{"id":866,"date":"2007-11-12T02:13:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/britains-daily-telegraph-pulls-staff-from-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T02:13:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T06:13:10","slug":"britains-daily-telegraph-pulls-staff-from-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Daily Telegraph Pulls Staff From Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Daily Telegraph Newspaper has withdrawn it&#8217;s correspondents from Pakistan in fear of reprisals over a stunningly frank editorial from last week that referred to Pervez Musharraf in, well, less than flattering terms. Much less than flatering:<strong> In the old parlance, General Pervez Musharraf is &#8220;our sonofabitch&#8221;. He has failed to stamp out extremist groups and close the madrassas that inspire them. He has allowed the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan to fall into the hands of assorted jihadis.<\/strong>and <strong>But that should not blind Britain and America to the fact that their &#8220;sonofabitch&#8221; in Pakistan is a spent force.<\/strong><br \/>\nI find this refreshing. It is nice to see a major newspaper avoid the parsing of words that passes for journalism in this day and age. What is so wrong with calling a spade a spade? The biggest problem I have with today&#8217;s rampant political correctness is the abject fear most people have of calling things as they see them. Facts are facts and if calling Musharraf &#8220;Our sonofobitch&#8221; is crass, it is also directly on point. What surprises me about this story is that I have yet to see widespread condemnation of the Daily Telegraph by the rest of the MSM. Let us hope against hope that this editorial sparks a change in reporting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=071112003544.qrg1jrtv&amp;show_article=1\">Breitbart\/AFP Story<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/11\/09\/dl0902.xml\">Daily Telegraph Editorial &#8220;Bankrupt relationship&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Daily Telegraph Newspaper has withdrawn it&#8217;s correspondents from Pakistan in fear of reprisals over a &hellip; <a title=\"Britain&#8217;s Daily Telegraph Pulls Staff From Pakistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=866\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Britain&#8217;s Daily Telegraph Pulls Staff From Pakistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}