The editors at the Charlotte Observer can never claim that they hold the high ground when it comes to ethics and unbiased critique of hot political topics. I have caught them on occasion editing out and adding information to Associated Press articles and editorials by other newspapers. So, when these liberals/socialist/progressives or whatever they wish to call themselves, decide to attack a congresswoman who is concerned for the safety of herself and constituents, I have to wonder why. First, let’s take a look at their sarcastic editorial:U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick's cancellation of all her 9/11 events last week raises at least two significant questions:
Is Myrick paranoid, or politically savvy?
And:
What kind of country do we want to be?
At first blush, it appears Myrick, a Charlotte Republican, suffers significant paranoia, and so we should feel sorry for her. Consider: Myrick cancelled all four of her appearances at 9/11 anniversary events because her name appeared, with close to a couple dozen others, in a story on the website of an Iranian TV station. The story was not the work of an al-Qaida leader or Iranian terrorist. It was a summary of a report that an American think tank had produced weeks earlier, with entire sections of the report copied and pasted.
Myrick said she had been told of the story by unnamed intelligence sources, and she called it threatening. She said "a couple of others" were also named, and that the article implicitly encouraged readers to harm those mentioned in the story.
The poor woman. There wasn't a word suggesting violence against Myrick or anyone else. The story was a banal rehash of a well-researched, 138-page report by the liberal Center for American Progress in Washington detailing the network of funders, politicians, media and others who cast all Muslims as violent jihadists. Myrick is a bit player in the story, and none of the others apparently cancelled a 9/11 appearance. Check out the center's report at bit.ly/p29sH5 and the Iranian summary of it at www.presstv.ir/detail/196918.html.h
Rep. Sue Myrick sits on the intelligence committee. She is privy to national security concerns, unlike that anti-freedom think tank Center for American Progress. Leave it to the editors of the Charlotte Disturber to take the word of an organization known for outright lies in order to discredit a conservative republican.
And to emphasize the distortions of these hacks, let’s take a look at an article published by one of their own reporters:
U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick canceled all of her appearances at 9/11 anniversary events Sunday, saying her name had recently turned up in a threatening Iranian state newspaper article.
"It's very hard for me to stay home (Sunday), because I have worked very hard on these (homeland security) issues from the beginning," the nine-term Charlotte congresswoman told the Observer. "But I didn't want to put anybody else in jeopardy in case some nut out there decided to do something."
Myrick, a House Intelligence Committee member who has been outspoken about the threat of radical Islamists, said she was told by intelligence sources that her name was on a state-sanctioned list published last week in Iran.
"It named some individuals they don't like ... people they said were working against (them)," said Myrick, who added that the list also included "a couple of others" - including other members of Congress - "who work on the (terrorism) issue." She said she didn't want to name the others.
She said the decision to cancel was hers, "after talking to people whose opinion I respect."
The article implicitly encouraged readers to harm those on the list, she said. And after the January shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and multiple bystanders, "I was very uncomfortable" at the prospect of possibly endangering others, Myrick said.
And I believe I can comfortably say that Rep. Sue Myrick, and a whole hell of a lot of citizens in the Queen City area, don’t respect the opinions of the editors at the Charlotte Observer
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/12/2402905/nc-rep-myrick-cancels-911-appearance.html#ixzz1YSN9BNkL
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