Bill Press: Anti-Islam Filmmakers 'As Guilty as the Terrorists' Who Killed Americans in Libya

NewsBusters.org ^ | September 16, 2012 | Jack Coleman

[pallis]

Press is just short-witted enough to think Islamic rage is because of a non-movie. Sorry Bill, but your boy Obama screwed up, like usual. The Muslim Brotherhood scheme was idiocy, and it has backfired on the fraud who would be king. Man up to it.

[driftless2]

What a shock: all the people calling for censorship and abrogation of the constitution turn out to be card-carrying liberals. Reveals the petty, totalitarian minds of these creeps. Inside the body of every lib-leftist beats the heart of a fascist bursting to get out.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Press is suffering from a crainial-rectal inversion.

Believe you ment cranial-rectal insertion,

[scooby321]

Arrest the makers of Dark Knight?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Excellent point!

[jazusamo]

Only in the liberal leftist mind of Press and those like him is this an abuse of the First Amendment.

Leftists fully stand behind the First Amendment for themselves but abandon it when it doesn't suit their agenda.

[zencycler]

Anyone public figure who says something like this should immediately be labelled as a RACIST! Holding the West responsible for words or taunts which provoke violent reactions among those in the middle east is casting us in the role of a superior being and them in the role of a wild animal, lacking the inability to control their emotions and therefore the need for full accountability when they don't.

This is the attitude you'd take if a man taunts a bear in the wild and then gets mauled. This is not something you should be saying when talking about relations with other human beings, all of whom should be viewed as equals, regardless of their race or nationality.

I'm sure, for example, that Press would not have made comments like this if any Mormons had reacted violently to the vile comments made about their religion by O'Donnell, and then caused harm to either him or anyone else at MSNBC. It's clear to see, in that hypothetical, that any such comments would universally by labelled as bizarre and outrageous. But it's a useful comparison, as it reveals the racist nature of such comments in this case.

[zencycler]

therefore the need for full accountability when they don't.

To clarify, I meant - and therefore also lacking the need for full accountability when they don't - in that sentence.

[Irenic]

Bill Press....poor thing.

[SkyDancer]

Didn’t Bill Mahr make an anti-Islamic video back in 2008 or there about??

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] Press starts with a shaky premise and it's downhill from there.

It would be nice if he could learn to organize his thoughts first and speak in complete sentences.

The inability to speak standard English and the inability to think rationally seem to be closely linked. So why is this guy wealthy and famous, again?

[Americanexpat]

Hillary and the Admin are using this film to cover their own bungling efforts at foreign policy. Rommney and Ryan need to be all over this everyday.

[OrioleFan]

And Obama constantly spiking the ball over Bin Laden’s death is less important than a movie practically no one has seen? Press is auditioning for Carney’s job.

[GeronL]

I guess he wants those who made the Dark Knight to be prosecuted for that theater shooting too?

dummie

[jazzlite]

There is an army of people out here who think Bill Press and his ilk are responsible for those deaths because of their hard left, bring America to her knees views.

[lentulusgracchus]

Bill Press is essentially calling for [Sharia law] without the faintest idea that he is doing it.

Oh, yeah -- and ignorant, too. That's the other thing.

[Old North State]

This notion that ‘crying fire in a crowed theater’ is the standard that allows the government to justify censorship of published material is a red herring. The standard is one of clear and present danger to public safety. Documents and films do not in any sense create a ‘present’ danger. You cannot claim that your safely is at immediate risk because of something you see or hear or read on a medium. That some people become enraged and moved to violence is a reaction completely under the control of even the most fanatical of the extremists. They are certainly not motivated by fear for their lives of safety, but by hate for anyone who does not agree with them; just as Mr. press is motivated by hate for anyone who does not agree with him.

[DB]

Well I hope liberals are paying attention...

Who is it exactly that are ready to give up your and my first amendment rights to placate third world barbarians?

Who is it standing up for basic freedom?

Get a freaking clue!

[silverleaf]

rape and murder are the moral equivalent of questioning religious beliefs?

Bill Press no longer an atheist- now is the perfect muslim convert... death to apostates

[Yardstick]

It's just the old thing, you can't cry fire in a crowded theater..

Sorry Bill, but your analogy sucks.

Yelling fire in crowded theater crosses the line because it prompts an understandable reaction from reasonable people. If instead we establish the limits of speech based on the reactions of crazy people, then all speech is at risk, because crazy people will go nuts over anything.

This is so obvious that even a walnut sized liberal brain should be able to understand it.