Ann Curry dons head scarf to interview Iranian president

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Ann Curry dons head scarf to interview Iranian president. Odd how deferential the media gets when they’re working with Muslims. Maybe Ann was afraid the old coot would be overcome with lust if he caught a glimpse of her hair.

This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

J.P. Travis: Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1976 graduate of University of Michigan, father, grandfather, husband, founder and CEO of Travelyn Publishing (http://www.travelynpublishing.com/), and passionate anti-government believer in individual liberty.

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    • Even in Saudi Arabia foreign women are not required to wear headscarves. I'm not sure there is a country that requires foreign women to wear headscarves. Maybe Iran does technically but they generally don't enforce the rule against foreign women and local women stretch the rules to the limit: http://touriran.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/chador.jpg (As you can see the headscarves are so far back they might as well not be there. Certainly less covering than Ann Curry decided to wear.)

      • So- she's basically playing to the local ignorance about foreign customs... that is she's pandering to the libs by appearing to pander to the Iranians?

        • Who knows what goes through a liberal's mind? Maybe she thought she would appear considerate and sophisticated instead of pandering and cowardly. If so, she thought wrong.

          • Why is she looking him in the eye? That goes against custom in strict Muslim settings. The whole thing is a perfect example of how liberals view the world and insist on being the center of attention whether the reason is valid or not.

    • Hey pojo, kick, fdh, clue on my crossword this a.m. "city nicknamed The Big Guava", yup, Tampa. Is there a story to that or is just one of those things?

      • Goes back to the early days when there was a rumor up North that Tampa had lots of guava trees. Eventually the city became a cigar center as result of the false rumor attracting a lot of business leaders including Ybor (cigars) and Henry Plant (railroad). The guava thing stuck. There is even an annual ball called Guavaween.

        • So your story is that RUMORS of GUAVA trees attracted "lots of business leaders" from up north.

          Nice try, Paul Bunyan. Next!

          • No idea. But without the guava tree rumor Tampa never would have become a cigar center, which was how it got on the map.

          • So the guava trees attracted cigar makers... I don't get it. Do people like to smoke cigars under guava trees?

          • You're killing me. You could have done this yourself:
            From Wiki, In 1884, Gavino Gutierrez, a Spanish-American civil engineer by training who was working for a tropical fruit packing firm in New York, heard a rumor that wild guava trees were common near in the Tampa Bay area on the west coast of Florida. Thinking that the fruit could be gathered and serve as a new product source for his company, Gutierrez traveled to the area himself to search for the trees.
            The rumor turned out to be false. However, Gutierrez was nevertheless impressed by the economic potential of the village of Tampa (pop. about 1000), especially since Henry B. Plant was in the process of connecting the previously isolated town to the nation's railroad network.
            Gutierrez returned to New York by sea, stopping along the way to visit his friend Vicente Martinez-Ybor, a major cigar manufacturer in Key West. Ybor had been looking for a place to move his operations, and Gutierrez recommended Tampa as a possibility. Ybor immediately visited the area and agreed with Gutierrez's assessment.
            Within a year, Ybor and his partners purchased a large tract of land just northeast of Tampa for a company town to be called Ybor City. Gutierrez accepted Ybor's offer to be his company's civil engineer, and he planned and laid out the streets where thousands of immigrants would soon live and work, a community that has been initiated by his recommendation. By the turn of the 20th Century, the sleepy village of Tampa had become one of Florida's largest cities and the "Cigar Capital of the World".
            As Otto wrote when he introduced the nickname, "we owe it all to the guava".

          • Oh, and Ybor is pronounced like eebor. Just in case you visit and don't want to sound like a tourist.

            We also have a very rich mob tradition here. A very eclectic place.

          • Maybe... but after Mr. Carrier invented air conditioning, look at the price of that swampland now. If you can find any.

            Thanks Kick, no joke it was on the crossword, gave me fits til I got it sideways and then had to ask.

  • Next time she interviews a known and devout Christian, I'll bet she wears a short skit and pulls the Sharon Stone trick from "Basic Instinct."

  • I think she's just getting familiar and comfortable with the hijab she'll be wearing for the rest of her life. I don't think she understands she'll be wearing it under her burka.

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