A journalist named Linda Foley, president of the Newspaper Guild, has been caught on tape pulling an Eason Jordan. Watch and listen to her make vile, inflammatory, and unsubstantiated claims about American troops military (Pardon me!) targeting Arab journalists on this RealAudio video.
As reported on WorldNetDaily:
According to a tape of her remarks, Foley said: “Journalists, by the way, are not just being targeted verbally or … ah, or … ah, politically. They are also being targeted for real, um … in places like Iraq. What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there’s not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq.”Foley continued, “They target and kill journalists … uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity. …”
Developing…
Update (5:15 p.m.): I called the Newspaper Guild (202.434.7177) a few minutes ago to speak to Linda Foley and/or someone willing to go on the record, and I got a message saying something like, “Due to the number of calls that we believe are a coordinated effort to tie up the line, we regret that we cannot answer your call. Please leave a message and someone will…”
That’s a paraphrase, by the way. I called back to try to take down the message verbatim, and I got the “Our office hours are 8:30 to 4:30…Please leave your name, number…” message. I left a message the first time, and I e-mailed Linda Foley for comment.
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More at Editor & Publisher. This is what she told them:
When asked if she believed U.S. troops had targeted journalists in Iraq, she said, “I was careful of not saying troops, I said U.S. military. Could I have said it differently? There are 100 different ways of saying this, but I’m not sure they would have appeased the right.”
The back-pedaling starts…now.
Update II (8:34 p.m.): The Political Teen has video of an O’Reilly Factor interview with the writers who broke the story.
Update III (5/20): Michelle (subbing for O’Reilly tonight) and Lorie Byrd (Update) have joined the swarm. I’ll have more to say about Linda Foley later today. And I’m not expecting a returned phone call or e-mail from the Newspaper Guild.
We can never have too many videos of this woman.
Jim Geraghty asks: “At this point, is ‘Newsweek’ really journalism?”
Andi’s on. Check her out.
