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Bill Press: Anti-Islam Filmmakers 'As Guilty as the Terrorists' Who Killed Americans in Libya
NewsBusters.org ^ | September 16, 2012 | Jack Coleman

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 911ii; billpress; dhimmi; dhimmitude; islammovie; leftwinglunatic; usefulidiot; wagthevideo
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1 posted on 09/16/2012 9:40:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Every time Press opens his big mouth, I’m reminded more of what a total retard his is. Liberalism is a mental disorder and Press is definitely the Mother Of All Liberals.


2 posted on 09/16/2012 9:44:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The United States of America apologizing to knuckledragging, cavedwelling Neandethals. Whodda thunk!)
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To: Kaslin

Little bitty minds..


3 posted on 09/16/2012 9:44:48 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: FlingWingFlyer

But he sure looks snappy in his SS uniform.


4 posted on 09/16/2012 9:45:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kaslin

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/horse.wav


5 posted on 09/16/2012 9:45:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Kaslin

And yet most people would scoff at the idea that Sharia law could be implemented in the U.S. Bill Press is essentially calling for it without the faintest idea that he is doing it. There are unfortunately enough useful idiots like him that it could eventually happen.


6 posted on 09/16/2012 9:46:41 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Kaslin

Bill Press can kiss my ass and go to hell.


7 posted on 09/16/2012 9:46:59 AM PDT by sport
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To: Kaslin
anybody who uses religion to stir up hate, is not a true believer. And certainly Christians who do so are not true Christians.

He is right on that singular point, and dead wrong on everything else.

8 posted on 09/16/2012 9:48:46 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Romney was right about the Olympics, but neither the Brits or the Dems will admit it.)
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To: Kaslin

Victory after victory over the Constitutional Republic now has the left emboldened as they now attack the 1st Amendment in a full frontal assault:

Flashback: Obama Administration Pushes UN Resolution That Bans Criticism of Islam

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/flashback-obama-administration-pushes-un-resolution-that-bans-criticism-of-islam/

This is not America: Blood boiling over criminalization of filmmaker, quashing of free speech

http://twitchy.com/2012/09/16/this-is-not-america-blood-boiling-over-criminalization-of-filmmaker-quashing-of-free-speech/

ObamaCare vs. the First Amendment

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304019404577420380698797006.html


9 posted on 09/16/2012 9:49:03 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Kaslin

He needs a good old fashioned debilitating stroke. He is our enemy and if he becomes a casualty it is good


10 posted on 09/16/2012 9:49:18 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Kaslin
After what happened with those Danish cartoons, right, or cartoons drawn for that Danish newspaper


11 posted on 09/16/2012 9:49:36 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Kaslin

Isn’t that statement self-contradictory? If it’s the filmmaker’s fault, then doesn’t that absolve the terrorists of responsibility?

Either Muslim terrorists are responsible for their actions, or they’re not. If you blame the guy who made the movie for the way the terrorists reacted then you’re saying that they’re not responsible for what they did.


12 posted on 09/16/2012 9:49:42 AM PDT by Random_User_250 ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Liberalism is an infantile mental disorder!

Press is suffering from a crainial-rectal inversion.

13 posted on 09/16/2012 9:50:47 AM PDT by sauropod (Only two of God's creatures can employ the term "we": newspaper editors and men with tapeworms-Hayes)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Someone should put that image on a tee shirt. it would sell millions.


14 posted on 09/16/2012 9:52:49 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Kaslin

What do Bill Press and liberals think about Piss Christ?

As I recall, at the time that “art” was done, liberals defended the right of the “artist” to show “art” which was deeply offensive to those of certain religious beliefs.

So, to be intellectually honest, liberals now should be defending the right of someone to make an “art” statement, even if that statement is in the form of a silly movie which offends Muslims.

The only difference between this video and Piss Christ is the religions which are targeted with offensive images.


15 posted on 09/16/2012 9:53:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Kaslin

Bill Press makes his living off the extreme left....

Over the years he has become more outrageous.... I guess its the only way he can compete with the wackos for attention.

He should be discounted.... and ignored.


16 posted on 09/16/2012 9:54:20 AM PDT by mike_9958
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To: Kaslin

The only lesson to be learned in all of this is... It is time for Christians to start rioting.


17 posted on 09/16/2012 9:55:05 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (I can haz CW 2 now?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
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18 posted on 09/16/2012 9:55:13 AM PDT by Never on my watch (I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.)
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To: Kaslin
Then by his logic (or lack thereof), the jet aircraft mohammad atta and his crews flew into the WTC and Pentagon are as responsible as atta and his saudi conspirators.
19 posted on 09/16/2012 9:57:41 AM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: Tennessee Nana
The universal muslim symbol of the bacon and the butthole.

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20 posted on 09/16/2012 9:58:25 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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