Posted on 07/07/2010 3:14:45 PM PDT by RobinMasters
TEL AVIV – CNN's senior Middle East affairs editor is leaving the media company after it was reported she professed her "respect" for an anti-American Islamic extremist who was an ideological guide to the Hezbollah terror group and who was accused of masterminding a 1983 attack on U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans.
"Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah ... one of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot," CNN senior editor for Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr wrote on her personal Twitter page earlier this week.
Now Mediate.com obtained an internal CNN memo which says of Nasr: "We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised."
In a blog post expanding on her position, Nasr wrote that it "was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I'm sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah's life's work. That's not the case at all."
Still, CNN promised the issue was "serious" and would "be dealt with accordingly."
Nasr's Twitter post had been slammed by the Anti Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center human rights group.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
She is a hero to the Muslim world. I would wager that she finds a job in broadcasting very soon. Probably for All Jazz ear-ah.
If the US govt was held to the same standards as CNN editors, Obama would be forced to resign.
By that account, the whole network should be gone for being pro-terrorist.
Well, maybe that’s why they are being marginalized.
"was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I'm sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah's life's work. That's not the case at all."
Yeah, it conveyed that because that's what you wrote.
Hi Robin!
What’s your thread-to-comment ratio?
Are you an automated spamming service?
she will be a senior advisor to the white house next.......
Her next gig.... Speaker for CAIR?
CNN = Commie News Network
That fact probably gave her endless tingles.
NBC = National Brainwashing Company
Gracious! Twitter is becoming the giant killer. I gather this Nasr character was a known quantity.
Nice to see that certain parties are fighting back for a change. Maybe Helen Thomas started the ball rolling. Perhaps ADL ran out of aging klansmen to point at and go eeeek!
Could it be that they are now monitoring the social networking of known anti-semites looking for red meat? Dare I give them credit?
Dang, I thought the only thing that would get you in trouble with that network is to advocate conservative causes.
LOL
Yep! It was an error in judgment to write what she actually believed. Now CNN will have to find another sleeper. They alread have Christiane Amanpour but we are onto her so it will have to be another terrorist ..... aaah I mean “freedom fighter” lover!
...not to mention her reports YTD?
If Helen Thomas can be brought down, so can any liberal.
Liberals lie all the time and have said so many disgusting things over the years, conservatives can dredge these things up and wipe them out and defeat them.
Example: Reid saying “The war in Iraq is lost”
Just one of a long list of America-haters that CNN has employed over the years, like their roster of Latin American reporters with ties to both Castro and the Sandinistas.
what about the rest of the CNN scum?
Robin looks legit on the comment section.
I hate blog pimps. Robin is a certifiable FReeper by way of separate involvement in strings. IMHO.
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