Comments on: Lying by the numbers http://www.yourish.com/2005/11/13/308 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Soccer Dad http://www.yourish.com/2005/11/13/308/comment-page-1#comment-917 Soccer Dad Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:08:50 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=308#comment-917 <strong>Around the web 11/15/05</strong> Numbers Israelly Cool's family is increasing theirs! Mazel Tov! Cute boy. Elie's Exposition's uncertain about his. Meryl Yourish casts a baleful eye on the way the media uses them. Excelling Daled Amos tells us that the Palestinian Authority is an... Around the web 11/15/05

Numbers Israelly Cool’s family is increasing theirs! Mazel Tov! Cute boy. Elie’s Exposition’s uncertain about his. Meryl Yourish casts a baleful eye on the way the media uses them. Excelling Daled Amos tells us that the Palestinian Authority is an…

]]> By: LynnB http://www.yourish.com/2005/11/13/308/comment-page-1#comment-891 LynnB Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:39:55 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=308#comment-891 According to <a href="http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=27494" rel="nofollow">IMRA</a>, <blockquote><strong>Israel Television: Poor Turnout At Rabin Memorial Rally</strong> Israel Television Channel One's prime time evening news "Mabat" program featured an article tonight on the poor turnout at the Rabin Memorial Rally held last night at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. The item included views of some mostly empty parts of the area of the rally and a girl who attended who explained that she came "to hear Aviv Geffen" - one of the many performers included in the program. Last night the same channel cited the crowd estimate provided by the rally organizers - 200,000 - without noting that it was a figure provided by the rally organizers and without also mentioning the police estimate of 70,000.</blockquote> Which is still a lot more than 2,000, but I think Reuters' lead paragraph was just going by the police estimates. According to IMRA,

Israel Television: Poor Turnout At Rabin Memorial Rally

Israel Television Channel One’s prime time evening news “Mabat” program featured an article tonight on the poor turnout at the Rabin Memorial Rally held last night at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.

The item included views of some mostly empty parts of the area of the rally and a girl who attended who explained that she came “to hear Aviv Geffen” – one of the many performers included in the program.

Last night the same channel cited the crowd estimate provided by the rally organizers – 200,000 – without noting that it was a figure provided by the rally organizers and without also mentioning the police estimate of 70,000.

Which is still a lot more than 2,000, but I think Reuters’ lead paragraph was just going by the police estimates.

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2005/11/13/308/comment-page-1#comment-889 Michael Lonie Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:44:46 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=308#comment-889 Yarkoni is wrong. Had Rabin lived and remained PM it would not have made a whit of difference to the eventual outbreak of the Oslo War. Arafat planned the Oslo Agreement, and told Edward Said this, only as a Treaty of Hudabiya, a temporary truce to gain increased power for the PLO until, at a time of its own choosing, it could once again unleash war against Israel. That is why the terrorism continued, increasing in strength, throughout the period 1994-2000. That is why Arafat, faced with the choice of making peace on generaous terms, doing nothing, or unleashing the Oslo War, chose the latter in response to Barak's offer. All the appeasement changed nothing, and would have changed nothing even if Rabin had been doing it. The only possible change would have been if Rabin had realized the futility of the whole thing and cut off the PA, but I doubt he would have been able to do that. Yarkoni is wrong. Had Rabin lived and remained PM it would not have made a whit of difference to the eventual outbreak of the Oslo War. Arafat planned the Oslo Agreement, and told Edward Said this, only as a Treaty of Hudabiya, a temporary truce to gain increased power for the PLO until, at a time of its own choosing, it could once again unleash war against Israel. That is why the terrorism continued, increasing in strength, throughout the period 1994-2000. That is why Arafat, faced with the choice of making peace on generaous terms, doing nothing, or unleashing the Oslo War, chose the latter in response to Barak’s offer. All the appeasement changed nothing, and would have changed nothing even if Rabin had been doing it. The only possible change would have been if Rabin had realized the futility of the whole thing and cut off the PA, but I doubt he would have been able to do that.

]]> By: Walter E. Wallis http://www.yourish.com/2005/11/13/308/comment-page-1#comment-888 Walter E. Wallis Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:25:59 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=308#comment-888 The world needs a button to push that, when some critical mass is reached, will cause the underwear of some editor to burst into flames. The world needs a button to push that, when some critical mass is reached, will cause the underwear of some editor to burst into flames.

]]> By: Laurence Simon http://www.yourish.com/2005/11/13/308/comment-page-1#comment-886 Laurence Simon Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:36:48 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=308#comment-886 Reuters had a story by Arafat-whore Wafa Amr. Not even worth mocking. Reuters had a story by Arafat-whore Wafa Amr. Not even worth mocking.

]]> By: Drawing The Line » Blog Archive » Darwin or Intelligent Design? http://www.yourish.com/2005/11/13/308/comment-page-1#comment-885 Drawing The Line » Blog Archive » Darwin or Intelligent Design? Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:37:11 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=308#comment-885 [...] Meryl Yourish has an excellent post on the scandalous efforts of the media to draw moral equivalence between memorials to Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat. [...] [...] Meryl Yourish has an excellent post on the scandalous efforts of the media to draw moral equivalence between memorials to Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat. [...]

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