[montag813]

The person from the state dept press office was a 4th string clintonista that is getting an administrative beat-down for saying anything at all.

Stop excusing Bush for his own State Department. If he disagrees he should say so publicly. He has done so at least once before. If he does not, we must conclude that he agrees with them, siding with the Sharia-Uber-Alles crowd over Western values. The main problem in this is how everyone keeps saying "Islamic law forbids visual expressions of the 'Prophet'". So what! The people who made these cartoons were NOT Muslims. Are we to conclude that just because Muslims are prone to violence at a moment's notice, that non-Muslims now have to obey Muslim laws? It is absurd, and the State Department's statement was repulsive.

[El Gato]

Stop excusing Bush for his own State Department. If he disagrees he should say so publicly. He has done so at least once before. If he does not, we must conclude that he agrees with them, siding with the Sharia-Uber-Alles crowd over Western values.

Come Monday, you can say that. But this story only broke late Friday. Give the folks a chance to respond before you get your knickers too much in a wad.

At least if Condi and the President do disagree, how'd you like to be the guy called in to Secretary Rice's office for a little ass chewing demonstration? What a nice thought.

[El Gato]

If you go to this thread you can read a transcript of the briefing. As I suspected, the Slimes and Reuters both got it wrong. *The* State department spokesmen did defend speech rights, while also trying to pour some oil n the troubled waters... and of course it was before the embassy fire bombings in Syria.