On Sunday, Octavia Nasr — CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs — acknowledged the death of Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah by tweeting:
Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot..
Fadlallah was well known for a number of relatively liberal views, such as his support for women’s rights and fatwas against the brutal practices of female circumcision and honor killings. But Nasr’s comment was enough to spark fierce outrage from the various precincts of the neocon blog/twittersphere, who went after Nasr for her egregious failure to reduce Fadlallah to an anti-Israel, anti-American terrorist bogeyman.
Responding to the uproar, Nasr wrote, “It was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I’m sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah’s life’s work. That’s not the case at all”:
Here’s what I should have conveyed more fully:
I used the words “respect” and “sad” because to me as a Middle Eastern woman, Fadlallah took a contrarian and pioneering stand among Shia clerics on woman’s rights. He called for the abolition of the tribal system of “honor killing.” He called the practice primitive and non-productive. He warned Muslim men that abuse of women was against Islam. [...]
Sayyed Fadlallah. Revered across borders yet designated a terrorist. Not the kind of life to be commenting about in a brief tweet. It’s something I deeply regret.
A good clarification, but almost certainly not enough to silence the sanctimonious neoconservative whining.
Mediate now reports that, based on an internal CNN memo, Nasr will be leaving CNN. “[A]t this point,” writes CNN Senior VP Parisa Khosravi, “we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward.”
And so, once again, the neocons have managed to help make us all a little bit dumber. The punchline here is that Sayyed Fadlallah was the religious guide, or marja’ al-taqlid, to numerous members of Iraq’s ruling Da’wa Party, including Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. This means that they looked to Fadlallah as a source of religious authority on matters relating to correct Islamic life and practice, and committed to following his edicts on those matters.
So here’s the neocon logic: When a reporter acknowledges the passing of a revered, if controversial figure in a way that doesn’t sufficiently convey what a completely evil terrorist neocons think that figure was — that’s unacceptable. But when the United States spends nearly a trillion dollars, loses over 4,000 of its own troops and over 100,000 Iraqis to establish a new government largely dominated by that same “terrorist’s” avowed acolytes — that’s victory.
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Funny how conservatives are never fired from the media.
So much for the myth of the “librul media”… ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 4:30 pm“A good clarification, but almost certainly not enough to silence the sanctimonious neoconservative whining.”
Nothing can do that.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:30 pmHow dare She treat a muslim as a human being.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:30 pmI’ve read her tweet 3 times and I still can’t figure out what is so terrible about it. It really seems to be a non-committal statement on the passing of a govt leader.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:32 pmCNN has been caving to the rethugs since January 2000. Clearly this women was not in full support of this cleric and she didn’t say she supported him but respected him.
The problem is that wingnuts don’t respect anyone they don’t’ agree with. They don’t understand that respecting a person doesn’t mean you support them but that you recognize their accomplishments, trials and their strength to achieves them. It doesn’t mean you back them; but for those that have no respect for knowledge and intelligence what can we expect.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:33 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Yet another reason to avoid twitter.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:35 pm#4
I’ve read her tweet 3 times and I still can’t figure out what is so terrible about it.
Geez you just don’t get it…he was a Muslim! He was not supposed to be referred to as anything other than a dog.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:36 pmQuestioningEverything says:
How long until TP offers a job to this “journalist” who openly “respects” and praises a known terrorist?
How long until you fall off the face of the earth?
July 7th, 2010 at 4:36 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
CNN bowed to the neocons. That is not the proper role of a new media. They should be embarrassed that they let politics dictate their reporting.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:37 pmthe problem here is the g-damned twitter… let the idjits have at it – they don’t understand more than bumper sticker logic anyway…
sorry if i’ve offended any tweeting fans, but, really, why be a twit?
lesson learned, ms. nasr, et al… i hope.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:39 pmThe trolls “respected” terrorists as long as they were fighting the commies for Ronnie Raygun. Hypocrisy much sh!t for brains wannabe “thuggie” website vandals – otherwise known as trolls? ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 4:39 pmpags2 a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago Democratic Party says:
CNN bowed to the neocons. That is not the proper role of a new media. They should be embarrassed that they let politics dictate their reporting.
