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Journalists urged caution after Ft. Hood, now race to blame Palin after Arizona shootings
Washington Examiner ^ | 1/9/11 | Byron York

Posted on 01/09/2011 9:09:10 AM PST by Nachum

On November 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire at a troop readiness center in Ft. Hood, Texas, killing 13 people. Within hours of the killings, the world knew that Hasan reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before he began shooting, visited websites associated with Islamist violence, wrote Internet postings justifying Muslim suicide bombings, considered U.S. forces his enemy, opposed American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as wars on Islam, and told a neighbor shortly before the shootings that he was going "to do good work for God." There was ample evidence, in other words, that the Ft. Hood attack was an act of Islamist violence.

Nevertheless, public officials, journalists, and commentators were quick to caution that the public should not "jump to conclusions" about Hasan's motive. CNN, in particular, became a forum for repeated warnings that the subject should be discussed with particular care.

"The important thing is for everyone not to jump to conclusions," said retired Gen. Wesley Clark on CNN the night of the shootings.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caution; freepressforpalin; ft; giffords; journalists; urged
Journolist
1 posted on 01/09/2011 9:09:17 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
HASAN II
2 posted on 01/09/2011 9:13:13 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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A liberal shoots people: so the mainstream media blames Palin even though there is no evidence Palin had anything to do with it.

Oil spills in the Gulf: the media lies and calls it a disaster and blames BP, industry, oil and so blames capitalism.Where is that “disaster” now?

For 20 years, the media and democrats have perpetrated the global warming hoax and blamed that on C02 = capitalism.

The mainstream media blames every “crises” on anything that opposes socialism be it Palin, conservatives, capitalism, Rush ,Republicans, tea party etc.


3 posted on 01/09/2011 9:15:48 AM PST by Democrat_media (Why is no government creating a product we can hold in our hands like a cell phone..?)
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When this happened yesterday my mind went back to the shooting of Fort Hood and specifically when Obama managed to come out and make a statement regarding the shooting that is after he took time to give a shout out to an audience member at where he was speaking. Yesterday he managed to have a full speech prepared in no time and mentioned how we all have to get along. I guess this fits in to his plans of censorship somehow and this week the congress said they will take what precautions are necessary
whatever that means and already Palin, Beck, Limbaugh have been blamed I find it all a little to convenient
4 posted on 01/09/2011 9:25:29 AM PST by funfan
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If you didn’t realize how screwed up this country was before surely you do now. The good news is that it looks like this gunman was a lefty so it will drop out of the news cycle pretty fast.


5 posted on 01/09/2011 9:28:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Libs have short memories.

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6 posted on 01/09/2011 9:33:57 AM PST by Cobra64
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How loving


7 posted on 01/09/2011 9:40:32 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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Journolist

Yep. The spin is in.

8 posted on 01/09/2011 9:55:30 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Nachum

BTTT!


9 posted on 01/09/2011 3:30:35 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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