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CNN Editor Fired for Saying She Has "Respect" for Hezbollah Cleric | The Weekly Standard
Who knew they had it in them?
Mediaite reports that CNN has fired senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr. As Daniel Halper pointed out the other day, Nasr wrote on Twitter on July 4 that she was "sad" to hear of the death of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah--a man for whom she has "respect." Fadlallah had justified suicide bombings, is believed to be responsible for the Marine barracks bombing, and had said that "Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this Holocaust beyond imagination."
In a followup blog post last night, Nasr wrote that it "was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment and I'm sorry because it conveyed that I supported Fadlallah's life's work. That's not the case at all."
She explained that she knew about all the wicked aspects of Fadlallah's life--saying she even "lost family members" in the barracks bombing--and was simply referring to the fact that she respected Fadlallah for his opposition to "honor" killings and beating women. But saying you respect Fadlallah for opposing murdering and beating (Muslim) women is almost like saying you respect Osama bin Laden for building day care centers.
CNN doesn't think Nasr's apology makes up for what she said. "We believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward," Nasr's CNN superior Parisa Khosravi said in a statement.
CNN Editor Fired for Saying She Has "Respect" for Hezbollah Cleric | The Weekly Standard
Who knew they had it in them?
Nasr wrote on Twitter
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
Hope he sues the **** out of CNN.
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
Hope he sues the **** out of CNN.
What does freedom of speech have to do with this? Was she arrested or otherwise harassed by the government for what she said?It's a great day for freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech does not imply freedom from consequences of that speech. The govt did not censor her.It's a great day for freedom of speech.
Its a great day for people not to understanding what freedom of speech means.It's a great day for freedom of speech.
If you only had any actual understanding of the concept...........It's a great day for freedom of speech.
I didn;t realize CNN was the government. /facepalmIt's a great day for freedom of speech.
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
We get it guys
We get it guys
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
On what grounds?
I dunno, if Nasr were white and she said she respected the Grand Poo-Bah of the KKK, she would have gotten fired. I don't see alotta difference between the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinheads, the Neo-Nazis, nor Islam. They all one thing in common.
CNN Editor Fired for Saying She Has "Respect" for Hezbollah Cleric | The Weekly Standard
Who knew they had it in them?
It's a great day for freedom of speech.:roll:
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