Los Angeles Times: If You’re Not With Me, You Must Be A — Gasp — Conservative
The truth according to the Los Angeles Times:
“But (ABC) may have at least inadvertently politicized the Sept. 11 film by hiring writer-producer Cyrus Nowrasteh, a politically conservative Iranian American Muslim.”
– Los Angeles Times staffers Scott Collins and Tina Daunt in the September 9th piece “ABC Stands By Its 9/11 Story — Almost“
The truth according to the person who would know best:
“In July a reporter asked if I had ever been ethnically profiled. I happily replied, “No.” I can no longer say that. The L.A. Times, for one, characterized me by race, religion, ethnicity, country-of-origin and political leanings — wrongly on four of five counts. To them I was an Iranian-American politically conservative Muslim. It is perhaps irrelevant in our brave new world of journalism that I was born in Boulder, Colo. I am not a Muslim or practitioner of any religion, nor am I a political conservative. What am I? I am, most devoutly, an American. I asked the reporter if this kind of labeling was a new policy for the paper. He had no response.”
- Cyrus Nowrasteh, screenwriter of ABC’s “The Path to 9/11,” in the Wall Street Journal ($)
In 2005 Nowrasteh told an interviewer “I’m probably more of a libertarian than a strict conservative.” We can’t find a public source in which he says “I am a conservative.” Since he apparently never uttered those words to the LAT reporters, how do they substantiate their characterization?
It couldn’t be on the basis of past work. Nowrasteh’s script for “The Day Reagan Was Shot” was assailed by conservatives.
No, Nowrasteh is penned a script the left didn’t like. Thus: he’s a bad person. Thus: he’s a conservative.
Distinctions such as moderate or libertarian are lost in the LAT’s partisan muddle.
To date, no correction of the “politically conservative Iranian American Muslim” characterization has appeared in the LAT.
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