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2005-02-09 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by IToldYouSo 2005-02-09 3:10:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If this had been posted by someone with a normal nym, I might've been sympathetic - I heard the blurb myself Monday night and was appalled by its scope, which is clearly bullshit...

But hey, I'm an American. I don't like assholes who think they have any special dispensation or are arrogant about something everyone here knows - hell, probably 100x better, lol, so it rubs me wrong when they haven't the smarts to be cool.

"IToldYouSo"? FOAD, you arrogant self-important snot, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-02-09 6:17:59 AM|| 2005-02-09 6:17:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This rude child posted such things yesterday as well. Perhaps its mother didn't love it enough to spank it when it was younger. At any rate, it hadn't told us so before, and so isn't entitled to make the claim now. Perhaps if it would state its position clearly and logically, with the points well defended by historical facts -- and stood firmly against ignorant disagreement from the denizens of this site ... and then was justified by the unfolding of events... then its nym would be legitimate.

I speak here as a mother of children, who knows well whereof she speaks.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-09 7:25:46 AM|| 2005-02-09 7:25:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Separately, Fox may be having Kiefer Sutherland speak the disclaimer, but they are not discontinuing the story line. And that is the key. We already know not all Muslims are evil terrorists -- President Bush has been saying that since 9/11. And the kind of people who watch 24 are not going to have their minds changed by the statement either. More likely, they will be annoyed by the pressure exerted on the network to include it, and become more suspicious of American Muslim officialdom -- ie CAIR. This is one of those Pyrrhic victories for CAIR ... Americans do not like to be told how to think.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-09 1:03:30 PM|| 2005-02-09 1:03:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I applaud fox for continuing the story against pressure from terrosits groups like CAIR. One of my favorite Clancy books "The Sum of All Fears" was ruined by the PC movie that changed the Arab Terrorists for Neo-Nazi. I have no love for either but the former is more likely to set off a nuke in a populated area. Changing the story line caused the movie to bomb, partially because most Clancy fans refused to go see it. 9/11 showed the world as to what lengths Arab/Muslim terrorists are willing to go to and changing the story line didn't change that fact it just made a good book into a bad movie.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-02-09 1:22:40 PM|| 2005-02-09 1:22:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "IToldYouSo"? FOAD, you arrogant self-important snot, lol!

Shhhhh, Dot Com.

I hear your mother coming down the hall. Better log off and pull your pants up...

Posted by Shaiter Uloluper1664 2005-02-09 3:54:46 PM|| 2005-02-09 3:54:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Lol, Shaiter Uloluper1664, for a moment I couldn't find your point, but there it is: on top of your head! FOAD / HAND.

Posted by .com 2005-02-09 6:51:54 PM|| 2005-02-09 6:51:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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