Comments on Ambassador Watch: Good News for Melvin

Denenberg begins by shrieking and tearing his garm...

2006-09-24T11:19:00.000+12:00

Denenberg begins by shrieking and tearing his garments over the state of the New York Times and what he sees as "its anti-American, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-military, anti-war-in-Iraq, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slant."

Are we really certain that Mr. Denenberg was talking about The New York Times or about Wade Ewart Cox who recently said that the United States has started World War III by invading Afghanistan and Iraq and that the United States is the Beast of Revelation?

If you attack just about anything, someone will al...

2006-09-23T03:40:00.000+12:00

If you attack just about anything, someone will align with you. The US is full of people who would find quite welcome the writings in XCG rags that analyze current events from the usual paranoid, arch-conservative viewpoint. But if these novice advocates scrape a little of the political gloss away and view the depths of these organizations, the advocacy quickly vanishes.

The XCGers, of course, are applause hogs. They want the endorsement of the world because it gives them greater credibility as they try to insinuate themselves into people's pocketbooks. It also makes more attactive the delusional religious product they fiercely but subtley market.

Neo

According to the NY Times, Christians are evil and...

2006-09-23T03:22:00.000+12:00

According to the NY Times, Christians are evil and Muslims just misunderstood; Hamas and Hezbollah suicide bombers blowing up women and children are not terrorists, but brave freedom fighters in the face of Western oppression.
Even a broken cuckoo clock such as the Good News magazine can be right twice a day. Islamic expansionism against the great Satan is on the move, so submit to the will of Allah or face your imminent destruction! Is it going to take some Hiroshima scale nuclear explosions in NYC to force us to wake up to advancing Moslem extremism?

I know it's hard considering the bent here - but i...

2006-09-23T02:39:00.000+12:00

I know it's hard considering the bent here - but is it really impossible to imagine that someone in an XCG could produce something credible? The columnist did say that he didn't agree with everything in the article, just that it produced an opinion more useful that the NYT. Even if you disagree with the identity of the Arabs as Ishmael - Rhodes is quoting sources for the reason for the conflict now. The NYT and other outlets are not providing this perspective and they should be.

Never mind. Looks like Denenberg is a regular col...

2006-09-22T18:22:00.000+12:00

Never mind. Looks like Denenberg is a regular columnist for that paper. "His column appears daily in The Evening Bulletin." I wonder why they called his GN advert "Special to The Evening Bulletin"? Maybe because it was so long?

Oh, Denenberg is probably just an Armstrongist who...

2006-09-22T18:17:00.000+12:00

Oh, Denenberg is probably just an Armstrongist who managed to sneak his thinly-disguised advertisement for The Good News past that newspaper's editors. Sometimes editors will run longer letters to the editor as "special" guest editorials, as I suppose happened here.

Granted, the New York Times is pretty much a joke these days, or at least it's been embarrassing itself a lot the past few years, and its leftist bias is unmistakeable, but it's still a real newspaper, unlike the publications of the Armstrongists.