Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government by Brady Knox
The man who was supposed to interview novelist Salman Rushdie before he was attacked onstage in New York on Friday is speaking out about how shocking the ambush was to him.
Henry Reese, co-founder of City of Asylum, a nonprofit group based in Pittsburgh that houses writers exiled for controversial writings, sat down for an interview with CNN host Brian Stelter. While Rushdie was grievously wounded — he appears to be on his way to recovery — Reese received a minor injury and is seen in the interview with a swollen eye and a patch on his face.
“It was very difficult to understand, it looked like a sort of bad prank. It didn’t have any sense of reality, and then, when there was blood behind him, it became real,” Reese said.
