Take a look at this piece from Linda Milazzo, who wrote an op-ed on the Miami terrorism plot. (That would be the nonexistent plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago.) The funny part is the exchange between Wolf Blitzer and the sister of one of those accused in the plot. Here it is:
Should anyone in America incomprehensibly require further convincing of how feckless the United States Government is and how goofy and uninformed cable news is, here's an excerpt from an exchange earlier today between CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Marlene Phanor, sister of Stanley Grant Phanor, aka "Brother Sunni," one of Florida's supposed seven "home-grown terrorists":
Blitzer: Is your brother a Muslim?Ms. Phanor: No, sir. He's a Catholic.
Blitzer: Does he go to church?
Phanor: Yes, he goes to church. He's a Catholic. We enter St. Mary's Catholic Church on 75th and Second Avenue.
Blitzer: Is he very political, your brother? Does he have strong political views?
Ms. Phanor: No. I can't really say that.
A few inconsequential questions later, Blitzer goes on to ask:
Blitzer: Why does the government say he [your brother Stanley Phanor] is also known as "Brother Sunni"?
Ms. Phanor: They all call themselves 'brothers'. Why, I don't know... but the whole little group calls themselves 'brother'.
Blitzer: Did you ever hear your brother being called "Sunni"?
Ms. Phanor: Yeah. That's his nickname. It's not "Sunni". It's "Sunny"... like it's a sunny day. Yeah, that's his name.
Blitzer: So the confusion is he was called Sunny and not Sunni... because as you know Sunni is one of the religious groups in Islam.
Ms. Phanor: No, I didn't know that but now that I know... no it's not for that. That's his nickname and it's spelled S-u-n-n-y... as in sunny day. That's his nickname ever since birth....
Comments (5)
I think the key is that these people are Black Muslims (except for the second part, it turns out). Very dangerous. Very Black. Very Muslim (except that they're not).
NegroIslamoFascists, it's kind of like a Triple Whammy (check out the National Review Archives if this is unclear.)
Posted by Something Polish | June 27, 2006 5:24 PM
Posted on June 27, 2006 17:24
A commenter on my site said beware of Sunni and Sharia.
Posted by Miracle Max | June 27, 2006 5:36 PM
Posted on June 27, 2006 17:36
But the President pronounces "Sunni" like "Sunny"!
Posted by John Costello | June 28, 2006 4:26 PM
Posted on June 28, 2006 16:26
This has the mark of Rove on it. Just stirring up "fear" before the elections so that the American public will "stay the course" and keep the same idiots in office.
How devastating was it for these people?
Posted by Elizabeth Mellon | July 4, 2006 11:41 PM
Posted on July 4, 2006 23:41
Can Wolf Blitzer Survive The Latest Middle East Conflict?
On a much lighter note than the previous two posts, I saw Wolf Blitzer on CNN tonight. They finally talked him into getting out of the "Situation Room" and over to Israel. Of course he's in Jerusalem, as far away from rockets coming from either north or south of Israel as you can get right now.
He "interviewed" Benjamin Netanyahu tonight. He allowed Netanyahu to overpower him with a monologue that Wolf wasn't able to stop. He didn't know what to ask and he wasn't strong enough to stop Netanyahu to ask a tough question. He looked as if he was in a coma as Netanyahu went on and on giving the party line.
I can't see Wolfy in the Situation Room much longer. Not when CNN has a real journalist, John Roberts from CBS, under contract.
Wolf's delivery is so monotone and dull that the Situation Room is the only news program on TV where they have to have a snare drum playing in the background while he announces headlines.
Get it over with, CNN. Replace Wolf with Roberts and you can drop the drum as a way of trying to introduce drama into the headlines.
Posted by MarshallDarts | July 25, 2006 12:21 AM
Posted on July 25, 2006 00:21