"Doctor Zhivago" <Zhivago@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:01:24 -0600, weberm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ubiquitous)
> wrote:
>
>>NewsBusters.org re****ts on an exchange that occurred last week on "The
>>View," which apparently is a daytime TV show featuring a panel of mostly
>>ditsy female celebrities [1]:
>>
>>Whoopi Goldberg: Now in the Sudan, there's a British teacher who is
>>possibly going to be stoned or lashed... Because, in her class they had
>>some teddy bears and she, one of the kids wanted to name ... his teddy
>>bear Muhammad and she said "fine." Apparently, other children complained
>>to their parents, which is how it ended up in the hands of the religious
>>leaders, and the religious leaders are very very upset...
>>
>>Sherri Shepherd: I think it's like it's sacrilegious to name a stuffed
>>toy Muhammad. But you know, you would think that with her being in
>>Sudan, she would know the rules and customs. Because I know I performed
>>stand up in Turkey, and they gave me a big thick packet on the customs,
>>and what you could and could not do, and how you would offend people. So
>>I'm surprised that she didn't know it might be offensive.
>>
>>Goldberg: Yeah, because you'd think if you're going overseas, I mean, we
>>had this discussion yesterday about people coming to America and
>>learning the customs and knowing what is cool, and what isn't cool. But
>>I find that maybe we are not--and I say we just as European and
>>American, we're not as anxious to learn the customs before we go places.
>>It's just one of the reasons we're called the ugly Americans.
>>
>>NewsBusters' Justin McCarthy is rightly appalled at the ladies' blasé
>>attitude toward the Sudanese threat to beat or execute an innocent
>>woman. Goldberg's comment gives an insight as to why. Note that she
>>characterizes the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, as being among "the ugly
>>Americans," notwithstanding that she isn't American at all. The view
>>here really seems to be that the enemy of my country is my friend--that
>>the "customs" of Sudan's fanatics are worthy of respect because they are
>>based in hatred of America and the West.
>>
>>[1]:
>>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2007/11/30/view-co-hosts-bl
>>ame-woman-persecuted-sudan
>>
>>--
>>It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
>>the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
>>our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
>>for them, it's failing.
>
> Yeah, it's failing all right, Bush and Iraq, that is.
> So we went into Iraq for no good reason and now terrorism is even more
> deadly than before. And what good has Bush done in seven years?
> Cor****ations are richer than ever. PERIOD.
So the Govt is to suck Cor****ations dry is it?
What an Asshole. And 911, the US Cole our Embassies in Africa destroyed.
Looks like the Islamo Terrorists have declared war on the West and George
Bush has answered the challenge.
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