Tel-Chai Nation

NBC did something like this in 2006 at NASCAR. And just a few months ago, ABC did a homophobia stunt in Birmingham, Alabama. Now, ABC has been doing an Islamophobia stunt in Texas, which CAIR seems to be involved in. Steve Emerson (also via Michelle Malkin) says:

The ABC story was linked to a Primetime broadcast in which an actor posed as a bakery shop worker who berated a Muslim customer wearing a hijab with intense bigotry. The stunt was a test to see how other customers would react. A majority did nothing. But it is worth noting that of those who did react, 13 spoke in defense of the young woman, with some even walking out of the store in disgust, while six praised the bigoted baker.

The issue is not the sociological experiment, but the network’s sanitizing and parroting of a radical Islamist organization’s misleading statements. In the past year, the U.S. Justice Department tabbed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case; described it as “affiliated with Hamas’ in a related filing; and, in December asserted “CAIR conspired with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.”

Only ABC can explain why it ignored these facts in buying into propaganda from a Hamas front group.

As for network’s line about the Muslim organizations signing a letter against terrorism and sending it to President Bush, some of these groups, CAIR especially, have a long history of issuing abstract “anti-terrorism” statements that are laughable on their face, making no efforts to condemn any terrorist groups by name, let alone withdrawing their past and frequent apologia for designated terrorist groups such as Hizballah and Hamas.

ABC should be avoided like the plague they are, for collaborating with a group that's a terrorist supporter. I'm sure they know quite well that CAIR has been named an unindicted co-conspirator, and if they're going to have anything to do with them, then they should be ostracized for it.

One of the commentors at Michelle's blog reminds about something the disgraceful Peter Jennings did at the time of 9-11:

ABC News has been in the tank for the Arab side for so long that ABC is like a leopard that just can’t change its spots. Recall that after Sept. 11, 2001, Peter Jennings hosted a special report on the subject of whether there is a violent strain in Islam that had anything to do with the horrific events of 9/11. Jennings guests were Hanan Ashrawi, who was a close personal friend of his, and a “secular journalist” from Lebanon. Jennings and his guests concluded that Islam had nothing to do with the events of 9/11 and concluded that Osama Ben Laden’s actions were unconnected with Islam. Ashrawi did blame Israel for just about everything anyway. The program was so one sided that the Tom Shales, the liberal television critic at the Washington Post, ridiculed the program as being a whitewash. ABC News was also the home for many years of Charles Glass, who was covering the 1985 hijacking of a US Airplane and the murder of US Navy Diver Robbie Stethem. Glass, Jennings and Koppell fell all over themselves excusing Hezbollah and blaming Israel for “creating the conditions”…. Nothing has ever changed at ABC News.

They're very much like the BBC over in England, aren't they?

Update: might as well note this comment too:

I have always liked and respected Steven Emerson. He’s been at this game for decades. His books are very well footnoted and supported by facts. And he is exactly right in this regard, ABC is in the tank with terrorist supporters like CAIR and always have been. ABC is populated with lazy, good for nothing, “I hate America” liberal editors. The network is completely useless and should be shunned by all decent Americans.

Amen.

Labels: CAIR corruption, communications, islam, Moonbattery, political corruption, United States