Comments on: al-Guardian shows its true colors

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:22:41 +0000

My apologies; I actually do know that the past tense of “know” is “knew.” I’m not quite as semiliterate as the post seems to indicate.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:14:57 +0000

Meryl, you write that the Guardian “fell for” the story, implying that they were fooled into treating it as actual news. I think that’s rather a slur on the judgment of the Guardian’s editorial staff. I’d suggest that they didn’t fall for anything, that they new why the Iranian Jews issued the statement they did and it was a conscious editorial decision to print it as it was.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:52:02 +0000

Siobhain Butterworth is the Readers’ Editor for The Guardian. E-mail her a complaint about this article here: reader _at_ guardian.co.uk

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:50:19 +0000

This reminds we of a story of someone in the Soviet Union who told his relatives that he would write in red ink if what he was saying was a lie. They got a letter (in black ink) saying how great everything was. At the end of the letter, he said that the only problem was that he had trouble getting red ink.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:25:55 +0000

I cannot believe how anyone could be so gullible as to believe a spokesman for an official Jewish body that exists on the sufferance of the Iranian government. This reminds me of those official Jewish organizations in the USSR whose responsibility was really controlling, not representing, the Jewish community there. I understand that they, too, at times stated that the Jews were doing well there.

What else are they going to say? What else could they say even if they wanted to? I cannot believe that anyone would be so gullible!

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:34:18 +0000

I wondered if any legitimate newspaper would pick up the story as is.

But no legitimate newspaper did pick up the story. It just shows the corrosive effects of constant lying on the teller. eventually, they can no longer tell the difference between plausible lies and stories that would be laughed out of the room. Take a look at the efforts by the Iranians who settled in Baltimore to get out of Iran.