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Anderson Cooper confronts anti-Muslim candidate [NC Republican Renee Ellmers]
Salon ^ | September 27, 2010 | Justin Elliott

Posted on 09/27/2010 12:37:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On Friday night, Anderson Cooper conducted a must-see interview with congressional candidate Renee Ellmers, the North Carolina Republican who is running the most baldly anti-Muslim advertisement of the year. This was the ad we told you about last week that refers to the organizers of Park51, "the Muslims," and "terrorists" interchangeably.

In the interview (via TPM's Eric Kleefeld), Cooper challenges Ellmers on her conflation of Muslims and terrorists. She responds: "[T]hat is certainly not what I'm intending to say. I am not intending to say that all Muslims are terrorists."

She floats the idea that the organizers of Park51 are terrorists before acknowledging that she doesn't know much about Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

During an exchange about whether Park51 is a "victory mosque," a frustrated Cooper exclaims: "That's like the lowest response I have ever heard from a candidate, I have got to tell you."

Watch:

(VIDEO AT LINK)


TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 2010; 911; andersoncooper; groundzeromosque; islam; mosque; northcarolina; sharia
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To: Dixie Yooper

Gov. Palin endorsed Renee Ellmers a little while ago.


21 posted on 09/27/2010 1:52:40 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cooper is nuts, thinking that Rome was conquered from Pagans by Christians, I wish she had really hammered him on that lie.


22 posted on 09/27/2010 2:08:43 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All Muslims might not be terrorists, Salon, but damned near all TERRORISTS certainly are MUSLIMS!!! She shouldn’t retreat one inch.


23 posted on 09/27/2010 2:10:03 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: rbmillerjr

Her calmness was impressive. Also, if the show was “fair and balanced” they would have had TWO religious experts on after her. And they would have focused on different nuances of what is being discussed. The “Catholicism vs islam” churchbuilding comparison was laughable and easily debunked. But alas, there was nobody there to do it.


24 posted on 09/27/2010 2:12:33 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Ouderkirk
There is the erroneous assertion that Radical Islam is not connected with mainstream (moderate) Islam in any way, that the religion of Islam has been “hijacked by a few extremists” that the vast majority of Muslims do not agree with the Islamofascists.

I agree with your statement, but just to play devil's advocate, and to watch an islamic apologist's head explode, let's say the statement is true.

Let's say the muslim extremists that have hijacked islam make up only 10% of the muslim population. There are almost 1.7 billion muslims in the world, which means that there are almost 1.7 million extremists. The United States has an active duty military strength of about 1.7 million.

So 1.7 million crazy muslim's, about the same number as the United States' total military strength, 1.7 million muslims who's motto is convert, submit, or die, are no reason to be alarmed?

The numbers don't lie, at this time, islam is liberty's greatest threat.

25 posted on 09/27/2010 2:16:22 PM PDT by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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To: DManA

If that was the lowest response he has ever heard...I’d like to hear more. Ha,ha. Oh andeersin...ya gotta love him don’tcha? He tries...


26 posted on 09/27/2010 2:25:05 PM PDT by cubreporter ( Trust Rush and you won't go wrong.)
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To: Dixie Yooper

you mean Bob WHO AH UUUUU, WHO AHHH UUUUU?” Etheridge?? What a jerk he is.


27 posted on 09/27/2010 2:26:09 PM PDT by cubreporter ( Trust Rush and you won't go wrong.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow! Good for her!


28 posted on 09/27/2010 2:44:11 PM PDT by johngrace (God so loved the world so he gave his only son! Praise Jesus and Hail Mary!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bookmark


29 posted on 09/27/2010 2:53:03 PM PDT by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: cubreporter
you mean Bob WHO AH UUUUU, WHO AHHH UUUUU?” Etheridge?? What a jerk he is.

If Renee Ellmers would run a "It's Time to Retire Bob Etheridge!" and keep playing that video of him roughing up the school boy over and over again, even the farthest reaching extremities of the 2nd District would vote against him.

30 posted on 09/27/2010 3:05:37 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

While not all muslims are terrorist all muslims are enemies of America freedom and liberty if they follow islam which is an evil obomination


31 posted on 09/27/2010 3:53:41 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I admire Rennee, have her as a friend on my FB page. Good for her!


32 posted on 09/27/2010 4:15:04 PM PDT by Biggirl (GO UCONN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! :)=^..^=)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Look in the northwest corner of your map. Lots of very squiggly lines in and around Greensboro. If there’s a more corrupt overtaxing county than Guilford, I don’t want to know about it.


33 posted on 09/27/2010 8:21:57 PM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: Dixie Yooper

Exactly. He was a thug (or I should say he was trying his damndest to be a thug) but failed miserably because he was more a jackass than anything else. He’s lucky the young man in question didn’t let loose on him (etheridge) or his (etheridge) next question would have been: “Who am AHHH? FOLLOWED BY: Where am ahhhh?”


34 posted on 09/27/2010 8:35:07 PM PDT by cubreporter ( Trust Rush and you won't go wrong.)
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To: Dixie Yooper
If you think that district is gerrymandered, look at the 12th (Congressman Mel Watt, the Obama rubber stamp):

When it was formed, one cartoonist depicted it as the result of a politician launching a spew of tobacco juice at the map. There are 3 congresscritters representing Charlotte, the largest city in the state. One is Watt (D) who has voters in Winston-Salem (80 miles away), another is Kissell (D) who has voters in Fayetteville (137 miles away); and the real one, Myrick (R) who represents most of the city.

35 posted on 09/27/2010 8:57:17 PM PDT by DeFault User
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