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Internet freaks out because Ben Carson doesn’t think a Muslim president is such a good idea
Canada Free Press ^ | 09/21/15 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 09/21/2015 8:51:51 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Who does?

This one follows a very familiar pattern. Here are the steps:

1. Public figure makes a statement that’s in line with what most people think, and say privately, but is considered beyond the pale for polite public discussion.

2. Media goes into overdrive reporting the story, except that there is no story. The mere fact that he expressed the opinion is the story, portrayed of course as the utterance of forbidden words.

3. Internet freaks out, except that the freakout is not so much about him being wrong as about the firestorm he should have known he’d invite by saying it, and this being proof that he is “not ready for prime time” or some such thing.

Bottom line: Don’t say things that almost everyone agrees with, but that would never the less cause the Professional Outrage Industry to do its thing on social media.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: media; muslim; president
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1 posted on 09/21/2015 8:51:51 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

Probably the same crowd that screams “theocracy” when a candidate professes to be a Christian.


2 posted on 09/21/2015 8:56:55 AM PDT by GregoTX (Cruzader)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Ben Carson’s stock just went up, IMHO, because he spoke truth to power.


3 posted on 09/21/2015 8:57:49 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Sean_Anthony
I look forward to BC using this as an opportunity to educate folks regarding the incompatibility of Islam and freedom loving people of the world.
4 posted on 09/21/2015 8:58:18 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yes, I like Carson much more today.


5 posted on 09/21/2015 8:59:10 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let he who pays no taxes also not vote.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

You know, if a Catholic was in question, the leftists would be all for religious tests, especially about abortion and gay anything. It would be seen as “intolerant” not to screen out someone based on religion. But the Muslims get a free pass because they have the same enemies the leftists have (Western civilization in general and Christianity in particular).


6 posted on 09/21/2015 8:59:48 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Muslim religion and culture is so different to our culture, I don’t think we should allow them to immigrate. It is an undeniable historical fact that they create unrest and violence every where they go.

The big lie is multi-culturalism: It is not good; it is poison. As few of them as there are, they are already trying to dictate how we do things. If they are citizens, they can stay, provided they sign swearing allegiance to the Constitution. If not citizens, they should be thrown out. We are just asking for trouble if we allow them to immigrate. Screw the politically correct media and leftists.


7 posted on 09/21/2015 9:01:20 AM PDT by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Their panties are knotted because we have one.

Proves the point I have been saying for years the majority of the people in this country are stupid beyond repair. The libs/commies have won. The descent from here picks up speed unless some divine intervention occurs.


8 posted on 09/21/2015 9:01:26 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Sean_Anthony

Remember Obama and mooch being busted having fake twitter followers? That’s the good thing about the internet. Its easy for one Obama or hillary staffer to pretend to be a hundred outraged people.


9 posted on 09/21/2015 9:02:09 AM PDT by uncitizen (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Catholic is OK with the left so long as they are merely a cafeteria Catholic like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi or, dare I say, Pope Francis.


10 posted on 09/21/2015 9:03:34 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Catholic is OK with the left so long as they are merely a cafeteria Catholic like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi or, dare I say, Pope Francis.


11 posted on 09/21/2015 9:03:35 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Proves the point I have been saying for years the majority of the people in this country are stupid beyond repair. The libs/commies have won. The descent from here picks up speed unless some divine intervention occurs.


12 posted on 09/21/2015 9:04:06 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Vigilanteman

I guess you DO dare to say it. And it is true. The left love PopeFrank.


13 posted on 09/21/2015 9:05:26 AM PDT by tioga
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To: Sean_Anthony

Is that because the people do not understand who Carson is? or what Islam is?


14 posted on 09/21/2015 9:10:13 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: GregoTX

No worries, Ben. We ALREADY HAVE ONE!

