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Barack Obama’s naïve, almost schoolyard-level attitude toward international politics is on display again today, as he says the US needs to set a better example for Russia: Obama: Russia, U.S. should not ‘charge into’ other countries. “We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies,” ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Russia, Moral Equivalence, Progressives
That North Carolina high school has lifted its ban on flags: Flag Ban At High School Lifted. But note that they lifted it for all flags. The moral equivalence mindset is still driving their decisions. SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. – Officials at Hobbton High School have lifted their previous ban ...
LGF, North Carolina, Patriotism, Moral Equivalence, Moonbats, Wacademia
Here’s the latest outrage to come from the moral equivalence mindset, as school administrators in North Carolina banned the wearing of the US flag—because they didn’t want to favor one flag over another. Not even their own country’s flag. This is bad craziness. Under a new school rule, students ...
LGF, North Carolina, Patriotism, Moral Equivalence, Moonbats, Wacademia
MSNBC’s Dan Abrams has strongly criticized Christiane Amanpour’s CNN series “God’s Warriors,” calling it: ...a defense of Islamic fundamentalism and the worst type of moral relativism. CAMERA.org has the video: CAMERA: MSNBC’s Dan Abrams Slams ‘CNN’s Holy War’.
Here’s a thread to discuss tonight’s episode of CNN’s extended exercise in moral equivalence, titled God’s Muslim Warriors.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is inflicting another extended exercise in moral equivalence on the TV viewers of the world, with the series “God’s Warriors.” Man, does that ever set off warning bells. Tonight’s episode, starting at 6 pm Pacific, is titled “God’s Jewish Warriors.” Uh oh. To promote the series, CNN ...
Utterly reeking with pomposity and self-importance, CNN’s Baghdad bureau chief gives us a look into the mindset of the mainstream media, in which the suicide bomber’s story is just as important as anyone else’s: Perry: A Baghdad bomb site everyone should see. (Hat tip: Steve.) In my imagination, standing in ...
Evan Sayet, a former writer for—unbelievably—Bill Maher, makes a lot of great points in this speech to the mega-evil neocon conspirators at the Heritage Foundation. It’s long (more than 45 minutes), but guaranteed to provoke cogitation in those so enabled. (Hat tip: many LGF readers.) [Video]
Moonbats, Netroots, Nutroots, Progressives, Anti-war, Violence, Moral Equivalence, Sayet, Hollywood
To read this sort of thing is to realize just how far America has ventured into the Twilight Zone of moral equivalence: Ban word ‘terrorist’ from U.S. trial, lawyer asks. MIAMI (Reuters) - Defense lawyers want the word “terrorist” banned as too inflammatory in the U.S. trial of Jose Padilla ...
Terrorism, Political Correctness, Padilla, Al Qaeda, Moral Equivalence
Australian blogger Dylan Kissane is keeping track of the whacked out propaganda on Al Jazeera International, and today they featured ACLU lawyer Steven Watt. Watt was asked by a caller which is a worse human rights violation - US extraordinary rendition flights or terrorist beheadings? The answer: to the ACLU, ...
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams shows off the muddled, morally blind thinking for which he is justly famous: World must not forget Middle East, says Anglican leader. As if anyone in the world is about to “forget” the Middle East. Here he tells us that nobody is any better or ...