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The Pride of the Medill School of Journalism
Way to go, WTVF-TV Channel 5. After idiots at one of Nashville's television stations aired this ridiculously irresponsible and fear-mongering report on a group of apparently peaceful Muslims who have been living in rural Tennessee since the early 1980s, someone spray-painted epithets and Crusader crosses all over a mosque in Nashville. Watch this report and tell me if this in any way approximates responsible journalism. The hero of the story ends up being the rural country sheriff, John Vinson, who refuses to take the bait he's offered from the reporter and instead says reasonable things like, "The way I look at it, their customs are obviously different from most people in Stewart County. But still, they have a right to that."
Which just goes to show you that we Tennesseans are tolerant, good-natured people at heart until some carpetbagger reporter shows up trying to cause trouble. I mean, really, what must people at Northwestern's famous school of journalism think of this alumnus? The essence of this dude's report is, "We cannot say for sure that these people are not terrorists, so we're going to show some footage of terrorist training camps." Unbelievable.
[To be fair, I think this is the first time "Tennessee" and "Islam" have ever appeared as tags on the same post.]
Update: The Columbia Journalism Review weighs in.
As a Medill alumnus myself,
As a Medill alumnus myself, I can say: He sounds kinda like 50 percent of the people I graduated with...
Responsible what? Do
Responsible what?
Do these people strike you as responsible as a body? Reporters I mean...
The business of reportage is -gossip. Essentially it's gossip, gossip that may or may not be vetted or accurate.
Don't feel picked on BTW. I told my own brother exactly what I thought of the "profession".
What might also be tangentially interesting: is anti-Muslim sentiment on the rise, and is the Left's reflexive PC reactions to any perceived or imagined Anti-Muslim sentiment helping or hurting American Muslims?
Rather than making up our
Rather than making up our own report, guess the only responsible thing would be to ask the reporter....
Why?
There are places like Islamville stuck in nooks and crannies everywhere. One locally is about Buddhist Monks right in the center of an Amish community...go figure. Then I have heard of one about 180 miles south that is connected to Israel complete with armed guards, that one set back a law enforcement buddy of mine. I guess they had a state department hall pass and he let them go (but the assault rifles were real). In another case, family of a guy that I worked with in Florida owned some ground that was used as training for the Bay of Pigs(just private property? Guys getting together and drink some beer and going shooting?). Must have been the group that sold the amnesty registered T48 to another Florida buddy of mine that was used in the Bay of Pigs. A visiting General from Tampa saw the T48 and said, "I signed the orders to destroy this". There are not too many real T48's around, most of them were destroyed (or were used in Florida for training???). Glad a few were saved for the historians.
Nooks and crannies.....they are every where......lot of rocks out there.....
There is always something to peek the interest of the nieghbors. Some times the fantasy is more interesting than the reality....and it sells advertising.....My wife's grandmother lived across the road from the National Equirer headquarters by Lanatan, FL. (now there is a terrorist group on the make and they would like the attention)! They always had a nice Christmas tree for the holidays......
Maybe that is where the Medhill 50 work?????
And a millennium later, the
And a millennium later, the reactionary and repressive shoe is on whose foot?
I think bringing up the Crusades works as a trump card in certain settings. I doubt anyone in TN, greater America, and I can say with authority in NY/NJ gives a sh*t. Possibly Detroit as well. I doubt most people in Turkey give a f*ck about the genocide of the 2000 year old Hellenistic civilization in 1453. 1453, not 1204.
And one more day like Ft Hood, a successful Detroit stylin, or anything like 911 and no one will.
I'll wager some people find the platitudes and pieties of Pat Robertson to be cold comfort for tragedy. Well probably PC Pieties coming from Casey after Ft Hood (or any day really) and the knee jerk Mirandizing of Posh Boom don't go down too well either. Then there's Napolitano and Holder, the latter in a class by himself.
If you think you're helping America's Muslims by pushing protected species status under these circumstances, you probably think welfare was good for the Inner City family. It wasn't. You're not helping. Your just highlighting them as a target and undermining confidence in the authorities to protect the nation.