CNN is Fox News Lite anyway.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:41 pmWho was the last person fox fired for conduct problems?
Was it that bimbo who had the nerve to imply michelle obama and her husband were terrorists?
July 7th, 2010 at 4:41 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
If she had called for the death of President Obama, American conservatives would have loved her and said, “Praise Allah!”, because we all know that’s how the American Taliban (the GOP) talks and is!
July 7th, 2010 at 4:41 pmThis is just another indication of the disturbing surge in anti-Muslim ideology becoming so prevalent in American politics. Many on the Christian Right or in conservative media could be described in the same manner as the “terrorists” this crowd demonizes.
http://www.facebook.com/campaigncorner
July 7th, 2010 at 4:42 pmHow long until TP offers a job to this “journalist” who openly “respects” and praises a known terrorist?
LOL>> well we the people have to put up with all you right wing terrorist. and you have no journalist on your side only news readers.
you all can kiss my red blooded AMERICAN ass!!!!!!!!!
July 7th, 2010 at 4:44 pmthats for you trolls and you all know who you are.
I don’t bother with CNN at all…it’s a mess.
And, they are certainly more Right than I care to view.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:44 pmTwitter’s fault.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:44 pmAnd let’s not forget 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis and it was absolutely fine when George Bush & Dick Cheney liplocked the King of Saudi Arabia and held hands with him in the White House Rose Garden! See? The American Taliban (the GOP) loves any country that does honor killings, you know, cutting off her head or beating her with rocks until she’s dead!
July 7th, 2010 at 4:45 pmExcellent article, but please put the number of Iraqis killed at 1,300,000. This figure is ‘civilians killed violently’ and not total deaths.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:45 pmCNN, Fox News, and the GOP are al-Qaeda cells.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:46 pmI have no pity for her, I clearly remember her as a pimpette for the Iraq war.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:46 pmFormer Rep. Mark Siljander (R-MI) pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice and “acting as an unregistered foreign agent,” in connection with his work as a lobbyist for a group with terrorism ties.
LOL who the terrorist? who help them? what side is all for the help of destroying the great nation?
or thats right its the
republicans…..
July 7th, 2010 at 4:48 pmWas that during the time the Bush Regime was lying to the nation and providing false evidence to continue their charade? ;-)
July 7th, 2010 at 4:49 pmBreaking news a repug has been arrested for the grim sleeper slayings!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/07/grim.sleeper.arrest/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
Why do I say he’s a repug? well you have to be old, insane, or evil to be a republican these days and the killer has got to be all three.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:49 pmNasr will be leaving CNN. “[A]t this point,” writes CNN Senior VP Parisa Khosravi, “we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward.”
So when will they be firing Wolf Blitzer, John King, Erik Erikson, et al?
July 7th, 2010 at 4:50 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Piss-soaked trolls are easily terrified.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:52 pmcd (trolls are like public bathroom the less contact the better) says:
Breaking news a repug has been arrested for the grim sleeper slayings!
Why do I say he’s a repug? well you have to be old, insane, or evil to be a republican these days and the killer has got to be all three.
Old, insane, evil, or republican, conservative, teabagger?
Trick question – they are ALL the same thing.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:54 pmI can see why trollservatives hate this man…
Tens of thousands paid respect to this man as his casket was walked through the streets.
Millions pay tribute to his progressive ideas on equal rights for women, including Iraqis.
But, for trolls the only question that matters is…
Do Muslims encourage packing heat into Mosques?
July 7th, 2010 at 4:55 pmPilotshark Sponsored by Boeing`s Toxic cult troll Clean up Team says:
Former Rep. Mark Siljander (R-MI) pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice and “acting as an unregistered foreign agent,” in connection with his work as a lobbyist for a group with terrorism ties.
