Posted on 01/08/2015 1:57:12 PM PST by Servant of the Cross
Adam Baldwin linked to this MSNBC clip with a succinct tweet ”Spot the morons/cowards.”
Video at link ...
All due respect to Adam, but his understatement is almost a scandal. We’ve posted a lot of incredibly stupid sound bites from MSNBC and other places around here, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a dumber exchange. I don’t know who the guy is making the astoundingly obtuse comparison between Jerry Falwell and a bunch of cold-blooded murderers, but as incandescently stupid as that analogy is it’s eclipsed by Wagner’s smug, knowing nods as he talks.
If I follow her response correctly she is saying that we focus on anti-Muslim blasphemy disproportionately because it is so much more “controversial” and “incendiary.”
Well, uh, yes. I guess that’s true. But the reason mockery of Islam is more controversial is because people get killed over it!
To compare Falwell’s lawsuit to these murderers isn’t just astoundingly, jaw-droppingly, stupid. Doing so misses just about every important moral, legal and factual distinction that one can miss. But Wagner doesn’t think that’s good enough. She had to take it a half-step farther and really emphasize how unfair it is that people make it seem like only Muslims are thin-skinned about such things.
(I will indulge as a matter of charity, that Wagner merely mispoke as she tried to couch reality in MSNBC-friendly euphemisms. “Controversial” and “incendiary” might be her way of saying “barbaric terrorism.” But even if that’s the case, it doesn’t excuse her from failing to respond to this idiotic comparison with the words: “How dare you sir, that is outrageous.”)
I was never a huge fan of Falwell’s, but I always thought his lawsuit had some merit, and was at least understandable in human terms. Also, for what it’s worth, I don’t think it had much to do with his religion. He filed a personal defamation lawsuit, I’m pretty sure. But here’s the thing: when he lost the lawsuit you know what he did? Nothing. Oh I’m sure he griped about it. Wouldn’t you? What he didn’t do was lead a goon squad to Hustler’s offices and murder Larry Flynt and his staff. That’s a pretty meaningful distinction, I think.
NBC defends TERRORISM daily, and substitutes
next week’s possible weather for real news.
Goldberg’s apparently never seen “The View.”
Liberals are crazy.
The lawsuit was 34 years ago, and Jerry passed on to his eternal reward 8 years ago. They need a fresh schtick.
True Dat!
probably a good thing
Massive Stupidity, Nothing But Crap
Jane tweets?!?
KYPD
Every time you think you’ve seen the dumbest thing ever from the left just wait a day or two and they’ll outdo themselves every time.
They really are quite dumb and what proves that is that they are always the last to know how dumb the things they say and do are.
just another “make believe” session with people who look and act like they know what they are talking about (Press Corp & their guests) - all the while protecting the very machine (Islam) that will grind them up and spit them out...
You can make stuff like this up......but no one would believe it
What?
Jerry Falwell shot Larry Flynt?
Just damn!
Interesting point. Two thoughts on it:
1. As a public figure, Mohammed would have the bar set pretty high with respect to winning a libel case. Beyond that, he'd have to prove damages. (Note: IANAL. Not even close.)
2. Truth is a defense against libel. If you call him a murdering pedophile, all it means is you've read his book.
If I’m not mistaken, he could neither read nor write. Others did his “writing” for him.
>Islamic jihadists are laughing their arses off at this.<
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Muslims have been ROTFLTAO ever since 9/11/2001, especially the Saudis, and will continue to do so until they have subdued the West.
The entire MSM is desperate grasping at straws the people are awakening to their progressive liberal democrat communist marxist fascist elitist ways, they are quickly becoming irrelevant and have no clue what to do about it, if they recognize it at all.
I’ve heard that too, but the principles would still apply.
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