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CNN Headline: 'Miss USA: Muslim Trailblazer Or Hezbollah Spy?'
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CNN.com published a story today on Rima Fakih, the Muslim Lebanese-American woman who was just crowned Miss USA, mentioning that some neocon bloggers (namely Debbie Schlussel) have called her a supporter of Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization.
The headline: "Miss USA: Muslim Trailblazer Or Hezbollah Spy?"
CNN changed the headline on its news blog to "Is Miss USA a Muslim Trailblazer?" They then removed the story from the news blog entirely, but it's still up on CNN's brand new religion blog with the original headline. The religion blog, called "Belief," was launched yesterday.
The story, by CNN's senior editor of Mideast Affairs, Octavia Nasr, outlines the charges from neocons that Fakih works for Hezbollah.
She became the center of controversy overnight after pole dancing photos surfaced and spread across the globe just as fast as a rumor started by a U.S. neo-conservative blog that she's a spy for the Shiite Lebanese group Hezbollah, designated by the U.S. and E.U. countries as a terrorist group.It's hard to gauge which claim could possibly hurt the new Miss USA more: the racy pictures or her alleged affiliation with Hezbollah. One thing is certain, the Internet feasted on the story and different groups with different agendas jumped on the opportunity this story afforded them.
Nasr also points out that, according to "blogs and posts from those with knowledge of the Middle East," that beauty pageants and pole dancing contests "don't match up with the conservative Islam Hezbollah preaches."
CNN has not yet returned calls for comment.
In March, CNN's Wolf Blitzer expressed regret after running a story with the chyron, "Dept. of Jihad?"
Other bloggers have taken issue with a Muslim woman holding the title of Miss USA. Daniel Pipes earlier this week declared that Fakih was an example of "an odd form of affirmative action." He later clarified that he just meant that Muslim women rarely enter beauty pageants.
Late update: CNN's "Belief" blog has now changed its headline to "Is Miss USA a Muslim trailblazer?"
They also added an update: "An earlier version of this post had a headline we thought was too provocative."
The post was also put back up on the news blog, with the same update.
Late late update: A CNN spokesman responds:
Even before you asked about our provocative headline, some members of our team were discussing internally concerns surrounding the very same issue. In the process of editing the headline to something more appropriate, the posting was mistakenly pulled down from our breaking news blog, This Just In; and was left up on our newly launched Belief Blog. That was corrected quickly; and now you will find that the posting is back up on both blogs with editor's notes explaining our headline change to "Is Miss USA a Muslim trailblazer?".
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jeffgee
May 20, 2010 1:02 PM
Rand Paul:
Libertarian
or Tea Party Terrorist?
You Decide!
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traitorjoe
May 20, 2010 1:39 PM in reply to jeffgee
CNN: Lost almost 50% of their audience in a year.
Good strategy to move Right while Americans move Left?
You decide.
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Annie Oakley
May 20, 2010 2:50 PM in reply to traitorjoe
CNN: "The most trusted name in news," or Faux News Lite? You decide.
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Why oh why
May 20, 2010 3:01 PM in reply to Annie Oakley
"CNN: Journalists, or Child Molesters?"
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Why oh why
May 20, 2010 3:08 PM in reply to Why oh why
It's hard to gauge which claim could possibly hurt CNN more: the poor ratings and low ethics standards, or their alleged molesting of children. One thing is certain, the Internet feasted on the story and different groups with different agendas jumped on the opportunity this story afforded them.
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traitorjoe
May 20, 2010 6:20 PM in reply to Why oh why
Viewership is so low they even put a corpse on air to juice the ratings. Wait. That was Larry King. Never mind.
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JEP07
May 20, 2010 10:36 PM in reply to traitorjoe
So he was married to five necrophiliacs?
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Andreams
May 20, 2010 8:05 PM in reply to Annie Oakley
They sure are junior wannabees lately - I gave up on them.
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Kenneth Thomas
May 21, 2010 2:46 AM in reply to Annie Oakley
I can't think of a time that CNN was *ever* "the most trusted name in news." All they've ever had is a good delivery system, but their content has always been so-so.
