Are at least most of the western press. The New York Times has Tim Arango back in New York and The Los Angeles Times has Ned Parker covering it from Beirut. Maybe they'll help improve the coverage collectively?
Individually, they do their part.
But how Iraq has suffered.
The western press has largely ignored it and what coverage that has made it out of Iraq has been awful.
Maybe there's a reason for that? Maybe that reason has a name?
Reidar Visser.
The Disciples of Reidar are many: including CIA contractor Juan Cole, Al Jazeera and Christian Science Monitor's Jane Arraf, AFP's Prashant Rao. They've embraced their leader who knows so very little and has many problems.
It's not like there weren't warnings that Reidar Visser didn't know what he was talking about. From the January 18, 2012 "Iraq snapshot:"
Reidar Visser has an analysis at Gulf Anlaysis.
He's wrong that it's "exactly one month" since Iraqiya announced their
boycott. They did not announce on the18th of December it was the 16th.
More troubling, he insists that a caretaker government cannot take
place. Really?
That's cute. Before he
attempts to offer legal analysis in the future, somebody tell him it
takes more than watching a few episode Judge Judy to know the
law. In other words, he needs to stick to what he thinks he's good at
and I'll explain to him right now, the law is not what he's good at.
And I'll add that I'll be nice once and only once on this issue.
He never grasped the Iraqi Constitution but his followers treated his idiocy as insight. Then came the failed Arab League Summit months later and Disciples of Reidar Jane Arraf and Prashant Rao joined him in praising it as a success. From the March 30, 2012 "Iraq snapshot:"
There are 22 countries in the Arab League. Hamza Hendawi and Lara Jakes (AP) put
the number of Arab League leaders who attended at 10 and they pointed
out that Qatar, Saudi Arabi, Morocco and Jordan were among those who
sent lower-level officials to the summit. Patrick Martin (Globe & Mail) explains
that Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani (Prime Minister of Qatar)
declared on television that Qatar's "low level of representation" was
meant to send "a 'message' to Iraq' majority Shiites to stop what he
called the marginalization of its minority Sunnis." Yussef Hamza (The National) offers,
"Iraq has looked to the summit, the first it has hosted in a
generation, to signal its emergence from years of turmoil, American
occupation and isolation. It wanted the summit to herald its return to
the Arab fold. But the large number of absentees told a different
story." That's reality.
Who's the liar pimping success? Why it's not just Nouri al-Maliki, it's Jane Arraf and Prashant Rao's Twitter buddy, the idiot Reider Visser.
A fool not qualified to discuss legalities of the Erbil Agreement as
evidenced by his dime store 'legal' 'analysis' that makes Elle Woods
look, by comparison, like a legal giant along the lines of Thurgood
Marshall. And of course Jane and Prashant and the others weren't trained
in the law either so they idiotically retweet Reider's ignorance there
by multiplying it as well as endorsing it. Reider's a Nouri al-Maliki
groupie so he's hardly an impartial voice. He's also buddies with trash
Nir Rosen.
Though Nir's more famous right now for turning over the names of
Western reporters to the Syrian government (that's what led to the
recent charges that he was a spy), he of course became infamous for
presenting the 'legal' 'analysis' that Lara Logan 'had it coming.' Nir
really wasn't qualified for anything other than blowhard status but the
Circle Jerk -- the same one that Jane and Prahsant employ on Reider's
behalf -- ensured that a man was elevated and it didn't matter that he
pisses on women or anything else. It's really past time that so-called
professional journalists started examing their own ethics. At best,
Reider is nothing but a whore for Nouri. There's no reason to treat him
as impartial. There's no reason to treat his 'legal' renderings as
worth passing on.
Reider Vissar is a crackpot.
And he's influenced coverage for far too long as the low hanging fruit of western reporters have repeated his mistaken 'analysis' and applied it to their own coverage.
Saturday came news "A crackpot runs AFP, Al Jazeera and the Christian Science Monitor" -- their trusted 'analyst' who so influenced their coverage for so long is convinced that there's an international conspiracy against him -- countries and a local crimes unit stalk him around the globe, sitting next to him in research libraries to disturb him, and they have prevented him from joining the CIA. Not only that but the FBI has posed as the CIA.
The warning signs were always there. C.I. spotted them, Mike did as well.
But allegedly trained journalists like Jane Arraf and Prashant Rao missed it. Not only that, they popularized his ridiculous 'analysis' and used it as framework in their own reporting.
Reidar Visser
Significant development for #Iraq watchers: 3 Iraqiya ministers returned to cabinet today http://www.ikhnews.com/index.php?page=article&id=79271 …
They excused away Nouri al-Maliki's illegal actions because they had Rieder -- if not God -- on their side.
So now they stand exposed as being just as crazy as their 'expert.'
They provided him with 'legitimacy' and now that he's lost his maybe it's time they lost their own.