re: #135 wrenchwench

Hanson is smoother than they are, but he’s making appeals to people with the same prejudices, and for that I despise him. (And won’t read this one because I know what to expect.)

It’s not smoothness, as that he avoids their hateful tone and bigoted words:

Second, Muslim outrage over an amateurish trailer for a probably non-existent video coincides with an ongoing hit Broadway play ridiculing the Mormon Church, the reappearance of the once government-subsidized Piss Christ photos, and so on. When the administration apologizes for the excess of a private individual, but ignores condemnation of far more widely disseminated similar venom, some of it sponsored by the U.S. government, it is making a policy statement — we dare not tamper with free speech unless it touches upon Islam, not out of principle but because of sheer cowardice.

President Obama’s team may attempt to refute that passage, but Hanson clearly has a point.