I will never say anything to anyone while in public ever again.

This whole"Muslim Medical Students" fiasco is just getting more and more ridiculous. At first I found it bemusingly funny, much like that old "Hit the floor, lady" joke.

Karen, a Midwestern housewife, took her first trip to Las Vegas last year. She had done very well playing the slot machines, winning a bucket full of quarters. Karen needed a break, and she left the casino heading toward the elevators, taking her bucket with her.
She steps into the elevator and before the doors shut, four beefy, leather-clad African-American men step in. Karen (never having spent much time with African Americans) clutches her bucket close to her body.

One of the men says, "Hit the floor, lady," and she does: quarters fly everywhere. The men bust up laughing and they help Karen collect her winnings. One of the men explains that he meant for her to select her floor. They help her collect her quarters and the elevator arrives at her floor. She leaves embarrassed, and the men are still laughing.
(via Snopes, which has no permalinks, so that's the best you'll get)

However, it's become plainly clear that the bad thing that really happened here is not anything either of the parties involved may or may not have done, but the outright lies and sensationalism foisted on the American public by the pseudo-celebrites in cable news. One, maybe naive but certianly well-meaning, woman and three young men who once had the promise of medical careers ahead of them, have had their lives disrupted and probably ruined because of the media.

But who behaved in very bad faith? Who else—your cable press corps! Indeed, let’s extend all praise to [James] Zogby [of the Arab-American Institute] for his comments when he spoke with O’Brien. “The problem here is not the woman. The problem is you,” he boldly said. “CNN covered this thing live as did others and the problem therefore is that it fed the hysteria.”

The Daily Howler has the real story here.