Posted on 11/05/2009 5:34:18 PM PST by markomalley
Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in a shooting spree...” Introducing his first story, Gibson referred to how Major Nidal Malik Hasan “an army officer, a Muslim, opened fire with handguns...” (With a range of frequency, during late afternoon/early evening coverage, CNN, FNC and MSNBC all identified Hasan as a Muslim.)
Cryptically, ABC's senior foreign affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz concluded a story on reaction at Fort Hood: “As for the suspect, Nadil Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, 'I wish his name was Smith.'” So, a concern this will lead to groundless fear of Muslims?
The CBS Evening News avoided any mention of Islam or Muslim faith as Katie Couric provided this benign description: “Today, according to the Army, a soldier opened fire....He's identified tonight as Army Major Nadal Malik Hasan, a licensed psychiatrist and drug and rehab specialist from Bethesda, Maryland.” NBC anchor Brian Williams: “The soldier, identified as the initial gunman here, is an Army psychiatrist, Nadal Malik Hasan. He's an officer, a Major, and he was apparently armed with two handguns.”
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If we fought the Nazis like the way we’re waging this “war”, we’d be speaking German now.
Makes you wonder what they didn’t report in the years before there was the internet to keep them in line.
We have to change Administrations or bone up on your Arabic.
have we got the straight of this, yet?
I'm just not believing a single man shot 40 people with two handguns and didn't get taken down.
Hell, I shoot Practical Pistol and even in competition I can't imagine how long it would take to get off 40 rounds on target in one string, with reloads.
More likely its going to lead some violence toward the Disciples of Peace, or whatever they’re supposed to be. If some of my family members had been killed, I don’t know that I could control my temper.
parsy, who tries to be a better person than that
this guy should be fired for that comment. someone number to call this fricked pisses me off
Why are they so scared? Hasn’t the messiah come out of the closet? He just hasn’t been seen bowing to mecca or hanging at the mosque yet, not to say he isn’t doing it in private already.
I talked to my sat TV company and they practically begged me not to cancel. They pushed a Christian package as I mention the urination on Christ.
I am calling back tomorrow and that is it. I refuse to give these people my money. If you have cable or sat - about $0.50 cents to $1 of your cable bill goes to each channel.
If his name were Smith there liekly wouldn’t have been all the dead and wounded.
He was taken down by a civilian police officer..
I suspect there wasnt an MP in the area when the shooting began, and by the time the first units arrived on scene it was over.
The mooselimb must have been on some Pentagon PC bullsh!t quota in order to be promoted to major.
They really wish his name was Bubba.
I’m just not believing a single man shot 40 people with two handguns and didn’t get taken down.
Hell, I shoot Practical Pistol and even in competition I can’t imagine how long it would take to get off 40 rounds on target in one string, with reloads.
I don’t get this either. It just doesn’t make sense unless the chaos was unimaginable and was difficult to identify where the shots were coming from. Stranger things have happened, but this is wierd.
Seeing where this Republic is going, that might have been best.
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