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This is the bravest thing this reporter has seen since Bill said, “Hillary, I beg to differ”.
–Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal
From the “How Stupid Do They Think We Are, Anyhow?” Files:
This…is CNN.
Sheehan, on the other hand, was thrust into the spotlight after her 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in April 2004.
How do you write that with a straight face? What, Cindy Sheehan was just minding her own business, eating a hot dog or something, and the evil MSM read her mind and demanded that she tell the world how she hated George Bush?
While I’m a big fan of the MSM revealing itself as a bunch of unscrupulous hacks who would hound a poor grieving mother in order to throw rocks at Republicans, this just doesn’t match up with that little thing I like to call “reality”. You mean Cindy Sheehan never set off a series of publicity stunts to garner media attention? Really?
For a moment, let’s play along and prentend this was truth. Let’s pretend that everything went down exactly as CNN says it did here. That leaves me with one question:
Riddle me this, CNN. Over two thousand mothers have lost children in Iraq. Why did you guys pick her? I mean, you just said you did. You just said she was thrust into the spotlight. What was so special about Cindy Sheehan. How was she so different from the average mother of a dead serviceman? Why would you choose her for all this media attention instead of all those other moms?
Also reporting from the planet Ziron, or somewhere but the earth where I live, we get the following from the Washington Post:
Ok. What kind of men? Short men? Lithuanians? Colts Fans?
Armed militants angered by a cartoon drawing of the Prophet Muhammad published in European media surrounded EU offices in Gaza Thursday and threatened to kidnap foreigners as outrage over the caricatures spread across the Islamic world.
When you factor in the later arson of embassies a few days later, the list of possible types of men narrows to radical Mohammedans or Detroit Pistons fans. And seriously, it does sound like something from Detroit after an NBA championship.
By far the most excessive of the demonstrations on Saturday occurred in Damascus, Syria. Thousands of protestors gathered for a peaceful protest outside the Danish Embassy in the early afternoon, but it quickly escalated. Demonstrators began throwing stones, broke through a police barricade and stormed the embassy. Shortly afterward, they set fire to the building, which also houses the Swedish and Chilean embassies. “With our blood and souls we defend you, O Prophet of God,” a number of them chanted. Demonstrators replaced the Danish flag with a green flag reading: “There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God.”
How on earth do you gather for a “peaceful demonstration” and then…oh…oops, buildings start burning. Did someone trip over a molotov cocktail? Was there going to be a celebration with fireworks after the “peaceful protest”, but some crazy kids screwed things up? Does this mean that Mohammedans can’t be trusted to peacably assemble, like Protestants in the 1840’s in Philadelphia?
Ok, I’m digressing here, because I was talking about the Washington Post piece, and now I’m quoting Spiegel Online. But seriously, here’s a gem of a line from this article in Spiegel Online.
Emotions across the Muslim world remained raw on Saturday and cartoon-related unrest in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe showed no signs of abating.
How do you write that with a straight face?
The title of this article is even better:
When we talk about “cartoon violence” in the West, it usually means that we shouldn’t let kids see Bugs Bunny blow up Elmer Fudd. In the Mohammedan World, “cartoon violence” means “Someone drew a picture! Let us burn buildings and strap explosives onto our children and send them among the Jews! Luh-luh-luh-luh-luh!”
But of course, all cultures are equally valid.
Sorry for the tangent, let’s return to the Washington Post.
The furor over the drawings, which first ran in a Danish paper in September, cuts to the question of which is more sacred in the Western world _ freedom of expression or respect for religious beliefs. The cartoons include an image of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.
Respect for religious beliefs? In current Western Society? You mean like when Andres Serrano was censured by our Western elites? You mean the Passion of Chris Ofili? After all, we all know how his art was silenced in the face of respect for religious beliefs.
Oh, oops. None of that happened.
I believe the phrase in that article should be:
- freedom of expression or the desire to go Vichy towards the Mohammedans
Yes, I think I’ll be using the term “Mohammedans” from now on.
Bonus question: Who is more likely to be killed by a raving fundamentalist mob: Dan Brown or Salman Rushdie?
Has anyone seen these cartoons on TV? Funny, if you notice noone is showing them, you have to search online or tune into TV news from other countries before you see them. Is the media in this country afraid or are they just trying to be sensitive? I heard an interview on the BBC this morning with a Ukrainian newspaper editor who ran the cartoon. The BBC interviewer gave him a hard time because he considered it irresponsible. I bet the Catholic League could tell us of countless cartoons where the Holy Father and other Catholic icons have been satirised and no media outlet cried.
