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Terry Jones, Pastor Who Threatened to Burn the Koran, Banned From U.K.
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- He was the small-town preacher who nearly brought the world to a standstill when he planned a mass burning of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now, Pastor Terry Jones is back in the news: The British government says he is banned from entering the U.K. Jones had accepted an invitation to speak next month to England Is Ours, a fringe anti-Islamic group with ties to the anti-immigrant British National Party. He was due to address protesters at a series of demonstrations against the expansion of Islam and the construction of mosques in the U.K. But in a ...
Pastor Awarded Car for Canceling Quran Burning
By not in system - AOL NewsSOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Oct. 15) - A New Jersey car dealer plans to keep his word after offering Florida pastor Terry Jones a new car if he promised to not burn a Quran. Car dealer Brad Benson made the offer in one of his dealership's quirky radio ads, which focus more on current events than cars. But he was surprised when a representative for Jones called to collect the 2011 Hyundai Accent, which retails for $14,200. "They said unless I was doing false advertising, they would like to arrange to pick up the car," Benson recalled. At first he thought it was a hoax, so Benson asked Jones to ...
Opinion: Suckered Again by the Viral Media Complex
By Matt Mendelsohn - AOL News(Sept. 23) -- P.T. Barnum once said "There's a sucker born every minute," though there's no specific evidence he was referring to the entire nation all at once. These days, I'm not so sure. October marks the one-year anniversary of Balloon Boy, the endearing rags-to-riches-to-rags saga of a kid and his big mouth. For an entire afternoon, the nation couldn't get enough of young Falcon and his wacky family. Couldn't get enough, that is, until about 12 hours later, when we all agreed never to utter the word "Heene" again. "We were used," we cried, indignant at the prospect of having been ...
Planning a Quran Burning Is Costly, Plus 5 Other Lessons Terry Jones Taught Us
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 21) -- America's favorite controversial, mustachioed pastor, Terry Jones, learned a hard lesson today: Quran burnings are expensive. And now that the hullabaloo over his planned sacrilegious bonfire has died down, it might be a good time to ask what other lessons he has taken from his experience. But since Jones has not been forthcoming about any lessons learned, we at Surge Desk would like to suggest a few items to consider before attempting to stage such an ill-advised event. 1. How much cheddar is this going to cost me? Quran burning is not free. Jones is looking at a bill for at ...
Should the Media Have Covered Pastor Whatshisname?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThis week on Politics Daily's online weekend show, "Woman UP," Alex Wagner, Bonnie Erbé, our special guest, Walter Shapiro, and I discuss coverage of the obscure preacher who effectively held the country hostage by threatening to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Should we have covered him? Was Obama wrong to weigh in, and was Defense Secretary Robert Gates right to give him a call? Click play below to watch the video: Click here to follow Melinda Henneberger on Twitter. ...
Protester Burns Pages of Koran at Proposed Ground Zero Mosque Site
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPastor Terry Jones may have decided against burning Korans, but that didn't stop a man from burning pages of a Koran today at a protest over the proposed Mosque near Ground Zero. As the New York Post reported: A hate-filled protester was escorted away from the Ground Zero mosque site this morning after tearing apart a Koran and burning some of the pages - an early sign that the rancor was ramping up as numerous protests were set to begin. The man, who refused to identify himself, walked up the corner of Murray and Church streets with a green Koran in his hands. Amid a crowd of protestors ...
Fox News, CNN Made Right Decision on Koran Coverage
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAfter Fox News announced it would not cover the burning of Korans, I started wondering whether or not other news networks would follow its lead (should the event actually take place). TV Newser asked several outlets about it, and received the following responses: ABC News says that it will have people there to cover the event, and afterward producers and executives will meet to decide what images to show on-air. A CBS News spokesperson says: "We will cover the story with the appropriate context, as we would any other news story" An NBC News spokesperson says: "Our policy is to cover news ...
Rush Limbaugh Never Let On He Went to School With Pastor Jones
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs you may have heard, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Terry Jones (you know, the Gainesville, Fla., pastor who threatened to burn Korans on 9/11) graduated from the same high school in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1969. On Friday, Pastor Jones was all over morning TV and continued to go back and forth on whether he would be burning any Korans on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Interestingly, Limbaugh referenced the Pastor Jones story on two recent occasions. But according to transcripts, he never disclosed their shared past. Instead, Limbaugh referred to him simply ...
Terry Jones Cancels Quran Burning Cancellation: So Wait, Is It Back On?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 9) To burn or not to burn, that is the question. On Tuesday, would-be Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones, leader of the decidedly non-mainstream Dove World Outreach Center christian church, said he would consider the vehement objections of numerous other high profile figures and pray before making his final decision on whether or not to proceed with the virulently anti-Muslim demonstration on this coming Saturday, Sept. 11. Then, on Thursday, it seemed as though the anti-Muslim bonfire was back on, prompting cautionary alerts from the U.S. State Department and Interpol about a ...
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