#1
One might consider her remarks as an objection to the growing language constraint movement of social prescriptivism popularized in the media.
People aren't bad because they use 'bad words'. Words have no good or badness.
She demonstrates the dangerous duality of the First Amendment which demands that 'freedom of speech' and 'freedom of the press' are equally protected.
When properly manipulated any protections can be exploited by the masses to victimize the individual.
While 'sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will never hurt you" remains true, the pen (as read by the masses) is indeed mightier than the sword.
#3
But she's probably right. Bozo celeb being hassled by jerk paparazzi calls one of them a bad name. I 'spose it was meant to be get-outta-my-face offensive, but not - you know - mean and hurtful.
Not that I care.
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Coulter advised conservatives against jumping on the anti-Baldwin bandwagon.
I know, but since when do conservatives care about somebody using a word, especially a word that is said in a moment of anger? she said. I think they shouldnt have suspended him, and most I think conservatives should not join the word police. I mean, I understand the instinct to do so.
Malzberg suggested things would be different if she had made the same remarks that Baldwin made, which Coulter conceded was the only argument for conservatives.
Thats the only argument for conservatives, Coulter added. We do not believe in the word police.
I wouldn't throw rocks at Ann when merely going to the link and reading what she actually said refutes B's and Skid's take (which, apparently, they want to be taken at face value by privilege of THEM saying it).
And NO Skid. The Pen is NOT mightier than the Sword. The power of the Pen is its ability to rouse TWO Swords. The power of the Pen is to FAKE being THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE so that those bearing the Sword are fooled into doing the Pen's will.
REFUSE JOINING THE WORD POLICE. Sorry to see B and Skid kissing up...
#5
The feckless media and Coulter giving special gravitas to ungentlemanly conduct. The "[verb you]" to a female news reporter, exactly what Baldwin desires. To these bottom-feeders, all publicity is Dy-no-mite, simply Dy-no-mite.
Anyone remember the media response to Cheney's ["verb you"] a few years back ?
#7
I get what she is saying, and I too am tired of whispering on eggshells.
Thing is, Alec runs his mouth like Charlie Sheen drives a car. The issue here is not the language it is placing Mr., well whatever he is famous for doing, in a motte where others, for fewer offense and more excuse such as Mel Gibson being hammered and arrested, get the branding. Imagine a recording of Cheney railing his daughter like Alec did. Defend the speech, don't defend the little piggy.
Srzly, looking at the filmography, 3/4 of it is self promotion. What is he famous for, episodes of Knot's landing and secondary interest characters?
#8
Well Alex did a bang up job as Jack Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October."
Other than that he is a fringe element loony.
I do think he is getting the "politically correct" treatment from the media who will close ranks around the most heinous of their own in self-protection like Musk Ox against any perceived slighting of their holy pursuit of "truth(?)"
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What is he famous for, episodes of Knot's landing and secondary interest characters?
Uh, he used to bang Kim Basinger?
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#10
Coulter jumped the shark years ago. Just like Peggy Noonan. Neither of them are worthy of any serious consideration and more.
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#14
I don't care what Baldwin said. So far as I'm concerned it isn't even newsworthy. Somebody gets in your face the way the paparazzi do and you're likely to let loose a few expletives too. This PC business is nothing but a means the liberals have developed to stifle free speech.
It's not like Baldwin's MSLSD colleague who said what he said about Sarah Palin on the air and I don't even care much about that. If you don't like it then don't watch him. I don't. I can't even remember his name right now.
Hell, I think even jerkface has a right to say what he thinks even though I don't believe he thinks very much at all before he starts blithering. But then, if Fred doesn't like it jerkface is outta here because it's Fred's website. That's the American way, jerkface.
A liberal blogger and representative on the health care committee at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), turned to the liberal blog The Daily Kos, on Monday to decry the negative impact he says President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... 's signature health care law is having on grad students at his Ivy League school.
"For us, at least in the college health insurance market, the ACA has truly been the 'law of unintended consequences,' wrote Michael Convente on The Daily Kos,
on Monday.
"[R]elying on marketing slogans, some of which turned out not to be so correct, is turning out to be problematic," he lamented.
Convente said the "progressive" UPenn Student Health Insurance Advisory Committee (SHIAC), on which he serves, doesn't mind funding artificial limbs or even gender reassignment surgery, but that forcing poor college students to pay for health care for children, which most don't use, is becoming a burden.
...Russia, which many people a few months ago said was clinging onto Syria for dear life because it was its last foothold in the Middle East, is now actively sought after by regional leaders.
Americas Middle East policies its hesitancy, its lack of clear redlines, its apparent weakness have set its allies scurrying about looking for other partners.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman could have been speaking for many countries in the region when he said at the Sderot Conference Wednesday that it was unwise to rely on the US as much as Israel has in the past, and that Israels foreign policy should not look only in one direction: toward Washington.