One example that sticks in my mind was during the fall of 1993, armed Muslim rebels captured a mosque in the Indian city of Srinagar, and the Indian army laid siege to the mosque. Where was CNN's reporter? Traipsing around covering a fairly quiet election season in Pakistan. If CNN deigned to cover Srinagar, it had to use BBC or ITN reports.
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lapdogs
May 21, 2010 11:27 AM in reply to Annie Oakley
Either put the word "News" in loose quotes or use the word "Opinion" in place of "News".
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Shalimar
May 20, 2010 5:22 PM in reply to traitorjoe
Might as well go for the direct analogy:
Wolf Blitzer: Award-Winning Anchor or Neo-Nazi Plant?
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jjdjjd
May 20, 2010 9:19 PM in reply to traitorjoe
americans may have moved to the left in the last presidential election, but thet ain't staying there. you will see in november, or like most lefties, you will dent the shift back to the center. and then who will obama blame? no doubt you, because you didn't vote enough times. all lefies are expected to vote 100 times per day. once in jersey city, they had to throw out an election because there were more votes cast then people in the city. you can look it up. turns out both candidates were democrats and they stole too many votes. bwhahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahahah
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traitorjoe
May 21, 2010 12:47 AM in reply to jjdjjd
Yes, Tuesday's results were just an illusion, the Democratic victory in Pennsylvania, Sestak winning and polling better than Toomey, the progressive Halter forcing a runoff in Arkansas, all a mirage. I bet you think healthcare reform isn't passing either. Or financial reform.
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jjdjjd
May 21, 2010 3:34 AM in reply to traitorjoe
i hope both pass.
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Prefabfan
May 21, 2010 2:32 AM in reply to jjdjjd
Is there anything more pathological than angry rant from someone who is obviously full of hate who ends their post with a fake laugh. Does anyone here really that that retard is laughing??
He is seething. And that "laughter" one more sign of incongruousness, i.e., mental pathology.
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jjdjjd
May 21, 2010 3:40 AM in reply to Prefabfan
yes, a far left nut case is more pathological, you guys have more hate in you then any other group. and it was no fake laugh, spin it however you want, but lincoln and specter were backed by the white house and both lost.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
May 21, 2010 8:16 AM in reply to jjdjjd
Yes, and with your omniscient powers you of course know the true workings of the WH and its minions....Ah, to have that power and harness it, dare I say it, you could rule the Universe!!!!
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kenga
May 21, 2010 10:21 AM in reply to jjdjjd
*snicker* -patpat-
You've never met a far left nutcase - I seriously doubt you've even met a committed "left"-ist. They're pretty thin on the ground, not that you'd know it from the popular media.
BTW - if you're 50 feet right of center, and move five feet leftwards - that does not put you left of center - or even in the center. It just makes you slightly less batshit insane.
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jjdjjd
May 21, 2010 10:29 AM in reply to kenga
i was with the bolivian army when we captured and killed Che, he cried like a little girl.
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kenga
May 21, 2010 11:13 AM in reply to jjdjjd
Interestingly, your account does not agree with the one released by the NSA after it was declassified.
Makes me wonder if you're being dishonest about this too.
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jjdjjd
May 21, 2010 12:56 PM in reply to kenga
i am the NSA.WHAT I RELEASE IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO BELIEVE.
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jjdjjd
May 21, 2010 1:20 PM in reply to kenga
ps, try to laugh, i'm trolling.
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tiowally
May 20, 2010 1:02 PM
She obviously a spy. She's trying to uncover all of Donald Trump's bankruptcy secrets.
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Gavin
May 20, 2010 1:03 PM
I guess the worst-case scenario here is that Hezbollah has learned important & classified information on the inner workings of the Miss America pageant. I'm quivering in my boots.
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Penon
May 20, 2010 5:31 PM in reply to Gavin
And considering she won in the Miss USA pageant, that is quite an accomplishment.
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Lucieann
May 20, 2010 1:04 PM
CNN has really crossed the line now. They used to be a respectable news organization, now they are trying to outdo Fox News?!!!
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Richardxx
May 20, 2010 3:02 PM in reply to Lucieann
There remains no large corporate "respectable news organization." Large organizations in the pursuit of profit simply cannot do so without catering to the extremists.
There is no other mass market for their crap remaining.
