Bouvard on Mockery Versus Critique in Politics

The deal is dead; long live the deal!

@slooperbia50068 I'm mocking the deal. It seems better than a critique, of which there are already many.

@slooperbia50068 I haven't run the numbers but mockery seems to offer more possibilities than arguments.

@slooperbia50068 I had heard this--we're talking about reporters on the ground who are barely distinguishable from the terrorists themselves.

@slooperbia50068 That seems obvious.

@slooperbia50068 I don't see how a "real" journalist could have possibly been there.

@slooperbia50068 Do you know if he cites Girard in his book?

@slooperbia50068 There weren't and couldn't have been "real" journalists in Gaza. All news was filtered through Hamas.

@slooperbia50068 I've seen journalists who were there explain it very clearly

@slooperbia50068 But how could it be otherwise? Where is the burden of proof here?

@slooperbia50068 He was there in the 00s, saw how it worked, and left. It was always known that the networks themselves accepted Hamas's terms. Thomas Wictor wrote about this years ago. He said he couldn't get the Israelis to take an interest.

@slooperbia50068 He does podcasts or something like that with that Saul guy (Montes?) every once in a while. I once listened for a few minutes and it seemed like aimless rambling.

@slooperbia50068 I forget the name of the guy who explained journalistic conditions under Hamas.

@slooperbia50068 It's completely determined by what those he needs for access allow him to publish.