C-SPAN’s Orgel Again Facilitates Disinformation and Defamation Concerning Israel
C-SPAN’s Washington Journal daily three-hour morning call-in show uses a revolving roster of approximately 10 hosts often guilty of journalistic malpractice when Israel or Jews is mentioned. Host Paul Orgel is a prime example.
On Aug.7, 2017 at 9:34 a.m. (Eastern), Orgel, during a segment soliciting viewers’ comments on news of the day, fielded a lunatic fringe call from “Mitch from Memphis, Tennessee”:
I have a comment on your recent [previous segment] guest. Since all wars are bankers’ wars, all you have you to do is turn down the TV and watch the guy’s eyes to tell that he’s lying and he was squirming around on some of the calls. So, when ISIS – which also stands for ‘Israeli Secret Intelligence Service’ [Sic. No such entity exists] is what it really should be spelled out as – attacks Tel Aviv, the Vatican, or Washington D.C., that’s when you’ll know it’s real and not ‘green screen terrorism’ [fake terrorism]. And the only reason they are talking about North Korea is because that war never actually ended. And that is the only card they have left to play where they don’t have to go to Congress and declare war. That is why they are pumping that up. That is all I have to say.
Orgel replied, “Thanks for calling, Mitch. Sherry, calling from Florida …”
The previous segment referred to by caller “Mitch from Memphis” was “The cost of combating ISIS [Islamic State terrorist entity].” The guest (insulted by Mitch) is Charles Johnson, managing director of international affairs and trade issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Thus, Orgel, thanking the lunatic fringe caller, characteristically failed to even comment on a defamatory anti-Israel charge and an anti-Jewish canard (“all wars are bankers’ wars”).
In a previous instance of host Orgel’s frequent unprofessional performance (at least as it pertains to Israel or Jews) as Washington Journal host, he indulged a lunatic fringe caller’s identical inflammatory views defaming Israel twice only 22 hours apart in January 2010. The caller used two different names and claimed two separate (distant) locations, saying virtually the same thing each time and in the same distinctive voice. Orgel indulged “Janet from Birmingham, Alabama” on January 1, 2010 at 9:51 AM and then (the same individual again) on January 2 at 7:50 AM indulging “Carol from Scottsville, Arizona.”
Some previous Orgel examples are Dec. 26, 2016 (morning calls at 7:17, 8:54, 9:03) and Nov. 15, 2015 (calls at 7:07, 7:29, 7:40, 7:56).
Meanwhile, the news media fails to expose C-SPAN’s transgressions misleading potentially millions of viewers.
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