Posted on 09/09/2010 5:08:23 PM PDT by Stoat
>>>Did Media Negligently Create Koran Burning Controversy?
I wonder what Cap’t Obvious would say...
He might say "the article and links are still worth reading even if the title suggests an obvious answer" ;-)
Its not over. The pastor is re assessing his decision. Breaking on CNN. Rick Sanchez and some lady are completely insane over this. They have brought in the Rev. Jessee Jackson to pray with this pastor. OMG, it is getting hysterical.
I believe the media has blood on their hands. THere is no condemnation over flag burning this evening either.
I wonder if that Pastor is gonna get a reality tv show or do the talk show circuit. will we ever know what the FBI said to him? Did they treat him to a multimedia reenactment of Waco and Ruby Ridge?
Great theater. This pastor deserves an oscar or whatever. Wait -- take obama's nobel and give it to him.
Cowards covering/justifying the cowardly acts of cowards. That is what the LSM is and has always been.
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I would say the talk show circuit because he appears to be an attention-whore and the media would love to have an opportunity to make fun of him, and by extension all Conservatives and Christians, on their silly shows. A reality show following someone who wants to join his church? hmmmm.....he would probably nix the idea because he wouldn't be in control of the content.
He will probably use any TV appearances as teases for an upcoming book on the experience, and won't divulge any actual details of his conversations with the FBI on the air.
Did they treat him to a multimedia reenactment of Waco and Ruby Ridge?
They could always threaten to send in Janet Reno ;-)
Who made this international news?
You just know that out of 6 billion people on the planet, and the intensive news coverage, that there will be some Korans burned on Saturday. This pastor lit the fuse and it’s going to happen, somewhere, guaranteed.
And Pakistan, and every other Islamic hellhole on Earth as well.
The people whom we are told are utterly destitute and living in terrible conditions all seem to have high-def news feeds and broadband.
A Pakistani protester shouts slogans during a rally in reaction to a small American church's plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010
How about they criminally created it. And lets not leave out Fox News either. Shep Smith was doing his dead level best to smear the little Gainesville church and their pastor tonight. What a crock!!
Awww... Shep Smith, we can always count on him... Media has no idea how back asswards they are. Who do they think they are talking too exactly?
Indeed they will. The Westboro "Baptist Church" indicated such intentions a week ago, and I read a report of at least one small church doing the same earlier today.
It might be a good idea for Christians to postpone any scheduled vacations in Indonesia over the 9/11 weekend.
Those who worship moe ham ed, the pedophile, offend me.
Would it be terribly far fetched to guess that many overseas 'reporters' bring along satchels full of American flags, flasks of gasoline and matches which they hand out to the locals who don't have the 'proper equipment' for their 'impromptu protests' which the camera crew is just 'so lucky' to 'accidentally' happen upon?
Gotta be able to justify that expense account tab to the network, and an angry, anti-American protest complete with burning flags will make any Leftist producer back home beam with pride......
Wait until they do a complete and total blackout on the event, and that includes a DOS attack on FR, Facebook, Youtube and Twitter have “issues”.
Obama will order it I’m sure, its gotten too big to stop, the whole nation can see Obama unraveling on this issue.
They weren’t negligent, they knew exactly what they were doing.
Absolutely. This guy should never have been local news let alone a national or world story.
The media *wants* trouble, every single one of them.
"If it bleeds, it leads" as they say, and the past few 9/11 anniversaries have been terribly quiet, if my memory serves. Can't be good for ratings.
Who is it that helps these people in tiny, dirt-poor Afghan, Pakistani or Indonesian villages make these big, professionally-lettered protest placards featuring English with perfect grammar?
Who supplies them with big American flags? Is that something that is sold in the local street bazaar, alongside the dried camel effluvia?
I live in a HUGE American city that sells 'pretty much' anything I want, and I would be hard-pressed to find a store that sells a GIANT flag of Pakistan or Indonesia.
I suppose that it's been since Vietnam that the media has intentionally slanted and pushed specific events as 'news', even if it means dead Americans. Ratings, ad revenue and ideology is everything for them. Patriotism and journalistic ethics? That's for suckers and dummies.
How many of our brave soldiers have needlessly died or been horribly maimed because the media has either manufactured or slanted events that a reporter with an ounce of decency would have passed over because it wasn't truly important and would have been forgotten with no consequences if it had been left alone?
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