Marathon bombing survivor leaves NBC set in tears; calls Meet the Press ‘cowardice, dishonorable’

A survivor of last year’s Boston Marathon bombing left an NBC studio in tears moments before taping on Friday, saying the network reneged on a promise not to mention the bombers’ names.

Adrianne Haslet-Davis, a dancer who lost part of a leg in the terrorist incident, was invited to a Meet the Press panel discussion. But she had two stipulations: that she be referred to as a survivor and not a victim, and that the names of bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev not be mentioned, according to the Washington Times.

Under the impression that NBC had agreed to both requests, Haslet-Davis said she was shocked when staffers told her just before airtime that there was no guarantee the Chechneyan brothers would not be mentioned by name, and she abruptly left the studio in tears, the Times reported.

“Your decision to back out on the promise that you made and the horrific way you brought that decision to my attention just minutes prior to taping was not only a cowardice move but a dishonorable one as well,” Haslet-Davis wrote on her website. “To say that I am hurt is an understatement, for you not only disrespected me, you disrespected the survivors of the bombing and the victims memories by blatantly disregarding this request and putting the value of a terrorist’s name, who put a city in turmoil and caused irrevocable damage physically and emotionally to people of this city, over Boston’s integrity, fortitude, and my personal well being.”

NBC released a statement Friday saying network officials “regret any distress caused by this miscommunication,” , but added that “given the nature of the discussion, we couldn’t make that guarantee,” The Blaze reported.

Meet the Press host David Gregory also tweeted an apology to Haslet-Davis, but the outpouring of tweets following the incident have been solidly in support of the dancer.

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  • http://vato21stcentury.blogspot.com/ Jim S.

    Yup, the now long time conservative ideology of ‘Meet the Press used drove her off and rightfully so, known as the bush compassionate conservatism!!

    • Nice Ride

      Blame it on Bush. LOL You’re a retard!

      • Quindar

        The liberals on Meet the Depressed are once again shown for the cowards and ingrates they are.

        • SecludedCompound

          Seriously? David Gregory toes the line for conservatives all of the time, and the right/left balance on the show is weighted about 5:3 in favor of conservatives.

          You people are just amazingly stupid.

          • Wodanaz

            Why does everything with you people have to be labeled “left/right” “liberal/conservative”. . . etc.? How about “true/false” “liar/honest”… etc.?

          • Mike Harris

            Maybe if you are so far to the left that you can’t see the center, this makes sense, but otherwise, it’s delusional.

      • jbizzle

        and a assbandit!!!

      • http://gravatar.com/hummingharpman hummingharpman

        “Retard” is being way too charitable for such a fool!

        • mogul264

          How about imbecile and buffoon? OOPS, sorry, didn’t mean to dishonor imbeciles and buffoons! How about whale sh*t! It is the LOWEST, at the bottom of the ocean!

      • JP cline

        Now Now , We are Calm respectful Conservatives and this isn’t a free for all here. Just because Liberals are nasty little inbred quasi turds doesn’t mean we have the right to fly off and start calling them by all three of their names or act hateful towards them like they always do towards us. let’s get it right People, The Poor Liberal Jim S. is merely Intellectually Challenged in PC terms, and the fact that he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about here, or that he is Dawg ugly with a face that looks like someone used a rake on him once a week for the last ten years, is only by coincidence …..;)

        • Abagail Spencer

          You’re being too nice!!!

        • P2nya

          JP cline, thank you for calming me down! I am laughing so hard at your kind description of the liberal liar above, that I can’t even begin to write him anything. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

        • Pamela Perry Smith

          Lol nicely put.

        • SecludedCompound

          Nah, you’re really pretty much the human trash everyone knows you to be, and as soon as your Boomer asses age out, we’re going t undo everything you’ve undone since 1980.

          What a bunch of pathetic old bigots.

        • pen44

          Thank you, JP!!! VERY well said….and VERY true!!!

      • floramae

        Oh, is more than a retard, it’s just alinksy moron.