Comment by Fr. Liam Foley — February 6, 2006 @
Again, the question: How stupid do you think we are?
Also asking the question, “how stupid do you think we are?” is Der Tommissar, with a few pointed questions for the idiotarian mainstream media:
Riddle me this, CNN. Over two thousand mothers have lost children in Iraq. Why did you guys pi…
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Islam gets respect from CNN so why can’t Christianity? Oh, that’s right, we don’t have a militant wing.
How much you want to bet CNN will display these Holocaust cartoons!
Comment by Tim — February 7, 2006 @
Oh! Oh! Let me guess! Let me guess! It’s gotta be Dan Brown. Right?
Comment by Jeanne — February 7, 2006 @
[…] Long time blog friend Tomslick has an excellent post about the peaceful world of Cindy Sheehan and the Muslim reactions to the CARTOON saga: How on earth do you gather for a “peaceful demonstrationâ€? and then…oh…oops, buildings start burning. Did someone trip over a molotov cocktail? Was there going to be a celebration with fireworks after the “peaceful protestâ€?, but some crazy kids screwed things up? Does this mean that Mohammedans can’t be trusted to peacably assemble, like Protestants in the 1840’s in Philadelphia? […]
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[…] Long time blog friend Tomslick has an excellent post about the peaceful world of Cindy Sheehan and the Muslim reactions to the CARTOON saga: How on earth do you gather for a “peaceful demonstrationâ€? and then…oh…oops, buildings start burning. Did someone trip over a molotov cocktail? Was there going to be a celebration with fireworks after the “peaceful protestâ€?, but some crazy kids screwed things up? Does this mean that Mohammedans can’t be trusted to peacably assemble, like Protestants in the 1840’s in Philadelphia? […]
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[…] Long time blog friend Tomslick has an excellent post about the peaceful world of Cindy Sheehan and the Muslim reactions to the CARTOON saga: How on earth do you gather for a “peaceful demonstrationâ€? and then…oh…oops, buildings start burning. Did someone trip over a molotov cocktail? Was there going to be a celebration with fireworks after the “peaceful protestâ€?, but some crazy kids screwed things up? Does this mean that Mohammedans can’t be trusted to peacably assemble, like Protestants in the 1840’s in Philadelphia? […]
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[…] Long time blog friend Tomslick has an excellent post about the peaceful world of Cindy Sheehan and the Muslim reactions to the CARTOON saga: How on earth do you gather for a “peaceful demonstrationâ€? and then…oh…oops, buildings start burning. Did someone trip over a molotov cocktail? Was there going to be a celebration with fireworks after the “peaceful protestâ€?, but some crazy kids screwed things up? Does this mean that Mohammedans can’t be trusted to peacably assemble, like Protestants in the 1840’s in Philadelphia? […]
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Comment by Tim — February 7, 2006 @
CNN: Offending Catholics since 1999!
Comment by Tim — February 7, 2006 @
The least they could have done is pick a mother who is at least photogenic. The evil bastards had to go out and get the ugliest person in the world to be “thrust into the spotlight”. Is this a requirement for anti-war protestors or something?
Comment by Irish John — February 8, 2006 @
this put an interesting spin on the events — two things came to my mind: oprah’s thrashing of the man who *lied* in the memoirs she had recommended for her book club (that garnered a lot of media attention, so much so i cannot recall his name or the title of his book but know she railed on him during one of her shows, and yes, i get my information from jon stewart…)
secondly, when the “artist” robert mapplethorpe wanted to exhibit his questionable (at best) “art,” we cry and lament that art is subjective and there are rallies and demonstrations as to why his exhibits must go on…
what a strange world we live in.
Comment by ~m2~ — February 9, 2006 @
Well done!!!
Comment by jimmyb — February 9, 2006 @
For once, something I have read today has given me a moment of clarity. This post rocks!
Comment by steve — February 10, 2006 @
I’m more outre than you are, mon ami, I refer to them as infidel pigs. I used to use infidel dogs, but I decided I was insulting dogs! Dogs are smarter and better mannered.
Comment by Jovan-Marya Weismiller, T.O.Carm — February 10, 2006 @
Cartoon Violence … on Saturday morning, no less. That alone seems quite entertaining — like someone was upset that “Mighty Mouse” was a re-run this week.
Comment by Darth Inebrious — February 11, 2006 @
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