so are you all just willfully obtuse? or do you share goldberg’s disregard for the lives of yemeni civilians? the issue is that one of the bombings that was discussed in that chat was a civilian apartment building, a fact highlighted in the screenshot that was shared around after the article came out. goldberg’s article barely touches on the victims and instead shifts the focus to trump’s incompetence in a completely dehumanizing move
when asked about this lack of interest in covering details related to the reported 53 yemeni civilians who were killed during these u.s. airstrikes on npr, this is what he had to say:
Deepa Fernandes: There's little talk of the fact that this attack killed 53 people, as we mentioned, including women and children. The civilian toll of these American strikes. Are we burying the lede here?
Jeffrey Goldberg: Well, those, unfortunately, those aren't confirmed numbers. Those are provided by the Houthis and the Houthi health ministry, I guess. So we don't know that for sure. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're, well, I don't know if we're burying the lede, because obviously huge breaches in national security and safety of information, that's a very, very important story, obviously. And one of the reasons, you know, it's a very important story is that the Republicans themselves consider that to be an important story, when it's Hillary Clinton doing the deed, right? So that's obviously hugely important.
But yeah, I think that covering what's going on in Yemen, the Arab and Iran backed terrorist organization, the Houthis, that are that are firing missiles at Israel and disrupting global shipping and occupy half of Yemen, and all kinds of other things in the US, you know, and the Trump administration criticizing the Biden's response and Europe wants Trump to do more. I mean, yeah, there's, there's a huge story in Yemen. But Yemen is, as you know, is one of the more inaccessible places for Western journalists. So maybe this becomes like a substitute for a discussion of Yemen. I don't know.
here, he casts doubt on the reported death toll and does what he has always done as a reporter, which is shill for the u.s. war on terror and disregard its victims, something he infamously did in the buildup to the disastrous u.s. invasion of iraq. the only reason he holds as high of a position as he does now is because he has never faced a serious reckoning for how wrong all of the justifications that he pushed for that invasion were, and dehumanization of arabs and other civilians in swana is rewarded in the u.s. media
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