    • Laura Sharpton Cummings

      Meet The Press is anything but conservative. They have a liberal agenda as long as my arm, and you should know that by now. Stop blaming Bush for all the problems of the world.

    • Shawn Cass

      you are an idiot meet the press has never been conservative. you are blaming others for your own faults. typical democrat scum.

    • Cheryl Buehrle

      jIM ,I AM SORRY FOR YOUR IGNORANCE

      • jumara

        don’t be sorry for jim,he loves being an idiot.

        • Rene Thompson

          All liberals are willfully stupid.

          • Hoppyman50

            I hate to say it but, yes they are. What a shame living with ones head in ones arse! Breathing must be compromised, might explain the irrational thoughts and delusional tendencies.

          • pen44

            Never thought about it that way, Hoppyman50, but it does make perfect sense!!

          • Hoppyman50

            Glad I could help, oxygen is needed for a healthy brain. I’m not a doctor but I play one on tv…lol

          • SecludedCompound

            Huh, in my experience, conservatives don’t know much, and they’re very outspoken about it. Seems like just about every study done on political ideology and intelligence supports this.

            Sorry guys. The reason we’re winning? nobody that wasn’t born in the pre-information era is stupid enough to get duped into the things you have been.

          • Michael Allgire

            You’re dumber than a telephone post.

          • Hoppyman50

            It’s more of a mental disease, it’s purely delusional.

      • psychosally

        he gets paid to write anything as long as it is anti-conservative,lol-dont have to be true

      • SecludedCompound

        Says the person who doesn’t know how to use a Caps Lock, and the 48 people who agree with him. Average IQ? about 85?

        Age out, olds.

        • JP cline

          I’m not nearly as pissed off as you are libtard, you feel pussed on because you think what is being said here is…sloos on! of world importance….well it don’t make a hill of beans…niw puss off kid, yo mama’s calli you to pull up your drawers and climb up out of the basement….Slops on!

    • Moejj

      wow, you’re real special kinda’ stupid aren’t you? no need to agree, your post says it all. smh. CNN is conservative too, isn’t it. LOL

      • Mary Beth Washburn

        Fox news is a liberal outlet in opposite world.

    • Ivan

      I guess if you are a radical Communist the merely socialist leaning M.T.P. might seem somewhat conservative. I’ll give them credit for being impartial when they do a show on Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Tony Rezco, Obama’s missing college records, his homosexuality, his forged birth certificate, the extensive voter fraud in 2008 and 2012, and his militant atheism, hostility to Christians/Jews, and sympathy to Muslims.

      • Josiah Peterson

        I would actually start watching news again if they were impartial and honest like journalists are supposed to be.

      • P2nya

        Thank you, Ivan!

    • Allen Wingfield

      Will democrats be saying ignorant stuff like this in 100 years. Its old, its untrue and it makes the left look stupid.

      • Estella Bunny Howe

        That’s because they are stupid. They do not care. Why? Because they don’t have to. No matter what they say or do the liberal media will give them a pass, even for murder.

      • Meredith Hankins

        the democRATs are the reason we’re in the PITS. Even in Nevada Obama’s BLM is destroying America

      • Anthony

        The left is stupid though…

      • Today22011

        Absolutely. Those tired “Bush did it” statements are stupid. This administration has its own stupidity hanging out there.

      • Jharvey

        There won’t be any democrats in 100 years. There will either be right thinking citizens who put liberty above politics or there will be a totalitarian government that will have executed all the useful idiots 30 years prior.

    • Charles Griffo Jr

      Have another drink of kool-aid Jim

      • Grayson

        Hey….I like Kool-aid.

        • Denise Bowen

          A guilty pleasure.

    • Braveheart

      Meet the Press hasn’t had a conservative since the 50′s.

      • Today22011

        What is wrong with MTP and those other main stream outlets that their journalism is dispised.

    • Linda Powers

      You’re not serious, Jim S? Have you actually watched Meet the Press? Conservative? So many things I’m leaving out here . . .

