lie intentionally or are just really stupid.

[AlCzervik]

2. in the case of News corp i say it's intentional, in the case of cavuto i go with just

plane ole stupid.

[madeline_con]

4. A little from column A, and a little from column B n/t

[madeline_con]

3. consider the source n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. No worry, Kneel.There isn't a noose big enough for a fathead like you.

[Rex]

6. Well, they did their best to keep George's dictatorship under raps

for over a year, why not give equal time to his counterpart Saddam? Cavuto is a shit-eating coward. The NYT has no credibility, just like Foxnews.