Surprise: 'Today' Covers Iranian Who Drove SUV Through UNC Crowd

Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[nj26]

Another reason to hand over our ports... (sarcasm)

[Paladin2]

No, the Ford Cherokee would be the Indian version and therefore politically correct.

[Huck]

That's interesting. I wonder if anyone ever asked Murdoch about it. Or Ailes for that matter. A little follow up would be handy. You'd think CNN would be all over a story like that.

[devolve]

HIT PING LISTS ASAP!

[Berlin_Freeper]

The worst punishment they can give, is to ship him back to that craphole called iran.

[LK44-40]

The Today Show is mistaken. I checked the NYT and WP...this did not hppen.

True there was a minor incident yesterday of a few persons being struck with a car on campus but these little incidents happen everyday.

Hysterics and fear-mongers are trying to make some kind of terrorist thing out of just because Mohammed picked his way through some small service driveways to the central campus spots where students gather outside the student union and he rented an SUV for this trip and witnesses said he was swerving in an attempt to hit students as he drove through a sunken pit where they gather and the AP has him saying that his act was to avenge the ill treatment of Muslims.

Only six people went to the hospital and they weren't seriously hurt. Just because the excited police are charging him with nine counts of attempted murder is no reason to believe that this was anything but a minor campus incident. Hey, Muslims are losing it and trying to kill people all the time.

Now let's move along here.

[Varda]

I haven't heard about anyone quizzing Murdock or Ailes. I'm not surprised the mainstream press won't mention it. They're knee-jerk pro-muslim.

[Ditter]

Apparently SUV's can do awful things. I am glad mine seems to be gentle but sometimes owners of pit bulls say the same thing about their dogs. I hope my SUV doesn't turn on me or my grandchildren. Maybe I should get a Yugo or a VW?

[Moose4]

Don't get a VW. The little German yip cars? Meanest ones you'll ever meet. Run right over your ankles, they will.

(*waits to get pilloried by the weiner-dog owners*)

A nice hound-dog pickup truck. That's what you need. They're loyal.

}:-)4

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Virtually every headline is along the lines "SUV Plows Through Crowd", suggesting the culprit was the inanimate object.

Let's play the "what-if" game. What if the driver had been white, had made statements with analogous animus toward blacks, and had driven through the center of an historically black college? Would the headlines have read "SUV Plows through Crowd"? /end rhetorical question

[TomSmedley]

This undated photo provided Friday, March 3, 2006, by the University of North Carolina shows Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, a December 2006 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.

The guy had a degree in psychology and philosophy -- the two ball-less "disciplines" offered by academe as substitutes for Christianity. Obviously, neither had the power to affect the muslim's mind.

[LK44-40]

Let's play the "what-if" game. What if the driver had been white, had made statements with analogous animus toward blacks....

OMG !

Well, let's see...the president would be addressing the nation urging calm and the MSM coverage would be at fever pitch and....

[babble-on]

Yes, what a charming looking fellow. So clean cut.

[Dallas59]

WAIT!!!! Is there a connection between Muslims and Global Warming????

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping. Thanks for the pic.

[Paladin2]

Hint: Don't play in the street.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Here's a partial transcript from the Today show appearance of the injured student. His first name is Jeff - didn't catch his last name:

"I personally think it was definitely, definitely intentional, for sure."

"I look up and i see a car coming through in the middle of campus, which is pretty odd to begin with. I keep walking. He's going really slow. It doesn't seem like he has any malicious intent. All of a sudden I just hear the car's engine rev. I look up and the car is right there coming right at me, about five feet from me. I ended up on the hood and luckily rolled off without serious injuries."

[gartrell bibberts]

The University of North Carolina is now run by Erskine Bowles, formerly head pencil necked geek for President "Clifford". Within a week, the victims will be asked before the Student Senate to explain why they were gathered in the "Pit" and not out demonstrating against man's inhumanity to man.

[randita]

If the guy hates America so much, what's he doing attending a university in America and living the lifestyle of an American?

We'll probably learn that he got a free ride all through college for no other reason than that he was Iranian.

[TampaDude]

Let's play the "what-if" game. What if the driver had been white, had made statements with analogous animus toward blacks, and had driven through the center of an historically black college? Would the headlines have read "SUV Plows through Crowd"?

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