Saturday, September 15, 2007

The National Post and Benador Associates: Get a room, already.


So, to recap, ABC News gets hoodwinked by bogus expert and neo-con "consultant" Alexis Debat, who published his fictional interviews in the journal Politique International, which was edited by one Amir Tehari, who is associated with a PR firm called "Benador Associates" and who supplied the National Post with its worthless Iran/Jews/badges story, which got us here at CC HQ wondering ... how stupid is Brian Lemon?

No, no, I just made up that last part. What we were really wondering is, how many other "experts" at Benador Associates have been feeding the National Post potentially dishonest neo-con swill over the years. And the answer -- oh, you're going to love this.

Using Benador's handy-dandy search feature, we'll just produce a final count for each member that had at least one article published in the Post -- you're welcome to scan each list to see the articles for yourself.

Yeah, you read that last one right: 173. Apparently, Mr. Jonas was a weekly columnist for the Post for years, so one can safely assume that that paper has been publishing a steady stream of right-wing nonsense courtesy of its Benador-supplied "experts" for quite some time.

The National Post: When it's a tossup between news and neo-con propaganda, and news sounds too much like work.

5 comments:

thwap said...

Jonas wrote for the Sun papers for years. I always remember it being a steaming pile of shitty nonsense.

I don't think he claimed to be a reporter, just a pundit. He's where he belongs though, with the hacks and liars from that bogus outfit, because he's cut from the same cloth they are.

chris said...

Today's fun fact. Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, George Jonas was the first husband of Barbara Amiel, the current Lady Black.

CC said...

chris:

I am all into games involving teasing out degrees of separation, but not when it involves the exchange of actual bodily fluids.

Even I have my limits.

Ti-Guy said...

Everyone who comes within a metre of Barbara Amiel ends up losing 50 IQ points, their souls and probably their underwear, just like that.

I wish we could throw the old robber bride into prison along with her criminal husband.

Sheena said...

I am all into games involving teasing out degrees of separation, but not when it involves the exchange of actual bodily fluids.

Even I have my limits


Cripes. Well that sounds like no fun at all.