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Chris Hedges

• November 15 -- Chris Hedges Blows in Again, Predicting a Draft
Anti-war reporter Chris Hedges tells a college audience "We are losing the war in Iraq very badly" and predicts a reinstatement of the draft.

• October 12 -- No Hedging When It Comes to Pushing Lefties
Liberal reporter Chris Hedges again uses the Times to publicize a left-wing figure: "In the battle over Jesus, what he stood for, what he represents and how faith is experienced and sustained, the Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr., the senior minister of Riverside Church, is determined to provide an alternative vision to the one offered by religious conservatives."

• September 23 -- A Sympathetic Hearing for an Extreme Bush Hater
The paper's "Public Lives" profile offers more anti-Bush ammo.

• April 20 -- Hedges Lauds Another Defender of Anti-Israeli Violence
Chris Hedges, infamous for being unplugged while delivering an anti-war commencement speech, profiles a pro-Palestinian professor that ignores his defense of violence against Israeli soldiers.

• February 6 -- "Conservatives" Against Death Penalty, Patriot Act
Chris Hedges' latest "Public Lives" profile ostensibly deals with a conservative Republican figure--one who is passionately anti-death penalty and calls the Patriot Act "a serious erosion of the rule of law."

• January 28 -- Loving Those Who Love Paul Robeson
Anti-war reporter Chris Hedges profiles (another) Paul Robeson admirer--a preacher's son fighting for gay rights.

• December 19 -- Was Hussein's Capture a Good Thing? Chris Hedges
Anti-war reporter Chris Hedges greets Hussein's capture with a sniff: "I don't think the resistance movement in Iraq has very much to do with Saddam Hussein at all. And I think it obscures the fundamental issue, which is that Iraqis are chafing against U.S. occupation."

• July 25 -- The Times Catches Up With Times Watch
The Times finally corrects Chris Hedges’ July 1 story in which he falsely claims Sen. Joe McCarthy derailed the career of Stalin-supporting actor-activist Paul Robeson. As Times Watch noted on July 1: “Joe McCarthy had nothing to do with it, Hedges’ fantasies of ‘McCarthyism’ notwithstanding.”

• July 1 -- Chris Hedges’ Love for Local Lefties
Times reporter Chris Hedges, whose anti-war rant got him booed off a college commencement stage, contributes a chronologically challenged profile of a left-wing judge whose courtroom has a picture of Stalinist actor Paul Robeson on the wall.

• June 9 -- Chris Hedges Channels Noam Chomsky
Times reporter Chris Hedges, recently booed off a Rockford College commencement stage for a tone-deaf anti-war rant, does his best Noam Chomsky impersonation during an online discussion of his anti-war book.

• June 3 -- “Least-Civilized” Students Heckle Chris Hedges
Sunday’s Times addresses the controversy over reporter Chris Hedges’ anti-war commencement speech by blaming uncivilized students. But does campus incivility come only from the pro-war perspective? Judging from the Times coverage, yes.

• May 23 -- Reporter Chris Hedges’ Condescending Contempt
After his anti-war commencement tirade, Times reporter Chris Hedges went on left-wing radio and likened the hostile graduates to war-crazed animals : “With that kind of rabid nationalism comes racism and intolerance and a dehumanization of the other…. crowds that become hunting packs are very frightening….that kind of contagion leads ultimately to tyranny, it's very dangerous and it has to be stopped.”

• May 21 -- Reporter Chris Hedges’ Pompous Pacifism
Times reporter Chris Hedges thought “progressive” Rockford College would be a safe place to indulge his pompous pacifism: “I want to speak to you today about war and empire….We are embarking on an occupation that if history is any guide will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige and power and security.” The graduates thought differently.