I will be very interested to see the results of this "hate crime" investigation. Because the last few sensationalized "hate crimes" tend often to be frauds perpetrated by the putative victim.
That's unfortunate. Reminds
That's unfortunate. Reminds me of a certain Onion story: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/missing_girl_probably_raped
And hey, I just became a fan of Nick's on Facebook: http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/NC5_NickBeres/250827361639
I know for a fact that
I know for a fact that Islamville is CIA training ground for a new class of operatives that will make Decaprio's character in 'Body of Lies' and Jason Borne look like Barney the Purple dino for Kids.
The comment at 1:16 was the
The comment at 1:16 was the first time I actually, audibly, laughed out loud while sitting at a computer.
Visitor 1:16, you have now
Visitor 1:16, you have now just compromised a very Top Secret facility, placing Freedom under clear and present danger. Please refrain from divulging further facilities. That is a warning, consider it your only one. Agent Fury, out.
Mr. Beres, I'd say the
Mr. Beres, I'd say the manner in which you and your producers presented a conspicuously sensitive story was ill-advised, if not negligent. Heads up--your video just got noticed by a small DC-area blog. Don't worry, though: it's only read by a few people... who write for the Post.
PajamasTV has a nifty serie
PajamasTV has a nifty serie that tells of thousand and thousand and thousand of muslims getting ready to shoot up the US, all backed by interviews w anonymous CIA agents. Wooo.
http://www.pjtv.com/v/2930
May I add that the Israeli ambassador recently gave an interview to the same outlet? Wtf?
Oh, and if u discuss with
Oh, and if u discuss with any islambashers, perhaps you should send them to this page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kabul-Afghanistan/Support-ANA-Afghan-Natio...
Its Old Blues afghan terps getting organized. (U need to update your link-menu, Abu M.)
Well maybe this will cheer
Well maybe this will cheer you up AM.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/world/asia/13kabul.html?hp
Wonder if the Col G crowd et al will weigh in (throws out bait and waits......)
Nick Beres has "Important
Nick Beres has "Important Hair".
God, thats ugly.
man, this Islamville/CIA
man, this Islamville/CIA training facility is more hardcore than Ranger School and TBS combined, if it is true they are teaching this type of Cold Weather survival training for Afghanistan. I feel sorry for Jihadists already...
"So, this man's grandfather was not intimidated by the Arctic night or the blizzard that was blowing. He simply slipped outside, pulled down his sealskin trousers and defecated into his hand. And as the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of a blade. He put a spray of saliva on the edge of the shit knife and as it finally froze solid, he butchered a dog with it. He skinned the dog and improvised a harness, took the ribcage of the dog and improvised a sled, harnessed up an adjacent dog, and disappeared over the ice floes, shit knife in belt. Talk about getting by with nothing.
And this, in many ways, is a symbol of the resilience of the Inuit people and of all indigenous people around the world."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL7vK0pOvKI (Wade Davis: Cultures at the Far Edge of the World)
But can he kill Purple
But can he kill Purple Dinosaur jihadi's with his shit knife? Greek speaking Purple Dino Jihadi's at that?
I am going to have to remember the shit knife for when I next have to dig out my f*cking car. Do they have a block of instruction for shit shovels?
Problem with y'all.....just
Problem with y'all.....just don't know how to have fun......
............just turning over one of the rocks for y'all.
Maybe we should have a tribute to Charlie......
enjoy the show
For the anti's out there....it is all legal. More fun that you can ever have with your pants on!
Andrew Sullivan warns
Andrew Sullivan warns innocent Purple Jihadi's of their Wagnerian fate....
"....She can electrify a crowd. She has the kind of charisma that appeals to the sub-rational. and she has crafted a Peronist identity - utterly fraudulent, of course - that is political dynamite in a recession with populism roiling everyone and everything. She is Coughlin with boobs - except with a foreign policy agenda to expand Israel and unite with it in a war against Islam.
Do not under-estimate the appeal of a beautiful, big breasted, divinely chosen warrior-mother as a military leader in a global religious war."
