I quit watching cable news in 2002. At work, we moved into some fancy workplaces where one of the great offerings our management provided us with was big screen TVs on the wall to watch CNN or FOX. The idea being they would provide us 'news' of what was going on. Ours is turned off. Management hated that as they spent all that money for the TVs and cable to get the 'news' feeds to us, we had to use it. We kept turning it off. It took six months but they haven't turned ours back on.
Other sections haven't done their due diligence. So today I looked down and saw a bunch of people looking up at their TV and laughing. I went over to see what was so funny. It was FOX news. Granted they were actually spewing out nonsense that other 'established' news organizations were spewing, it was just the timing that made it so funny.
To wit:
Here is PJ Crowley, Georgetown Professor and former assistant Sec of State. Please watch before reading further.
PJ Crowley yakking on about Bashar Al Assad supporting ISIS
While he was speaking this crap, ISIS was attacking regime facilities in Hasakah. I will provide numerous sources and their backgrounds, so you will see that there is no doubt that while PJ Crowley was saying ISIS and Bashar have an agreement, ISIS and Bashar's forces were fighting a deadly battle. It would be funny if it didn't show just how ignorant and broken our foreign policy (and news) was.
First we will start with the Syrian governments account of what was going on while Crowley was spewing his nonsense. Trust me, this isn't my only source, I just use it to show what the Syrian government is telling its own people...
Hasaka
Army units clashed with terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) around the Juvenile Delinquency Institute and the main electricity station and in Sakhr village in the southern countryside of the northeastern Hasaka province.
SANA quoted a source in the province as saying that the clashes resulted in inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists.
The source pointed out that ISIS terrorists tried to storm into the Juvenile Delinquency Institute’s building, which is still under construction, using five car bombs.
An ISIS suicide terrorist blew up a car bomb near the main electricity station, causing the station to go out of service.
The Syrian Arab Army’s Air Force carried out a series of air strikes on ISIS dens in al-Dawoudia and Qabr Shamyia villages, al-Majbal al-Zefti, Abu Said farm, Rad Shaqra, Nuhab Sharqi and Gharbi areas in the southern countryside of Hasaka province.
A military source told SANA said a number of terrorists were killed in the air strikes and their weapons and munitions were destroyed.
The source added that the Air Force also targeted gatherings and dens of ISIS terrorists in the outskirts of al-Shdadi town 60km south of Hasaka city, killing a number of terrorists in the process.
Sure, that is what the regime says. How about some
anti-Regime media. ok:
Al- Hasakah Province: The violent clashes between IS from one side and the regime forces, backed by NDF and allied militiamen, from the other sides are still taking place around the city of al- Hasakah after IS could advance against and reach to the outskirts of the city of al- Hasakah. The clashes accompanied by with violent shelling by the regime forces and airstrikes by the helicopters and warplanes on the clashes’ areas. The clashes resulted in the death of 27 members of the regime forces and allied militiamen as well as 20 IS militants. 6 IS militants blew themselves up in these clashes.
Ok, so both the regime and and anti-regime media say the same thing. ISIS and the regime are involved in serious clashes whilst the esteemed PJ Crowley, professor and former Deputy Sec of State says otherwise. Gosh...who to believe?
Well since we have heaping praise on the Kurdish forces, let us see what they have to say?
Hasakah, Syria – On Saturday, the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) pounded the pro-regime security branches in the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, with mortar shells, causing civilian casualties, local sources reported.
or
this:
Activists based in Hasakah told ARA News that the IS radicals carried out a car bomb attack at a checkpoint of pro-regime forces southern the city, leading to fierce clashes between both sides.
Subsequently, regime forces –stationed in the regiment of Mount Kawkab– targeted IS strongholds with heavy artillery on Wednesday evening.
And they ask me why I drink.