Why Does Anderson Cooper Think PNAC Hatemonger Frank Gaffney Deserves Some Air Time?

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September 28, 2010 08:29 AM
Why Does Anderson Cooper Think PNAC Hatemonger Frank Gaffney Deserves Some Air Time?
By Heather



Apparently someone involved in the lawsuit opposed to building yet another Islamic center in Murfreesboro, TN, decided to bring in PNAC warmonger Frank Gaffney to testify during a hearing yesterday, and I assume because of that testimony, Anderson Cooper decided to give this hatemonger a format on his national show on CNN as well.

Here's more on Gaffney's appearance where he did a bit of fearmongering on this issue in Tennessee.

And here's Akbar Ahmed's article on what's been happening with America's mosques who CNN set up to counter Gaffney and tried to not get talked over too badly. Inside America's Mosques

Watching Frank Gaffney's hackery should really lay to waste any argument that these hatemongers were only concerned about the Islamic center at Ground Zero because it was "hallowed ground." Now they're taking aim at a mosque in Tennessee, for Christ's sake. Their only purpose is to drive fear of the "other" and the suspicion that a Muslim may be a terrorist or someone who loves the terrorists and may be, as Palin has said, "pals around with them" -- you know, like President Barack Obama. That and for them to push for more military occupations, as though we don't have our hands full with the two we've got that are already bankrupting us.

Why CNN or Cooper thinks someone like that deserves a format on one of their shows is beyond me, but sadly they're not the only ones letting this guy on the air. He has about as much credibility as Bill Kristol or John Bolton.

Video/transcript at link:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/why-does-anderson-cooper-think-pnac-hate-m