Posted on 03/04/2006 5:20:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
March 4, 2006
Who would have thought it?: in the crucial first half-hour of their respective shows this morning, Fox & Friends Weekend didn't cover the incident at the University of North Carolina in which an Iranian drove an SUV through a crowd, injuring five people - but the Today show did.
Interviewed by co-host Lester Holt, one of the students who was injured stated he had no doubt the driver - recent UNC grad Mohammed Reza Taheriazar of Iran - acted intentionally. According to the injured student, the SUV had been moving very slowly through an area in the center of the UNC campus, not causing any concern, when suddenly he heard its engine revving hard. The next thing he knew, he was on the vehicle's hood. For the record, the injured student had received medical treatment and was released, though was still feeling sore this morning.
Today reported the FBI statement that Taheriazar "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims." Today also displayed Taheriazar's photo twice during the segment.
An aside: Google the incident, and you'll find that virtually every headline is along the lines "SUV Plows Through Crowd", suggesting the culprit was the inanimate object [and a hated one at that in enviro circles] rather than its Iranian driver.
One notable exception is a column in the conservative Human Events flatly entitled "Religious Terrorism Strikes Chapel Hill". The piece was written by Jillian Bandes, a former columnist for the UNC school newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel. Bandes had been dismissed from her position as columnist "after writing in support of racial profiling of Arabs in airports around the anniversary of 9/11." Her column in turn links to a story by a local ABC affiliate providing additional details about Taheriazar and leaving little doubt that the act was both intentional and motivated by religious animus. Last month, Muslim students at UNC protested the publication in The Daily Tar Heel of an original cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad.
In any case, if Today's segment was not a hard-hitting investigative piece on religious terrorism in the U.S., credit NBC nonetheless for running it at all.
Duuhh...good catch, mom ;-)
Duuhh...good catch, mom ;-)
Exactly - Thank you for your corrections
I worded my comment badly
My post was not well thought out
I am guessing it was his plan alone as it would have had minimal deaths
His Al Qreeda mommies always go for cowardly acts but with more dramatic results
But again - I could be wrong
But his grad degrees put him far below the IQ of the Beltway Snipers as far as planning, stealth, effects
Then again the LAX killer was a lamebrain also
By no means to I want to discount this Muslim scumbag
About eight years ago a Muslim from Iran tried to carjack me and I sent him to paradise with four .44-40 slugs to the upper mass from my vintage Colt SA
My hound Tex did not think his body was worth relieving himself on
DTOM
I've got it!!
Hillary can tell a joke about the Iranian student who ran down a group of students in Chapel Hill.
If those racebaiting pimps put out a press release, every TV station and 500 watt a.m. radio shack in the country will be repeating this hourly all weekend long.
Since the driver committed his actions to avenge US behavior on Muslims, Islam must not have any more qualms with US behavior and the jihad is over,...right? (I don't think Muslims get the reconciliation thing)
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2005spring/engl/023/001/Engl12_Fdr3B_PP.html
Video:
Mohammed Taheriazar
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2005spring/engl/023/001/Engl12_Fdr3B_PP/Sec35_Mohammed.mov
Thanks - Not at all off topic - as is RFK/Sirhan Sirhan
Sorry - I missed or forgot that somehow - but there is a slight glimmer now of that
Could you give a short bit of info on the Yale library "incident" and a link to us?
You bad!! Saaaaluuute!
Neo-Nazi mows down innocent African-American Crowd with Evil SUV.
Angry eyes.
What a shot you could be,
if you could shoot at me
with those angry eyes...
That covers PC LEO mgt & MSM all right
I do not right off the Alabama church burnings at all
Using Americans &/or different targets and MOs is in their manual
You would think they'd want to expose pro-Muslim corruption at Fox News, which is what your post alleges.
How about "flapdoodle"? I used that word yesterday....
"right off" > ????
WRITE OFF
More coffee!!!!!!!
Heh!
The idiots pansy 9mm Glock never got one off in my case!
I used Blue Glasers - I think you can imagine what four of them did!
Perhaps some hog-fat extract in a peppergas spray!
Profiling is our friend.
Politically correct
will cause our end.
Diversity is a lethal blend.
"One notable exception is a column in the conservative Human Events flatly entitled "Religious Terrorism Strikes Chapel Hill". The piece was written by Jillian Bandes, a former columnist for the UNC school newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel. Bandes had been dismissed from her position as columnist "after writing in support of racial profiling of Arabs in airports around the anniversary of 9/11."
Another attack on civil rights but again, not by the Patrio Act.
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