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Jon Lester
May 20, 2010 6:28 PM in reply to Lucieann
Looks to me like they're going for Freepers and WorldNetDaily readers.
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zonk
May 20, 2010 1:06 PM
CNN: Dead network or dying network?
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howie
May 20, 2010 1:29 PM in reply to zonk
I think that should be: dead network or the deadest network?
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de TOQUEville
May 20, 2010 1:07 PM
Schlussel the nut-bar... an unimpeachable source to be sure.
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Prefabfan
May 21, 2010 2:39 AM in reply to de TOQUEville
Imagine a news team of Schlussel and Stossel. My head hurts already.
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commie atheist
May 20, 2010 1:08 PM
Is the earth round or flat? Views differ.
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Capn Chucky
May 21, 2010 11:29 AM in reply to commie atheist
I'm a day late on this, but this comment is wonderful.
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commie atheist
May 21, 2010 11:43 AM in reply to Capn Chucky
Thanks! I think it's a fairly accurate summation of CNN's news coverage.
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LiberalRedneck
May 20, 2010 1:11 PM
CNN is a worthless, obsolete turd of a network.
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jvwalt
May 20, 2010 1:12 PM
CNN: News Network or Flaming Bag of Shit?
I guess we'll have to leave it there.
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Barfood
May 21, 2010 7:57 AM in reply to jvwalt
Excellent
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GTFOOH
May 20, 2010 1:12 PM
Profit over quality journalism has turned cable news into Drudge regurgitation.
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Max Thrax
May 20, 2010 1:15 PM
Wolf Blitzer: Neocon Israeli Apologist or Goat Fucking Child Molester?
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George C
May 20, 2010 2:22 PM in reply to Max Thrax
I don't know, which charge hurts him more, that he's a neocon Israeli sympathizer or a fucking child molester? Some say the latter.
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George C
May 20, 2010 2:24 PM in reply to George C
Yikes! I overlooked the Goat! That seals it!
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Rick Jones
May 20, 2010 2:53 PM in reply to George C
Didn't know Wolf could multi-task. Takes a special guy to fuck a goat and molest a child at the same time.
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Richardxx
May 20, 2010 3:04 PM in reply to Rick Jones
Child goat? A kid?
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MINDHealer2010
May 20, 2010 2:52 PM in reply to Max Thrax
THANK YOU Max ...
OH LORD ... HA HA HA HA HA
You've made the day brighter for a Shrink
who listens to the Wealthy and Depressed on
a 24/7 basis.
FYI: I vote for the choice with GOAT in it,
apropos for that SAD old geezer, Blitzer.
I'd happily BUY him a ticket to Mars ...
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pikaomega
May 20, 2010 8:47 PM in reply to Max Thrax
Isn't adding "fucking" to "child molester" kinda redundant?
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jheartney
May 20, 2010 1:20 PM
We dropped our cable a couple years ago and don't miss it at all. I strongly commend the no-cable lifestyle to any and all. (You can catch Jon, Keith and Rachel on the toobz if you miss them.)
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Syd
May 20, 2010 8:21 PM in reply to jheartney
I did the same thing and agree more people should try it. People look at me extremely strangely when I tell them I haven't watched TV in a couple of years. Besides saving $40.00 a month it has been very liberating. I actually get up off the couch and do stuff.
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jjdjjd
May 20, 2010 9:10 PM in reply to Syd
what stuff?
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gayinmt
May 20, 2010 1:20 PM
"It's hard to gauge which claim could possibly hurt the new Miss USA more: the racy pictures or her alleged affiliation with Hezbollah"
So, some nutjob rightwinger says she's a spy, so now she's allegedly a spy? Well, I heard Liz Cheney is a fucking bitch. There, she is now officially an alleged fucking bitch.
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Matt Jones
May 20, 2010 2:00 PM in reply to gayinmt
I don't think there's any room for "allegedly" r/e Liz Cheney - there's certainly not a shortage of evidence. :)
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dustbunny44
May 20, 2010 3:02 PM in reply to gayinmt
Liz Cheney is only an alleged lesbian terrorist.
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tha89kid
May 20, 2010 1:21 PM
"if you can't beat them,join them".....CNN wants to be Faux News,saw how they celebrated Rand Paul..This is absolutely appalling.i guess thats why they are "the trusted".
