Posted on 02/08/2006 9:39:07 AM PST by hipaatwo
European readers Brian A. and Kenneth M. have passed along links to an excellent interview with Alan Dershowitz that aired this week on Danish television. I don't agree with much of what Dershowitz espouses, but on many crucial War on Terror-related issues he is dead-on--as he is here on the Cartoon Jihad and the craven media. I think his appearance dovetails nicely with the points I tried to make last night on Hannity and Colmes.
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[Responding to a question about his reaction to the Danish embassy torchings:]
It's great hypocrisy on the part of those doing the burning, because these are some of the same people who read voraciously much worse cartoons directed at Christians and Jews and Americans and Israel. Deeply, deeply, offensive anti-Christian and anti-Semitic cartoons are a staple out of Gaza every week, and suddenly, when Mohammed is offended, they're prepared to burn down embassies and create this kind of havoc. It is extraordinary hypocrisy.
[On the American media's unwillingness to show the cartoons:]
...You can't have a story about a cartoon without seeing the cartoon. In fact, when you see the cartoons published by the Danish newspapers, they are mild in comparison with what's published every day in Islamic fundamentalists newspapers and in Syrian newspapers, in Egyptian newspapers, in Saudi Arabian newspapers. So you have to see the cartoon to get a sense of how outrageous these attacks on the Danish embassy [are] and the hypocrisy across the Middle East is.
[In response to a question seeking an explanation for the US media's decision not to publish the cartoons:]
...I was informed yesterday that Time magazine was seriously considering publishing the cartoons. That would take an act of courage.
CNN has shown no courage. It claims it won't publish the cartoons because they're offensive. But they have published previous cartoons that are offensive. The fact is, they're frightened. The fact is, that this kind of religious and intellectual terrorism is working. It is persuading journalists who would otherwise cover this story with the cartoons to back away--not on ideological reasons or not for reasons of protecting or preserving integrity or anything of that kind, but out of physical and economic fear. This is economic, physical terrorism directed at journalists and it is working. They have succeeded in the United States. They have failed in parts of Europe, but they have succeeded in the United States.
...When the burning down of embassies and the fear of fatwas and physical and economic retaliation are what determines the policy, it means that the terrorists have won. And the United States and other European countries have a policy: Never give in to terrorism. Well, they're now giving in to terrorism by not publishing these cartoons--not because they're offensive, they publish plenty of offensive cartoons, but because they are frightened and because they lack the courage to confront this kind of terrorist threat.
Bravo, bravo. He gets it. If only more journalists could think as lucidly as Dershowitz does on this matter.
Bumperoo
CNN is populated by cowards.
Has Fox shown the cartoons?
Is Dershowitz actually Jewish or does he play one on TV?
Alan Dershowitz has also noted the painfully obvious fact the the US Constitution doesn't provide for a right to abortion on demand and says the SCOTUS was wrong which, for a liberal, is pretty astonishing.
He does have his moments of clarity on occasion.
Michelle showed the cartoons on Hannity and Colmes last night.
Thanks
Well, even though a blind hog finds an acorn now and then, Alan Dirt-for-wits will never find credibility, at least for me.
He's still wrong to combine economic and physical in the same sentence. Economic "terrorism" as he calls it, is not terrorism at all, boycott something economically is a form of freedom of expression. It's the threat of physical violence that is terrorism.
His comments are summarized in the latest TIME, which in fact says it will not run the cartoons.
I said "moments" didn't I?
The American MSM has been castrated by Muslim intellectual terrorism.
The MSM talks big s!it when it comes to bashing Bush, the Iraq war, and Christians, but they have no guts to take on Muslim fanatics.
Nope
Great point! It would be hypocrisy if they believed in a free press, but they don't.
Cowards?
I hear, more and more, the word "cowards" associated with the Left.
I may be wrong, but these people aren't "cowards" in the true meaning of the word. They are activist enemies of the United States.
The Left, meaning the entire alphabet media, all Leftist publications, the Democrat Party, half the U.S. Congress, etc. etc., are aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States.
Cowards are "no-where men". They have no opinion. Push them, they walk away. Insult their wife, they vacate the area, with or without her.
"He's a real nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, please listen,
You don't know what you're missing,
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command.
He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man, don't worry,
Take your time, don't hurry,
Leave it all 'till somebody else
lends you a hand.
He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody."
I had a genuine dislike for Dershowitz until 9/11....when he came 100% for torturing terrorists to protect American lives.
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