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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:17 AM
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FauxNews Carlson Complains Media "Quick To Paint Norway Terror Suspect As A Right-Wing Operative"
Edited on Mon Jul-25-11 06:21 AM by jefferson_dem
Carlson Complains Media "Quick To Paint Norway Terror Suspect As A Right-Wing Operative"

"Is that true...or is he just crazy?"

:eyes: VIDEO: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201107250002?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:19 AM
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1. I thought I was reading the Onion headline
Wait he was a right wing operative.... what did I miss?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:21 AM
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2. Send this link to Carlson
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:21 AM
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3. not as quickly as the Murdoch media to label him
Muslim, with no facts to back that assertion up.

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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:26 AM
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4. Bingo...
But these talking points become so predictable with Faux noise. They are real touchy when it comes to right wing terrorists...they sure it doesn't exist even when it does happen. I'll bet they're even more skittish considering the political heat the Murdoch empire is under...this is circling their wagons.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:32 AM
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5. But not as quick as Fox was to blame the "Moooslums"
Friday night on The O'Reilly Factor, guest host Laura Ingraham did a brief report on the terrorist attacks that killed dozens of people in Norway.
She began by saying, "In the 'Back of the Book' segment tonight, two deadly terror attacks in Norway, in what appears to be the work, once
again, of Muslim extremists." She went on to describe the attacks, which involved a bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting.


Ingraham then immediately transitioned into a segment on Park51, the planned Islamic community center near the World Trade Center, by saying,
"In the meantime, in New York City, the Muslims who want to build the mosque at Ground Zero scored a huge legal victory. A Manhattan judge
dismissed a lawsuit by former New York City firefighter Timothy Brown, who was trying to stop construction of the mosque. Bill O'Reilly spoke with
a lawyer for the Muslim developers yesterday."




http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107230001


damn liberals @ media matters direct quotes and video too
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 12:12 PM
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20. And the shooter was tied in with the anti-mosque people
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/07/25/breivik_and_the_anti_jihadist_blogs.html

Breivik and the "Anti-Jihadist" Blogs
By David Weigel

Two years ago, I noticed that the "anti-Jihadist" blogosphere was going through a serious schism. It involved only one blogger: Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs. He'd started blogging about Islam and terrorism after 9/11. He inspired other "anti-Jihadists" to join the blogosphere, people like Pamela Geller, and he broadened the audience for blogs like Gates of Vienna and Jihad Watch. But he grew increasingly worried about the outreach that European nationalist groups were doing to Geller et al. He turned on the movement. As he told me then:

"I don’t think there is an anti-jihadist movement anymore. It’s all a bunch of kooks. I’ve watched some people who I thought were reputable, and who I trusted, hook up with racists and Nazis. I see a lot of them promoting stories and causes that I think are completely nuts."

Today, that blogosphere, and Johnson, are grappling with the murders allegedly committed by Anders Behring Breivik. Johnson doesn't mince words: He says that Geller, the mysterious Fjordman, et al, have "blood on their hands."


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber. . . .

His manifesto, which denounced Norwegian politicians as failing to defend the country from Islamic influence, quoted Robert Spencer, who operates the Jihad Watch Web site, 64 times, and cited other Western writers who shared his view that Muslim immigrants pose a grave danger to Western culture. . . .

The revelations about Mr. Breivik’s American influences exploded on the blogs over the weekend, putting Mr. Spencer and other self-described “counterjihad” activists on the defensive, as their critics suggested that their portrayal of Islam as a threat to the West indirectly fostered the crimes in Norway.

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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:50 AM
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6. "is that two or is he just crazy?"....
the two are not mutually exclusive. it is possible for it to be both. there are a lot of right wing nutjobs. there are a lot of right wing with guns who think that certain groups aren't as worthy of living as they are. even though they talk about abortion being wrong and life being precious, they are gleeful to hear of the death of others who they do not agree with or want to hurt others.

These faux people also don't like being called christian terrorists or being compared to the taliban.... they are comparable to the taliban and any other people who seek to force their beliefs and ideas on others through any means necessary.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 07:16 AM
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7. It's so hard to tell the difference between Conservative and Crazy. I wonder why. n/t
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Prophet 451 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 07:28 AM
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8. He was both
The guy was a Christianist terrorist, that's pretty clear but just like Islamist terrorists don't represent Islam, this fuckwad doesn't represent Chriustianity.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 07:46 AM
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9. Then why aren't the "real" xtians denouncing him from every pulpit...
using every sermon to belittle his beliefs?

why aren't they? why aren't they taking out ads on tv and radio? why aren't they handing out flyers?

I don't know for sure, but i have to believe, because of their lack of repudiation and indignation, that they agree with him and are set on destroying our culture from within!
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 09:30 AM
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11. +1

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Prophet 451 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 10:49 AM
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18. I'm sorry
I'm not a Christian but I am a man of faith and although I didn't say it, as a DUer of many years, I'd like to apologise for the broad brush used in the earlier post.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 10:56 AM
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19. And you never will.
Edited on Mon Jul-25-11 10:57 AM by ret5hd
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Prophet 451 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 10:47 AM
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17. Some are
I'm sure a certain percentage of American Christians do agree with him but I'm equally sure that there's quite a few Christians who are denouncing this guy and those like him. Thing is, you often don't hear about them because, frankly, that doesn't make for good copy. The media has certain biases. No, I'm not talking about the fictional "liberal bias" but they do have a bias toward sensationalism. Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps saying something outrageous makes for better copy that Joe Bloggs feeding the homeless. Why aren't they taking out TV ads and handing out flyers? Well, partly because they tend not to do stuff like that (for reasons I don't pretend to know) and partly because Christianity in the USA is so fragmentory that that is no body which can claim to be speaking for all or even the majority of Christians.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 09:14 AM
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10. Guess Carlson hasn't had the time to read the suspect's manifesto.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 09:33 AM
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12. Carlson IS a White Supremacist
Not just hyperbole...she has made comments time and time again expressing support for white supremacy and Christian Dominionism
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 10:23 AM
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13. Right wing Christian militant.
There are lots just like him here in Amerikkka.

You can BET it's coming here too.

Bake
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 10:24 AM
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14. AH hahahahahahahahahaha
good one

k&r
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 10:27 AM
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16. Carlson is a right wing terrorist (NT)
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