Ft. Hood Shooter: Conservative?
By Allie Duzett | November 17, 2009
CNN is now claiming that Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, is a conservative. On November 10, 2009, CNN Special Investigations Correspondent Drew Griffin called Hasan “conservative,” and now that talking point is being spewed again on today’s front page online story. The story, about Hasan’s search for a wife, discusses how two imams told CNN “about [Hasan’s] conservatism.” The story also mentions Hasan’s “conservative” clothing choices.
However—what exactly about Hasan is conservative?
Fact: Islamofascism is not conservative, in any way. Hating America is not conservative—conservatives tend to love their country. Wanting to blow up America is not conservative—again, conservatives tend to love their country. Hating people for their religion (or lack thereof) is not conservative—conservatives are not the ones trying to remove other people’s religions from the public sphere.
What Hasan did was not conservative. Murdering men and women in the armed forces is not conservative—conservatives are traditionally the ones most supportive of our men and women in the armed forces. Murdering fetuses is absolutely not conservative—conservatives tend to oppose abortion, and Hasan murdered a pregnant woman and her unborn child. And of course, wearing traditional clothing—even Islamic clothing—does not make you a conservative. While I don’t believe the story meant to imply that Hasan’s clothing linked him to a conservative ideology, I believe the writer could have picked a better word for it. Hasan may have been religious, but religiosity never makes one conservative, even if that person is a traditionalist within the religion.
This is just another case of CNN’s reporters creating a link to conservatism where there really is none.
Allie Duzett is an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia.
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Dobbs was heavily invested in FAIR which is a registered hate group.
These types of people without any ethics, morals or values don’t belong on CNN.
They belong on propaganda networks that have no use for facts and truth. He belongs on FAUX with the rest of the modern Hitler movement.
“O’Reilly Upset Over 9/11 Trials: ‘I Don’t Care About The Constitution!’”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/17/oreilly-trials-constitution/
He belongs on FAUX, so in essence he belongs to the Mainstream Media! They are complicit in not reporting any truth.
Why do you continue to use Far Left links, I could care less what their opinions are, most of them are Marxist at best.
Besides the comment O’Reilly meant in the heat of a passionate debate was an Opinion on a particular subject, one where the Constitution should be changed. We as a Nation should NEVER try to bring Terror Cases to Civilian Courts.
Holder lied when he said the U.S. had tried Terror cases in the past with success, yet they have not tried any cases where they enemy combatants were captured out of the country…therefore no Miranda rights.
When is someone going to tell this two-bit hack of a lawyer from Chicago to stop overstepping his bounds? He forced this case out of the proper hands to try these cases, and that of course would be the Military Tribunals, not to mention N.Y. does not have the Death Penalty.
As a United States A.G. he has to be the worst of any previous A.G. in history. No president should give that much power to a corrupt man. Even Bush never tried to stop his A.G. to put the kibosh on the use of Special Prosecutors, yet Holder has refused to investigate Pelosi’s lies to Congress over the CIA Enhanced Terror documents which do show she attended, lying to Congress, even if you are member is a crime.
He dropped the investigations against Chris Dodd and Barney Frank over the housing debacle, and has passes on Rangle, the Tax Cheat…but I suppose they are allowed to cheat if someone is a Democrat, so many get away with doing it, and doing it often.
I would dearly love to see Holder himself investigated, he would not be the A.G. very much longer.
“Not long after he was rousted from bed and seized in a predawn raid in Pakistan in March 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave his captors two demands: He wanted a lawyer, and he wanted to be taken to New York.”
- Mark Mazzetti with The New York Times
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Eric Holder, Barack Hussein Obama’s Attorney General, just granted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks) and four other GITMO detainees, that very wish.
Holder, brushing aside protests and cries of alarm, says he’s confident of a “successful outcome.” A “successful outcome” ... for whom? Holder’s rash and irresponsible action begs the question… just whose side is Holder on…?
Debra Burlinggame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the hi-jacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon, said; “We have a president who doesn’t know we’re at war,” and she added that she is sickened by “the prospect of these barbarians being turned into victims by their attorneys.”
Burlinggame gives Obama and Holder too much credit. Holder knows were at war.
Surely, Holder must know that his actions send a clear message to every terrorist who dreams of brutally killing innocent Americans:
Do your dirty work… if we capture you we’ll give you high-priced ACLU attorneys… and a platform to recruit more terrorists to your sick and pathetic cause and pontificate to the world that the United States is the Great Satan. If more innocent Americans die, so be it. You have an ally in the Attorney General of the United States.
