The Fight over the Iraq vote and the strange hypocrisy of the American Right regarding Iraq [FR]

OpEdNews.com ^ | December 31, 2005 | Steven Leser

[Watery Tart]

This op-ed.com web site is nothing more than a collection of conspiracy theories, "rigged voting machines" and Republicans are Nazis crap. They are so far out on the lunatic fringe, one of their articles complain that NPR is too pro republican.

I would wager more people have read the nutjob's article after it was posted on FR than did before. You've probably trippled traffic to the lunatic website as well.

Kinda sounds like DimunitiveUnderparts, no?

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[bert]

The diachotemy is the result of ignorance and intolerance.

In between the Arab bashing there are posts by several knowledgeable FReepers who have experience with real arab people and post favorable comments.

No amount of knowledge however can overcome the religous intolerance that is the hall mark of the very right.

[Watery Tart]

Do you REALLY want my opinion of this writer?

Well, if you want to consider him a writer, we have to change the expectations....
;o)

And thanks for the pic of the grumpy cat, MEG. Sometimes my cat has that expression.

[Watery Tart]

The article's author commits the same type of grouping together of people in naming, attributing the faults of a few to the entire group, and then hating his convoluted construct, that he attacks in his criticism. The only difference is that he attacks others for attacking Islam, while he applies the same method he hates against conservatives.

It's that whole broad-stroke-reckless-generalization-lazy-categorizing they're so used to misusing. And let's not forget how they project THEIR party's traits on us.

[libertylover]

While there are some disappointing exaggerations on this site, it's even more astonishing that liberals can't see the pattern. Maybe if they take this little quiz...

1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Lenno
c. Harry Potter
d. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6.In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7.In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9.In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the
passengers.Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11.In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, .....I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? Just because the answer to each question is D.

[sport]

Nor have I.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I don't like "nuke mecca" posts. Period, full stop. Even there, I can't argue with the need for a big can of whoop-ass. The other criticisms in that sloppy piece are not so clean-cut. I don't agree with the black-and-white condemnation of Islam nor of homosexuality per se, but in both cases, there is room for criticism of actual behavior in the present day.

[norwaypinesavage]

"I get the feeling that most Republicans secretly feel this way."

Really objective, isn't he. Most real authors base their screeds on facts, not feelings. Oops, he's a liberal, isn't he.

[Watery Tart]

Nope, .....I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? Just because the answer to each question is D.

IIRC, I seem to remember that the "Beltway Sniper" reporters (after they could no longer blame this crime on white, Christian "right-wing extremists," of course), had a rough time saying that the name "John Allen Muhammad" when it came up.

[Watery Tart]

Now this jerk loses all credibility by resorting to name calling.

Which is why I peg his age at about fourteen. Next month.

[Watery Tart]

I'll be GONE FOR A WHILE.

Keep posting!

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

That's what all this uproar was about? Libs get their knickers twisted easily. Thanks for posting it.

[oneofmany]

This vermin slams FReepers for their views on Islam. In the same article he says that when the practitioners of Islam rule the country after Democratic elections, women and children will be oppressed. Sounds like he doesn't have much faith in Islam either.

[Grut]

Well, some Freepers do swing pretty wildly at whatever target presents itself, and some -- most -- don't. The Left has a problem handling diversity.

[AmericanChef]

-Most practitioners of Islam that I have had the pleasure to know are wonderful, law abiding and hard working people.-

Try dating one of their daughters.

[Condor51]

Calm down people, this OpEdNews.com is a commie blog, oops 'progressive' blog, run by a moonbat named Rob Kall. PeeWee Herman's website probably gets more hits. And the article by this so-called 'freelance journalist' is just a posting by one of their raving moonbat members dressed up as 'journalism'.

Here's some excerpts of the 'hate mail' they get, pretty good stuff IMO:

• I ran across your website for the first time. At first I was amused, then amazed, then disgusted. I read that gibberish by Paul Levy in which he attempts to label Bush with some New Age psychiatric diagnosis to explain that he is a walking contagion of disordered thinking. Only a liberal would turn to a tried-and-true Soviet tactic of using psychiatry as a political tool to marginalize someone with whom they don't agree. ~~snip~~ As for the "arguments" proposed on your website, I have seen so much sloganeering since I attending a meeting with a group of frayed Trotskyists during the early 1980s as they smoked hand-rolled cigarettes and muttered bitterely about Ronald Reagan.

• Mr. Kall: I thank God (yes, I said God) every day that job destroying communists such as yourself will never make it to office. If any one of your economic plans were to be implemented, the economy and strength of the USA would be in serious peril. Like most left-wingers, you take an arrogant, spitefull view of business which provides jobs. No poor person has ever paid my or your wages. It is mathematically impossible to tax any society into prosperity. Think Mr. Kall, use your brain and not your emotions. This may be hard for you to accept: life is not fair. Deal with it. Leave business alone to provide jobs.

• I have read your recent article re the subject. You are what you preach. A hate monger, blind with rage, and ill informed. You preach against the vast right being liars and fools, not being fair etc etc, and do exactly what you accuse them of doing. That sir is a hypocrite. You are either intentionally dishonest, stupid, or unwilling to face the truth of what you do, Exactly what you accuse those idiot vast right (left in your case) wing conspirators, and a stupid president of doing".

• I have read opednews.com, and moveon.com, and find them so far more biased than anything I have seen on Fox News. Your groups are full of hatred, vitriol, and propaganda which only emboldens the main stream of America to stand up and defeat you and your ilk. I am looking forward to GW Bush being re elected, and we do appreciate your help. Each time you spew your hatred, I use it to simply find more voters to vote republican. God Bless GW Bush, and God Bless America

• So you don't like Fox, Rush, et al. Your solution is to call them names, shut them up and insult their audience. And you wonder why people are leaving the liberals in droves? Anything but admit that your ideas have been rejected because they are simply wrong and when put in to practice, have been miserable liberal failures. You wonder when the electorate will wake up? Perhaps America has stirred from her sleep and now sees things for what they are. Perhaps we are tired of people like you demeaning our "deformed beliefs", perhaps we are sick of your arrogance and pride, perhaps we see fit to remove you from your lofty perch and place you in a museum where we can all remember of a time when we made the decision to no longer suffered the arrogance of fools.

The Daily Kos has more legitimacy than this waste of bandwidth.

[solzhenitsyn]

" ... they talk about every practicing Muslim and everyone of Arab descent as if they were a member of Al Qaeda and an animal."

There certainly are Freepers who talk that way, and it's shameful. Muslims and Arabs are people who need the truth and the blessings of freedom and democracy. Many Arabs and Muslims have shown great courage and nobility.

[Chode]

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So use JIHADD brand Semtex Explosive to show you really care!!!

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[Darksheare]

Steven the Lesser is quite delusional there.
Best part is where he claims that everyone is advocating nuking all Muslims.
It seems that in his haste to get his story by trolling and leaving quickly, he forgot to note that everyone here has their own opinions and not everyone advocates nuking all Muslims.
Of course, such observations are beyond his skill and mental acuity it seems.

*chuckle*