Shep Smith Slams Israel For Blacking Out Judith Miller

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 6:10 pm, April 6th, 2010

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Israel does not always have the best reputation when it comes to reliable journalism but wow, this is taking it to a whole other level…and Shep Smith is appalled.

The other day former NYT reporter and current Fox News contributor Judith Miller penned a piece for The Daily Beast about 23-year-old Israeli journalist Anat Kamm who has been under house arrest for “allegedly stealing and leaking secret Israeli defense ministry documents to a journalist from Ha’aretz.” There’s more. Says Miller in the article: “In an extremely rare action, an Israeli court has ordered the Israeli media not to publish or broadcast a word about Kamm, the allegations against her, or the investigation.” The order apparently extends to international news, as evidenced by a reprint of Miller’s piece that literally had huge chunks of it blacked out on the front page of an Israeli paper. “They didn’t even cut it out and change the space on the page, they just blacked it out,” exclaimed Shep.

Miller points out that while it remains to be seen whether Kamm’s acts were criminal, or even treasonous, what is not okay is how the Israeli government has essentially made Kamm “disappear.” Shep emphatically agrees. Video below

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http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

IF YOU CRITICIZE THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN ANY WAY YOU ARE AN ANTI-SEMITIC TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER. END OF STORY.
nyc165

No, not really — only stupid criticism. End of story.

Since when does any other country have to live by OUR laws? Isn’t that exactly what the left has been fighting against … i.e., invading another country (Iraq) to impose OUR body of law? Sorry … but your off base here. Not anti-semitic, just ignorant. Israel has certain state secrets it does not want to have printed. Why is that so wrong? Seriously.
nyc165

And, I might add, Israel has a FAR better record of allowing opposing opinions and points of view than say, oh, Hamas, or the PA in their respective territories. I think they kill people who don’t agree with them.
omera

what a clown. Israel cannot ban international press. The piece mentioned was in the local press, and the blackening out was the choice of this tabloid as a protest against the gag order. Its up to the paper if it wants to rearrange its space or publish blackened lines, which in the case it thought would sell better. Kamm didn’t dissappear, she’s at home with her family, talking over the phone or hosting at home, any journalist willing to hear her story.
Sunnyr

Judith is an insufferable liberal elitist nutball and I wouldn’t blame Israel for “banning” her, but it did not happen. Shep is a histrionic little girl who shrieks at anything that might make him the center of attention. Together, they are worth changing the channel.
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

LOL Shep is one of the few Liberals on Fox I like, but he is definitely showing his left leaning knee-jerk skills on this one. Yep, as mentioned above. The Newspaper blacked out the print. There is a gag order out on this story just like we have here in U. S. when ordered by the court. The paper is just trying to get attention to the story, and Shep went for it hook, line, and sinker…