[bootless]

AWESOME.

[1rudeboy]

bttt

[Aquinasfan]

. When Christians get hot and bothered about a horny Jesus (The Last Temptation of Christ), a gay Jesus (Terrence McNally’s Broadway play Corpus Christi), or a Jesus floating in the artist’s urine (Piss Christ), columnists take to the barricades to champion the cause of free speech. When Muslim groups closed down a play in Cleveland because its revolting apologia for a Palestinian suicide bomber was insufficiently pro-Muslim, the silence of the media lambs was deafening.

Go Mark go!

[redgolum]

And happily, crazy as they are, these Christian fundamentalist types don’t tend to be waiting for you at the stage door. Whereas, if you write, “We’re Sending You a Schoolgirl Bomb from Allah,” you attract a somewhat livelier crowd, and it’s hard to pick up showbiz awards for your boldness, courage, transgressiveness, etc., when you’re six feet under. Ask Theo van Gogh. As a rule, if you’re going to be “provocative,” it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked.

I think that is why we here people from the left screaming the evil Christians are going to Dominate the country. If they said the same thing about the islamists, well the authors would face more than mild protests and letters to the editor.

[TChris]

Wow. Have I mentioned that Steyn is -- what's the word -- great? :-)

[Stultis]

This is merely typical Steyn, which is to say devastating, perspicuous and near perfect.

[lawgirl]

WOW SO good. This one's getting bookmarked.

[Feiny]

I got an offer in the mail yesterday to get a whole year of Newsweek for $20.

I am returning the postage paid reply envelope full of other junk mail.

[MortMan]

As should have been obvious even to Isikoff and his colleagues. Is it possible to flush a Koran down the toilet? It takes a bit of effort to get even an average issue of Newsweek down and round the bend.

ROFLMAO!!!

I tried flushing Michael Isikoff’s Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story down there and wound up getting water all over my wingtips and squelching off in my socks to call a plumber. And Isikoff’s book is only 416 pages. My copy of the Q’u’r’an is 950 pages, though if you reduce the apostrophes you can get it down under 800. The suras-down-the-septic story was an obvious crock.

IOW - They're not only on the other side in this battle, they're acting (?) really, really STOOOOOOPID, too. ROFLMAO-AGAIN!!!!!!!!

[hattend]

Steyn Rocks! BTTT

[McGavin999]

That’s the real problem here: not the reflex leftism but the pathetic hicky parochialism of a U.S. media unable to see things except through the tunnel vision of domestic partisan advantage. Who’s really the “culturally insensitive” ones here?

This bears repeating!

[baseballmom]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

Thanks for posting Constitution Day.

I love Steyn. The Babe Ruth of columnists.

[BADROTOFINGER]

As a rule, if you’re going to be “provocative,” it’s best to do it with people who can’t be provoked.

That line alone is pure genius, and is so true of all the Christian bashing progressives of our society. Bash Christians and pretend to live in fear of them at the same time...JFK

[maica]

That’s the real problem here: not the reflex leftism but the pathetic hicky parochialism of a U.S. media unable to see things except through the tunnel vision of domestic partisan advantage. Who’s really the “culturally insensitive” ones here?

Wow! Serious professional slam here!!! And our uber-elites in "MSM" are so sensitive to criticism from Europeans! This must really sting!

[SquirrelKing]

Yes! Been waiting for this to get posted! Thanks, Pokey.

[mylife]

Steyn cuts thru the BS and hits the Mark again!

[Fledermaus]

Just when I think Mark cannot possibly top himself...WHAP! He does.

I was laughing so hard I lost by breath.

[foreshadowed at waco]

the pathetic hicky parochialism of a U.S. media

I love this line...as a lifelong New Yorker I just love all the liberal elites in the media who think they are so intellectually superior to everyone who doesn't see the world as they do.

I'm a NYC schoolteacher and the best 'stop them cold' line I have come up with when talking about the media bias of the NYTimes (who liberals think is an objective view of the world) is wondering why there was no outcry when Condoleeza Rice was portrayed as Aunt Jemima...its shuts them up BIG TIME...racism is considered an even bigger sin than voting for a Republican in politically correct circles.

It also kills them when I ask why the Democrats keep voting against sonograms for poor women or when I use the term 'abortion industry'...it doesn't pay to argue but I love to insert little jabs at appropriate moments. They have no comeback lines and it sure wipes their superior smirks off their superior mouths.

[Bullish]

These days it's the readers of pablum like NEWSREEK who must be the fact-checkers. Since they don't bother to vet their own story's as long as they blame the Bush admin.

Every word must be checked, including "and" and "the".

[humblegunner]

I thought you were being held hostage by some schools?
How can you be posting stuff?