Hey Haji if ya gotta go it might as well be Her
Yah!! A Commander I can get behind!!
They probably did it
They probably did it themselves. How many Crusaders are there in Tennessee? Duh.
But no. Yet another dastardly deed by the international Jew^H^H^H right-wing conspiracy. That RIng is really gnawin' on ya, Ex...
And even if they didn't, who
And even if they didn't, who the f**k cares? Wake me up when you're ready to weep big tears every time some yoof with a spraycan scrawls on my garage.
Or when something like this happens to your little pet Somalis. Who have brought so many good things to Middle America! Every time I hear the words "ethical journalism," I feel a giant loaf budding in my duodenum.
Guy at 2:01, deleted the
Guy at 2:01, deleted the facebook post just for you. Next time, be nicer.
I agree with Nick Beres on
I agree with Nick Beres on this one, we should all be vigilant when it comes to Muslims living in the boonies, doing Allah knows what. And we should all get ourselves Inuit shit knives just in case the next Crusades does break out here in the Great South.
I wish more journalists had
I wish more journalists had bigger balls like Mr. Beres. Keep diggin', Sir, I believe you'll find what you're looking for...
a CIA training camp for a new kind of operative--Jason Bourne attends al-Azhar!!!
if Nick Beres still wants a
if Nick Beres still wants a story that will surely get him a spot on MSNBC following Keith Olbermann or that smart lesbian chick, he can expose my Muslim nut sack and report another kind of Tea Party--tea bag party in his mouth! (and I haven't shaved since 12 yrs old, haven't washed since last week)
If they find the sprayer,
If they find the sprayer, he's from the compound. WTF makes anyone think the locals know WTF the crusades were...
And please explain how we keep the Inuit shit knives useful outside the cold, Bubba!! Please, attention to detail.
In other news... Screw
In other news... Screw COIN, we have friggin Lazors!....and we will use them on your hairy sack, if you keep giving us lip!
http://www.mda.mil/news/10news0002.html
Can you take your fancy ass
Can you take your fancy ass Lasers and shove it up your ass? My point exactly...
Listen though it's been a
Listen though it's been a wonderful day. GITMO's back in business, Commissions are back on the table, Holder's getting thrown under the bus...and the Libs worst nightmare may be coming true....
"beautiful, big breasted, divinely chosen warrior-mother as a military leader in a global religious war."
Our Wolf Killing Valkyrie Queen is coming True. I really don't care if all the rumors turn out to be true. It's soooo.....delish...watching the panic she throws ya'll into.
And the furrengers haven't even started taking her seriously yet, because they think their Social Democrat spiritual kin in the media and Diplomatic Row actually represent the country. I can't wait to see the look on the Global Communities goons galore when they see Ronald Reagan with Big Gazoobers, in a much worse mood (you f*cked with the litter) than Reagan probably ever was in his life.
And the Inuit Shit Knife maker? Probably her Grandfather.
If Nick Beres aspires for
If Nick Beres aspires for the national news spotlight, why doesn't he defend himself to AM and the rest of us highly educated, in-the-know types? Maybe if we can take our attacks to his facebook page and his email, we'll smoke him out and he'll surely come out from the shadows of small town reporting and into the national public opinion arena which we COINdinista have won, which we control. Proper COIN tactics, gents. Now let's apply it to Nick Beres. Lock and load, protect the Muslim Population!!!
Is the Inuit Shit Knife the
Is the Inuit Shit Knife the new Milk Kinship? We certainly have it sharply pointed towards TV personality Nick Beres tonight! Mess with Muslims, answer to the rabid Pop-Centric COIN Inuits!
Here's the Shit Knife! "The
Here's the Shit Knife!
"The Shit": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0soh7YDpUE
Some folks on here (Exum)
Some folks on here (Exum) have seen "the Kingdom of Heaven" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gjX9o4_xU ) one too many times. The age of Muslim chivalry is over, my friend. Local Somali teenagers spray painted the Crusader cross themselves to cause fitna, much like Jihadis are bombing Shias in Iraq and Pakistan, to cause discord in the community.