LOL who the terrorist? who help them? what side is all for the help of destroying the great nation?
or thats right its the
republicans…..
WASHINGTON – A former Michigan congressman and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations pleaded guilty today to charges related to work he did for an Islamic charity linked to terrorist groups including al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Mark Siljander, a conservative Republican who represented a southwest Michigan district from 1981 to 1987, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and to acting as an unregistered foreign agent and could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and fined up to $500,000.
Heh. Isn’t that just like a republican?
July 7th, 2010 at 4:57 pmSo is she like the 8th or 9th SEASONED reporter/editor/anchor CNN has lost in the last 90 days?? UNBELIEVABLE stupidity on their part, but I guess that’s what you get for becoming part of Rupe’s world… The hate machine cranks at high gear and instead of sticking by their employee…. POOF!… you’re toast.. CNN is pretty much done..
July 7th, 2010 at 4:58 pmso the Christians seem to put money over god
and the Muslim fate seems to place god over money.
with a few very few exceptions.
which religion has more money? as to the right its the only way to tell them apart.
July 7th, 2010 at 4:59 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Newsflash:
The tea-party IS the welfare party!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html?pagewanted=1
Irony, it’s not just for hitting trolls over the head anymore…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:01 pmTaking credit where none is due sounds AN AWFUL LOT like socialism…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:01 pmCNN is complete garbage, and this is just one more example why.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:02 pm*
She even looks like a terrorist
Racism is the icing on the cancervative cake, no?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:03 pm“So here’s the neocon logic: When a reporter acknowledges the passing of a revered, if controversial figure in a way that doesn’t sufficiently convey what a completely evil terrorist neocons think that figure was — that’s unacceptable. But when the United States spends nearly a trillion dollars, loses over 4,000 of its own troops and over 100,000 Iraqis to establish a new government largely dominated by that same “terrorist’s” avowed acolytes — that’s victory.”
It’s not logic, it’s cognitive dissonance. The wingnutosphere exists in a state of rabid illogic.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:03 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Ah, the same hypocritical teabaggers that think their right to “vandalize” this site represents free speech believe it doesn’t cover anyone else? Shokkker!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:04 pmOff topic:
Hey folks, sorry for the misunderstanding a few threads back, but I wasn’t being critical of Jackieprep, but of the current state of American Christianity as being “pitiful”.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:05 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
How long until TP offers a job to this “journalist” who openly “respects” and praises a known terrorist?
Fox News is funded by them, I wonder why TP hasn’t jumped at the occasion to hire any of those traitors?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:05 pmAh, the troll thinks that because it can post “hate screeds” here by vandalizing the website that constitutes “publishing”? Kind of like graffiti “artists” publishing their works by vandalizing buildings? What a bunch of disrespectful little sh!ts.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:05 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
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DNFP (powered by the Stirling Engine™) says:
She even looks like a terrorist
Racism is the icing on the cancervative cake, no?
Yes. Along with hatred and fear.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:08 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
The tea-party IS the welfare party:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html?pagewanted=1
The Great Depression, too, mobilized many middle-class people who had fallen on hard times. Though, as Michael Kazin, the author of “The Populist Persuasion,” notes, they tended to push for more government involvement. The Tea Party vehemently wants less — though a number of its members acknowledge that they are relying on government programs for help.
Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security…
“If you quit giving people that stuff, they would figure out how to do it on their own,” Mr. Grimes said.
The fact that many of them joined the Tea Party after losing their jobs raises questions of whether the movement can survive an improvement in the economy, with people trading protest signs for paychecks.
NOT THE TEA PARTY, THE WELFARE PARTY OF INSANE HYPOCRITES.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:09 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
LOL! Like I said, the “gangsta wannabe thuggie” tags property and claims it for itself? What a low class jobless little sh!tbag disrespectful “child”…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:11 pmWhen the welfare queens of the TEA movement find a job at Starbucks giving blowjobs in the back office, they’ll just go back to claiming they’re just Republicans afterall.
