Posted on 07/24/2014 8:25:40 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
On April 15 of last year, a thin kid with a bright smile named Abdulrahman Alharbi decided he would stop and watch the Boston Marathon for a few minutes. A Saudi Arabian studying English in Boston, he had heard of the famous marathon, but wanted to see it in the flesh, he later explained to one journalist. Ten minutes later, he witnessed what he first mistook for fireworks.
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Alharbi, like numerous others in the chaotic few hours following the deadly bombings, was questioned by police. They asked for his Facebook password. He gave it to them. They asked to inspect his apartment. He allowed it. News of Alharbi reached the media, but by the next day, the cops had cleared the 20-year-old. “He has been checked out,” a law enforcement official told the Boston Globe. “He is not involved. He is just a victim.”
Broadcaster Glenn Beck, formerly of Fox News, was nonetheless suspicious of Alharbi. He thought the Obama administration was hiding Alharbi’s involvement. So three weeks later, Beck urged the government to release its information on Alharbi or else Beck would “expose” him.
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Why is it OK for the liberals do do this daily but the right is supposed to be quiet?
bttt
Oh effff Beck. Weepy Whiny illegal hugger.
How did Abdulrahman Alharbi rate a personal visit from FLOTUS, or was that someone else?
‘So three weeks later, Beck urged the government to release its information on Alharbi or else Beck would “expose” him.’
I remember when I actually used to believe Beck’s hype: how he would ‘expose’ people, how he had confidential information from ‘unnamed sources,’ and all that jazz.
What a fool I was.
All of this is sound legal reasoning from the legal viewpoint of "thrusting oneself into the vortex of a public controversy." The American legal standard on defamation for public figures has always included the "knowingly false and with malicious intent" test, sort of like media darlings did to Sarah Palin.
Alharbi tinkled away his private person status the moment he gave public press interviews.
He had to come to the U.S. to study English? What a crock.
He liked the book: “How to Serve your Fellow Man”
I think that Beck stepped in it this time. He has been rather careful in the past, showing the insight to sidestep other potholes that caught his buddy, Shawn.
I do applaud him for fighting this. He would save money if he would just pay the kid off, but it appears that he is going to the mat. I wish that I saw more backbone when it comes to these sharks.
That's what I thought, too. Was it just coincidence that she visited this guy (if it's the same guy)?
Beck, still sucking I guess.
(I may have mentioned it before)
I remember hearing Beck say he was going to expose the guy, and that he was a really, really bad guy, but nothing ever came of that?
Bad ideas, kid.
This is the biggest example of brazen idiocy short of an accused matricide/parricide pleading for mercy because he's an orphan.
“I remember hearing Beck say he was going to expose the guy, and that he was a really, really bad guy, but nothing ever came of that?
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I think that was one of Beck’s, “THE WORLD WILL SPLIT IN HALF WITH WHAT I WILL TELL YOU TOMORROW!!! SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER AND TV SHOW NOW!!!”, drama queen acts.
That’s when I started souring on Beck. He never did follow up on his so-called ‘revelation’. Pffffft.
Um, Survivalist cookbook?
If I had to study English, I don't think I'd choose Boston.
Concur.
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