Posted by James Hudnall Oct 19th 2010 at 4:24 am in Featured Story, Free Speech, Mainstream Media, media biasWhile I’m not one to care what some over-paid harridans think (see Maureen Dowd), you have to admit the recent episode of the View, where Fox’s Bill O’Reilly got into a shouting match with the show’s two more extreme harpies was amusing to watch. It’s also very instructive on how the so called progressives… uh… think. Or should I say, operate. Progressives do not like open debate. They have an agenda, and anything at variance with that agenda must be shut down at all costs. When screeching and hollering didn’t work, the two co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, stormed off the set in outrage when O’Reilly dared suggest that Muslims attacked us on 9/11.
Barbara Walters showed she was closer to a true liberal by telling the audience that what just happened was wrong and shouldn’t never occur on their show. It’s a talk show, after all. And as hosts, they should show some measure of respect to their guests. It seems the View’s history of crank hosts is still going strong.
The topic was the merits of the Ground Zero Mosque. O’Reilly made the point that most people are against it. But in the craven view of multi-culturalists, to not endorse this monument to a religion that encourages misogyny, not to mention death to non believers, is a thought crime. Forget jokes like why did the French line their avenues with trees? So Nazis can march in the shade. The progressives not only want to shut down any dissent about the ground zero mosque, they want to label anyone opposed to it as racists. We’re just waiting for them to start buying prayer rugs and eating halal food.
They don’t want to debate the issue. They try to crush debate. Bill O’Reilly was chastised, even by quasi-conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck because he didn’t qualify his statement by saying “terrorists” instead of Muslims.
Yes, they were terrorists. They were also Muslims. And while it’s also a true that most Muslims aren’t terrorists, one cannot get around the fact that the religion has, at its core, the creedo that killing non-believers is the duty of a devout Muslim. It’s in the Koran. Multiple places.
Thankfully, most Muslims aren’t foolish enough to take this advice. Most people, of any faith, understand it’s better to live and let live and not go around attacking people you disagree with.
Unfortunately, the builders of the proposed Cordoba Center are not willing to disavow terrorist groups. They named their project after a mosque, built on a sacred Christian church, that the Muslims took by force from Spain. This is what Islamists do. They conquer places, build mosques on holy sites like planting a flag. They lost that one, because the Christians took it back. But bringing up its name is hardly inspiring as a peace offering. Neither is building a huge, towering structure, the largest mosque in the west, as close as possible to the place 3,000 people were murdered by fanatical psychopaths in the name of Islam. It’s like planting a flag and most people get what they’re doing.
The builders are refusing to relocate their “Islamic Cultural Center” to someplace else. Offers have been made to help them. They would not listen reason. Hardly the act of peacemakers. They obviously want it built there for a reason. And somehow I doubt it’s so they can be closed to some strip clubs.
The majority of New Yorkers don’t want it there. A recent poll of Muslims said that most of them didn’t want it there either because they know it would cause ill will.
Behar and Goldberg’s stunt was a way to try to kill the debate. The GZM fans do not want the subject to go anywhere except in the direction the proponents of the mosque want it to go. Like the Democrats on Obamacare, they don’t care what the majority of Americans want or think. They’re going to tell us what to believe.
In a free society, we shouldn’t allow such intolerance of opinions and the public’s will go unchallenged. The mainstream media tries to use its hamfisted tricks to try to manufacture consent. Self righteous partisans like the two View hosts should not be allowed to play their games without consequences. We should let them know what we think.
Let’s be frank. Progressives against freedom of speech need to be outed and chastised for what they are. They do not have the interests of the public at heart. They are in fact, dictators of the public discourse, deciding what will and will not be allowed to be spoken. Well, we don’t have to take it.
As Americans, we can’t allow that sort of thing to go unchallenged. For too long we’ve accepted this behavior. Look where it has gotten us.
No more. In the age of email, YouTube and blogs, we can push back.
Let them have a piece of your mind.
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