Shyster idiots who worship grown men who cry.
Freud would have a FIELD day with such mental illness.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:12 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
many of them joined the Tea Party after losing their jobs raises questions of whether the movement can survive an improvement in the economy, with people trading protest signs for paychecks.
When:
“Empeech the Prezdunt”
becomes
“God hates teh fags”
July 7th, 2010 at 5:13 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Westboro, TEA gaggers, Fiscal Cancervatives followers by any other name:
CLINICALLY RETARDED.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:14 pmWhen two convicted felons are your partisan divide heroes (Oliver North, Gordon Liddy), it’s easy to choose sides.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:15 pmlongredbillions says:
I see no reason to include the additional gundreds of thousands murdered by Saddam Hussein before President Bush stopped him and protected innocent Iraqis…
So that the U.S. can then kill them.
Dimwit.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:16 pmBut, but, but didn’t you all know that an act of respect, kindness or sympathy to any of our alleged enemies is a sign of weakness.
Have you all forgotten what the former idiot in chief Jorge W. Boosh told us? These terrorists want to kill us all and all of our children and all of our children’s children and destroy Western civilization in the process….yeah, like all of the powerful, wealthy elites will ever allow that to happen.
BOO!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:16 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Ah, poor thing, upset that a single conservative was fired because they were trying to “incite violence” with xenophobic screeds? Hardly getting fired just for your “opinion” is it now? ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:18 pmI see longredidiot seems to forget it was under a republican president and our CIA that helped put Saddam in power. It was also under a republican president when we sold the chemicals to Saddam to make chemical weapons, which is why he was hung before his other trials came up because one of them would have covered those very facts.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:18 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Funny how the dumphukkks forget they “loved their fellow right wing conservatives – muslim terrorists” when they were fighting commies together?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:18 pmAh, the dumphukkk is “supporting our rights” while “vandalizing the property of others”? How “generous”? ;0
July 7th, 2010 at 5:19 pmNothing says jack@ss quite like a “wannabe thuggie” pretending to have “authority” while behaving like a jobless little vandal sh!tbag… ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:19 pmGlen Beck, Sean Vannity and Rush Limbaugh are all propaganda mouthpieces for the American Taliban, should we also fire them?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:20 pmand funny how they loved their fellow fundies when they were KILLING TEH GAYS…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:21 pmOh and dumphukkkistan troll, it wasn’t “libruls” that got Dobbs fired, it was the Latino community including many “KKKons” who didn’t like his racism… ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:21 pmI see longredidiot seems to forget it was under a republican president and our CIA that helped put Saddam in power. It was also under a republican president when we sold the chemicals to Saddam to make chemical weapons, which is why he was hung before his other trials came up because one of them would have covered those very facts.
Watch the loser, longredidiot vote this down again in record time…trolls just hate inconvenient truths like these.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:21 pmLooks like someone has the entitlement mentality that he so much despises…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:21 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
longredbillions says:
First, I’m not your mom so don’t address me like that. Second, I support your right to express your hatred of America and its fighting men and women; I deplore it, but you have the right to be an jackass.
Aww, did that cut a little too close to the bone, trollboy? Are you gonna cry?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:22 pmWhen you talk about how we’re Nazis and how we’re evil, you should expect the snarky comment or insult…Man up, and stop playing the victim card…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:23 pm@67
AWWWW WAAAAA guess dimwit hit a major bone.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:24 pmThe only credibility that has been compromised is that of cnn.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:25 pmWell, what little credibility that is actually had. The corporate news network once again proves there is no rock that they will not crawl out from under.
“AWWWW WAAAAA guess dimwit hit a major bone.”
If he actually can be offended we may have to raise him above the level of S&M troll.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:26 pmhey teabagging tards, are you going to champion her first amndment rights or, prove yourself to be the hypocritical asshats we know you to be?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:26 pmEejit: When the Muslim is a terrorist. How dare a progressive treat terrorists better than they treat citizens protesting the invasiveness and failures and criminality of their Government?
