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REP. STEVE COHEN TOSSES ARMENIAN-AMERICAN CAMERAMAN FROM HOME
FOXNews
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08 /07/rep-steve-cohen-tosses-armenian-american-camer aman-from-home/
Aug 7 2008
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., angrily tossed an California-based
documentary filmmaker from his Memphis home, and now is accused of
assault in the incident.
MyFOXMemphis.com reports that Cohen was holding a news conference
in his home on Wednesday when Peter Musurlian, the filmmaker, tried
to enter his home. Cohen told reporters that Musurlian was part of a
group trying to paint Cohen a bad light over a vote regarding Turkey's
treatment of Armenians during World War I: Cohen did not support a
House bill calling Armenian deaths genocide.
The Web site for Musurlian's company, Globalist
Films,(http://www.globalistfilms.com/pet er.html) discusses Musurlian's
Armenian-American heritage, and blames Turkey for the "first Genocide
of the 29th Century."
Cohen, can be seen in the TV footage first telling Musurlian to leave,
and then shoving him out the door. Musurlian reportedly filed charges
against Cohen.
Cohen faces Nikki Tinker in the Democratic primary Thursday. Cohen
accuses Tinker of being supported by out-of-state Armenians in her bid
to unseat Cohen, a freshman. And Tinker, who is black, has released
ads questioning Cohen's religious beliefs, and leveled accusations
of sympathy for the Ku Klux Klan, which Cohen, who is Jewish, denies.
FOXNews
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08 /07/rep-steve-cohen-tosses-armenian-american-camer aman-from-home/
Aug 7 2008
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., angrily tossed an California-based
documentary filmmaker from his Memphis home, and now is accused of
assault in the incident.
MyFOXMemphis.com reports that Cohen was holding a news conference
in his home on Wednesday when Peter Musurlian, the filmmaker, tried
to enter his home. Cohen told reporters that Musurlian was part of a
group trying to paint Cohen a bad light over a vote regarding Turkey's
treatment of Armenians during World War I: Cohen did not support a
House bill calling Armenian deaths genocide.
The Web site for Musurlian's company, Globalist
Films,(http://www.globalistfilms.com/pet er.html) discusses Musurlian's
Armenian-American heritage, and blames Turkey for the "first Genocide
of the 29th Century."
Cohen, can be seen in the TV footage first telling Musurlian to leave,
and then shoving him out the door. Musurlian reportedly filed charges
against Cohen.
Cohen faces Nikki Tinker in the Democratic primary Thursday. Cohen
accuses Tinker of being supported by out-of-state Armenians in her bid
to unseat Cohen, a freshman. And Tinker, who is black, has released
ads questioning Cohen's religious beliefs, and leveled accusations
of sympathy for the Ku Klux Klan, which Cohen, who is Jewish, denies.