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Red XIV
May 21, 2010 9:04 AM in reply to tha89kid
CNN: The Faux News farm team.
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ajkrueger
May 20, 2010 1:33 PM
CNN: Desperate times call for desperate measures! Are they pulling a FOX - inventing stories?
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rbeats
May 20, 2010 1:37 PM
Here is a screen shot, well their website front page.
http://i.imgur.com/1A02h.jpg
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sean
May 20, 2010 1:45 PM
I must say her talent portion, assembling an IED while singing 'Climb Every Mountain', was inspiring!!!
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Marinus van der Lubbe
May 20, 2010 1:49 PM in reply to sean
Awesome snark, Sean...still laughing..
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gayinmt
May 20, 2010 1:53 PM in reply to sean
Simply fantastic.
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Jaycal
May 20, 2010 1:55 PM
Wow, Muslim women just can't win. Follow fundamentalist tradition or no tradition at all, either way you're a terrorist. Sounds like good ole' fashioned discrimination to me.
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George C
May 20, 2010 2:32 PM in reply to Jaycal
Does the fact that this woman is flat out gorgeous have anything to do with anything?
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Richardxx
May 20, 2010 3:18 PM in reply to George C
Best choice the beauty pageant has made for years, probably since Vanessa Williams. Her appearance really is outstanding. She truly appears to be an example of the best America has.
I wonder what her personality is like? And I love the way the decision has upset so many people who are themselves utter assholes.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
May 20, 2010 5:01 PM in reply to Richardxx
I come to posts about her to snark about wingnut stupidity, but if there's a picture I just kind of end up doing that slack-jawed staring thing and forget what I was going to say.
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farnsworth
May 20, 2010 3:19 PM in reply to George C
Makes her a better spy.
Duh!
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Duck Stab
May 20, 2010 1:58 PM
CNN never met a right wing talking point they didn't like.
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SplendidOne
May 20, 2010 2:00 PM
Man, this got me over to Schlussel's blog, where I had never previous been. Boy, is she ever a nut! I do not know how someone can write like that and still mix in civil society.
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Jon Lester
May 20, 2010 6:33 PM in reply to SplendidOne
I had a brief exchange with her online just to correct her on a couple of factual matters, and that seems to be her real personality.
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Count Floyd
May 20, 2010 2:07 PM
CNN.com has been doing this for years, and I think what puzzles me is they're always chickens***t about it and take it off almost immediately. Some completely absurd headline will show up on their front page and then disappear less than an hour later. You'd think they would just stick with it if they're trying to out-crazy FOX. It's like some nutjob intern keeps hacking into their content system.
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Xantar
May 20, 2010 2:14 PM
Where's SailorMarlowe? Doesn't he want to wank to this picture, too?
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Given Up
May 20, 2010 10:06 PM in reply to Xantar
He's torn, pretty girl and all but she is the enemy and the spawn of Satan. Maybe his head exploded, that would be too good to be true though.
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JEP07
May 20, 2010 10:43 PM in reply to Given Up
which head?
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Given Up
May 21, 2010 8:47 AM in reply to JEP07
Just because it's empty doesn't mean it is entirely lacking, you do have a point though.
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CranialRectalLoopback
May 20, 2010 2:30 PM
And Prejeans boob job and titty pix don't reflect Christian teachings. So what terror organization does Prejean support? Oh, yeah ... THE GOP!
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TM
May 20, 2010 2:36 PM
Disgusting
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gumption
May 20, 2010 2:39 PM
I found myself thinking back to The Daily Show's episode on "The Question Mark", which I had incorrectly remembered as "the Fox News question mark", focusing primarily on Fox News.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-13-2006/the-question-mark
In reviewing the video from 2006 just now, I was surprised to discover that 4 of the 7 examples in Jon Stewart's lead-in were from CNN, and only 2 were from Fox News (the other from ABC).
Stewart goes on to observe that CNN uses the question mark to highlight more existential issues:
Apocalypse Now?
End Times?
Ever Safe Again?
What If ...?
Whereas Fox News uses its question mark in a more focused way:
Have Democrats Forgotten the Lessons of 9/11?