Proof, please, that he was a terrorist. Or admit you’re talking out your ass, as usual. Admit you’d never even heard of the man before today and you have no idea who he was.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:28 pmUSCKitty: If you want to watch troll porn…go to TP… says:
When you talk about how we’re Nazis and how we’re evil, you should expect the snarky comment or insult…Man up, and stop playing the victim card…
LOL>>> the trolls female socks are more man then all of the other troll put together. So hard for them to man up thats why they always play the victim card.
LOL besides his mother wears combat boots. also is the head crossing guard at troll central. would be the short bus driver as well but that would be just to hard on her.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:28 pmSo the fascist dumphukkk would have you believe that Saddam came to power without US help? Except that his popular predecessor Qasim was assassinated by the CIA.. Ooops! ;)
In 1959, there was a failed assassination attempt on Qasim. The failed assassin was none other than a young Saddam Hussein. In 1963, a CIA-organized coup did successfully assassinate Qasim and Saddam’s Ba’ath Party came to power for the first time.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:28 pmRemember, he was a BANNED troll…not because he’s a First Amendment victim persecuted for his views, but because of his conduct and his posts here…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:28 pmWhile we’re discussing Iran and dealing with terrorists, shall we talk about the RayGun treason that cut a deal with them to sell them arms if they held off releasing the hostages until he was elected? ;)
Raygun loved him some right wing terrorists! ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:29 pmBozo The Neoclown says:
hey teabagging tards, are you going to champion her first amndment rights or, prove yourself to be the hypocritical asshats we know you to be?
Teabaggers? Hypocritical asshats. First last and always.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:29 pmand he feels entitled to civility? Bull
July 7th, 2010 at 5:29 pmlongred doesn’t like being called a DIMWIT?
Must hit a little too close to home…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:30 pmWhat is it about the trolls dishing it out but refusing to take it? Our doctor claims that we’re all fakers but he can’t take a hit to his credibility…Roboslater claims to be all civil and decries insults to him, but dishes it out…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:31 pmIn retrospect, it was the ClAs favorite coup. “We really had the ts crossed on what was happening,” James Critchfield, then head of the CIA in the Middle East, told us. “We regarded it as a great victory.” Iraqi participants later confirmed American involvement. “We came to power on a CIA train,” admitted Ali Saleh Sa’adi, the Baath Party secretary general who was about to institute an unprecedented reign of terror. CIA assistance reportedly included coordination of the coup plotters from the agency’s station inside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad as well as a clandestine radio station in Kuwait and solicitation of advice from around the Middle East on who on the left should be eliminated once the coup was successful. To the end, Qassim retained his popularity in the streets of Baghdad. After his execution, his sup- porters refused to believe he was dead until the coup leaders showed pictures of his bullet-riddled body on TV and in the newspapers.
American KKKons love them some right wing thugs and terrorists! ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:32 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
so if longred is DIMWIT then the other haft of the sock must be haftwit?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:33 pmTo avoid future controversies, CNN should just have the right wing neo-cons approve any future hirings.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:33 pmLOL! The dumphukkk fascist thinks “patriotic” is a good thing, just like the brown shirts to the fahduhrland? Shokkker! ;)
Is the American Fascist movement trying to destroy our liberal country and turn it into the 4th reich! You betcha! ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:33 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
“longred doesn’t like being called a DIMWIT?”
perhaps homegirl prefers NITWIT
July 7th, 2010 at 5:35 pmYes the very model of civility and civil dialogue…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:36 pmStop playing victim…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:36 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
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longredbillions says:
longredbillions says:
You’re not very bright, are you?
July 7th, 2010 at 5:39 pm“Glenn Beck is on. Time to add to my vast reservoir of knowledge.”
a thimble holds more, tard
July 7th, 2010 at 5:39 pmGlenn Beck is on.
Time to add to my vast reservoir of knowledge.
