Pro-Netanyahu daily invents Obama 'quote' against Iran deal

[azurnoir]

The pro-Netanyahu daily Israel Hayom has devoted itself to attacking the Iran nuclear deal in recent days. “A shameful surrender,” “Under Obama, Iran is becoming the regional superpower,” “Every new detail just proves how stupid and dangerous the deal is” — these are just some of the ways the paper’s columnists have described the deal in recent days.

But now, Israel Hayom, which is printed and distributed for free at a considerable loss by American casino mogul and Republican party bankroller Sheldon Adelson, is taking the battle beyond the editorial pages. On Sunday the paper ran a double-spread headline that stretched journalistic ethics to their limit, or rather, ignored them altogether. The headline read: “The deal will strengthen terrorism,” with the quote, attributed to President Obama, printed in huge white-on-black letters. The sub-headline read: “The nuclear deal will likely channel money to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and The Quds Force.”.

The only problem: the U.S. president never said any of that. The headline was completely made up, and the sub-headline took the quote out of context. Here is what Obama actually said in the BBC interview that was “quoted” by Israel Hayom. I bolded the relevant sentence, but the rest is important for context:

"That was the mandate that elected Rouhani. And the supreme leader is feeling pressure there. Does the IRGC [Revolutionary Guard] or the Quds Force have more resources? Probably, as the economy in Iran improves. But the challenge that we’ve had, when it comes to Hezbollah, for example, aiming rockets into Israel is not a shortage of resources."

http://972mag.com/pro-netanyahu-daily-invents-obama-quote-against-iran-deal/109285/

[riversedge]

1. oh lets wait until the NYTimes says it is Obama's quote-then we can believe it!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Appears we are entering into a

1943 mirror edition of the Alain-Sedition Act. Adelson-Koch-Wynn and the AIPAC suck ass crowd have corrupted so many in Congress much as the Mellons-Scaiff-Prescot Bush-Fred Koch and others did during FDR's Presidential years. Living in Vegas we see the Power Hand of Adelson and Wynn with their total corruption of Nevada. And our so called Media is scared shitless of these people.

[Fred Sanders]

3. When did the I miss the memo about trolling becoming a recognized branch of journalism?

[oberliner]

4. Infamous ‘Drop Dead’ Was Never Said by Ford

Gerald R. Ford and Marie Antoinette did not have much in common, but being misquoted cost both of them their jobs.

In Hollywood’s latest biography of the French queen, she denies having callously suggested that breadless peasants eat cake instead. “I never said that,” the actress Kirsten Dunst pouts. “I wonder why people keep saying I did.”

Mr. Ford, on Oct. 29, 1975, gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York from bankruptcy. The front page of The Daily News the next day read: “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.”

Mr. Ford never explicitly said “drop dead.” Yet those two words, arguably the essence of his remarks as encapsulated in the immortal headline, would, as he later acknowledged, cost him the presidency the following year, after Jimmy Carter, nominated by the Democrats in New York, narrowly carried the state.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/nyregion/28veto.html?_r=0

[geek tragedy]

5. so your point is that Obama really does believe this deal will strengthen terrorism?

That the quote is fake but accurate?

hasbara fail

[oberliner]

6. No

Just that this happens a lot. News sources of all stripes do this kind of thing where the headline is presented as a quote and it's not what the person actually said, but rather an editorialized comment from the source itself (such as in the other example I provided).

Thinking that Obama wants to strengthen terrorism is ridiculous.