Posted on 05/08/2015 5:14:54 AM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 05/08/2015 6:39:09 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In 1998 the paper criticized [4] the withdrawal of playwright Terrence McNallys “Corpus Christi from the Manhattan Theater Club, due to threats of violence. Corpus Christi was about [5] a gay Jesus, with a plot line that included the Christian Son of God performing a same-sex marriage, and Judas betraying him due to romantic jealousy. “What we are witnessing, once again, is the peculiar combat between freedoms that is repeatedly staged in America, the paper stated. “The practitioners and beneficiaries of religious freedom attack the practitioners of artistic freedom–freedom of speech–without seeing that the freedoms they enjoy cannot be defended separately.
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Scratch a liberal and find a hypocrite.
Every.
Single.
Time.
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Charlie Hebdo stands solidly for free expression. The West must do no less.
They’re so shameless and certain of their superiority that their hypocrisy never makes them hesitate or blush.
Of course, they have no core principles.
They just have agendas,
the primary of which is defeating and persecuting the people of God.
Twenty years ago I commented that Slick Willy saw the truth as just another club in his golf bag - not a commitment to principle - but, rather, a tactical instrument to be pulled out whenever useful, then put away to gather dust until next time.
Now, blowhard BO’R, Whorealdo, and even the previously wonderful Laura Ingraham have shown a similar trait. My thought is it is grounded in media elitism. They get to decide what a proper use of free speech is. From a career standpoint, they don’t want the competition.
How stupid do they have to be to miss the point that free speech can only survive as a principle if it is equally available to all?
By their “principle” every military secret the NYT has published should have been condemned as loudly as Geller. Somebody ask BO’R if, prior to airing any story, he asks himself whether the info would be “helpful” to our national aims and if the answer to that question is no, does he refrain from airing.
Media elitism - now coming to you from a formerly conservative source (not including BO’R in that finale).
That's what I believe.
There are really only two possibilities, as I see it. Either:
They are so consumed by their ideology that they can't even see how silly they look, they are blind to their own blatant, obvious, glaring hypocrisy (made more galling by their tendency to play up even the most tenuously established hypocrisy on the part of any Republican or Conservative), or...
They are actually aware of their double standard but don't care how obvious it is, secure in their belief that they can put it over on their stupid sheep-like readers; implicit in this possibility is the belief that they can control the narrative by simply ignoring their critics when they point out the obvious.
I can't picture a third possibility.
#2
Show me some action that actually accomplishes something and I'll be impressed.
Too many just want a rhetorical win.
/johnny
tendency to play up even the most tenuously established hypocrisy on the part of any Republican or Conservative
They do this because they know we value the concept of core principles.
I think they understand, fully, that whatever principles they mouth really aren’t principles, but excuses to get their agenda advanced.
How about they don't care about a rhetorical victory when they are winning the real victories?
They just don't care about what you care about. Ever.
And they are winning the real game on the ground.
/johnny
Listening to them one would certainly believe that.
Listening to a lot of Freepers one would certainly believe that, too.
It's time for Freepers to get off the liberal and GOP-E page.
/johnny
You can get away with denigrating Christianity with words and art, because all you will get from them, if anything, is a firm rebuke. Christians are not inclined to retaliate when offended. They leave that up to the LORD, who in good time will judge. “Be still, and know that I am God,” fairly well establishes the principle by which they conduct themselves.
No so the Muslim, whose faith and life are based on immediate vengeance and violence. So . . . it makes sense to refrain from purposely inflaming them. At the same time, when they attempt to execute violence on innocent people, it does not make sense to refrain from killing them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirth_%26_Girth
I wonder if the anti-Second Amendment people realize that if they actually somehow succeed in their goal of eliminating it or re-defining it, and start confiscating firearms, an actual shooting civil war will begin immediately.
We know that if they get our guns, the death camps are as inevitable as tomorrow's sunrise, as inescapable as the Pythagorean theorem.
I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if a patriotic American had irrupted in the Muslim rally on January and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists. After all, Americans are profoundly offended by their provocation and the abuse of our freedoms by those who made the Muslim rally in support of the savages that decapitate, crucify and burned Christians alive.
The “Dhimmi” media, scared by Islamic violence, auto-censors itself and tries to justify the terrorist attack in Texas because the Mohamed cartoons contest offended the sensibility of Muslims. But, what the media should ask to the supposed moderate Muslims if their sensibility is not offended by the slaughter of innocents Christians by Islamists in the name of Allah, Mohammed and the Korean
The quotes cited in the article concerning controversies surrounding art exhibits that offended Christians are hilarious in their condescending pomposity, a pomposity which descends into self-parody. Only highly-educated people can sound so stupid.
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