High dive into a thimble.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:43 pmAs I said, I’m not his mom.
LOL>>> a fact that he is very happy about.
and you should really save your drama for your mama!!!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:44 pmI should refresh more often. Bozo and I were both thinking about the depth of troll knowledge. ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:44 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
The troll belongs to the WIT family
Dimwit
July 7th, 2010 at 5:46 pmNITwit
Haftwit
The Colfax massacre during the Reconstruction Era. Fascinating stuff.
Psst, it was Hitler!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:47 pmPoor dumphukkkistan troll still defending the hypocrisy of the long standing support by right wing Americans of Muslim terrorists? Shokkker!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:47 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
LOL! Poor dumphukkkk think “bekkkistan” has “knowledge”? LOL!
That’s how the stupid get to be dumphukkks folks! ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:48 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Why, do kkkons call themselves patriotic while calling for the overthrow of democratically elected governments? Probably the same reason their nazi forefathers did the same thing? ;)
July 7th, 2010 at 5:49 pmAh, the right wing dumphukkk wannabe ganstas still spewing hate screed while plotting sedition? Shokkker!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:50 pmoh yes, he’s going to claim that it was the Democrats and that they were equal to liberals and progressives today…Newsflash…the Democrats in the South were CONSERVATIVE…interested in keeping the old economic regime alive…slavery in all but name…
July 7th, 2010 at 5:50 pmlongredbillions says:
Glenn Beck is on.
Time to add to my vast reservoir of knowledge.
Run along, trollboy. Run along.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:50 pmBeck is off already? I guess he didn’t have any knowledge to impart after all.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:50 pmA “wannabe thuggie” whips of a hate screed that abides by the right wing fascist ideological narrative of “the unpatriotic left” while calling for “sedition and fascist overthrow of democratically elected governments”? And it wonders why people know that rightwing=terrorism? Shokkker!
July 7th, 2010 at 5:51 pmyou just described your puppetmaster, Glenn Beck perfectly…
Hey guys…isn’t it telling that Colfax memorializes the incident with the phrase, ‘which marked the end of carpet bag misrule in the South.’
My guess is that Beck will turn this into another big government misrule narrative or another Democrats and liberals hate black people and are racist narrative
July 7th, 2010 at 5:59 pmno memorial to the African-American victims who died at the hands of whites committed to preserving white supremacy…at least this memorial is more honest in a negative way…
July 7th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
and we’ll hear Robo with new talking points about how liberals hate blacks and are no better than the Colfax white supremacists who killed hundreds…
July 7th, 2010 at 6:02 pmFWIW, I sent the following message to CNN on it’s “contact Us page.
QUOTE
Shame on you, CNN. Have you no more courage than those who trembled before the fury of Joe McCarthy?
The firing of Octavia Nasr following her clarification/revision of her comments is disgraceful. I believe that such an act compromises CNN’s standing and reputation.
Your management stated “we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward.”
It has been compromised only among the right wing zealots who ignite at the slightest spark and who unashamedly parade their sanctimony for all the world to see.
July 7th, 2010 at 6:26 pmEND QUOTE
I call for a boycott of CNN!!! I never watch those losers anyway. Follow my lead, they suck!!!
July 7th, 2010 at 6:46 pmSimple minded people want black and white, good guy and bad guy, right and wrong answers for everything. That is how our media sees the world, and is the reason America is a dimwitted backwater of civilization. Anti-intellectualism is epidemic in this nation, and is also a powerful tool of right wing ideologues.
CNN, keep up the dismal work!
July 7th, 2010 at 7:01 pmShe got fired. Good.
July 7th, 2010 at 7:31 pmI used the words “respect” and “sad” because to me as a Middle Eastern woman, Fadlallah took a contrarian and pioneering stand among Shia clerics on woman’s rights. He called for the abolition of the tribal system of “honor killing.” He called the practice primitive and non-productive. He warned Muslim men that abuse of women was against Islam.
It’s not what you say, its who you say it about.
