Hey you goofy reindeer reporter, go hug this muslim! 
Posted on 12/18/2006 8:53:01 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Chief reporter urges readers to hug a Muslim
By Sarah Lagan
Monday, 18 December 2006
A Jersey Evening Post journalist is making a late bid to reach the top of the charts this Christmas by dressing as a reindeer and urging the nation to "hug a Muslim".
Anthony Lewis, assistant editor and chief reporter at the Evening Post, has written and performed a pop song titled Colour This Time (Hug a Muslim) and plans to challenge the likes of the XFactor contestants to the top spot and remind us not be greedy and materialistic at Christmas.
In the video, Lewis, who has no previous musical experience, sings: "Turn to the person next to you now and give them a hug. Muslim, Hindu, Christian or Jew — hug a Muslim this Christmas."
The odds on Colour This Time reaching number one in the charts on Christmas Day were recently slashed from 500-1 to 250-1.
A spokesman for William Hill said they were lowered because of the number of people putting money on it to win.
The song's video, which has been viewed over 6,200 times on youtube.com, was made with the help of Evening Post readers who appeared as extras.
In his weekly column, Lewis invited readers to meet him at a Jersey beach to help make the film, and 100 willing volunteers turned up.
"As an experiment about what the internet can do it has been fascinating.
This has been seen all over the world,"
he said.
"Apparently GMTV liked it, but I've not had a call from them. I'd quite like to sit on the sofa with Lorraine, I think she's gorgeous."
But Lewis stresses there is a serious side to his song. "The whole media is guilty of using the word ‘Muslim' in a negative way, but there is no reason why. We're all just human beings."
Lewis said he had no more musical plans beyond Colour This Time, but hoped that more regional journalists would start impromptu pop careers next year.
He said: "We should form a musical collective. We'd be like the Wu-Tang Clan. Only more crap."
And does the reindeer suit have any relevance?
"It was going to be a pigeon. But I went to the fancy dress shop the week before shooting and the only suits they had were the reindeer or Scooby Doo, and I didn't fancy a lawsuit from Hanna-Barbera," he said.
The song can be downloaded from www.hugamuslim.co.uk.
Hey you goofy reindeer reporter, go hug this muslim!
I think I'm going to hurl...
May as well do it while hugging a mussie
but not too hard. Sometimes they blow up.
How about they urge Muslims to hug a Christian?
How about a Bear Hug?.......Does that count?...........
How about sharing a BLT with them as well?
...a pop song titled Colour This Time (Hug a Muslim)...
The song can be downloaded from:
http://www.hugamuslim.co.uk/
ROTFLMAO!
Only you.
Oh, just off the top of my head I can think of 3,000 reasons why (9/11). And let's not count the daily rapes, beheadings, etc.
It's disgusting watching people appease these animals.
Sounds like throwing yourself on a grenade to me.
Next time I go home, I should try this on my friend. :)
Formerly with the NYT and every other lefty journal you can think of?
THE Anthony Lewis whom Noam Chomsky described as being "at the very end of the left spectrum"?
THE Anthony Lewis who's the senile journalistic equivalent of Helen Thomas, only a million more shades of red?
It seems odd that he wrote a song, so it may be some younger writer/editor with the same name.
But of course, if a monkey pounds a key board long enough, he'll create a few strains of Beethoven.
Leni
Good plan. Your body will absorb much of the force of the explosion, thereby saving other's lives.
You call it a hug, I call it frisking for weapons.
Hug them where? Around the neck?
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