But it was not an all-hands-on-deck moment for this “prince”. A good amount of his message was spent denigrating the paper. This is simply not the time for that!!!
Imagine if Churchill had said this right after Pearl Harbor: The attack by the Japanese was dastardly, and must be condemned. But the US has done things that have angered the Japanese, the oil embargo for one.
Churchill never would have said that! But this “prince” evidently would have.
“Think about it for a minute. This attack on the Charlie Hebdo is a real turning point, an all-hands-on-deck moment.”
Nope. Was 9-11 a “real turning point, an all-hands-on-deck moment”? I thought it was. Apparently it wasn’t. Within a short time the left in this country was openly subverting the war effort and clearly hoping we would lose! The same thing will happen in France. In a sense, they already lost because they have almost 6 million Muslims in France already. I watched CNN this morning right before the march began. The camera focused on a monument crawling with marchers waving flags. Guess whose flags? French flags? Well, sure there were some, plenty in fact, but those young men on the monument had dark skin and were waving flags from Algeria, Turkey, and other Muslim countries. France is doomed. They slit their own throat a long time ago.
“But it was not an all-hands-on-deck moment for this “prince”.”
Because he understands what a charade this is. Remember, he outright condemns the murders. He just doesn’t think making this about the vulgar newspaper rather than the people who worked there makes much sense. He has a point. Would it really be any different if the 12 murdered people worked at a grocery store that sold pork (banned by Islam)? Or a bar that served alcohol (banned by Islam)?
“A good amount of his message was spent denigrating the paper.”
No. Read it again. He CORRECTLY described the newspaper. It is an atheist, vulgar rag. It just is. You would think so too if you read it. You go ahead and look at this and tell me it isn’t vulgar: http://suffragio.org/2015/01/07/in-charlie-hebdo-massacre-french-values-find-a-rallying-point/attachment/93042404/
“This is simply not the time for that!!!”
Oh, REALLY????? You feel perfectly safe telling this guy what he can say or when he can say it but would you dare say, “In the middle of a war on Islamic terrorists and with a rising tide of Islamic terror in France, this is not the time for Charlie Hebdo to publish anti-Muhammad satirical cartoons”? Now you’re just being a hypocrite. D’Orleans has as much right to be a jerk as Charlie Hebdo. How can you deny him what you want to extend to a vulgar leftwing rag???
“Imagine if Churchill had said this right after Pearl Harbor: The attack by the Japanese was dastardly, and must be condemned. But the US has done things that have angered the Japanese, the oil embargo for one.”
But that’s what you’re doing. This guy has at least as much right to (uncomfortably) denounce this leftwing magazine’s vulgarity as the magazine had to be vulgar. You CANNOT say that he has no right to speak out just because you don’t like what he says or when he says it - if you’re not going to apply the same standard to the magazine itself. I bet you don’t even realize you’re contradicting yourself.
“Churchill never would have said that! But this “prince” evidently would have.”
Churchill did a number of things that you might not appreciate. This “prince” might turn out to be a better man than Churchill ever was. By the way, when D’Orleans ran for the French parliament he ran as a center-right independent which means he was more righwing than anyone at Charlie Hebdo. Even Churchill supported the socialistic NHS system in Britain!