National Public Radio political correspondent Mara Liasson is a regular commentator on Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume.
Liasson, like most journalists at NPR, is a liberal. But she’s always seemed informed and reflective. At least until last night, Feb 6.
Brit Hume was discussing the death threats, riots, arson, and worse by some Muslims which they justify as a legitimate, religiously-based response to provocative cartoons in a Danish newspaper.
It response to Hume, Liasson said:
A case can be made that the Danish newspaper did this as a provocation, in poor taste, whatever--maybe they shouldn't have published them--but the reaction has been equally egregious. (bold added)I found it hard to believe Liasson would say such a thing. But she did. You can view and/ or hear it at Michelle Malkin (via The Colossus of Rhodey).
Liasson’s statement is shocking. Even the doltish liberals at the Guardian aren’t engaging in moral equivalence after Muslims in London last Saturday screamed and waved signs calling for murders, dismemberments and "more 9/11s" in Britain.
How could Liasson have said what she said? She needs to offer an explanation and apology today.
If she doesn’t, NPR might as well rename their news program All Things Morally Equivalent.
3 comments:
"How could Liasson have said what she said?"
She can say something so stupid because she is qualified to do so. We do not enjoy journalistic expertise in our journalists. We suffer entertainers who did not have enough talent or drawing power to make it in straight entertainment. So we get people like Liasson who have as much dexterity with fact as they do with language, they don't recognize the meaning of either.
And the few that do, take the safer and/or most profitable route, while they rely upon and expect others to save them and their society from the harm they have abetted. Without honor, they extract personal profit and safety for themselves at the price of increased risk for those they demand protect them.
That applies to the majority of the MSM news personalities. There is a reason they are referred to as "personalities" or in the trade a "talent", instead of reporters. There are some not so bereft of principle and some outside the mainstream who are of towering integrity. Michael Yon is one of these.
Oh, please, will someone call Woodward and ask him if the Iraqi's who blew him up are terrorists or insurgents?
I think Maura needs to go back and file a story on the riots in Barcelona near the Irish embassy after Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of the pope.
-AC
You Go, John! Castrate the wench over two words!
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