Paris Mayor to Sue Fox News for ‘Insulting’ City

[mystery-ak]

http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/396757/paris-mayor-sue-fox-news-insulting-city-brendan-bordelon

Paris Mayor to Sue Fox News for ‘Insulting’ City
By Brendan Bordelon
January 20, 2015 1:43 PM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIOWQUY7W48

The mayor of Paris says she intends to sue the Fox News Channel for having “insulted” the city last week with its of “no-go zones” in the area.

Fox News hosts apologized over the weekend for repeating author Steve Emerson’s claim that many British and European cities had “no-go zones,” heavily Muslims neighborhoods where non-Muslim civilians and police wouldn’t dare to tread.

Paris was specifically singled out during a January 12 airing of Hannity. “In French, they have the very fancy title of ‘zones of urban sensitivity,’” Fox’s Greg Palkot reported,”and since the ’90s, there have been something like 750 nationwide.”

Palkot went on to describe a “first-hand experience” during a ride-along with a police officer in a Muslim-dominated Parisian neighborhood a few years previously. The officer turned around and drove out of the neighborhood after encountering a group of Muslim youths at the other end of the street, he said.

“I asked the commanding officer why,” Palkot said. “He said he couldn’t. I reminded him that he was a French police officer on French soil, and he was saying it was not possible to go forward. He acknowledged that difficult reality.”

Hannity afterward described these “zones of urban sensitivity” as “no-go zones” — words Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said “prejudiced” the image of her city.

“When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue, I think we’ll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed,” the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honor of Paris has been prejudiced.”

It’s unclear if the Parisian government has the legal standing to sue an American news network over purportedly inaccurate coverage. On January 11, Hidalgo joined the large march through the streets in Paris that aimed to support press freedom in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Fox News representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[sinkspur]

Is this a joke? 

The French have a way of destroying whatever goodwill you want to have toward them.  "Frogs" is an apt term.

[Relic]

Freedom of speech is a concept that is out of fashion in today's leftist dominated world.

[mountaineer]

Cheese-eating and highly sensitive surrender monkeys!

[Millee]

“When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue, I think we’ll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed,”

Have these words removed from where????   

[GourmetDan]

“When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue, I think we’ll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed,” the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “The image of Paris has been prejudiced, and the honor of Paris has been prejudiced.”

The leftists certainly know how to 'sue early, sue often'.

If conservatives don't learn that lesson, their freedoms will be lost in the courts...

[musiclady]

“When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll have to sue, I think we’ll have to go to court, in order to have these words removed,”

Have these words removed from where????   

Good catch, Millee.

Removed from the air?  Scrubbed from people's memories? Sent down a Pensieve, so that they can be retrieved at some point in the future??

What in heck does she mean????