Monday, June 1, 2009
Crazy Crap / Hargrove Dept. of Hilarious Headlines: 'Hotel cancels jihad conference, citing safety
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM
The hotel's managing director, Tom Negri, made a decision based on sound business and public safety to cancel the Islamophobic symposium sponsored by the New English Review. The event's proponents and organizers then began carping about free speech (despite the fact that the Loews is a private business and can, as such, do pretty much whatever it wants).
I broach the subject again because the Knoxville News Sentinel ran a wire story with a hilarious and unfortunately oblique headline on its website today about the clusterfluff: 'Hotel cancels jihad conference, citing safety.' Reading only the headline, I might reasonably assume terrorists were holding a trade conference in Music City.
Perhaps bin Laden's deputy, Al-Zawahiri, will deliver the keynote speech. Afterward, conferees can peruse the vendor stands: The latest in improvised explosive device detonators. Disposable cell phones. Shiny new AKs. New, sheer suicide bomber vests with demonstrations by Islamic Fundamentalism's scarier, angrier and turbaned version of Billy Mays.
This evening's entertainment: Chai boys and a public execution by the Taliban.
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"The hotel's managing director, Tom Negri, made a decision based on sound business and public safety to cancel the Islamophobic symposium sponsored by the New English Review."
Really.
Then why did he book it in the first place?
He knew full well what the convention was about when he booked it.
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Now Brantley, let's not get carried away extending gratuitousness to Leow's management. Consideration for Public safety never had anything to do with Leow's decision making apart from fear their goodwill in the market place might suffer. It's cover your ass time now.
Likewise, I suspect the symposium got booked without thought considering what it was about. The money was green. Let's go boys and girls. Got a live one here.
Then: Woops. Shit. Guess we better get the hell away from that!
