Batfink's Beep -- 04-04-06

Asking for trouble

April 4, 2006

As you may have heard, NBC has decided that not enough is being made about the raw deal that white America must be giving to angry muslim males, and has decided to do something about it. Hence, the America-bashing network is planning a sting operation of sorts, the results of which are to air on its "Dateline" program.

The plan is to send extremely muslim-looking arab males to whitebread, all-American sporting events like NASCAR races, to try to provoke what the network hopes to portray, through the use of hidden cameras, as bigotry towards the bearded muslims. But don't take my word for it: Michelle Malkin has a copy of an e-mail sent by an apparently muslim-activist network insider, solliciting, well, here -- read it for yourself:

They want to do the same thing 2 or 3 other times (in various parts of the USA) with one or two Muslim men in each setting. They are looking for men who actually "look Muslim". They want a guy with no foreign accent whatsoever, a good thick beard, an outgoing personality, and someone willing to wear a kufi/skullcap during the filming.

They also want someone who is fairly well accomplished and has contributed to American society at large in some meaningful way.

That said, I'm urgently looking for someone who can be filmed this April 1st weekend at a Nascar event (and other smaller events) in Virginia. NBC is willing to fly in someone and cover their weekend expenses. The filming would take place all day on Saturday and Sunday.

Now, you might think that if there really were a lot of bigotry being shown toward muslim men, NBC wouldn't have to actually send ringers out to incite it -- they could simply observe it as it happens naturally. A hidden camera at the mall should do the trick. But sometimes, it's easier to make the news, rather than to simply wait for it.

Be that as it may, what occurs to me as I consider this proposal, is what kind of liability NBC might face if their ringers do their job too well.

Consider: An extremely devout-looking, fully bearded, kufi/skullcap-wearing arab shows up at a NASCAR event in Virginia. It doesn't sound like something all that likely to happen by accident, but then that's the whole point, isn't it? Anyway: he knows he's on camera, and is, after all, someone who self-selected for this assignment, so sitting quietly and enjoying the race probably isn't what he has in mind -- that would hardly make for good coverage. So he... what? Throws a few dirty looks around at the infidels enjoying a beer in the stands, maybe? Maybe he makes a rude comment or 2. So, yeah -- some NASCAR fan might take offense, and make his feelings known. Maybe a punch gets thrown, and others join in. It's not hard to see this getting out of hand. Someone could get hurt. After all, anyone who goes into the south, to a NASCAR event, specifically looking to start trouble, is likely to be able to, even if he weren't purposefully dressing like the fanatical enemy the nation faces in a war at the time. Is this starting to sound like an extremely, even potentially criminally bad idea?

Now that the word is out, and NBC's plan is known, hopefully someone will be there with a camcorder to watch the watchers, as it were. After all, if a riot DOES ensue, or even if one doesn't, quite, can a network that purposefully sent out a confederate muslim agent to gin up a story about the bigotry of Americans, be trusted to show us the full story? Do you think that whatever incitement the bearded fellow offers, just to get the ball rolling, won't be carefully edited out of the footage that gets aired? After all, the desired result is already known, and the outlines of the story already laid out -- innocent muslim treated badly by racist southern yahoos. Would they tell us what a guy they actually hired for the job of bigotry victim, did to get things going? Sure -- and Dan Rather was fired on the spot when the honest-as-the-day-is-long straight-shooters at CBS found out he ginned up phony Bush documents... Well, of course.

Both for the sake of the truth itself, as well as for potential evidence in the criminal case and civil lawsuit against NBC for incitement to riot and mayhem, the whole story ought to be filmed by someone hopefully not as prejudiced as the Dateline honchos.

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