Posted on 11/14/2005 4:15:21 AM PST by Republican Red
CNN's Carol Lin and the French "African-Americans"
The Paris riots have highlighted more than any other issue in recent years not only the bias, but the ignorance of the "old media." Internet readers have studied the situation in Europe for years. Numerous writers, from Mark Steyn to Ba'at Yeor to Debbie Schlussel, have long predicted the decline of Europe and the jihad that we have seen over the past few weeks.
But the "old media" personalities still have no clue as to what is going on. And their reporting and commentary has taken on an almost comical quality as a result.
Years after "new media" readers began to understand the consequences of French policies toward Islamic immigrants, CNN's anchor Carol Lin referred (on November 6th) to some of the participants in the Paris fiasco as African-American (apparently for lack of a better euphemism). Video available: Real Player or Windows Media
When the MSM seeks to use euphemisms to ignore the real issue, they run the risk of sounding stupid and bringing ridicule upon themselves. It would be far easier to identify correctly the rioters in the first place. It makes one wonder why they don't do things the easy way.
UPDATE 4pm EST Friday, by Rich Noyes: Lin’s comment came about 10 minutes into CNN’s 10pm EST Sunday Night, as reporter Chris Burns was reporting on the rioting in France. Burns reported: “The priority right now is to restore order before trying to deal with some of the underlying issues, but even after what [French President Jacque] Chirac said, we’re seeing more violence. What you could point out, though, is that there is at this point about half as many vehicles torched as the night before, so you might call that progress, Carol.”
“Hard to say,” Lin responded, “because it’s been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.”
The two teenaged boys, who ran into high-voltage equipment and were killed on October 27, weren't American at all. They were actually French citizens of Tunisian origin.
Nothing new here. For me, I think this started back when Dan Rather started signing off with "Courage". I remember tuning into the last two minutes of his program just for the comedy of it all.
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We have a possible two-fer, here.
I always wonder if the "courage" thing was an admonishment to himself, instead of an exhortation to the rest of us.
Shes's a chicom sympathizer.
18 times speed of light.I caught that when it was on.I assumed they meant 18 times the speed of sound.I figure that to be about 13,500 mph(in Earths atmosphere?).Is that accurate?Note:speed of sound equals 750mph?Thanx
Once I saw a newspaper talking about a local city budget. Said that the council hoped that next year, they'd be out of the red and in the African-American.
BTTT
A Freeper reported the other day that he had heard the term "African-American" used to describe the French rioters on a Nashville radio station. I heard the term used by a newsman on WABC radio out of New York that same day. The quality of the mainstream news in this country just keeps sinking lower and lower.
Originally thee were 3 terms for Asia:
The Far East: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.
The Middle East: India, Afghanistan
The Near East: Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, etc.
More like "Let us tell you how to think"
All those Alphabet networks are just like cBS....
Thanks for posting this.
This is actually the result of PCism running rampant in the States for the past two decades.
No one gets hired by a MSM company without being a devout believer in Political Correctness.
She also said during the New Orleans flood that the response reflected the old standard....discrimination. She is a "French" leftist.
I saw Jesse Jackson standing around trying to leach publicity off of Terell Owens yesterday.
The French word for Lin is l'imbecile
Must have had dark skin,
Shows how stupid it is to use the word "african-American" or any other-hyphenated word. This newsreader has been programmed in the school of PC-speak to substitute "african-American" in her mind whenever she thinks of the word "black".
The proper term is "American". If the country of origin of one's ancestors is important, then say "American with ancestors from (country)".
I'm sick of people who don't take pride in being American and who insist on identifying themselves with the country of origin of their ancestors.
Notice how stupid it sounds to say "african-Frenchman" or "african-Englishman", or "african-Italians".
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