"Bush=Hitler" OK but must not joke about Obama
We read:
"Canada's public broadcaster was wrong to show a skit that joked about the possible assassination of US President Barack Obama and suggested he could be a thief, an industry panel ruled today. The New Year's Eve Bye Bye comedy program - shown by the French-language Radio Canada network - generated more than 200 complaints.
In one segment, two hosts discussed Mr Obama's election in November 2008.
"We're not racists. It will be good to have a Negro in the White House," one of the show's hosts remarked. "It will be practical. Black on white, it will be easier to shoot him."
The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council said it found "nothing redeeming in the allegedly comedic notion that an American president should be shot, still less that this would be easier to achieve because of the colour of the president's skin". "It was a disturbing, wounding, abusive racial comment."
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8 comments:
What did you expect? The only consistency from the left is in their villification of anything anti-left(Obama in particular) while giving tacit approval to anything anti-right(particularly Bush).
Remember their motto,
Do as we say, not as we do.
But not a bad idea.
"If fine speechmaking, appeals to reason, or pleas for compassion had the power to move them, the terrorists would long ago have abandoned the field."
– Dick Cheney
Anon 3:35, leave it to you to quote some dick.
Anon 1:32,
Genetic fallacy
Anon 10:48,
Thanks for the illuminating reference. I hear examples of this all the time in the news and even at home with my 13 year old son. Any argument is used, even if irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Mr. Cheney's statement speaks to the very issue facing our President. Talking will not stop these islamic extremists (Terrorists.) They are the playground bully. Talking will only give them time to keep hitting us.
The only way to stop a bully is to stand up to him and either earn his respect, or wipe the floor with him if he is incapable of respecting our right to live life our own way.
Now, Anon 1:32, if you can logically argue against the statement by Mr. Cheney, with examples where talking and appeals have worked, by all means do so.
If you can only throw personal attacks at people without touching on the heart of issue, you have nothing to contribute to the discussion.
Anon 1:32's contribution is that you probably spent 15 minutes looking up the Anon 10:48 reference and composing a post in reply to Anon 1:32. Anon 1:32 is a flame baiter. You fell into his/her trap.
Anon 1:36,
and if Brian learned something here?
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