Comments on: Jill Carroll: Toldja so, part 2

By: In Context

In Context — Sun, 21 May 2006 05:08:17 +0000

Rushing to judgment…

These two posts over at Yourish.com should be served up for breakfast tomorrow to some folks, along with a huge side order of crow. I’ll……

By: Roger Belveal

Roger Belveal — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:36:45 +0000

My MArch 30 post
There’s far more to freedom than not being blown up, beheaded, or kidnapped and held hostage for more than three months in a basement, but in the Middle East, that seems like a really good place to start. We’ll take it!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/30/carroll/index.html

Jill Carroll was released today by her captors. They should be nominated for a good citizen award and be given the key to the city, or so they aspire. We’re extremely glad for her release.

She had only good things to say about her captors. By the way, never put too much stock in the comments made by just-released kidnap victims. Remember Patty Hearst and the Smart girl. When your very survival moment by moment depends on the whims of a controlling captor, you tend to want to think the best about their character. :-]

Aside from the fact that they kidnapped her, murdered her interpreter in cold blood, and threatened her life before the world while they kept her locked alone in a room for three months, they seem like reasonably decent fellows. :-| Their mothers should paste a gold star on their square on the front of the refrigerator. Here ya go, Abduhl! Wooooo!

Jill Carroll was released because her captors were convinced she would represent them in the most positve light possible. That is proven by statements they made to the public upon her release.

“Jill Carol, go back in peace to your family and to your country, to tell them and to the American people what you saw and heard during these three months. You are a witness of the events here and we have full confidence in you that you will tell the truth without any falsification.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189584,00.html

She saved her life by convincing them she was sincere, maybe by being sincere about this. Whether this is still what she has to say a month or a year from today, we shall see.

By: The Moderate Voice

The Moderate Voice — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:02:21 +0000

Jill Carroll’s Release Had A Propaganda Price

Christian Science Monitor correspondent Jill Carroll’s release did have a price — a fee paid in the form of a propaganda statement she was ordered to videotape, her paper…

By: journo

journo — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:57:40 +0000

She’s a freelance reporter who got paid by CSM, among others, for reporting from Iraq. It’s a gig from a paper with journalistic standards. What the editorial board chooses to write on any given day — and whether that matches your point of view — has nothing to do with the quality of the hard-news reporting and reporters.

By: Libby Spencer

Libby Spencer — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:23:28 +0000

Meryl we don’t often agree, but you’re so spot on with this post. A little restraint goes a long way and I’d like to see what big, bad, brave Jonah would have done if he was making statements with Sunni guards still breathing down his neck. Is it too much to ask for a little restraint until the facts come out? Jonah’s eagerness to turn this into a bloodbath is just plain creepy.

Thank you for writing this. It gives me hope that humanity still lives in the right hemisphere of Blogtopia.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:37:06 +0000

Once again, you have absolutely zero evidence that Jill Carroll sides with the terrorists. Until you do, stop slapping the wall with as much mud as you can to see if any sticks.

By: A Blog For All

A Blog For All — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:27:18 +0000

Jill Carroll Heading Home

She’s already landed at Ramstein AFB in Germany, after a short stay in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Her next stop will be Boston to be reunited with her family and friends in what I can only imagine will be an emotional and joyous homecoming.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:11:01 +0000

And again, explain to me how that proves that Jill Carroll sides with the terrorists?

It proves nothing but with us threatened physically 24/7, in the short run by the terrorists, and in the long run by their propaganda and gullibility for taqyia by western audiences we choose guilty until proven innocent.
At least that positions us for fewer unpleasant surprises.

In how many months did we have first the Italian job and then the German one, and now possibly the CSM one?
Not to forget those three “religious” adherents to ISM who were rescued after their Brit compatriot was murdered in Iraq. Why? Cause they did not have the funding that the Italians, the Germans and possibly CSM have?

What can one believe from all this? That they were all misled by innocent stupidity to get a story or that in their partisan approach they misread the intent of the “victims”?

By: rightwingprof

rightwingprof — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:55:59 +0000

Hmmm. I don’t see Goldberg being overly critical at all. He makes some good points, and this “propoganda video” stuff isn’t really relevant, since she’s been released and can say what she wants.

I’ll wait and see, though that means I haven’t jumped on the “poor Jill!” bandwagon, particularly after the latest round of “Christian activists” released.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:24:33 +0000

Jill Carroll had nothing to do with that group. She was there as a reporter for the CSM. Once again, show me how that proves she is pro-terrorist.