Behold, what passes for wisdom from the warped wasteland known as liberal radio (audio) --Posted on 09/16/2012 9:40:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Radio host Bill Press is determined to win the title of most useful idiot to the jihad.
With his most recent lunacy this past Friday, Press is well on his way. (Audio clip after page break)
Behold, what passes for wisdom from the warped wasteland known as liberal radio (audio) --
Now here's the question though and the question that I ask you and it's not an easy one, I understand that. What, if anything, should happen to the people who made this video? I gotta tell you, I think they are as guilty, that's my opinion, I think they are as guilty as the terrorists who carried out those attacks against our embassy in Libya. Look, we don't know everybody who was involved, but we've seen, I've seen some of them on television. This is a group of extremist, Muslim-hating, so-called Christians in southern California who are using their religion to stir up hatred against Islam. They're basing this on their Christian beliefs. They are, I believe, every bit as guilty as al Qaeda members who, think about it, who use the Koran and abuse their religion to stir up hatred against the United States. These so-called Christians, anybody who uses religion to stir up hate, is not a true believer. And certainly Christians who do so are not true Christians.
So these so-called Christians using their faith to stir up hatred against another of the world's great religions, it is absolutely disgusting and they've gotta know, they had to know what would result in that. After what happened with those Danish cartoons, right, or cartoons drawn for that Danish newspaper. After what happened with that nutjob Terry Jones down in Florida burning the Koran and people getting killed in Afghanistan over the protest that that, that that triggered. After what happened when we saw the video of American troops urinating on Muslim soldiers, right? After that, you had, they had to know that a video like this, not saying that the Muslims are not overreacting. I mean, they're hypersensitive about this stuff, I mean, Jesus, you know, just cool it, right? I mean, we show Jesus naked all the time hanging on the cross.
But, at any rate, their reaction is way overblown. But these, I hate to call them Christians, these so-called Christians had to know that that video would result in certain parts of the world, it would result in violence, it would result in lives being lost. I think, again, they are every bit as guilty and I think the United States, this is not freedom of speech. It's just the old thing, you can't cry fire in a crowded theater and have people trampled to death and say, oh, I was just exercising my freedom of speech. This is an abuse of the First Amendment. It's using, abusing their freedom of speech to cost innocent lives and to cause the taking of innocent lives in certain parts of the world. So, I think the United States ought to identify, yeah, we oughta be going after these terrorists that carried out the attacks in Libya and we are. I think we also ought to be identifying the people who made this video and go after them with the full force of the law and lock their ass up.
Press starts with a shaky premise and it's downhill from there. By the end of the week, as even the most oblivious had to be aware, it looked more likely that the attack on the US consulate in Libya was retaliation for the drone killing of al Qaeda's second in command, a native-born Libyan.
But even if the attackers in Libya were motivated by anger over the "Innocence of Muslims" video, does Bill Press actually want to allow "hypersensitive" Islamists to dictate what Westerners are allowed to upload to YouTube? Surely it doesn't take much imagination to see the censorious demands not ending there.
After "The Satanic Verses" came out in 1988 and the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of its author, Salman Rushdie, enraged Muslims murdered a Japanese translator and tried to kill two other people connected to the book's publication. Was Rushdie complicit in that onslaught, Mr. Press? Seeing how there cannot possibly be a statute of limitation for offenses against Islam, Rushdie must still be as guilty as those who responded to his book with violence against others, at least by Press's illogic.
Arguably the most bizarre of Press's remarks is that the filmmakers behind this video are "every bit as guilty as al Qaeda members" who "abuse their religion to stir up hatred against the United States." That's a rather tepid description of what al Qaeda has actually done over the last decade and a half, don't you think? I'd venture to say they went far beyond the "stir" stage some time ago in favor of full-scale mass murder.
Anyone who equates drawing a provocative cartoon as akin to beheading the cartoonist was lost to relativism a long, long time ago. Sigmund Freud once observed that civilization began with the first man hurling an insult instead of a rock.
This isn't yelling fire in a crowded theater, as Press claims. It's about being able to show a movie in that theater without jihadists burning it down.
Slices of raw bacon make great bookmarks.
Sometimes a liberal will have a flash of principledness and recite the old motto “I may disagree with what you say but I’ll fight for your right to say it”.
Always good for a chuckle.
