Yesterday, online, in the Los Angeles Times:
Kansas City evacuation, bomb scare has quite the backstory
By Matt Pearce
September 14, 2012, 5:10 p.m.
....Moharam popped back up on the radar in 2011 in an interview someone with his name gave to a Daily Kos blogger in Kansas City during a pro-revolutionary protest against Egypt's authoritarian regime.
Moharam railed against Al Qaeda and Hosni Mubarak's regime and praised the U.S. at length. "We have the best land, the best freedom in the world," he told Daily Kos, in broken English. "Why we don't tell these people copy from us?"....
Wait a minute. That was my interview, crossposted from
Show Me Progress.
A Daily Kos blogger? I don't think the Los Angeles Times quite understands how things work around these here parts.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Uh, it was a post by a registered user in the community. One of a couple hundred thousand individuals. They certainly didn't bother to ask me. If they had followed the provided link they would have found my name so they could ask me, along with a photo of the interviewee which would have probably confirmed his identity to them.
Previously:
Meta, Kansas City, a so-called bomb scare, and a media circus (September 14, 2012) [at Show Me Progress]
Kansas City protest for regime change in Egypt: "The world have eyes to see no justice." (February 6, 2011) [at Show Me Progress]
Kansas City protest for regime change in Egypt: "The world have eyes to see no justice." (February 6, 2011) [at Daily Kos]