CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim

[Mike (Premo)]

CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'

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, Nadal 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.”

NBC's Pete Williams insisted, the MRC's Brad Wilmouth noticed, “everything about his background is rock solid, and nothing extraordinary stands out about his background.”

CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'

Please explain to me why anyone watches the lamestream media anymore? This guy is/was as much a danger and a terrorist as any other Islamic extremist out there. Ignoring the facts will not make them go away.

Trying to pretend Islamic terrorists don't exist among us is like trying to pretend bigotry is dead and gone.

[BOP]

Originally Posted by Mike

CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'

Please explain to me why anyone watches the lamestream media anymore? This guy is/was as much a danger and a terrorist as any other Islamic extremist out there. Ignoring the facts will not make them go away.

Trying to pretend Islamic terrorists don't exist among us is like trying to pretend bigotry is dead and gone.

Nothing stands out about his background. Well, except for that whole Muslim conversion thing.

That ought to be an automatic red flag, no matter what the circumstances or situation.

[ImnoMensa]

More and More is standing out as we go on.

He dressed in Muslim garb, He tried to convert others.He had been reprimanded for his butty views on several occasion, He had been reported to the FBi who did not bother to investigate.

[chernmax (Premo)]

I'm shocked!!!