Looks like you just pissed
Looks like you just pissed off the wrong people here in DC, Mr. Beres. Mr. Exum knows plenty of high level people in the media, not to mention PC-COIN. I'd start sending out resumes to the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club if I were you. 50 yrs ago your story would've been legitimate journalism in that neck of the woods and the public's reaction a walk in the park with D.W. Griffith. But not these days, Mr. Beres. You see these are the very people that took down "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". Yes, sir, pretty powerful people you just pissed off here.
Guess even Hamas has their
Guess even Hamas has their Bug-a-boos.....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1149432.html
It's all about knowing who
It's all about knowing who is being used and who knows they are being used in Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR).
You might just pass these people off as idiots, who work for some po-dunk red-neck WTVF-TV Channel 5 in Nashville, but lately I've noticed a lot of media, in the news, on Armed Forces Network Tevevision and in our Troops music that is being used to influence hate of Islam within our own people and military personnel.
I bet you, if a few of our greatest shadow warriors investigated this news station, individual's from the former Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), they might find out there are a few radical's working at WTVF-TV Channel 5, who are behind this same video segment, that you are so upset with.
Please click the link below. It will show you a news article from 2006, with the front-man / lead singer David Draiman who is an Israeli - for the Heavy Metal Band - Disturbed... Now, this guy..... I just watched for an entire hour on the Armed Forces Network, he talks about ways to prevent suicide, his music, how he tells how he loves American Military Troops, but he also regularly preaches his hate for Islam on and off the stage.
Now, why the hell is AFN and/or the U.S. Department of Defense promoting this idiot's music and hate? Read his quote below.
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=20495
"If Lebanon can't get rid of the Hezbollah threat, Israel is forced to do what it must. I don't think you'll see another nation in history that's had to deal with what Israel has had to deal with... There's only so far you can be pushed. Ultimately, [Hezbollah] committed an act of war: they crossed the border and kidnapped soldiers. "I think we should wipe them all out — every terrorist, every war-mongering piece of garbage. We should congregate them all on one island and nuke it. A line must be drawn."
Yeah, I'm sure little countries like Cambodia have never had to deal with the great tragic problems that Israel has!
Sounds like anyone who opposes Mr. Draiman may end up on an island and get nuked? Yep, this guy is regularly on the Armed Forces Network and they have sold multiple platinum albums world-wide.
If you happen to be sitting around at a VA Hospital, watch him and listen to Dave talk.... This is what our military is listening to....all of them....young impressionable Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force troops.
Ask anyone who's active duty if they own an album or listen to the band "Disturbed"... You'll be disturbed at what you find out...
Thanks for the video. Chris
Thanks for the video.
Chris Reeve is about as smart a salesman as Rex Kwon Do.
Although, he's not the first dimly lit Snake-eater to invent his own knife.
http://www.cqd.net/store/store.php?c=weapons
.....Dwane Deiter.....I mean...Rex Kwan Do.... Go to his school, you will too learn to walk like a duck and fight like a SF Operator / Warrior!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmUsVeKp1o
Can we treat the people
Can we treat the people preaching "there's a Jew behind this rock, oh ___ come and kill him" the same way, PYSWAR visitor? Seriously you want the Army's "shadow warriors" investigating a redneck TV station?
I think the marketplace of ideas does a pretty good job. If it has no merit, it gets outed and discredited.
But for our tolerant PC types, there's no tolerance for not toeing the PC line.
"Radicals" infiltrating a highly influential Nashville local News Channel to set up a innocent trailer park. Yeah.
(they may not be Jihadi, but if their living in a trailer park the innocent part is highly questionable).
Goddamn, you have a lot of
Goddamn, you have a lot of stupid folks reading you, ANdrew.
But seriously, the anti-muslim narrative is not to be underestimated. In Europe, its pretty strong, like 15% overall among whitey. In Poland, and further East, they are now just relating to the fact that there is sucha thing as a immigrant population in the west. If we are serious about the whole "Spreading democracy" meme perhaps we should consider tackling that subject head on. the organized islamophobes are a rising force. PajamasTV is really bad on that issue, its institutionalized racism accepted by all. Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Fjordman. Race war and all that jazz. ANd they are driving the narrative still, even after Obama took power! Argh.
