Middle East Crisis: Hemmer’s A Star, Dobbs’ Opinion, Two Arab Journos Shot…

By Brian 

> Public Eye points to this report by the International Middle East Media Center: “A cameraman for Al-Jazeera television was shot in Nablus, and a reporter with Al Hurrah television was also shot by Israeli forces today in separate incidents…”

> This morning on Brian & The Judge, FNC’s Rudi Bakhtiar discussed Hezbollah, and told “of the assassination of her uncle, who had been Prime Minister of Iran,” Johnny Dollar says (with the audio)…

> A trusted cable insider writes: “I hate to compliment a competitor, but Roger has made Bill Hemmer into a star. His work anchoring in Israel has been great. Hemmer is Must See TV…”

> Lou Dobbs‘ weekly CNN.com commentary is a must-read: “As our airwaves fill with images and sounds of exploding Hezbollah rockets and Israeli bombs, this seven-day conflict has completely displaced from our view another war in which 10 Americans and more than 300 Iraqis have died during the same week.” He asks: “Where is our sense of perspective? Where is our sense of decency?…”

> Day three of NBC’s “Early Nightly” video blog was delayed due to the “logistics of getting videotape out of a battle zone,” Brian Williams notes…

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