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The difference being that Osama is more significant to the middle east than Eric Raymond is to the United States, or even the South. You don't throw something out there in a responsible media organization just because somebody said it. But, if it's somebody with a following of at least tens of thousands...




Osama and Rudolf are many magnitudes apart, that's for sure. I wonder if copies of these Osama videos are furnished to intelligence agencies for review before they are broadcast, or does the CIA or MI6 view them when the rest of do? There may be a reasonable case for airing these videos, perhaps editing if necessary, but without some screening, I think the case fades away.

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True. But they've got that Fair and Balanced slogan, and then 90% of the commentators are conservative. Alan Colmes does not count, he's simply there to make the conservative bulldog Holmes look good. Hannity's not a bad good, but you put somebody intelligent in there with him, and they tear his blind rhetoric to pieces. Not to mention the "We Report, You Decide" slogan, but then Bill O'Reilly is screaming at you what to believe in prime time. I should start watch Special Report with Brit Hume again to see if Juan Williams is still in there trying to fight the good fight for the liberals.




I actually haven't watched televison, much less Fox, in months. I saw the footage you posted, and all commentators were explicitly identified as commentators, but you have a point about the questionable use of "fair and balanced" when 90% of the commentators are conservative. (I suppose "fair and balanced" does not necessarily require a quota of ideologes, but it would be hard to argue that the numerical minority of liberals project themselves in proportion to their conservative counterparts.) I agree with you.

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Point taken. I did that on one of your other threads about Islamic converts. Was responding to that idiot Rick Savage I hear in my car on the radio at night. Even though you hadn't come close to saying half that.



Do you mean Michael Savage? I do like talk radio, but prefer more intellectual hosts like Larry Elder or frequent Limbaugh fill-in Walter Williams. Savage strikes me as extremely hateful - like calling gay rights activists "The Pink Swastika".


My views of Islam are by no means PC, and I strongly question the motives of westerners who opt to convert to it, but constitutional rights - freedom of religion and association, in particular - come first. I also have met many reasonable Muslims, and I do not want them to be harmed or mistreated in any way. Savage's vitriol makes him indistinguishable from the Imam's he advocates killing.

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We need to impeach Bush if they're not already spying on al-Jazeera. No way at least some of the reporters aren't hooked-up.



Agreed. Especially in light of the porn squad he recently created.