Why is Russia Doing Business With Nations That Hate America?
Why is America More Concerned About Economy Than Terror?
Media Preaching Hate in the Mideast?
Is the Liberal Media Helping to Fuel Terror?
The #1 President on Mideast Matters: George W. Bush?
The Best President? [with George W. Bush video in background]
Seems like CNN is moving into Fox News territory with this highly focused, superficially interrogatory headline.
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Cal Gal
May 20, 2010 2:51 PM
Talk about martyr. She's willing to give up her religious modesty in the name of jihad!
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dustbunny44
May 20, 2010 2:59 PM
Wolf Blitzer: bearded idiot, or incompetent talking head?
You decide.
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soylent_green
May 20, 2010 3:08 PM
This is what I sent them.
"Miss USA: Muslim Trailblazer Or Hezbollah Spy?"
Disgusting. Vile. And indefensible, although I'm sure you bigots will try.
Lest you make the argument, "It was a one-time thing, a simple mistake", let me remind you about "Dep't of Jihad?".
Once is a mistake, twice is a pattern.
If this woman had been of Israeli descent, would you have taken a rumor from some anti-semitic web site to make a headline "Jewish Trailblazer or Mossad Spy?". You wouldn't.
That's why you're bigots, and that's why I've removed your channels from my television listings.
Good luck with being Faux News lite. I'm sure that will work out swimmingly for you. How's your ratings these days, anyway?
PS I marked this comment as positive because, given the level of integrity you exhibit, I just assume that negative comments are routed directly to /dev/null.
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Dorn76
May 20, 2010 3:14 PM
CNN is a organized mob of pedophiles and necrophiliacs? That's a subject for debate. But since we're out of time, we're gonna have to leave it there.
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Mrwilson1
May 20, 2010 3:26 PM in reply to Dorn76
Dont leave it there, check Twitter!
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Mrwilson1
May 20, 2010 3:25 PM
You never know what secrets you can find backstage at beauty pageants.
KILL DA WABBITTTTTTTTT
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Richardxx
May 21, 2010 9:15 AM in reply to Mrwilson1
Is Miss Congeniality another FBI agent?
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JerseyCurmudgeon
May 20, 2010 3:28 PM
One correction. Debbie Schlussel is not a Neocon. She's a Kahanist. From the standpoint of someone who takes Jewish ethics seriously, that's even worse.
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kenga
May 21, 2010 10:30 AM in reply to JerseyCurmudgeon
She's a Kahanist.
You're sure?
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spktruth200
May 20, 2010 3:40 PM
We should all recognize the zionists who infiltrated CNN. Wolf Blitzer the worst of them all. Of course CNN is trying to take some of FAUX watchers, cuz some people now realize Faux is total propaganda, so they moved to CNN. Ted Turner is regretting his move to sell to these zonists. If he could he would take it back. This woman is beautiful and about time a Muslim woman (without the birka) proved to the dumbed down rascist bigots in the USA, that muslim women are NOT all in birkas, but can be glamorous and in fact out glamorize some of the so called christian women who won in the past. I hate beauty pagents as they are derogatory against women, but I am thrilled this woman won...hurray for her and the Lebanese people.
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LiberalRedneck
May 20, 2010 4:32 PM in reply to spktruth200
You sound like a nut.
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SkepticalCidada
May 20, 2010 3:50 PM
CNN has become a sensationalistic piece of garbage. No wonder their losing viewers left, right, and center. If you want real news, watch BBC.
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GayIthacan
May 20, 2010 4:05 PM
CNN........
Cable News Network or Clueless News-free Necrophiliacs?
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greylox
May 20, 2010 4:28 PM
**Oh dear. If sex and religion are going to get all political, then what does that mean regarding the Christian Republican Representative who was shtuping his underling? Could he possibly be a domestic terrorist, bent on abusing and confusing his fellow Christian Republicans? I think we need an investigation.
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jlover
May 20, 2010 5:42 PM
they're mad because she looks 100 TIMES BETTER than sarah palin and she not a lilly white blonde bimbo......nuff said
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Daddy Love
May 20, 2010 5:43 PM
I have an idea. What we need is an organization made up of um, say, "broadcasters" with access to the airwaves, and oh, maybe, "journalists" who can investigate crazy allegations and report back the fact that there is nothing of any value whatsoever behind them.