    • Ken Reid

      Jim, it never seems to fail that your ilk crave attention, no matter how negative it may be! Your world view is as dim as you are!

    • cumiadom

      You’re right to see what nobody else has. The same way your mother is not at fault of giving birth to such an idiot. The guilty party was the midwife who didn’t insert a coat hanger to get the fetus.

      • Denise Bowen

        That was wrong and disgusting.

        • cumiadom

          Who? Jim S or the midwife who tended to his mother?

    • Anthony Burkes

      Folks, ignore this idiot who calls himself Jim S. It is most likely a Troll sent here (and paid by) NBC and others to attack and identify Conservatives. This isn’t a new tactic either, Want to know who your enemy is, attack one of them and see who helps him. This person is the lowest form of Fecal Matter on the Planet and isn’t worth your time or your ire. God Bless America, and destroy her enemies both Great and (like this Jim S. Parasite) SMALL!!!

    • Anthony

      Why do you keep talking? To show your lack of knowledge? Meet the Press is a liberal show, run by a liberal, on a liberal “news” network. How exactly are conservatives to blame for liberals being worthless?

    • highlatte

      Are you mentally unbalanced? If Meet the Press is conservative then then our president is 100% Swedish. Bush was compassionate , moron.

    • Rose Rasey Bullock Buss

      You, sir, are an A**Hole! And I suspect you only rise that level on your best days. What fricking fairy tale do you live in where Meet The Press or any part of NBC could be considered conservative?

    • Kami Toland

      Jim you’re an idiot! Meet the Press is as liberal as they get! Wake up moron!

    • jumara

      you sound as bad as your picture looks

    • yoyomo

      Not the best sentence you have ever thunk up, I bet.

    • Jimbo Velasquez

      When are you LIBTARDS going to stop blaming Bush for everything that goes wrong.Ya’ll are really stupid.

      • Today22011

        They can’t stop the “Bush did it” because then there follows a need for this administrations short-comings.

    • Carol

      REALLY REALLY BUSH? moron

    • Mark Javorka

      Jim S.Your an ass-hat…
      That’s Progressive liberal Empathy for the Victim being shown by Jim S.

    • Richard Schiehl

      What an ass Jim! A wanna be liberal blogger with nearly 4,000 hate filled posts and only 2 followers (both your mom under cover names).

    • Chris Brennan

      Would you care to make another attempt at a coherent presentation of a thought,you boob?

    • Tom Jones

      ass hole, all liberals use Bush as act 1 in replies when something goes wrong. Own up to your own shortcomings, for they are bringing the world to it’s knees. David Gregory, may you rot in hell!!

    • goprenzlergo

      Jim S. — Are you NUTS ???? If your “guy” did his job instead of “jet-setting” all over the country telling everyone how BAD America is… maybe this could have been prevented. Terrorists are welcomed into our country now due to Hussein’s policies… Get off this site you troll.

    • silvercliff_46

      You must be drunk, or an idiot. Both? By the way douche bag were you on Kerry’s swift boat. I’m a Navy vet of the Nam era, and if your not lying about it, you make me ashamed.

    • tonyta

      Jim how long did it take to get as stupid as you sound? Just like all libs. blame it on someone else instead of putting the blame where it belongs. Go back to your kool aid and get your lips off of Obozo and his thugs.

    • Marilyn Zeman

      Meet the press has been left leaning since Tim Russert died. You are so ignorant.

    • http://www.eatmyfartsIslam.com billwhit1357

      Your nothing but an Obama Buttboy!

    • redpatriotmom

      since when has NBC done or reported in a conservative view point… they are all socialists

    • davemundy

      Meet the Press “conservative?”
      You’re a very special kind of stupid, aren’t you?

    • psychosally

      roflmao-youre such an idiot-we all laugh at your bullshit comments-I guess they pay you just to write something and it doesnt have to make sense or be truthful-but what the hell youre making a living at it right-I mean with your food stamps,section 8 housing and SSI you’re doing ok for yourself

    • MouseTalk

      Are you serious Jim S? Meet the Press is known for it’s liberal views, along with NBC’s! How about sticking to being a veteran advocate and activist–like in community? You are out of your league on this subject!!!

