Truly a face made for radio.
Posted on 02/08/2006 5:41:42 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
February 8, 2006 - 20:21.
Hardball's screen graphic "Global Fury" presumably referred to the rioting over the Mohammed cartoons. But it might also have been a subliminally sardonic comment about Chris Matthews' guest, Amy Goodman, host of the far-left radio show "Democracy Now."
If Hillary is an angry woman, perhaps she's taken lessons from Goodman. This is one angry lady. Goodman's explanation by way of a justification of the rioting?
"This is about people feeling marginalized. This has to do with the war in Iraq, this has to do with 'the Occupation' [translation: Israel's claim to a right to exist], this is about hundreds being held at Guantanamo with the Koran being desecrated."
Matthews shot back: "You're eager to assign victimhood [to the rioters]." He then raised the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was killed by a radical Islamist two months after his film 'Submission' - about the abuse of Muslim women - was shown on national TV in Holland.
Asked Matthews:
"What about a filmmaker in Northern Europe getting killed because some in the audience don't like the movie. Who's the victim? Those who feel agitated enough to kill a filmmaker or the guy who gets killed? That's easy for me. Somebody kills you, they're the bad guy. Who do you say is the bad guy here?"
Goodman wouldn't condemn the murderer, and quickly changed the subject, saying:
"I think that it is extremely important that we understand what it means when people are just made fun of on the cartoon pages but their voices are not heard on the front pages."
Right. And what better way to debunk the image of being hotheads and fanatics then rioting and burning embassies?
Goodman then indulged the left's penchant for conspiracy theories:
"I think the United States is opportunistically using [the riots] to now vilify countries."
When Matthews asked: "Are we ginning up a war with Iran and Syria?", Goodman didn't hesitate:
"Absolutely. Every excuse to go after these two countries [is being used]," referring to "the tremendous anger that this is generating not only in the Arab world but among 'peace-loving people' all over the world."
Peace-loving people "not only in the Arab world"? You mean, in addition to those peace activists currently sacking embassies and vowing to behead those who insult Islam?
Hardball/NewsBusters ping to the Today Show ping list.
Truly a face made for radio.
So the media knew the Muslim world would be enraged at the Abu Graib pictures and published them anyway since the outrage would be directed at our soldiers.
And now the media won't publish cartoons because the Muslim outrage would be directed at them. The media. Who, collectively, seem to be cowards.
Very interesting point.
Goodman: a true Socialist/Communist, proudly representing the views of 5% of electorate. The MSM should label and attribute her as such.
But as history attests...the islamic world is inertial...if it were only more reactive, we might actually have reason to worry. But, as the President says, islam is a noble faith. It surely isn't capable of such overreaction. Islam must have been hijacked by that tiny crew of zombies.
Go back to your movies and dining. Nothing to see here...please move along...
She is what happens when a crazy cat lady is given a media outlet.
Incredibly, toward the end of the interview, Matthews told her, "Amy, you and I agree on a lot of things."
How, exactly, is the US "using" these riots to gin up a war? Don't just use rhetoric, Crypt Keeper, the media are showing the reactions to the cartoons--period.
Is she saying that the media shouldn't show these reactions? Wouldn't that be more "marginalizing"?
Why do I have a sense this is one of those people who think if we only DIALOGUED with the Islamofascists then we would all live in peace?
And why would any supposed feminist (I'm assuming) be so heavily defending these folks?
Islam and leftism are the two biggest cancers on this planet.
They are cowards...just like the cowards at the lunatic liberal media who demonize Christians because they are afraid to demonize islam. They know that Christians are not going to hunt them down and cut off their heads or firebomb their houses.
If they thought it would help them bring this administration down....they would print them in a heart beat.
There are three....you forgot abortions.
I would have included it but I consider abortions as a symptom of the leftist cancer. In other words, get rid of the leftism and the abortions will go away as well.
this fugly POS was the inspiration for Debbie Downer on SNL...
She's vermin.
Awesome tagline. That rocks!
Thanks for the ping. Thanks for your work and comments (all). Never heard of this fruitcake before.
and there it is...
Hillary/Goodman 2008!
That about sums it up
And so she thinks that she is insulated by her self-righteous defense of Muslims.
Islamo-Fascists would slit her throat before she could utter, "I guess I was wrong."
People like Goodman concoct these paranoid theories to get their fellow leftists all in a lather. Bush has not used these riots as a reason to attack Iran and Syria - that should be obvious. In fact, he's called for respect for Islam and and end to rioting. I don't necessarily agree with what he's been doing, but that's what he's been doing - he hasn't been calling for war.
--Willis Player
I think that these people have the "occupation" routine ground into their DNA. They have been doing it since Alexander the Great conquered the area. Everything is sneaky and sub rosa. They cannot just give it up, as the so-called Palestinians clearly demonstrate.
What? Nobody else found it suspect that Rice fingered Syria and Iran but didnt mention flame fanner number one Saudi Arabia?
Heh, Akmed, I trade you this woman for a goat or a small donkey. What you say?
--- They cannot just give it up, as the so-called Palestinians clearly demonstrate.---
I like it! From now on I will refer to the Palestinians as the so-called Palestinians.
"I think that it is extremely important that we understand what it means when people are just made fun of on the cartoon pages but their voices are not heard on the front pages."
I have been busy but managed to catch local talk radio host Lowell Green this a.m. for an hour or so.
There was this Muslim apologist on....he kept saying, "We have no opportunity to speak our opinion, to speak our voice!"
Lowell must have said five times, "Tell me your opinion!" By the last time, Lowell said, "speak your freaking voice!"
And then, maybe it was another caller, but he asked another Muslim caller, or maybe the same one, the question: "If Canadian papers publish the cartoon, is the same violent response justified?"
The response was ... yes. The caller tried to backtrack, but it was caught on tape.
So these nutcases are here, in North America, just waiting for the chance.
However, I don't think they'd get far here. Definitely not in the U.S., and not in Canada, either, if the authorities allow people to bring their registered guns to the riots. ;)
A.K.A. the Republican Dream Team, LOL!!!!
I pinged you to my earlier post, but it didn't work (?)
#33, I believe... about radical Muslims in Canada.
And now the media won't publish cartoons because the Muslim outrage would be directed at them. The media. Who, collectively, seem to be cowards.
Thanks Peach -- Insightful. Very insightful.
Wonder which Abdul is going to end up owning Amy? I guess she'd better shoot her mouth off now, because once the burkha comes down, she ain't going to be doing a whole lot of talking. ;-)
These people are truly psychotic.
Probaby an alcohol psychosis. These dems don't even understand the law of gravity. Gin doesn't go up -- it goes down the hatch. And with frightening regularity with Matthews and his stupified guests.
Where is her Burka? I thought she respected Islam. She should take it a step further and cover it up. If they did dominate the world, women like her would be told to shut the h@ll up.
What the He** is that' a picture of Helen Thomas from about 50 years ago??????????????????
Every excuse!...yeah,like amadinawhatsisface yammerhammering every 5 minutes about how he's gonna rule the world...wankers the whole lot of them!
I almost hit the abuse button because there was no "Projectile vomit alert" on the headline!
Why oh why do these absolute dickheads get so much bloody air time!?
I swear if I'd actually heard this crap on my own radio I would have smashed it into microscopic fragments and flushed it down the toilet!(laughing maniacally!)
Yes...I'm having a lose.
If only to spare us the torture of having to look at her!
No, THIS is Helen, 50 years ago
Not much change, eh?
"Now c'mere and gimme a kiss..."
looks like a man hater
******
Well said ......... as usual.
;-)
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