CNN
host Erin Burnett recently said that there is a “friendliness” to Iranians who
vehemently chant “Death
to America.” This will cause the sanest among you to vehemently
exclaim, “Say what?!!”
‘Tis
true. While reporting from Iran for “Inside Politics,” the alleged journalist
remarked that Iranians chanting “Death to America” were often “happy” to talk
to her and other Americans.
Burnett:
“I remember, Dana [Bash], at one point being in Tehran years ago and they’re
chanting ‘Death to America’ all around me even as I say ‘oh, I’m an American
reporting for CNN’ and they were happy to speak to me,” Burnett said. “So,
those two are sort of jarring realities of the chant and the friendliness have
existed together.”
Yes.
Much like the “mostly peaceful” riots CNN described back in 2020, with
Minneapolis burning in the background, CNN would have you believe that there
was a latent “friendliness” to those shouting “Death to America!”
Did
the redoubtable CNN duo perceive a certain je
ne sais quoi in the “Death to America” chants that was
appealing to them? Maybe they even sensed an underlying amity, benevolence, and
fellowship in the otherwise apparently fanatically violent slogan. The Germans
called such great good feeling “gemütlicheit,”
but failed to exhibit much of that in the 1930s and 1940s. Maybe Bash and
Burnett would have characterized Hitler’s rantings and the subsequent extermination
of the Jews as “good-natured” or “cordial.”
Call
me hypersensitive, but even the friendliest and gayest “Death to (your
country here)” seems to me, at minimum, a bit judgmental… if not borderline
rude.
I
hereby characterize Burnett’s remarks as “cogent.”
Not.
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