    • Lc Goodfellow

      JS, With all the self-centered-small-minded-Bad-people in the world, maybe it is really time for the Oceans to rise and the rains to start and the Flood to cover over all ?

      Ah, a new beginning. How long can you tread water ?

    • Don’t Even Try It!

      You are an idiot that is stuck in “Perpetually Bash Bush” mode! Grow Up!

    • soljerblue

      Jim, you are so full of crap, you’re a walking porta potty!

    • Jerry

      What are you talking about?

    • Chuck Sullivan

      Really? Really? When will you morons stop blaming Bush? Do we have to wait til the next millenium? SMH

    • antiliberalcryptonite

      366 Down-Votes. However, liberal controlled Disqus will NOT tell you that.

    • Timmy Wilburn

      you are a idiot. It is the liberal that are the ones that have gave in to the muslim terrorist , the gay agenda and illegals and kiss their butts. you need to stop drinking the Obama socialist kool aid and wake up and see the truth about the liberal socialist agenda that is being forced upon americans today.

    • http://facebook.com/stevewest68 Steve West

      Jim S you watch too many of Obama ran media,,,This reporter had enough of the WH Phone calls on what to report and what not too,,, Many more I hope will follow,,Sharyl Attkisson vs. CBS: Reporter first tried to quit a year ago,,,,…..http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/13/sharyl-attkisson-vs-cbs-reporter-first-tried-to-quit-year-ago/

    • http://facebook.com/stevewest68 Steve West

      Jim S here’s your liberal media that cant report the truth,,While media reports have focused on Attkisson’s investigations of the Obama administration, those familiar with the situation say she was stymied in getting airtime for stories beyond politics, including corporate scandals and a wide range of other subjects.The departure underscores the gulf that developed between the CBS brass and the White House, This reporter who has doggedly pursued a variety of stories, including such Obama administration debacles as Benghazi and the botched Fast and Furious investigation into gun-running.

  • Jeff Roland

    Sounds about right for NBC or any of the liberal media

  • Laura Sharpton Cummings

    I’m not a bit surprised by this. And NBC is wrong to say they couldn’t make that promise to her or keep it, either. They very well CAN and chose not to do so, which makes the cowardly and dishonorable, as Ms Haslett-Davis so aptly put it. They owe her more than an apology.

    • Cheryl Buehrle

      NBC HOME FOR THE TERRORISTS OF OUR COUNTRY. THEY SHOULD BE PROUD. YOUNG LADY SHOULD GO TO FOX ,MEGAN KELLY REFUSES TO USE ANY PERPETRATORS NAME ON HER SHOW.

  • Shawn Cass

    when the media has more respect for terrorists then for the American people it is proof that there is no honest news I this country

  • Ivan

    They are on tape delay and can bleep out F bombs, they could have easily avoided giving the terrorists the publicity they desired by bleeping out their names.

    • Unsooper

      This is also a very common tactic used by media and even “talk shows”. Minutes before the guest is to appear a new “contract” or “agreement” is suddenly shoved in front of their faces that has completely new terms. The producers always figure the “talent” will sign or verbally agree rather than walk at the last minute.

      • Marilyn Huston

        It’s an Islamic tactic.

  • Mamatex

    Just another reason to not watch NBC!

  • JudinNH

    Of course NBC could have controlled the content of their discussion. Absolutely.

    • yoyomo

      The make sure to avoid subjects like IRS and Benghazi with no problem.

  • Pete Roberto

    and that’s why NBC never shows up in my home 7 TV’s and no CBS, No ABC, no NBC, no MSNBC until they really cover the news

  • Goeasy0

    I can understand the dilemma the NBC would have because of it being a panel format and not being to control all of the panel members. They should have figured it out from the beginning and not made the promise.

  • Jim Bills

    Meet the depressed Is a left wing rag show of great Insignificance