Allen: "What gain do we get from killing innocent people in the Middle East? What gain does that get us?"

Now Bennish tries to make the case that when Bush says he is going to hunt down Al-Qaeda, he knows he is going to kill other people too. Allen responds to the teacher by asking:

"He stated he’s trying to kill innocents?"

This leads Bennish to the claim that, in the minds of Al-Qaeda, they were not attacking innocent people. The Pentagon, White House and World Trade Center were legitimate military targets. On tape, you can hear the student ask his teacher one final question:

"But we were the ones that were attacked first. On September 11, 2001 we were the ones that were attacked. We were not attacking anybody until that point. Then we said, okay, we’re going to go into Afghanistan, okay the Iraqi government has ties with Al-Qaeda, we’re going to go into Iraq. We were the ones that were attacked."

Now Bennish reminds his class that we attacked them before they attacked us. He says, "And so this whole idea of who attacked who first, how far back in time do you want to go?"

In the course of this exchange, Bennish attempts to justify Hamas attacking Israel by going back in time, then, he hypocritically goes back in time to suggest that September 11th wasn’t the starting point of our War on Terror. Bennish implies President Bush is killing innocent people and he states that Al-Qaeda is not killing innocent people. Incredible.

Matt Lauer needs to defend publicly his accusation that Sean Allen’s questions set up the teacher. While he is at it, he should explain why none of Bennish’s comments in the "set up" portion of the tape were used by the Today Show. Most of Lauer’s audience will never know the gist of what Bennish is "teaching" his students.

The mainstream media positioned this story as a teacher who was disciplined, because, after listening to the president’s State of the Union speech, he said Bush sounds a lot like Hitler. Unfortunately, the mainstream media failed to report the fact that on February 1st, while addressing his high school geography class, Jay Bennish sounded a lot like Osama Bin Laden.