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Taranto: Obama Likes First Amendment for Mosque, Why Not for Fox?
News Busters ^ | 09/30/2010 | Lachlan Markay

Posted on 09/30/2010 11:08:24 AM PDT by cruise_missile

In light of President Barack Obama's recent attack on the Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto wonders: "why is the Ground Zero mosque the only case in which Obama has ever defended anyone's First Amendment rights without qualification?"

There are a number of possible answers, and at least some of them are reasonable and worthy of media attention. And indeed, a few journalists have noticed and raised objection to the White House's selective contempt for opinion media - Fox is "destructive," but MSNBC libtalkers Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann "provide an invaluable service."

But there is a deeper First Amendment double standard at work here, as Taranto notes:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amendment; fox; mosque

1 posted on 09/30/2010 11:08:28 AM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: cruise_missile

A big part of being a muslim is using other people’s rules against them.


2 posted on 09/30/2010 11:10:53 AM PDT by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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To: cruise_missile

Here is the article that is referenced:

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Obama talks down to his snooty “progressive” base.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520070819132424.html


3 posted on 09/30/2010 11:12:24 AM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: cruise_missile

So, then...Obama won’t mine the KKK Center for Love and Peace to be situated next door and will vocally support it’s right to be there.


4 posted on 09/30/2010 11:15:54 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: Soothesayer

Very insightful & significant comment...


5 posted on 09/30/2010 11:16:43 AM PDT by 506Lake (Study your history; not the news media.)
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To: cruise_missile

easy: He is peddling crap ideas and the only way that crap ideas can become accepted is if they outlaw opposing ideas...

This is why Atheism and Islam are promoted in goobermint screwls but Christianity ist verboten...


6 posted on 09/30/2010 11:17:22 AM PDT by stefanbatory (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: cruise_missile
"Taranto: Obama Likes First Amendment for Mosque, Why Not for Fox?"

It's really quite simple:

Mosque = Muslims = Friends of Obama

Fox News = conservative Americans = NOT Friends of Obama

Like many people on the left, Mr. Obama is a tireless advocate of free speech and diversity of opinion as long as those exercising "free speech" are paying homage to him; and as long as the "diverse" opinions are in perfect agreement with his own.

7 posted on 09/30/2010 11:18:13 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Soothesayer
I would think that Obama would have a problem with at least a third of Islam, Sharia Law.

Surely, Fox News isn't as bad as Sharia Law.

Sharia never abolished slavery, sexual slavery and highly regulates it. A master will not be punished for killing his slave.

There is no age limit for marriage of girls. The marriage contract can take place anytime after birth and can be consummated at age 8 or 9.

There is no community property between husband and wife and the husband’s property does not automatically go to the wife after his death.

Homosexuality is punishable by death.
(Why Ahmadinajhad said there are no homosexuals in Iran.)

9:5: “… fight and slay the pagans (infidels/unbelievers) wherever you find them.”
9:29: “… kill Jews and Christians if they do not convert to Islam or refuse to pay Jizya tax.”
5:33: “… maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam.”
47:4: “… do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them.”

8 posted on 09/30/2010 11:18:23 AM PDT by cruise_missile
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To: cruise_missile

The answer is in the question.


9 posted on 09/30/2010 11:18:45 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Soothesayer
A big part of being a muslim is using other people’s rules against them

Amazing how much Islam has in common with Alinsky-Luciferianism!

10 posted on 09/30/2010 11:21:45 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Is Obama the Twelfth Imam? Farrakhan thinks he is!)
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To: cruise_missile
. . . . "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" (pp)

The political winds in the USA have shifted in an ugly direction for Islam. The more we ordinary Americans know about the death cult, the less we like it.

The overwhelming evidence points to Obama being a muslim. There's not really much else to say.

11 posted on 09/30/2010 11:37:55 AM PDT by atc23
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To: atc23

12 posted on 09/30/2010 11:46:26 AM PDT by StopObama2012 (CLICK ME to expose Osaudi)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
A big part of being a muslim is using other people’s rules against them

Amazing how much Islam has in common with Alinsky-Luciferianism!

Two sides of the same coin.

13 posted on 09/30/2010 12:24:51 PM PDT by epic stache
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To: cruise_missile

Everything connected to a Democrat includes a double set of standards.


14 posted on 09/30/2010 1:56:51 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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