Indeed, with some major US missteps in the Middle East over the last three years raising questions for many regional actors about Washingtons reliability, many of Israels neighbors are looking in other directions.
#1
The fallacy of this article is the assumption the US HAS a foreign policy.
Following the thread and trying to connect the dots on what the current ME policy leads to only two conclusions:
1. The US has no coherent foreign policy
2. The US has a coherent foreign policy designed to foment a disastrous nuclear war in the ME so that the ONE can divert attention away from his efforts to convert the US to the CSSR2.0
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You left one out:
3. The US has a foreign policy with the objective of upending the status-quo, regardless of whether its aspects are useful or effective.
[Pak Daily Times] "How, think you, will the Mohurrum go this year? I think that there will be trouble" -- On the City Wall, Rudyard Kipling, 1888.
This Moharram was one of those, after many years, in which there was trouble. The tragic turn of events this past Ashura day in Rawalpindi overshadowed an otherwise peaceful mourning season countrywide. The destruction of the mosque-madrassa complex and murder of 10 men associated with that entity, apparently by some from within the procession, must be squarely condemned. There is no excuse for murder and mayhem. The same goes for those who ravaged several imambargahs later on. As abhorrent as the incidents were, they still seem to have happened because of a breakdown in law and order and classic tit-for-tat sectarian rioting rather than an elaborate CIA/RAW/Mossad plot or Saudi-Iran proxy war that many leaders and analysts in Pakistain are portraying them as. Nonetheless, domestic and transnational jihadists have already pounced on them to exploit the sectarian fault line. Omar Sheikh Khorasani of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... wing, in an Urdu video statement, has vowed a Syria-like revolt to exact Dire Revenge™ on the 'apostate' Shia, ostensibly on behalf of the Sunnis. The banned sectarian outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
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[Pak Daily Times] The dangerous thing about sectarian violence is that it is a contagion that must inherently spread in a multi-denominational society with the state's preventive and law enforcement capacity questionable. After the bloody festivities that unfolded in Rawalpindi on Friday, the 10th of Moharram, hatred and strife have spread more and more and there seems to be no sign of it abating any time soon. The festivities in Rawalpindi saw as many as ten murdered followed by a curfew being imposed. The tensions spread to Multan, Chishtian, Kohat and Hangu in a matter of days and now, on Tuesday, a Shia professor was bumped off ruthlessly in Gujrat by person or persons unknown in what can only be described as a hate crime of the most despicable kind. The professor was the victim of a murder; his only crime was that he was a Shia and his gunning down was in retaliation for the Rawalpindi incident in which Shia mourners beat up and killed Sunni seminary students after being provoked by a hate-sermon from a mosque. One shudders to think what to expect next. That is why it is of the utmost importance now that the government stop taking half-baked measures and actually do something about what could be a potentially explosive situation, ready to engulf the country as a whole.
The government has proposed monitoring all forms of hate speech on social media networking websites in a bid to tackle this menace. It has issued directives to the Ministry of Information Technology and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to monitor all controversial statements made online on these popular sites as well as in text messages. While this is a noteworthy step because monitoring statements intended to provoke will help lead to the perpetrators of such sentiments, there are reservations because of the manner in which governments have tackled such problems in the past. The inclination of our governments for some years has been to ban or suspend anything on the modern means of communication that may cause it the slightest unease, e.g. YouTube and cellular services. It must not fall prey to this device when it comes to social media because apart from being a retrograde step, it will also deprive the authorities of the source of online hate speech and incitement. Monitoring is a step in the right direction but it should stay at that. The government must not limit itself to the confines of online instigation; it must also tackle the pulpit. Hate speeches are delivered across the land in various mosques and seminaries, especially on Fridays, calling on the 'faithful' to take up arms against minority communities like the Shias and Ahmedis. This has to be stopped. The blatant use of the loudspeaker in mosques to reach audiences far and wide with this vitriol must be halted. Hate literature that is distributed in every nook and cranny must be banned and taken away out of the public space. These are steps that must be taken immediately.
After the trouble in Rawalpindi, we are witnessing a spate of attacks and protests, which may seem like small, insignificant incidents in themselves but one must remember that they have the potential to grow all over the country on a very wide scale. The government cannot allow this to happen and must intervene at all costs. It must call together the Learned Elders of Islam (holy mans) from both sects and ask them to talk some sense into their followers, calming them down in this emotionally flammable time. It is also time for the authorities to take a tough line on all those who seek to deepen the sectarian divide through violence. If this plague is not nipped in the bud, the country could have a lot to lose.
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