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NYT: Houthis scream “Death to America” but “don’t mean it literally”

Feb 12, 2015 8:16 am By Robert Spencer

Rod Nordland of the New York Times tells PBS that actually the Houthis are “trying desperately” to be friends with the United States. They seized the U.S. Embassy vehicles for “safe-keeping,” you see.

This is the idiocy that befogs the mainstream and prevents Americans from seeing just how much the international situation is deteriorating. They do this in part to protect Obama, and also because they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that there is a jihad against the United States, and that when people scream “death to America,” they really mean it.

Video thanks to the Washington Free Beacon.

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Filed Under: Featured, journalistic bias, United States, willful ignorance, Yemen Tagged With: Houthis, New York Times, PBS, Rod Nordland


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  1. john spielman says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 8:20 am

    Rod Nordlund of the New Yorl Slimes should go live with the Houthis and report back after a couple of years , that is if he is stll breathing

    • Alissa says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      What causes political correctness. This phenom is destroying us. These people who number in the millions are not (all) stupid. What creates this politically correct attitude? It’s against nature–it defies the basic instinct to survive. Even evil people want to survive and want their children to survive. This is more than a character flaw.

      What happened? Is it due to neglectful parents? social corruption? lack of courage to face reality? lack of integrity so extreme that anything is believed. I find in surreal, terrifying and infuriating. Makes me want to throw something.

      • Darren says

        Feb 12, 2015 at 5:22 pm

        Generations of Western children taught that the country and civilization they are from is evil and to be blamed for most of the evil in the world. Sadly if you repeat a lie enough times it often becomes the truth.

        • Darren says

          Feb 12, 2015 at 5:26 pm

          Western civilization is the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, we should look upon our greatness with pride. Western civilization created the modern world. Why should we be ashamed of the greatness of our civilization? I am so tired of the self hatred and demonizing of the the greatest civilization on the planet. When I say western civilization, I don’t just mean America, Europe, and Australia are also included.

        • pumbar says

          Feb 12, 2015 at 10:48 pm

          Look up “The Frankfurt School” in Google to find the beginnings of this whole sorry mess. Not the origins but the beginning.

      • Joe Shmo says

        Feb 12, 2015 at 6:06 pm

        Apparently it’s a far left invention that dates back to Soviet times where they would rewrite news or history to suit their political narrative to what’s “correct”. The more left you go in your politics the more controlling and loony you become. Similarly with the media and elites and politcians today they rewrite stories to suit their preferred narrative, which is “Islam is peaceful and it has nothing to do with terrorism or jihad.” It’s basically censorship.

        • quotha raven says

          Feb 13, 2015 at 9:44 am

          Pumbar –I looked up The Frankfurt School per your suggest, and what I scanned about it recalls to mind some Yalies I knew in the mid-sixties. They were smart guys, the literati, Bones, Rhodes and Fulbright scholars, and then there was the Russian chorus. These guys loved to throw around “the dialectic” . Hegel and Kant were stylish. I’ll bet the Frankfurt School saturated their studies and shaped their political thinking. Political correctness, so far as I can recall, became palpable in the USA in colleges and universities. I immediately saw first amendment rights going down the toilet. This was, I believe, in the early ’80s. All downhill from there, non?

        • pumbar says

          Feb 15, 2015 at 1:03 am

          Indeed, I often think we’ve reached the nadir only to find my optimism in pieces the very next day. Where will it all end…

  2. Angemon says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 8:58 am

    I had no idea that Rod Nordland was the Houthi spokesperson in the US…

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 9:18 am

    BTW, for those of us who have not discovered the Washington Free Beacon, it is an excellent resource for news. Highly recommended for relentless coverage of the supremacists’ latest doings.

  4. Mirren10 says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 9:51 am

    It’s hard to believe even a leftard can be this stupid. The slogan ”death to America” is just a slogan, and you mustn’t take it seriously, because that might damage ‘dialogue’.

    They took the weapons for *safekeeping* – seriously ? Well, that’s OK then …

    Oh boy.

    He looks several sandwiches short of a picnic; typical dumb leftard look

    • vlparker says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 11:58 am

      I beg to disagree. It is very easy for me to believe it. I see it all the time. Many people refuse to see what is staring them right in the face.

