{"id":1185,"date":"2006-11-16T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2006-11-16T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T16:47:00","slug":"has-cnn-headline-news-ever-met-a-muslim-it-liked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/has-cnn-headline-news-ever-met-a-muslim-it-liked\/","title":{"rendered":"Has CNN Headline News ever met a Muslim it liked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My editor at <i>Foreign Policy<\/i>, Mike Boyer, had this scathing comment on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/node\/2304\">FP Passport<\/a><\/i> today with regard to <i>CNN Headline News<\/i>&#8216; reaction to Congressman-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keith_Ellison_(politician)\">Keith Ellison<\/a> (D-MN), the first Muslim to be elected to our legislative body:<br \/>\n<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it comes to Rep.-elect Keith Ellison of Minnesota, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck just isn&#8217;t sure. That&#8217;s because Ellison is Muslim, which Beck said made him &#8220;nervous.&#8221; Interviewing Ellison on Tuesday, Beck said he felt like questioning Ellison&#8217;s loyalty to America. Then he said Ellison &#8220;could be&#8221; a shining example to European countries that are struggling with multiculturalism.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this is why I refuse to watch CNN Headline News, which has the most thoughtless programming of any 24-hour news network. Here&#8217;s a news flash for Glenn Beck and CNN producers: Not all Midwesterners are white. And they&#8217;re not all Christian, either. Also, you might try learning a thing or two about a congressman-elect before you interview him. Ellison was born in Detroit, not Mogadishu. He hasn&#8217;t &#8220;integrated&#8221; into America &#8212; he was born here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My editor at Foreign Policy, Mike Boyer, had this scathing comment on FP Passport today with regard to CNN Headline News&#8216; reaction to Congressman-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim to be elected to our legislative body: When it comes to Rep.-elect Keith Ellison of Minnesota, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck just isn&#8217;t sure. That&#8217;s because Ellison is Muslim, which Beck said made him &#8220;nervous.&#8221; Interviewing Ellison on Tuesday, Beck said he felt like questioning Ellison&#8217;s loyalty to America.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,98,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-domestic-affairs","category-islam","category-politics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-j7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}