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Barack Obama: Nasa must try to make Muslims 'feel good'
The head of the Nasa has said Barack Obama told him to make "reaching out to the Muslim world" one of the space agency's top priorities.
From a Nexis search a few moments ago:
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.
If you were to receive your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving the Obama administration redefining the space agency’s mission to feature outreach to Muslim countries, your response would be, “Huh? Among all the news these distinguished outlets have seen fit to cover in recent days, the NASA story has not made the cut.
Actually, there is one mention of the NASA controversy on the Washington Post website (not the newspaper itself). You can see it here. You might have to search a little for it: It’s deep in a blog item, in a section entitled “Cabinet and Staff News, and the entire text of it is this: “NASA Chief Charles Bolden says his new mission to improve relations with the Muslim world. It links to a report on FoxNews.com.
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ForumGarden News;1321316 wrote: Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.
If you were to receive your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving the Obama administration redefining the space agency’s mission to feature outreach to Muslim countries, your response would be, “Huh?” Among all the news these distinguished outlets have seen fit to cover in recent days, the NASA story has not made the cut.Just goes to show how selective some reporters are when they tailor a story out of nowhere, doesn't it. I can do better than that and it's not even my job.
CNN covered it before General Boden was even confirmed as Head of NASA. Here's a snippet...CNN, May 23, 2009 Saturday, NEWS; International
... on that conversation.Charles Bolden may not be a ...
... President Obama named Bolden as a head choice to head NASA. If the Senate approves, Bolden would become the first African- ...
... BRIG. GEN. CHARLES BOLDEN (RET.), U.S. MARINE ...
... make an outreach to the Muslim, to demonstrate that the United States is friendly to the Muslim world, but opposed to Muslim extremists and radicals. So, that ...
Various right-wing blatt-sheets tried to make an issue of it around mid-February but it didn't take off as a news story until he was interviewed on Al Jazeera saying the same thing. That suggests to me he doesn't say it very often.
Here's clippings from back then...Gates of Vienna, April 25, 2010 Sunday 5:27 PM EST, 990 words, Baron Bodissey
No disrespect is meant for General Charles Bolden. I know little about the man, but anyone who is a combat pilot, Marine General and astronaut deserves the utmost respect, a priori. Bolden may yet prove himself as a great NASA chief, if he manages to stand up to his boss in the White House and focus more on reaching the stars and less on reaching the Muslims. If anything, General Bolden is ill served by the Affirmative Action-on-steroids policy of the Obama Administration. The string of demented or at least incompetent actions and utterances by some key black and/or female Obama appointees casts a presumption of lack of genuine merit on any such new appointee who is a member of a preferred minority. Its unfair and may be deemed œracist, but its not nearly as unfair and racist as the monumental stupidity and great national disaster we call Affirmative Action. ...
Small Dead Animals, February 19, 2010 Friday 12:11 AM EST, 73 words, Kate
... No moon for you!NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President ...
... reach out to dominantly Muslim countries as the White House ...
Atlas Shrugs, February 17, 2010 Wednesday 9:18 AM EST, 662 words, Pamela Geller
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President ...
... reach out to dominantly Muslim countries as the White House ...
... traditional partners, said Bolden, speaking to a lecture ...
... out to Indonesia as the largest Muslim nation in the world. We would love to establish partners there, Bolden said.American leadership, ...
Gates of Vienna, February 17, 2010 Wednesday 11:41 PM EST, 24955 words, Baron Bodissey
... Obama Orders NASA to Work With Muslim Countries(Yes, NASA and No, This Isnt From The Onion)¦ ...
... space?¦.WASHINGTON ”NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President ...
... reach out to dominantly Muslim countries as the White House ...
... traditional partners, said Bolden, speaking to a lecture ...
Finally on Wednesday, the day of your cutting, bigger papers were indeed noting the furore...
The Daily Telegraph (London), July 7, 2010 Wednesday, NEWS; Pg. 14, 301 words, Toby Harnden
Mr Bolden told Al Jazeera, the ...
... network: "When I became the Nasa administrator, he charged me with three ...
... way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel ...
Investor's Business Daily, July 7, 2010 Wednesday, ISSUES & INSIGHTS; EDITORIALS; Pg. A12, 683 words
Priorities: NASA's chief says his mission is ...
... space but to help the Muslim world feel good ...
... biological and nuclear weapons, NASA administrator Charles Bolden goes on Al Jazeera to tell the Muslim world his "foremost" goal was to ...
... Station as an example, Bolden described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a ...
... Kumbaya."When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he (Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in an ...
The New York Post, July 7, 2010 Wednesday, All Editions; Pg. 12, 180 words, JENNIFER FERMINO
A former head of NASA yesterday blasted the space ...
... new goal of making Muslim countries feel good ...
