Below is a response from Ashly Banfield of MSNBC to an email that was sent to her commenting on her journalism.

mr kessler...
i must ask you to stop sending emails to this account .. or i will be forced to turn your material over to nbc security. i find your tone harassing and threatening...i WILL not be bullied into becoming ANYONE'S  mouthpiece in this crisis ..or any other.
fyi .. while you call the arabs murderers .. they also call you murderers ..and until you  BOTH can stop screaming and stabbing at each other .. NOTHING will be solved. in the meantime ..  STOP TAKING OUT YOUR HOSTILITIES ON ME. it will not be tolerated any lobger. i am very serious about this. you are risking legal action if

-----Original Message-----
From: kirk i. kessler [mailto:k.kessler@attbi.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:37 AM
To: Banfield, Ashleigh (NBC - MSNBC)
Subject: 4/17/02 show - OUTRAGE

You should be ashamed of yourself as a journalist for not asking your Arab panelists if indeed they seek the destruction of Israel as the PLO Charter emphasizes.

You reach millions of people each night, and yet you continue to let the virulent anti-Semitic remarks and diatribes go on unchallenged by your better journalistic judgement.

You could be both sympathetic to the Palestinian cause for Statehoood, while at the same time pointing out that the suicide bombings are IN NO WAY related to this cause.  This is soley the MURDER OF JEWS and it is glorified in many more horrible ways than it was under HITLER.

Why don't you investigate the culture of death and murder that Arafat hascreated over the last 10 years.

My question is, how will you feel about your work after a chemical weapons attack murders tens of thousands of Israelis in Tel Aviv?  Will your line of questioning change from trying to understand the murderer's motivations TO FINALLY PRESSING THESE MURDERS TO ANSWER THE OVER-RIDING QUESTION WHICH IS WHY DO THEY HAVE A GREATER LOVE FOR MURDERING JEWS THAN THEY DO FOR THEIR OWN CHILDREN'S LIVES?

I applaud last night's guest from the Israeli Embassy in D.C. to press you to ask some Palestinians why their is no dissent in condeming and MOVING TO STOP SUICIDE BOMBING.

Why don't you ask some tougher questions rather than sypathize so much withthese Arab murderers.

kirk kessler
chicago, IL

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