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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: mrclose on September 16, 2012, 10:30:39 AM

Title: It’s Not About the Video
Post by: mrclose on September 16, 2012, 10:30:39 AM
I am posting this in Breaking News because .. well because .. Look at where it comes from!!

(http://i49.tinypic.com/1g68ao.jpg)

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THE greatest mistake to be made right now, with our embassies under assault and crowds chanting anti-American slogans across North Africa and the Middle East, is to believe that what’s happening is a completely genuine popular backlash against a blasphemous anti-Islamic video made right here in the U.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/douthat-its-not-about-the-video.html?_r=2partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&
Title: Re: It’s Not About the Video
Post by: LRanger on September 16, 2012, 10:55:05 AM
good article

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Navigating this landscape will require less naïveté than the Obama White House has displayed to date, and more finesse than a potential Romney administration seems to promise. But at the very least, it requires an accurate understanding of the crisis’s roots, and a recognition that policing speech won’t make our problems go away.
Title: Re: It’s Not About the Video
Post by: JohnnyReb on September 16, 2012, 11:04:51 AM
Knowing that Islam and not the film is the problem is not "Breaking News" to those of us here at CC....but that that fact is printed in the NYT, now that's "Breaking News".
Title: Re: It’s Not About the Video
Post by: mrclose on September 16, 2012, 11:20:09 AM
Knowing that Islam and not the film is the problem is not "Breaking News" to those of us here at CC....but that that fact is printed in the NYT, now that's "Breaking News".
Now would someone let the Moderator in on this?

(Ruined my whole Breaking News pun-ability!  :rofl:)
Title: Re: It’s Not About the Video
Post by: docstew on September 18, 2012, 12:56:16 PM
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Navigating this landscape will require less naïveté than the Obama White House has displayed to date, and more finesse than a potential Romney administration seems to promise. But at the very least, it requires an accurate understanding of the crisis’s roots, and a recognition that policing speech won’t make our problems go away.

They wouldn't defend the 1st Amendment if they didn't need it to hide behind everytime they printed classified information.