{"id":83504,"date":"2015-01-19T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T07:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=83504"},"modified":"2015-01-19T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T07:19:10","slug":"long-time-presenter-jim-clancy-leaves-cnn-anti-israel-twitter-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=83504","title":{"rendered":"Long-time presenter Jim Clancy leaves CNN after \u2018anti-Israel\u2019 Twitter rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran US TV journalist Jim Clancy has abruptly left the international news broadcaster after 34 years, following a seemingly tangential Twitter argument over Charlie Hebdo that escalated to a verbal war between Clancy and pro-Israel social media users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim Clancy is no longer with CNN. We thank him for more than three decades of distinguished service, and wish him nothing but the best,\u201d said a terse statement from the Atlanta-headquartered network, which had sent Clancy as a reporter to Beirut, London, and Berlin before making him a senior anchor and contributor.<\/p>\n<p>Although neither Clancy nor CNN revealed the reasons for the departure, almost all media outlets connected it with a somewhat incoherent Twitter spat that began in the wake of the fatal attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83505\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jim.jpg\" alt=\"jim\" width=\"690\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe cartoons NEVER mocked the Prophet. They mocked how the COWARDS tried to distort his word. Pay attention,\u201d<\/em> tweeted Clancy on January 7 \u2013 from an account that has since been deleted \u2013 referring to the magazine\u2019s editorial output.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83506\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oren.jpg\" alt=\"oren\" width=\"690\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ironically-named anonymous pro-Israeli blogger Elder of Ziyon, and Oren Kessler, a Jewish-American Middle East analyst, both piped in with comments contradicting Clancy, saying that there had been explicitly anti-religious cartoons, and reminding the journalist that the magazine had been previously targeted by Islamists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/clancy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83507\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/clancy.jpg\" alt=\"clancy\" width=\"690\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The debate then took an odd turn, with Clancy tweeting \u201cHasbara\u201d \u2013 the name for Israel\u2019s policy of spreading its message through mass media.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is great, a pro-Israel voice try [sic] to convince us that cartoonists were really anti-Muslim, and that\u2019s why they were attacked. FALSE. These accounts are part of a campaign to do PR for Israel(including \u201cJews Making News\u201d) but not HR (Human Rights.),\u201d<\/em> read one tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83508\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/kess.jpg\" alt=\"kess\" width=\"690\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite being met with incomprehension, Clancy then mysteriously tweeted <em>\u201cIt&#8217;s called satire\u201d<\/em> before launching into a series of general anti-Israeli comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83509\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jc.jpg\" alt=\"jc\" width=\"690\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several included mentions of Israeli officials being tried at the International Criminal Court, as well as Israeli settlements \u2013 a subject Clancy has covered extensively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83510\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mc.jpg\" alt=\"mc\" width=\"690\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83511\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ame.jpg\" alt=\"ame\" width=\"690\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most offensive and telling tweet read <em>\u201cIt\u2019s my Friday night\u201d<\/em> \u2013 this was actually a Wednesday \u2013 and said <em>\u201cthe Hasbara team need to pick on some cripple on the edge of the herd.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/human.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83512\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/human.jpg\" alt=\"human\" width=\"690\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seemingly unprovoked outpouring sparked the ire of the Ruderman Family Foundation, a Jewish disabled people\u2019s foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Its head, Jay Ruderman, wrote an open letter to CNN, calling Clancy\u2019s remarks <em>\u201cappalling\u201d<\/em> and asking why <em>\u201cin this day and age a senior anchor at CNN, a world leader in the media, would use a word such as \u2018cripple,&#8217; which is a derogatory term for people with disabilities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More and more media outlets picked up on the story, and Clancy first deleted several of the more inflammatory posts, and then eventually his account. However, screenshots of the tweets had been saved by Gawker and several other outlets.<\/p>\n<p>By Friday, Clancy\u2019s biography had been taken off the CNN website, and the journalist wrote a goodbyeletter, saying <em>\u201cCNN has been a family to my own family,\u201d<\/em> and thanking it for providing <em>\u201cgreat adventures and achievements.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: rt.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran US TV journalist Jim Clancy has abruptly left the international news broadcaster after 34 years, following a seemingly tangential Twitter argument over Charlie Hebdo that escalated to a verbal war between Clancy and pro-Israel social media users. \u201cJim Clancy is no longer with CNN. We thank him for more than three decades of distinguished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-83504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}