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2007-08-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 See LUCIANNE > AMANPOUR'S APOLOGIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-28 04:28|| 2007-08-28 04:28|| Front Page Top

#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">Frank G 2007-08-28 10:40|| 2007-08-28 10:40|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-28 15:40|| Front Page Top

#4 further investigation reveals that the accurate character definition was by Andrea Peyser of the NYPost. Credit where credit due

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-28 15:59|| 2007-08-28 15:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-08-28 16:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Thus, by its very structure of equating the three different situations, the series was nothing short of a brazen lie.

Hah! Aint it funny how the ole sniveling moral equivalency editorial is so predictable when it comes to broadcasts like this. And it wouldnt be complete without the economic boycott thingy at the end.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-08-28 18:44|| 2007-08-28 18:44|| Front Page Top

#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">Ptah 2007-08-28 22:02|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-08-28 22:02|| Front Page Top

#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">Zenster 2007-08-28 23:49|| 2007-08-28 23:49|| Front Page Top

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