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Me#1You#10 Site Admin
Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: Steyn: Media utters nonsense, won't call enemy out |
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More vintage Steyn...
Quote: | Media utters nonsense, won't call enemy out
October 16, 2005
BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
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I underestimated multiculturalism. After 9/11, I assumed the internal contradictions of the rainbow coalition would be made plain: that a cult of "tolerance" would in the end founder against a demographic so cheerfully upfront in their intolerance. Instead, Islamic "militants" have become the highest repository of multicultural pieties. So you're nice about gays and Native Americans? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of the tolerant, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti- masochists. And so Islamists who murder non-Muslims in pursuit of explicitly Islamic goals are airbrushed into vague, generic "rebel forces." You can't tell the players without a scorecard, and that's just the way the Western media intend to keep it. If you wake up one morning and switch on the TV to see the Empire State Building crumbling to dust, don't be surprised if the announcer goes, "Insurging rebel militant forces today attacked key targets in New York. In other news, the president's annual Ramadan banquet saw celebrities dancing into the small hours to Mullah Omar And His All-Girl Orchestra . . ."
Chicago Sun-Times - cont'd |
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kate Admin
Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 1891 Location: Upstate, New York
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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more from the link
Quote: | I'm aware the very concept of "the enemy" is alien to the non-judgment multicultural mind: There are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated. But the media's sensitivity police apparently want this to be the first war we lose without even knowing who it is we've lost to. C'mon, guys, next time something happens in the Caucasus, why not blame the "Caucasians"? At least that way, we'll figure it must have been right-wing buddies of Timothy McVeigh. |
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Uisguex Jack Rear Admiral
Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 613
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:39 am Post subject: |
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I don't get out much. I read this thing in its entirety early this morning, when posted.
Is this guy Steyn, a well known guy? I only heard about him here?
The piece is a splendid bit of diction, fact and syntax. |
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Me#1You#10 Site Admin
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Uisguex Jack wrote: |
Is this guy Steyn, a well known guy? I only heard about him here?
The piece is a splendid bit of diction, fact and syntax. |
Jack...here's a good place to start, and you might try his prior column for his take on the Miers nomination. Everytime I have the good fortune to be directed his way, I'm always, at least, entertained and his thoughts generally echo my own. He was QUITE supportive of the Swiftees as well as a search of this forum will bear out. |
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1991932 Lance Corporal
Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 381 Location: Massachusetts
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:07 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the Steyn link, #1.
I added it to my Favorites. _________________ Former "War Criminal" |
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blue9t3 Admiral
Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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There are no enemies, just friends whos grievences we havnt accommodated yet!
Man, that just makes my stomach churn. _________________ MOPAR-BUYER |
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lonevoice Lt.Jg.
Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 105 Location: OKC and God help me, stuck in Wichita now...
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Steyn rocks!!! _________________ It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
-Mother Teresa
If it's not a baby, you're not pregnant.
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