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| View from America: CNN's false symmetry |
| 2007-08-28 |
| By JONATHAN TOBIN Critics of religion like to claim that the source of most of the world's ills can be traced to believers who wage wars in the name of their distorted, fanatic faiths. Indeed, in the past year this thesis has led to a spate of new books advocating atheism and deriding religion. Needless to say, critics of this trend have pointed out that the vast majority of the deaths incurred by conflicts in history's bloodiest century - the 20th - were caused by fanatical non-believers in traditional faiths in the name of their Communist, Maoist and Nazi faiths. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 the series was nothing short of a brazen lie From all indications, the media now considers this to be merely telling another side of the story. Go on a long sea voyage having confused apples with oranges will risk you getting rickets Ummm ... that would be scury and not "rickets" but your analogy still stands. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-28 23:49 |
| #7 Depot Guy, how are apples and oranges alike? Well, they're both fruit. Exactly, but in calling them both fruit, you lose the recognition of the essential differences between apples and oranges that necessitated putting different labels on them in the first place. Go on a long sea voyage having confused apples with oranges will risk you getting rickets, despite the seeming "keen logic" that assured you that Apples were the same as Oranges in the particulars. This is Ms. Amanpour's deception: asserting an equivalence that requires dropping the essential differences of frequency, intensity, geographic extent, and modes of manifestation. Think of it as a form of money laundering performed on words, in which the essential characteristics of words describing entities are stripped away and metamorphised in an attempt to render the intellectual violence being done upon them untrackable. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2007-08-28 22:02 |
| #6 Thus, by its very structure of equating the three different situations, the series was nothing short of a brazen lie. Hah! Ain’t it funny how the ole’ “sniveling moral equivalency” editorial is so predictable when it comes to broadcasts like this. And it wouldn’t be complete without the economic boycott thingy at the end. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-08-28 18:44 |
| #5 Okay, Christiane. Who do you want to put in charge? Think hard. Your life probably depends on it... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-08-28 16:52 |
| #4 further investigation reveals that the accurate character definition was by Andrea Peyser of the NYPost. Credit where credit due |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-08-28 15:59 |
| #3 Someone called her a "war slut", and that description stuck. "Anti-US" should be in there somewhere. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-08-28 15:40 |
| #2 amanpour has long been an apologist and spinner for Islam, and antiAmerican at best. Someone called her a "war slut", and that description stuck. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-08-28 10:40 |
| #1 See LUCIANNE > AMANPOUR'S APOLOGIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-08-28 04:28 |