Something about Tweety has long needed pinpointing. Behind his motor-mouthing, which is supposedly "tough," he is just the perenniel nun's pet, not really ALL THAT a smart nerd, mostly a B.S.-er labeled as "smart" by the nuns and never far from the protection of their skirts. He has openly said he joined the Peace Corps SPECIFICALLY to avoid Vietnam. Everybody at that time had to face the decision of how to have it impact one's life and handled it in different ways. There's no doubt that for his generation JFK's image had SOME influence, but Tweety didn't go to Canada or jail, which SOME principled people did---not to mention those who DID go to Vietnam. He has long favored SUCCESSFUL politicians---RAYGUN, Shrub, Ahhnuld---against the underdogs who FAVOR THE UNDERDOGS among the population. It has become a template for his stance in life. When ENRON broke, Tweety went for months without mentioning it at all, and suddenly discovered that the Middle East was a powderkeg, and he even left the studio and went there, and performed a Geraldo stunt, riding in a doorless chopper and wearing sunglasses---but his physical FEAR was palpable. Here we have him backing out of an appearance NOT in support of human rights, but for a supposed "scheduling conflict."
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http://www.nysun.com/article/10338.... "
Due to a scheduling conflict, Chris Matthews has canceled this appearance," an MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, said. He would not elaborate on the nature of the conflict. ....
The president of the Indian Muslim Council-USA, Dr. Ashwini Rao of New York, said he
does not credit the official explanation for Mr. Matthews's action. "Most likely, that's not correct, because we've been talking to him for the last week and a half, at least, and they've never said it's a scheduling conflict," Dr. Rao said. "
I was hoping he'd take a more moral stance." ....
Last month,
30 human-rights activists asked Secretary of State Rice to block Mr. Modi's trip to America. They labeled him an "egregious violator" of religious freedom and said he should be barred from the country under a 1998 law, the International Religious Freedom Act. Among the signatories to the letter are the director of the religious freedom program at Freedom House, Nina Shea, and the advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, Thomas Malinowski. ....
In a bizarre and mysterious twist, some in the press corps
learned of Mr. Matthews's decision from a Council on American-Islamic Relations news release that was distributed to reporters yesterday
via an e-mail list the Pentagon uses to circulate stories about the military. ....
A spokesperson for the Islamic group, Rabiah Ahmed, denied that her organization sent the message out through the Pentagon list. "We had nothing to do with it," she said. "Apparently,
somebody hacked into their computer system and sent out our press release on their listserv."
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