The author throws a couple of curveballs, but draws some interesting conclusions that Western European media is helping fuel the anti-Americanism pervading Europe.
To: BluegrassScholar
2 posted on
07/23/2004 4:50:18 AM PDT by
Physicist
To: BluegrassScholar
No, Europeans werent Bible-thumpersbut the Continents ever-growing Muslim population, I had come to realize, represented even more of a threat to pluralist democracy than fundamentalist Christians did in the U.SThis quote was a doozy, LOL!
So the "Bible thumpers" are almost as great a threat as Muslims.
When's the last time a "Bible thumper" blew up a bus or beheaded somebody.
3 posted on
07/23/2004 5:03:37 AM PDT by
dawn53
To: BluegrassScholar
the Continents ever-growing Muslim population, I had come to realize, represented even more of a threat to pluralist democracy than fundamentalist Christians did in the U.S. "Fundamentalist" Christianit y poses absolutely no threat to pluralist democracy. The comparison is completely inapt and inappropriate. Not even close. If anything, it is the intolerant Left's desire to use government to impose its own moral views on the rest of society that is the danger to pluralist democracy.
To: BluegrassScholar
An excellent article, although it's a bit longwinded. I'll copy and save this one.
5 posted on
07/23/2004 5:44:35 AM PDT by
Renfield
(Philosophy chair at the University of Wallamalloo!!)
To: BluegrassScholar
Yes, the post 9-11 Euro-sympathy for America was a blip...anti-American sentiment was live and well under Clinton too. I recall playing a board game based on a book titled "Sophie's world" in Munich with some women in early 2000. The game similar to Trivial pursuit, is made up of cultural, philisopical and historical questions...I won!
These women were friends of my cousin and she later remarked to me that they were surprised I "knew" so much, given that I was American.
6 posted on
07/23/2004 5:47:51 AM PDT by
Katya
(Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
To: BluegrassScholar
What I do remember about the Wall coming down is the lack of shame or contrition on the part of Western leftists who had spent decades appeasing and apologizing for Soviet Communism.
10 posted on
07/23/2004 6:52:22 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Pseudo objective journalism is the noise and smoke brigade of the Democratic Party.)
To: BluegrassScholar; headsonpikes; beyond the sea; E.G.C.; Military family member; Wolverine; ...
The big picture is that nobody likes responsibility and everyone likes authority. Criticizing people/institutions over which one has no control is a form of fantasy of authority, to which no responsibility is attached
provided one is not criticizing an actual tyrant.
Thus, CNN gleefully reports every wart it can find or imagine in America, free of any responsibility actually to improve the situation or to explain why it is criticizing the powers that be. The only things CNN was not free from responsibility for were
- criticizing Saddam while maintaining its Baghdad bureau and
- criticizing other journalists for being too leftist or anti-American.
CNN could not do the former for fear of subjecting its employees there to torture or death at the hands of Saddam's minions. CNN still cannot do the latter, on pain of having the whole rest of journalism declare that CNN is not objective. And that would be - the horror! - bad PR.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
12 posted on
07/23/2004 7:29:50 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(Pseudo objective journalism is the noise and smoke brigade of the Democratic Party.)
To: Timesink; *CCRM; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
The author throws a couple of curveballs, but draws some interesting conclusions that Western European media is helping fuel the anti-Americanism pervading Europe.Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
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14 posted on
07/23/2004 10:36:41 AM PDT by
weegee
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
To: BluegrassScholar
15 posted on
07/23/2004 12:14:45 PM PDT by
redhead
(I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, keep me here...)
To: BluegrassScholar
A solid piece of the type I haven't read for a while. Worth a bump.
17 posted on
07/23/2004 2:52:25 PM PDT by
beckett
To: Cannoneer No. 4; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ping. A long one, but interesting.
To: BluegrassScholar
20 posted on
07/28/2004 10:47:43 PM PDT by
Bernard Marx
(Is Karl Marx's grave a Communist plot?)
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