Little Green Footballs

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Hypocrisy personified

This quote by Charles 'Eagle Eye' Johnson is quite something....

"The vast, vast majority of Muslims want to get along and live a comfortable life just like everyone else," he says. "But the mainstream media shies away from showing the public the real face of Islamic extremism. They don't want to offend. And they are influenced by some strong advocacy groups that are funded by Middle Eastern countries, which are actively engaging with the mainstream media to promote a point of view."
Now let's change that a tad....
"The vast, vast majority of Jews want to get along and live a comfortable life just like everyone else," he says. "But the mainstream media shies away from showing the public the real face of political Zionism. They don't want to offend. And they are influenced by some strong advocacy groups that are funded by a Middle Eastern country, which is actively engaging with the mainstream media to promote a point of view."
If Glenn Greenwald, Markos Moulitsas, Robert Fisk, Juan Cole or Justin Raimondo had said that Charles would be busily hammering out a post about how anti-Semitic they were.

2 comments:

J.C. said...

I guess I get the gist of this site now sort of. It is all set up to answer one reactionary comment with another. One intellectual pissing contest with another. It all revolves around politics and religion. Two dead ends as far as going to a better future for humans.
One inane point as to some dead end aspect is kicked around and defended.
Religious themes that are arbitrary and mostly nonsensical are defended and trumpeted.
A lot of the points being made and counter made in this original post are pet theories , or pet peeves, concerning a variety of these political/belief systems.
Why is racism ground out over and over again here.? Judaism has nothing to do with race. Its a belief system.
Same with Islam.-
This is a very odd place, with a very strange slant to the commentary and posts.
It is hard to see what the point is here, or if a certain direction is trying to be got at even.

dawud al-gharib said...

Why is every criticism of Israel taken as 'want to destroy Israel' - when I'm not supposed to assume the same of critics of the Arab regimes want to 'slaughter Arabs' (against the evidence of the bombing of Beirut and Lebanese villages).

Look, I loathe terrorists but explain why HezboLlah and Hamas believe they're acting in the same essential self-preservation (of nation and self-determination, if not of individual lives) as Israel. That makes me a 'terrorist-lover' by LGF's judgement. When I assert that Israelis and American civilians have the right to peace and security as well, I get assaulted as 'supporter of the kafirs' by extremist arab/ muslims.

I don't care what y'all think anymore, I'm just concerned with my own moral and ethical credibility from here on out.

LGF racists can go to hell, along with the real supporters of terrorism [state or 'NGO'], everywhere.