Why didn’t press complain about the u-tube film in July, Autust but waited until 9/11 or a few days later to mention it and the producer??? HMMM??? Isn’t supposed to be an investigative reporter/talk host? Or is he just another mouth piece spouting the whitehouse false complaints??
I can’t wait to hear what Bill Press has to say when Zero Dark Thirty riots begin!
sport, correction please “Bill Press can kiss my ROYAL ASS...”
So if speech is directly responsible for bad behavior then Bill
Press should shut the hell up before someone gets hurt ...or
worse.
OOOOPS! Autust should ge August...
Al and Tipper Gore should bring back the PMRC and expand the focus to burning Youtube videos as well as records.
Leftist fascists have always been the danger to the liberty of human beings. Nothing new there.
Ok, let us play this game.
Bill Press, who repeated the fraudulent Newsweak story about “Flushing a koran at gitmo” in 2005 that resulted in Americans being killed around the world is guilty of being an accessory to murder and should be prosecuted.
Put movie on Youtube = people murder others.
How is this the same again?
So the man who filmed the Rodney King incident is responsible for the Los Angeles riots?
And if hussein were in Reagan's shoes, hillary would be apologizing to John Hinckley, holder would have Scorsese in chain's, and Jodi Foster would be taken in for questioning.
So, where is Bill Press's opinion piece blaming Planned Parenthood for the murder????
Mark
They know they don't have to worry about Christians, Catholics, or Jews calling for their brutal murders. And then carrying out those brutal murders. So they're incredibly "brave" when defending objectionable "art" when it's directed against those whom they don't fear.
But islam? No way! Can't make them feel bad... They'll kill you!
Mark
So.....what does Press think of Obama’s unwillingness to criticize mega-contributor Bill Maher?
Yes, Bill Maher, the maker of “Religulous,” a very anti-Islamic (as well as anti-Jewish and anti-Christian) film.
Everyone knows Hitler's art teacher is responsible for killing six million Jews.
I thought it was his absent father, or his mean old stepfather .... or maybe it was the Jewish kids who beat him up and made fun of him, or maybe the Catholic Church (he was an altar boy -- that'll do it!).
Not just Press. Probably 99% of libs want the filmmaker thrown in prison for murder.
Be careful Michael. Intelligent discourse on any subject could be subjectively viewed as religious hate speech. No speech, no matter how vile to the ears of the hearer or whatever feelings they unleash, should promulgate violence. In our society, free speech is not dependent on whether it makes someone angry and I find it ironic that someone like Bill Press who consistently pushes the idea of separation of church and state would find it somehow necessary to define who are “true Christians.”
Bill Press is certainly no one I would look to teach Bible doctrine. For someone who supports the murder of the unborn and homosexual marriage, Bill Press has zero credibility with respect to Christian faith. So how would he know what a true Christian is? He can’t. He is blind spiritually. Christ said, “Unless a man is born again (Greek: ‘from above’), he cannot SEE the kingdom of God. Therefore Press has no authority to make any pronouncements in this area because Press directly contradicts Holy Biblical Scripture in his personal views. Christ said we would know His disciples by their fruits. Concerning Press, the Bible says:
“These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.” Jude 1:12-13
Stating that Mohammed is a false prophet and Allah is nothing more than one of the pantheon of gods in pre-Islamic Arabia chosen because he was one of the most popular - may make 1.2 billion Muslims angry, but this should open a dialogue concerning what is true history and nature of their faith, not incite ignorant violence.
Unfortunately we’re dealing with a religion which refuses rational discourse because no one can question the “prophet.” A Muslim cannot leave Islam under penalty of death. Other religions are subjugated, must pay an extortion tax, and are considered “dhimmmis” - a derogatory term with less rights than Muslims under Sharia law. Jews are considered pigs and Christians dogs. All infidels under the Koran subject to death if they don’t submit. They cannot evangelize (a commandment for Christians) and no new churches can be built.
Until Islam has a reformation and these nations develop a verifiable Bill of Rights where all religions can operate equally, the West needs to understand we are in a long term war with a religion bent on world domination. This will never happen because Islam is a house of cards built on a lie. This is why Mohammed used violence and it continues to be the vehicle for spreading its wicked ideology.
I strongly suggest everyone watch this YouTube video, “Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret,” by Dr Bill Warner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
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