While discussing the film “American Sniper” on “Morning Joe” this morning, NBC News foreign correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin, who was accused of anti-Israel reporting for NBC News during last summer’s Israel-Gaza war, said that the real-life Chris Kyle harbored racist views of Iraqis and worse, that he went on “killing sprees” during his multiple tours of duty:
https://twitter.com/4_God_Country/status/560793774071099393
@AymanM says he had fun on @ MSNBC with @Morning_Joe bashing #ChrisKyle w killing sprees & racist remarks I say he is #coward CK is dead!
— Sonja Harris (@SonjaHHarris) January 29, 2015
@AymanM "Killing Spree"? Are you putting Soldiers in the same category as deranged gunmen and murderers ? @Morning_Joe @JoeNBC @WillieGeist
— Jim Gill (@jimmygill) January 29, 2015
.@AymanM Great Job tearing Chris Kyle down calling him a racist while going on his "shooting spree". Great journalism and integrity pal.
— Rack daddy (@LonghornHomer) January 29, 2015
Unbelievable.
Flashback to last summer and his coverage from Gaza:
NBC reporter (same 1 that blamed Hamas rocket attack on Israel) now baselessly accusing IDF of killing journalists: https://t.co/9nVVrA72AB
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) August 6, 2014
How many times will this "reporter" falsely smear Israel before @NBCNews does something? https://t.co/s2iTBume1i
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) August 6, 2014
Like promote him? RT @AG_Conservative: How many times will this "reporter" falsely smear Israel before @NBCNews does something?
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) August 6, 2014
Is appearing on “Morning Joe” a promotion?
Video and transcript via Newsbusters:
Transcript:
AYMAN MOHYELDIN: It is a very compelling, very thought-provoking, very emotional movie.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: B-u-u-u-u-t?
MOHYELDIN: When you juxtapose it with the real Chris Kyle and what has emerged about what kind of personality he was, in his own words —
WILLIE GEIST: You’re talking about the stories when he was back home in Texas which may have not been true? Is that what you’re talking about?
MOHYELDIN: A lot of his stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues —
SCARBOROUGH: Wait, wait. Killing sprees? Chris Kyle was going on killing sprees?
MOHYELDIN: When he was involved in his — on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.
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GEIST: It wasn’t a commentary about the war. It wasn’t about the politics of the war. It was a character study of what this guy went through. And you don’t have to like him and all the comments about him calling Iraqis savages. He was calling the people he was shooting savages. He was calling people who he thought had IEDs, who he thought were going to kill his buddies savages. He didn’t — some people have seized on that term that he thought all Iraqis or everyone in the Middle East is a savage. That’s just not what he said. It’s not what he said. He was talking about the people he was fighting in the theater, calling them savages.
SCARBOROUGH: All right, when we come back, Ayman is going to kick around Santa Claus.
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