This is an idea that could catch on, right?
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charlie8080
May 20, 2010 7:33 PM
And this is EXACTLY why I stopped watching CNN. They have lost all credibility.
It's too bad, they were so good back in the early 1990's when they covered the first Iraq war.
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mayrose
May 20, 2010 8:23 PM
How about just posting the information that she isn't Muslim at all, but grew up Catholic. Of course that wouldn't fit the stereotype.
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Syd
May 20, 2010 8:26 PM
I don't know if this came out in the above story because I didn't follow any links but I saw another headline where she said all this terror crap has been extremely hurtful. I wish the people that stir up this hateful rage would just evolve already....we can't wait forever.
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Given Up
May 20, 2010 10:10 PM in reply to Syd
But they don't believe in evolution, so they are trying very hard to keep it from happening.
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ErnestPayne
May 20, 2010 8:32 PM
Crappy Network News. Always fighting to the the lowest of the bottom feeders. Most trusted news source? Only to the short bus riders.
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jsdc007
May 20, 2010 9:49 PM
Debbie Schlussel?
Skank or troll?
Uhhh, wait, who exactly is Debbie Schlussel?
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pgbach
May 20, 2010 10:51 PM
One must rememberthe reality is that white bigot (so-called conservative) males have been raping women of color for centuries. Hey, white buys like plugging women of color... Thomas Jefferson or Strom Thurman anyone?
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Falstaff
May 20, 2010 11:06 PM
So Hezbollah's plan for the overthrow of Israel has something to do with winning American beauty pageants? Dash-cunning.
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The Ouroborus
May 20, 2010 11:44 PM
The more I know about her, the more I like her.
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jonez
May 20, 2010 11:44 PM
CNN is still the best cable news outlet, regardless of ratings. They stick to news. And if news is boring to some of you, then so be it. They'll easily stand the test of time. They were the first, and should just keep doing what their doing, and not give in to opinion journalism.
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Prefabfan
May 21, 2010 2:36 AM in reply to jonez
you are joking, they were part of the push to get us into a needless war that had the US committing war crimes against the people of Iraq. They were night and day flag waivers equating patriotism with support for a war which no one can explain the purpose of. By the way, has any noticed that BOTH BUSHES got us into wars that no one can explain the purpose for, in Iraq. That is too weird to be a coincidence.
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rbe1
May 21, 2010 3:21 AM in reply to jonez
They are opinion journalism, you twit.
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Nancy Irving
May 21, 2010 12:20 AM
Just wondering what kind of "intelligence" this "spy" will be gathering in the world of swimsuits and high heels?
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rbe1
May 21, 2010 3:20 AM
My God people, haven't you heard ? CNN has merged with the National Enquirer.
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ajkrueger
May 21, 2010 10:11 AM
Don't know if she's a spy - she is smokin' hot, though!
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johnny b
May 21, 2010 10:30 AM
They should have asked her if she would condemn Hamas. That would have been good TV.
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lapdogs
May 21, 2010 11:24 AM
Too Late With The So-Called "Correction", CNN.
Your Prejudice Has Already Been Rung - Loud and Clear - For All To Hear and Read!!
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commie atheist
May 21, 2010 11:45 AM
CNN was Just Asking Questions. In other words, they were JAQing off.
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Leftflank
May 21, 2010 11:24 PM
If she's a spy then I need espionage. Hey, that kind of sounds like Hezbollah.
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thunderbay63
May 22, 2010 2:56 PM
CNN- scum sucking sh*tbags, or sh*t sucking scumbags?
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JadeZ
May 22, 2010 7:41 PM
Obviously part of the "no Muslim is a good Muslim" media that stops at nothing in their conditioning of the people against an entire religion.
And people with integrity realize who is behind the coordinated attacks.
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Tosh
May 23, 2010 5:30 PM
CNN.com has been doing this for years, and I think what puzzles me is they're always chickens***t about it and take it off almost immediately. Some completely absurd headline will show up on their front page and then disappear less than an hour later. You'd think they would just stick with it if they're trying to out-crazy FOX. It's like some nutjob intern keeps hacking into their content system.
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