CAUGHT! – AT 12:48 P.M. ET:  The phoniness of liberalism, on full display.  From Pink News:

Liberal news outlet Huffington Post has defended its Arabic edition – claiming that openly homophobic columns “represent” people’s views.

The US news outlet has struck a decidedly gay-friendly tone in English, launching ‘HuffPost Gay Voices’ to focus on LGBT issues – but things are rather less open on its new Arabic offshoot, Huffington Post Arabia.

A number of openly homophobic columns were found on the site earlier this month – with one columnist naming the selfie as a symptom of “the diseases and the viruses of the Western world” seeping into Arabic culture, while another savaged the Egyptian government for allowing “a press conference for gays in the heart of Cairo”, referring to gay people using derogatory words.

In a new US edition editorial, HuffPost’s Washington chief Ryan Grim conceded that many find the comments “absurd” and “deeply offensive” – but added they “represent the views of a sizeable number” in the area, “and we gain nothing by suppressing it”.

The post says: “Liberals are appalled by homophobic and anti-modern blog posts and warn that the whole thing is a vehicle for the Muslim Brotherhood, and religious conservatives are hitting us from the other side.

“What all of the critics are missing, though, is just how vital it is today more than ever to give our full-throated support to press freedom and diversity in the Middle East.”

It continues: “Launching HuffPost Arabi presents a unique journalistic question: Mainstream opinion in the Middle East is in many ways different from that in the U.S. on some key social and foreign policy issues, so how does an Arab-focused but Western-affiliated outlet handle opinions that are common in the region but offensive back home?”

COMMENT:  Why is press freedom any less important in the United States?  What next?  Will Huff Post Arabia be publishing Holocaust denial pieces?  How about "death to America" pieces?  Maybe the "editors" simply see too much upside sales potential to maintain the taste standards they allegedly maintain here.

By the way, CNN is also notorious for covering a story one way for domestic viewers and another way for its "international" viewers, especially where the Mideast is concerned. 

August 15, 2015