She could’ve said this about a dozen other people around the world that are terrorists, but still considered ‘our’ terrorists and she’d have been fine.
*shrug*
July 7th, 2010 at 7:47 pmDon’t suppose any righties will be sticking up for her under free spach grounds?
Good old libertarians maybe, at least they arn’t nearly so hypocritical.
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July 7th, 2010 at 7:59 pmConservaTROLL
You havent killed yourself yet. Too bad. Get with it. Do the right thing punk
July 7th, 2010 at 8:17 pmCNN = Corporate News Network
Our stupid trolls think we give a rats ass about it.
Don’t do biased corporate reporting and I may tune in, untill then…
….nope.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:40 pmIt’s great to hear that CNN is concerned about credibility. I hadn’t noticed.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:58 pmI would expect nothing else from Contains No News
July 7th, 2010 at 9:00 pmCNN is in deep trouble. Too bad Ted Turner sold it–it might still be good.
July 7th, 2010 at 9:25 pmCNN sucks but its about time they made at least one good decision. it is sad to see that Toilet Paper website and liberals support terrorists.
July 7th, 2010 at 9:33 pmright…and you wingnuts were disappointed that the underpants bomber didn’t kill anyone…
July 7th, 2010 at 9:48 pmoh LOOK, I just made an unfounded assumption like BoB…or did I?
July 7th, 2010 at 9:48 pmCNN = Fox lite.
July 7th, 2010 at 10:09 pmCNN isn’t a news gathering organization as much as it is a station that brings a story to debate, offers both cliched sides and says: “Now you decide, because it isn’t our policy to have an opinion unless someone like our Jack Cafferty bashes the president after he supported his run as a candidate. Or Rick Sanchez has Ann Coulter on so she can explain her hate.”
July 7th, 2010 at 10:19 pmI’m still receiving a steady stream of congratulatory messages on my computer for the firing of this ugly American nut. But I assure you, I did not do it all myself, and frankly the pressure I applied on CNN producers may not have been the straw that broke this camel’s back. I believe all patriots should be proud of this success.
It is a day of which to be proud. I won’t deny it. I’m having a time getting the grin off my face. So happy to see results.
July 8th, 2010 at 12:25 amMr. Sonia Herecomestheangst (a division of Tim Tebow Smiley Shucks Media Groups) says:
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CNN isn’t a news gathering organization as much as it is a station that brings a story to debate, offers both cliched sides and says: “Now you decide, because it isn’t our policy to have an opinion unless someone like our Jack Cafferty bashes the president after he supported his run as a candidate. Or Rick Sanchez has Ann Coulter on so she can explain her hate.”
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I don’t believe CNN producers would allow Rick Sanchez on with Ann Coulter because of the obvious mismatch.
And many Obama supporters have gotten wise and renounced their earlier support of this cruel and ugly Statist in the White House.
July 8th, 2010 at 12:27 ami think it is very sad that CNN caved in from the pressure from the pro Isreal movement. Octavia is very intelligent and continually promoted CNN and its employees on twitter.
July 8th, 2010 at 1:10 amLongSTUPID
FOAD. You are pathetic and stupid. All you do is drop by and tell lies. Very VERY stupid LIES. So just FCUK yourself
July 8th, 2010 at 2:31 amI was wounded in the countless battles at TP fighting for my country against TEH TRAITOROUS LIBRULS…I deserve the purple heart and I deserve it NOW! It is a day of which to be proud. I won’t deny it. IO’m having a time getting the grin off my face…because I did not have to risk my life…
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July 8th, 2010 at 9:25 amREQUIN TN
You seem suprised. You left wing progressives go after conservative reporters daily … Glen Beck, Michael Savage, Bill Orielly, Rush Limbaugh and so on… You constantly slander those with opposing points of view on TP, Media Matters, Huffington and the like but you seem suprised that the same would be used against you.
How is the taste of your own medicine?
July 8th, 2010 at 4:32 pm