[antimedia] antimedia: My first reaction when I read this was....

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Posted by antimedia:
My first reaction when I read this was....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1155268483.shtml


   ....[1]what an asshole!

     On this evening's 7 PM ET edition of Hardball, Chris Matthews mused
     about the UK-born terrorists whose plot was foiled today:
     "Here we have maybe 24 people who have lived in London and England
     and the free world for all these years that become citizens,
     subjects of the Crown, and, yet, after having gotten to know us,
     they want to kill themselves to hurt us. Isn't that an even deeper
     conundrum here than the chemicals being used in these attacks?"
     Williams [appearing from London's Heathrow airport]: "And that,
     Chris, that last aspect, the willingness to take one's own life --
     I always tell people there are guys on our team like that, too.
     They're called Army Rangers and Navy Seals and the Special Forces
     folks and the first responders on 9/11 who went into those
     buildings knowing, by the way, they weren't going to come out. So
     we have players like that on our team."

   I'll say it again. What an asshole! If Brian Williams can't
   distinguish between a suicidal murderer killing innocent people and
   someone who commits an act selfless sacrifice in an attempt to save
   innocent lives, he shouldn't be the anchor man in Podunk, Nevada, much
   less for NBC News.
   He'd better not ever say anything like that in my presence! As it is,
   he goes in my Hall of Shame.

References

   1. http://newsbusters.org/node/6901