Again and again, they keep repeating the same thing, acting as if it was a mistake, acting as if they did not mean it, acting as if it was just an error. Please, stop this nonsense, I can expect this level of stupidity from republican airheads and their friends in FAKE (FOX) NEWS and their dumb radio talkheads. But to see even Chris Mathews go through this too is just shocking.
Now, he did apologize, but so did all those who did this “mistake”. Basically what happened is that while Chris was promoting the show’s lineup, which included discussion of Barack Obama’s plagiarism of Deval Patrick’s speeches, a photo of Osama bin Laden was shown during the mention of Obama’s story.
As can be seen in this video…
And then later he apologized…..
Now I know some will say he is not to be blamed, it might have not been his fault, maybe it was a set up, maybe it was a real mistake. Well I just wish it was but I believe it was not a mistake or slip-up.
I think by now everybody knows how much I just love watching this show, I wish it is a daily show such as “Alqahira Alyaum” and “Al3ashera Masa2an”. Hamdi Qandeel is just genius, he makes it seem so simple, he says what each one in this Arab world wants to say, its like he collects the thoughts of all the people in the Arab world and put them in an hour episode.
Before having this blog I used to have an active channel on youtube, having hundreds of videos from “AlQahira Alayaum”, “Al3ashera Masa2an”, “Qalam Rasas” and other shows, I used to get a lot of requests from Arabs who live abroad from all nationalities to upload some parts of the show. I used to upload as much as I can but it was time consuming, anyway I will try to upload the FULL episode of “Qalam Rasas” weekly on Google Video.
In this week’s episode the most strange thing is the interview Hamdi Qandeel had over the satellite from Amman with “Hayat Elhowaik” and from Cairo with “Hussain Ahmad Amin” from the American University. It was about the new rules the Arab governments trying to start to lower the freedom level in the private Arabic channels, especially the political shows, the discussion showed the real meaning of those new rules when we see one of the makers of those rules not having any manners in the way he is discussing the matter. As usually a very interesting episode by Hamdi Qandeel. Enjoy!
After seasons and seasons of exclusively airing the UEFA Champions League, ART now loses those rights to Aljazeera Sport Channel. Aljazeera won those rights and for the UEFA cup for at least the next three seasons from 2009 to 2012. Aljazeera also got the rights to broadcast the UEFA Super Cups for 2009, 2010 and 2011.
What is really interesting also is that Aljazeera also got the rights to exploit those competitions on the Internet and Mobiles. It is said that Aljazeera will be selling some of he matches to free-to-air channels, those matches are expected to be in the UEFA Cup and not the UEFA Champions League.
At start there has been a few doubts on how Aljazeera Sports Channel will be able to manage to air big number of matches that play at the same time, as we know Aljazeera has now only two free-to-air channels and two “pay TV” channels, with an additional one to start soon, so to clear those doubts Aljazeera announced that they will be adding new channels that works only on matches times.
In my opinion Aljazeera Sports is better than ART, they respect the championships they have rights to, they create appropriate analysis studios they employ capable analysts and presenters. Simply speaking they are well organized, and willing to go all the way to produce high quality coverage.
In regard to ART Sports future it seems they are doomed, although some rumors say that they will be having the Italian League in FULL starting from next season, if there is any true to this it could save them but I really wish they don’t get it in full, Aljazeera is better capable to give this league the kind of attention it deserves. I really wish this Mary go around thing with the leagues ends, I wish one capable network takes all of them so we can just subscribe to one network.
Again and again, they keep repeating the same thing, acting as if it was a mistake, acting as if they did not mean it, acting as if it was just an error. Please, stop this nonsense, I can expect this level of stupidity from republican airheads and their friends in FAKE (FOX) NEWS and their dumb radio talkheads. But to see even Chris Mathews go through this too is just shocking.