(Kudos to Michael Totten and Little Green Footballs for an important contribution to that fight, btw.!! Not often you hear me praising Totten.)
If it's a war Fnord, it's
If it's a war Fnord, it's religion not race.
And it's the damnest thing, it all seems to have started one fall about 8.5 years ago on this side....
I don't know what people expect.
www.cicentre.com/ Oleg
www.cicentre.com/
Oleg Kalugin, Major General, ret
Elf, drop into the CI Center sometime and meet the guy above or just visit his private business, The Spy Museum, in DC, as he's part owner.
During the 60's - 70's Oleg worked as a journalist at the UN in NY. It's not uncommon for those working in his former industry, to also work in the media, so they can undermine / influence others within the foreign country they operate in.
Oleg, if you meet him, ask him why he use to spray-paint synagogues with curse words / antisemitic statements in NYC. He will tell you, to cause a Race / Religious War withing the United States, to break the fabric of our society.
Read up Elf.... You might learn something.
"And it's the damnest thing,
"And it's the damnest thing, it all seems to have started one fall about 8.5 years ago on this side..."
And before that it was?
Steve
OK I'll read up on him.
OK I'll read up on him. Uh...I still think it's probably a trailer park, they probably aren't running a terror camp there, and that it wasn't Christian Crusaders who spray painted the crosses, but someone with different motives - say wanting to be the victim. So we *may* be in agreement.
And as far as people wanting very desperately to achieve the coveted victim status --Pallie Navi
Before that Steve?
Before that Steve? Depending on when you start counting, either the 7th or 9th centuries. It wasn't here...
"If it's a war Fnord, it's
"If it's a war Fnord, it's religion not race. "
Good, then Im allowed to talk about Israel and Judaism without insulting jews....?
And as for the comment that noone in the countryside is smart enough to make a crusadercross, wtf? You think that hillbilly racists dont have acess to the nets? Y`all are trapped in your own stereotypes.
No matter what the motive,
No matter what the motive, it most likely wasn't what we think it would be, hence why I said it should be looked into / investigated, because I believe it will be more serious than, (uneducated) redneck vandalism with racial undertones. Something about that crusader-cross...can't put my finger on it.
On a side note, I'm sure the local's didn't see this coming. Be sure you read the responses to this news article in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-27-north-carolina_N.htm
If the hate crime
If the hate crime investigation goes anywhere, 50/50 it goes back to the putative "victims". As keeps happening.
Sorry folks, you missed Selma. It's done. The entire thing, except the grievance industry. Not that the current situation has anything to do with the Civil Rights struggle, as much as they try and piggy back onto it.
Elf: "If the hate crime
Elf: "If the hate crime investigation goes anywhere, 50/50 it goes back to the putative "victims". As keeps happening."
Examples, please? Links?
Fnord, grievance over here
Fnord, grievance over here is a lucrative industry....but OK...
http://www.kmbc.com/news/4027371/detail.html
http://www.365gay.com/news/gay-teen-arrested/
http://www.slate.com/id/2087557
I tried to go to links that I didn't think you'd mind.
Fnord, we may never know, but I'd be real, real, real skeptical that white Christians are going around painting Red Crosses and the words Crusader. It's just not something likely to come to their minds.
Hell, the more I think about it the more I think I'd be looking at the TV crew. Whatever this is, it's a publicity stunt.
Someone with an agenda
Someone with an agenda Elf.... Yep. Damn you are sexy when you talk smart. :p
[To be fair, I think this is
[To be fair, I think this is the first time "Tennessee" and "Islam" have ever appeared as tags on the same post.]
Andrew, the Carlos Bledsoe A.K.A. Abdulhakim Muhammad incident has got everyone wound up in Tennessee, since the scumbag was educated there.
http://arkansasmatters.com/content/fulltext/?cid=226222
Will the real Snake
Will the real Snake Plissken.....
Never mind.
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