Two Days Later, NBC Finally Mentions Kerry Seeing ‘Rationale’ Behind Charlie Hebdo Attack

Kyle Drennen | November 19, 2015
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On Thursday, nearly 48 hours after Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that there was a “legitimacy” or a “rationale” behind the January terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, NBC’s Today finally noticed the highly controversial remarks. ABC and CBS continued to ignore Kerry’s offensive comments.

During a full report on the political debate over allowing thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. in the wake of the latest Paris terror attacks, correspondent Peter Alexander devoted a mere 33 seconds to Kerry’s widely-criticized gaffe: “Also under fire, Secretary of State John Kerry, after contrasting last week's attack to the Charlie Hebdo massacre months earlier, seeming to suggest a rationale for terrorists targeting the satirical magazine that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.”

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