  5. Ayatrollah says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 10:40 am

    How much would we have to pay to get the cars back, I mean how much would we have to pay so they would stop “save keeping” the cars?

  6. Peter says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 11:01 am

    Reminiscent of the NYT’s 1922 claim that “Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so violent or genuine as it sounded:”

    http://www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8016017/ny-times-hitler

    Don’t gamble your future on NYT fantasies, delusions, or political correctness!

  7. mortimer says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 11:17 am

    Evidence?

    Does the NYT ask for evidence? Do editors at the NYT require evidence or only unsupported opinion?

    Has NYT abandoned objective, professional standards of journalism? It seems so.

    NYT has become unreliable and inaccurate through omission.

    All opinion must be supported by fact. Rod Nordland has not done that. He is a propagandist for the terrorists.

  8. Howard says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 11:50 am

    Maybe Nordland is being held captive like John Cantlie?

  9. Lesley says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    This is just a misunderstanding… In the dialect that the Houthis speak, ‘death’ means ‘love’. The Houthis really mean ‘love’ to America when they chant ‘death’ to America. Everyone knows that when Houthis say, ‘death to you’, it means, ‘I love you.’
    (sarcasm)

    And I suppose that the Houthis kept our US weapons and military vehicles because they are only going to clean them and shine them, so they can put them all in a big box with a lovely ribbon tied to it, and give it to our military on Valentine’s Day?

  10. Wellington says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    I call for death for The New York Times but I don’t mean it literally.

  11. Nancy Shepherd says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 5:43 pm

    I think the NYT’s demographic is so invested in their worldview and Obama that in the face of real evidence of his massive foreign policy failures they are experiencing cognitive dissonance and splitting from reality. Behind this splitting is embedded, unquestioned bigotry and stereotyping of all things conservative. It’s the “right” kind of bigotry because it has disguised itself (falsely) in the mantle of the civil rights movement. After all, many of them reason “We were on the right side (of the culture wars then) so we could never be in the wrong. We are the “good” kind of white people. We are morally superior to anyone who disagrees with us by definition.” Unfortunatle, pride goes before a fall and a certaun generation of liberals is falling hard…into unreality and madness rathet than face their own caoacity for error.

    • Beagle says

      Feb 12, 2015 at 9:52 pm

      Well stated. Their entire worldview, from all cultures being basically the same, except ours which is the root of all bad outcomes in the world, is collapsing around them and they cannot admit it.

      They assumed ‘not Bush’ would solve most problems in the Islamic world. Oops.

  12. sidney penny says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 6:11 pm

    “Death to America,”

    just a slogan ! but what a slogan!

    The Pakistanis used it a lot and they are now great “friends” and “allies” of America.

    The Houthis will also be, in time to come, great “friends” and “allies” of America,just like the Pakistanis.

  13. Bezelel says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    He tells the left what they want to hear. It lines up with propaganda that has already been digested. La la land.If you buy his swill then you don’t have anything to worry about. Don’t worry,be Happy until it’s too late that is.

  14. pumbar says

    Feb 12, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    Don’t forget about “Duckspeak”.

    • quotha raven says

      Feb 13, 2015 at 9:51 am

      Westman – EXACTLY. I was thinking taqiyya the whole way through the Nordland interview. His facial expression was very…interesting. Maybe he was just exhausted. It is hard to believe he is as naïve as he presents himself. How ignorant of taqiyya could he be, after all? As to how he explained “death to America”, well, I am simply speechless.

  15. Islofob IS-1 says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 12:40 am

    Howard Dean must really like Rod Nordland and the N.Y.T. , they sound like they have tons of higher learning education and degrees.

  16. Rainman says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 2:06 am

    That was Judy Woodruff’s show. It was her call not to call out that idiot for saying idiot things. Either Judy is Al Qaeda or she took a hand full of Valium before the show.
    Rainman……

  17. Brian Downer says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    You sir , are just a 1st class example of a urban “Tool” :http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tool

  18. Bill says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    You must attend an Ivy League school, preferably Harvard to grasp the full understanding that the slogan “death to America” means “we want to be friends with America.” If you attend Baghdad University where al Baghdadi, the Caliph of ISIS earned his PhD in Islamic Studies you will learn that the slogan “death to America” means “death to America.”

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