NBC’s Day With ‘Najad: No Tough Questions

Ann Curry of NBC's Today Show spent 24 fawning hours with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Clearly, this hardball moment was the highlight…

By September 13, 2011

Ann Curry of NBC’s Today Show spent 24 fawning hours with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Clearly, this hardball moment was the highlight of Curry’s day:

“What is the future you wish for Iran? Why?”

“I want the same future as I want for every nation of the world, peace, friendship, happiness and unity.”

‘Najad left out his well wishes for the Zionist entity’s destruction. The only tough question left to ask is which PR firm working for Iran brought this about? Ahmadinejad’s friendly neighborhood autocrat, Bashar Assad, had remarkable success with Brown Lloyd James setting up that Vogue puff piece earlier this year.

Good thing Curry’s 24 hours didn’t overlap with William Hague’s speech accusing Iran of “breathtaking hypocrisy” for supporting the Arab Spring while crushing Iranian dissent and supporting the Syrian crackdown. Could’ve ruined Curry’s feel-good mood.

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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