CNN Hides Background of Prominent Religious Critic Under Siege
Oh sorry, that was back in May of 2008, when CNN built “the Wright-Free Zone” to protect Obama’s presidential bid when he tossed Rev. Wright under the bus. The rest of the world doesn’t get that kind of helpful service from Time-Warner-HBO.
“CNN Releases Photo, Personal Info Of Filmmaker,” Breitbart.com’s Larry O’Connor notes today, also noting that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula took great effort to conceal his identity when being hauled away by police this weekend:
CNN acknowledged this fact and then went on to show a picture of Nikoula as well as reveal information that they boastfully said they “dug up” on the filmmaker. CNN went on to editorialize by saying the film would be “Oscar worthy, if HATEFUL were a category.” This continues CNN’s long history of going beyond reportage of “facts,” as they pretend to do, and actual advocacy for the agenda of America’s enemies. Former Chairman Ted Turner was famous for his support of the Soviet Union during the cold war and CNN gained exclusive access to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq while staying silent about many of the regime’s atrocities they witnessed.
One wonders if CNN would have done all this digging on author Salmon Rushdie when he was first threatened with a fatwah in 1989. At the time, Rushdie was celebrated and hailed as a courageous artist for penning “The Satanic Verses” which radical Islamists found so offensive Rushdie was sentenced to death in absentia in Iran.
Hey, that’s different — just ask Rushdie himself.
Related: “Pictures That Change Elections?
Update: No word yet if there was a Donate to Obama URL in the CNN segment on Emmanuel Goldstein Nakoula today.
If/when he’s killed, his family should sue CNN for every last penny they have.
CNN: That Irritating Background Noise at the Airport!
The dirty little secret about Rushdie is that his fellow UK writers hated his guts. Partially jealousy of his great success and partially he’s a real p***k apparently.
Writers are horrible to each other, even in the face of something as awful as what happened to him.
Was “piss Christ” a loving and sweet sentiment? Where is the gleeful picture and address of the “artist”?
I personally believe that Michael Moore, Bill Maher, and Sean Penn regularly emit noxious and hateful spew. Can we get their addresses out to the masses?
(if we get their addresses wrong and their neighbors whose address we used get death threats, can we call Spike Lee and get a complete pass?)
Can we put a hit out on them like the Blank Panters or would that bring a knock on the door at midnight…instead of getting a complete pass?
Can I show up at a polling place this November in camo and carrying a weapon and threaten to kill a few hippie babies? Will the DOJ drop the case after I default and don’t show up?
CNN is a propaganda outfit and a watercarrying disease for the Marxists. They don’t champion the Constitution or the First Amendment. We should stop pussyfooting around about it. We should call them out about it…but not politely and not apologetically. Loudly and with outrage. As if our lives depended upon it and they were the enemy. Because they do and they are.
I wish I could give you a thumbs up, CF!
No, strike that, 100 TUs wouldn’t be enough!
They also neglect to mention that these crowds outside our embassies are chanting “God damn America!?
I am not sure I see the problem here. We all know that Islam is a religion of peace. That is what folks keep telling us. I would imagine all the the film maker can expect to receive from our Islamist friends is an invitation to tea. By way of contrast, although the kindly Reverend Wright may have struck some as being a bit of a firebrand, he was merely preaching about sin. And exactly when has the main stream media ever featured, in a positive light, a preacher who talks about sin? The mainstream media does not like to focus on Christian theology, and, at bottom, disagreements about Reverand Wright’s preaching are theological disputes. If you found the Reverend’s tone a little polemical, perhaps you should read words from other famous theologians. For example, in one of his works, Martin Luther (yes, the person who brought us the Protestant reformation) proclaimed about his opponents: “you are like mouse dropping in the pepper.” There is a whole website devoted to Luther’s insults. They are legion. Dietrich Bonhoffer found when he travelled America that what might be described as “polite theological society” could learn quite a bit from the African American religious experience. Bonhoffer preferred to worship in NY at the First Abyssinian Baptist Church instead of the more polite Riverside Church with Harry Emerson Fosdick at the pulpit.
The problem with Wright wasn’t that he was “a little polemical”. It was his outright expression of hatred for everything non-black and non-socialist.
That is one view of his theology, and it is a view quite popular on the right. A better reading is that the suppression of Wright is just another example of the Mainstream Media suppression of authentic Christian preaching and theology. Indeed, the media is always reticent to let Christians speak for themselves. The media shutdown of Wright is another example of the silencing of genuine Christian voices. Christianity is inconsistent with the “big business”/crony capitalism/big government model of George W Bush and Barrack Obama. Of course the media would suppress a dynamic Christian voice like the Reverend Wright.
Why DO we have to listen to CNN in airports? Is it some sort of FAA mandate?
CNN appears in so many airports, doctor’s offices, and other public spaces because they pay to be placed there, and got there first.
You can perform a public service by switching the channel or turning off the TV. One way to do that is with “TV-B-Gone”, a small remote-like device which is programmed with the off codes for most current tv sets.