Compare and Contrast.
Here is Kilmeade's non apology.
KILMEADE: On the show on Friday, I was talking about Bill O’Reilly appearance on the View and I said this: “Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims.” Well, I misspoke. I don’t believe all terrorists are Muslims. I’m sorry about that if I offended or hurt anybody’s feelings. But that’s it.Glenn Greenwald does an excellent job highlighting what happens to journalists who "misspeak" about other faiths.
One doesn't even have to comment on such blatant hypocrisy and double standards. It's simply there for all to see.The Washington Post, July 8, 2010:
Octavia Nasr has been fired. CNN fired the editor responsible for Middle Eastern coverage after she posted a note on Twitter expressing admiration for a late Lebanese cleric considered an inspiration for the Hezbollah militant movement. Octavia Nasr later apologized for her tweet, but CNN's senior vice president for international newsgathering, Parisa Khosravi, said Wednesday that Nasr's credibility had been compromised.
In the world of political journalism, it's the end of an era: Helen Thomas has retired just months shy of her 90th birthday ... [Thomas] stepped down from her latest role -- a columnist for Hearst Newspapers -- in the wake of controversial remarks made in late May about the need for Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" and return to Poland and Germany. "Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately," read a statement from Hearst Newspapers on Monday. "Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on videotape and widely disseminated on the Internet."
CNN has fired Rick Sanchez following his controversial comments on the radio show "Stand Up With Pete Dominick" ... On Thursday, Sanchez called Jon Stewart a "bigot," arguing that "The Daily Show" host is against "everybody else who's not like him." He also suggested that CNN is run by Jewish people. Stewart is also Jewish."
Nafees A. Syed, CNN, Sept. 23, 2010: At a time when our nation's top university is more diverse than ever before, Harvard's recent decision to honor its former professor Marty Peretz on Friday for setting up an undergraduate research fund in his name comes as a big, disappointing surprise ... Here is the latest blog-post calumny: "Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims" and "I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend that they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment, which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse" ... Despite the voices raised against it, the university just reaffirmed its decision to recognize him ...
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