25) He changed the primary mission of NASA from space exploration to Muslim outreach . . . seriously.
24) He refuses to treat foreign terrorists as enemies at war with this country, and insists instead on treating them as mere common criminals with the constitutional rights of American citizens.
23) He refused to acknowledge that the bloodthirsty Islamic lunatics he brought to power in Iraq (ISIS) were Muslims.
22) He appeased Iran’s Islamo-fascist regime as it went nuclear.
21) When a Muslim beheaded a woman in Oklahoma for not converting to Islam, he refused to allow any acknowledgement of the Islamic connection to the attack.
20) He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq (enabling the rise of ISIS) and then lied about it.
19) He had his Department of Justice threaten to prosecute people for criticizing Islam. (FORGET THE 1st AMENDMENT)
18) He alienates and betrays Israel (our number-one ally in the Middle East) non-stop.
17) He handed Afghanistan back to the Islamic fundamentalists who facilitated 9/11.
16) He rushes in after every terrorist attack to warn us against “Islamophobia” and stopped the authorities from investigating Islamic extremism.
15) He criminalized Christianity in the military while spying onevery one but Islamic terrorists.
14) When an Islamic terrorist slaughtered 13 people and injured 30 others at Ft. Hood in 2009 while shouting, “Allahu Akbar” the entire time (a 100% preventable attack made possible by him refusing to investigate a Muslim soldier), he responded by calling it “workplace violence” and refusing to acknowledge any connection whatsoever to Islam.
13) He is on the record enthusiastically embracing Islam, and peddling wildly erroneous ”religion of peace” propaganda that Muslims around the world openly reject as false.
12) When a U.S. ambassador was dragged through the streets and tortured to death by barbaric Muslim savages in Benghazi, along with three other Americans killed that night, he repeatedly refused to lift a finger to stop the attack in the first place, and responded by apologizing to the terrorists, falsely blaming the attack on an American film, and intimidating witnesses into silence.
11) He refuses to acknowledge America’s Judeo-Christian roots, while even absurdly attempting to portray us as a Muslim country.
10) He was born and raised a Muslim.
9) He appointed members of a radical Islamic terrorist organization to sensitive advisory roles and gave Muslim extremist groups sweeping influence over U.S. policies.
8) He gutted the U.S. military to the bone while bending over backward to arm Islamic terrorists.
7) When the heads of more than 40 countries responded to the mass murder of journalists in Paris by organizing the greatest march against Islamic terrorism in history, he was the only leader in the entire Western world who refused to show up, or even have a high-level official make an appearance...even though Eric Holder was already in the city.
6) He funded and empowered Sharia-pushing Islamist radicals while trashing their Christian victims and targeting conservatives.
5) He needlessly released major Islamic terrorist leaders from Guantanamo Bay back onto the battlefield who then started groups like ISIS and had to be re-captured as they raped, beheaded, and massacred Christians across the Middle East.
4) He armed, funded, supported Islamic terrorists ...and evenrecruited them, through the State Department.
3) He routinely met with the Hamas front group CAIR while blocking FBI investigations into its open funding of terrorist groups, despite it being banned in other countries as a violent Islamic terrorist organization.
2) After he intentionally misled the public on Benghazi by falsely attributing the known terrorist attack to Americans having the right to disagree with Islam in public, Hillary revealed that he was looking to “arrest and prosecute” the film-maker they falsely blamed. And that film-maker was in fact sent to prison on trumped up charges.
1) He holds regular meetings with Islamic terrorists from the Muslim Brotherhood, removes its members from our “no-fly” lists, blocks FBI investigations into its jihadist fundraising, and fills the administration with its Islamic supremacists as they promote Sharia law.
You don’t just happen to come down on the side of Islam 100% of the time, on every single issue, without there being a reason for it. Obama is a tireless advocate for Islamic front groups, causes, and interests...and has been a brazen activist on their behalf from the beginning.
THOSE WHO WILL NOT CONNECT THE DOTS SHOWING THAT OBAMA IS A MUSLIM, ARE
IN DENIAL, BLIND TO EVIDENCE, ARE EMOTIONALLY INCAPABLE OF ACCEPTING THE
OBVIOUS, AND ARE UNABLE TO DRAW CONCLUSIONS BASED ON OBSERVATION.


15 posted on 09/21/2015 9:24:16 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

These same “open and caring” people would scream bloody murder if a pastor of an Evangelical church ran for president. What a bunch of suicidal hypocrites.


16 posted on 09/21/2015 9:26:25 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The PC bullies are out in force on this one.

I will not be bullied.
I will not be nudged.


17 posted on 09/21/2015 9:27:36 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Walkingfeather

Both!!!

The media’s has turned truth into fiction in support of the liberals.


18 posted on 09/21/2015 9:29:02 AM PDT by midlander
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To: Sean_Anthony

The internet freaks out about EVERYTHING.

Did you see the uproar yesterday about John Lennon getting crap because of something he did 50 years ago, and 34 years after he died.

Oh, the humanity


19 posted on 09/21/2015 9:29:49 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Sean_Anthony

Well the internet doesn’t vote. Yet!


20 posted on 09/21/2015 9:33:32 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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