"NASA was chartered by the 1958 ...
... San Francisco Examiner. "That's what NASA does for the country. It is a perversion of NASA's purpose to conduct activities in order to make the Muslim world feel good ...
... contributions to science and mathematics." NASA's current administrator, Charles Bolden, recently said that President ...
... mission was to "to reach out to the Muslim world." The space agency ...
... clarifying its mission, saying, "NASA's core mission is exploration . . . ...
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.
If you were to receive your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving the Obama administration redefining the space agency’s mission to feature outreach to Muslim countries, your response would be, “Huh?” Among all the news these distinguished outlets have seen fit to cover in recent days, the NASA story has not made the cut.Just goes to show how selective some reporters are when they tailor a story out of nowhere, doesn't it. I can do better than that and it's not even my job.
CNN covered it before General Boden was even confirmed as Head of NASA. Here's a snippet...CNN, May 23, 2009 Saturday, NEWS; International
... on that conversation.Charles Bolden may not be a ...
... President Obama named Bolden as a head choice to head NASA. If the Senate approves, Bolden would become the first African- ...
... BRIG. GEN. CHARLES BOLDEN (RET.), U.S. MARINE ...
... make an outreach to the Muslim, to demonstrate that the United States is friendly to the Muslim world, but opposed to Muslim extremists and radicals. So, that ...
Various right-wing blatt-sheets tried to make an issue of it around mid-February but it didn't take off as a news story until he was interviewed on Al Jazeera saying the same thing. That suggests to me he doesn't say it very often.
Here's clippings from back then...Gates of Vienna, April 25, 2010 Sunday 5:27 PM EST, 990 words, Baron Bodissey
No disrespect is meant for General Charles Bolden. I know little about the man, but anyone who is a combat pilot, Marine General and astronaut deserves the utmost respect, a priori. Bolden may yet prove himself as a great NASA chief, if he manages to stand up to his boss in the White House and focus more on reaching the stars and less on reaching the Muslims. If anything, General Bolden is ill served by the Affirmative Action-on-steroids policy of the Obama Administration. The string of demented or at least incompetent actions and utterances by some key black and/or female Obama appointees casts a presumption of lack of genuine merit on any such new appointee who is a member of a preferred minority. Its unfair and may be deemed œracist, but its not nearly as unfair and racist as the monumental stupidity and great national disaster we call Affirmative Action. ...
Small Dead Animals, February 19, 2010 Friday 12:11 AM EST, 73 words, Kate
... No moon for you!NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President ...
... reach out to dominantly Muslim countries as the White House ...
Atlas Shrugs, February 17, 2010 Wednesday 9:18 AM EST, 662 words, Pamela Geller
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President ...
... reach out to dominantly Muslim countries as the White House ...
... traditional partners, said Bolden, speaking to a lecture ...
... out to Indonesia as the largest Muslim nation in the world. We would love to establish partners there, Bolden said.American leadership, ...
Gates of Vienna, February 17, 2010 Wednesday 11:41 PM EST, 24955 words, Baron Bodissey
... Obama Orders NASA to Work With Muslim Countries(Yes, NASA and No, This Isnt From The Onion)¦ ...
... space?¦.WASHINGTON ”NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President ...
... reach out to dominantly Muslim countries as the White House ...
... traditional partners, said Bolden, speaking to a lecture ...
Finally on Wednesday, the day of your cutting, bigger papers were indeed noting the furore...
The Daily Telegraph (London), July 7, 2010 Wednesday, NEWS; Pg. 14, 301 words, Toby Harnden
Mr Bolden told Al Jazeera, the ...
... network: "When I became the Nasa administrator, he charged me with three ...
... way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel ...
Investor's Business Daily, July 7, 2010 Wednesday, ISSUES & INSIGHTS; EDITORIALS; Pg. A12, 683 words
Priorities: NASA's chief says his mission is ...
... space but to help the Muslim world feel good ...
... biological and nuclear weapons, NASA administrator Charles Bolden goes on Al Jazeera to tell the Muslim world his "foremost" goal was to ...
... Station as an example, Bolden described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a ...
... Kumbaya."When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he (Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in an ...
The New York Post, July 7, 2010 Wednesday, All Editions; Pg. 12, 180 words, JENNIFER FERMINO
A former head of NASA yesterday blasted the space ...
... new goal of making Muslim countries feel good ...
"NASA was chartered by the 1958 ...
... San Francisco Examiner. "That's what NASA does for the country. It is a perversion of NASA's purpose to conduct activities in order to make the Muslim world feel good ...
... contributions to science and mathematics." NASA's current administrator, Charles Bolden, recently said that President ...
... mission was to "to reach out to the Muslim world." The space agency ...
... clarifying its mission, saying, "NASA's core mission is exploration . . . ...
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