No matter what you may hear… no matter what the liberal media tells you… no matter how the Obama Administration may spin Holder’s actions with pathetic claims that they are bringing these monsters to justice… know that our enemies will hear a different message… a message of encouragement… and remember… Eric Holder gave Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the very thing he wanted… a ticket to New York and a slick attorney.
That’s why Eric Holder has got to go. Whether he’s fired or whether he resigns, every day he remains the Attorney General of the United States is a stain on this great country.
Timothy McVeigh. American terrorist. Tried, convicted and sentenced in a civilian court. Executed like the dog he was.
Conservatives are always trying to “blow up their country.” Another case in point are the Christofascist women’s clinic bombers and gay club bombers. Don’t like somehting? Blow it up. That is the conservative way.
Quit whining like babies, run for office and change things if you don’t like the system. Oh wait…I forgot…you are conservatives. Violence and threats are your modus operandi, not working within the system. And of course, the last president ruined any chance of conservatives getting much of a chance to do anything but cry for a long time.
Somebody call Whine One One and get a Whaaaambulance. Conservatives have their panties in a twist again…
Too funny.
Don, what is funny are people such as yourself, you didn’t even take the time to check McVeigh, who was a registered Democrap…er Democrat. The party of the RIGHT are patriots, unlike you guys.
Democrats/Liberals/Marxists are where you find where Men are Men, and the Sheep are “nervous”. Anything is better than a bunch of Narcissistic self serving Jackasses (thus your parties logo), and Obama leads the pack. Obama is not only the worst president this country has ever had, but his weakness is astounding, making us more vulnerable than ever.
Hell, you guys have a super majority (till the next election) and cannot pass a Bill, especially horrible Bills such as the bankrupting Health Care, and Cap and Tax Bills. Never in my life have I seen so many ignorant supposedly educated people in the Administration and in both Houses on the Liberal side…pseudo-intellectuals.
Look what the last registered democrat and Obama supporter in the news has done at Ft. Hood, one of Obama’s own people, a Muslim. Not to mention all the criminals in the Administration and the tax cheats the Dems are, over a year and you guys cannot or will not go after Rangel.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Geithner is not only a tax cheat himself (in charge of the IRS), and supposedly cannot figure out Turbo Tax, which my son was using back when he was 18 yrs old.
If Obama had told the truth (if he knows what that word means) prior to the election, he would not be president…McCain is not who I wanted, but our economy would be in pretty good shape, despite all the corrupt groups such as ACORN who got us into this mess to begin with.
Try reading some Cloward & Piven or Saul Alinsky and you will know where we are heading, that would be a One World Currency and a One World Government.
Why don’t you and your comrades’s get out of your diapers and learn the truth, it would help if you would educate yourselves.
Just get off our site and go back to your dung hole sites such as the Kos…ect.
Hmmm…you hit most of the standard cliches and buzz phrases. Democrats are gay, unpatriotic and led by a Marxist Muslim. Good job.
And of course you gave the standard go away cause you disagree with you line.
Yeah, I think I will. Have fun with your chorus of “me too” dittotards.
Oh…how did that GW Bush thingy work out for you? Besides insuring a Democratic majority for the next decade.
Heh-heh.
<Laughing> Truth hurts, huh? FYI, Bush was elected to two terms, at the same point where Obama is now, Bush’s approval rating was 30 points higher than Obama’s.
No doubt he will be a one-term president, not to mention there will be no more super majority after 2012, Independents and Blue Dog Democrats are running for the hills, right into Republicans hands.
Please do not go away mad, just go away.
HA!
November 18 at 10:20 am | #1 | Link
CNN, the Corrupt news channel has been only last place new organization, behind MSNBC news think that actually does not have anyone left, without Lou Dobbs, there is no longer any balance. At least on occasion, he would question the Administration. With the Flack he had been putting up with, they wanted him out, but Dobbs had an iron clad contract for as long as he wanted to stay. Contrary to what CNN is saying, he was not fired, he could not be. So he accepted $8 Millions, to leave the network.
Now for CNN, falsely claiming that Major Nasan was a Conservative is just utterly ridiculous. He did not commit a crime as the Government is saying, he was nothing short of a Terrorist, yet he was in contact with the Al Qaeda kingpin in Yemen, with several contacts between the two. His best friend’s website shows his buddy claims on is site, is a self admitted Jahiadist.
All this was allowed to happen for one reason, and one reason only…Political Correctness. Had it not been for PC, Walter Reid would have never transfer him out and into Ft. Hood.
His business cards found in his apartment, the cards make no mention of his military affiliation, but underneath his name he listed himself as SoA (SWT). SoA is commonly used on jihadist Web sites as the acronym for Soldier of Allah, according to investigators and experts who have studied such sites. SWT is commonly used by Muslims as an acronym for Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala, Glory to God.