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Media: Who'd have thought that just before we celebrated America's birthday, and just after President Bush asked for support, we'd hear that the founders were terrorists and Bush ought to be impeached?

Iranian President-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad might be a terrorist. Five former hostages are convinced he's one of the Iranian students who took U.S. citizens hostage in 1979. For now, though, the media are not calling him a terrorist.

Which is OK, because the allegation has not been proved.

Too bad George Washington and Thomas Jefferson can't get the same deference. At least "several" in the mainstream press believe those two were terrorists.

"What would it all matter if (the hostages' claims were) proven true?" NBC News anchor Brian Williams asked reporter Andrea Mitchell on the air Thursday night. "Someone brought up today the first several U.S. presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called "terrorists' by the British crown, after all."

The "someone" Williams referred to, according to his own MSNBC blog, is himself and others -- "several of us," in his words -- who were in an afternoon network editorial ...

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