The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is frequently irrelevant to the news broadcasts in which it appears.
Let us look at the list one more time. There are CAIR broadcasts about fingers, Pizza Hut, Hmong people, Confederate flags, Civil War monuments, Black Lives Matter, the 1619 Project, the Atlanta Spa shootings, the Capitol riots, Derek Chauvin, white people, Jewish misfortunes, Facebook comments, the KKK, Nazis, George Floyd, nooses, misspelled Starbucks cups, Christopher Columbus, ICE raids, graffiti, swastikas, girl’s high school softball game, the word “squaw,” a racist bank charge, William Harllee, high school basketball games, etc.
Today we can add one more item to the list – the racist hate crime in Tempe, Arizona.
The Arizona TV news station show Ring doorbell camera video of two high school age teens placing a “racist” sign outside the home of a multiracial family’s home. The sign says “For Sale,” with two dangling bananas and a handwritten message that the station blocked out. The police are treating this as a hate crime.
But two different Arizona news stations, KTVK and KMSB, frame this as CAIR’s reaction to the hate crime charges. Both broadcasts begin with CAIR and end with CAIR’s statement. Again, the Council on American Islamic Relations has absolutely nothing at all to do with this.
Nevertheless, TV stations treat CAIR’s reaction to something in the news as news itself.
Westman says
I took some time for the media to realize the SPLC was a fraud that dined on what should have been the NAACP’s money. They’ll likely catch on to CAIR after enough Muslim-LGBTQIA+ clashes.
PRCS says
We can hope.
Michael Copeland says
It has long been suspected that CAIR’s appearances happen to coincide with “gifts” to the broadcaster.
OLD GUY says
+1