Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Fox News: I know, right?, in reply to Christiaan,
Can’t see em. Are these Flash only?
Yes. That's the only embed code they give out.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The real chessmaster, it seems, is Steve Klein, yet another rabid Breivikite who’s under the Southern Poverty Law Centre’s hate-group watch.
Ah yes. Forgot about him.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Paul Campbell,
I don’t see how that is in the Copt’s interest, it was probably unintentional – unless maybe the purpose was to have the US come down on their side against the new Egyptian govt.
But the producer created a fake identity -- that of an Israeli Jewish property developer living in California -- to front it, which would seem to complicate likely intentions.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Bennett Row,
Russell, the web page you linked to doesn’t say that the skateboarding club was attacked. It says the bombing took place outside the ISAF headquarters and that members of the skateboarding club were near the HQ at the time. This is backed up by CNN, LA Times, ESPN, etc:
Does that really make much difference? They strapped a bomb to a 13 year-old child and sent him to detonate it in a place where he would be surrounded by other children.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
and even a sense of dry, black humour)
Very much on display in the Daily Show interview.
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Salman Rushdie was pretty good on last night’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Defend their right to make a movie, while calling them an arsehole for doing it.
He was great. It’s a shame he couldn't speak for longer.
Just FYI, Dian Wichtel interviewed Rushdie for The Listener this week. But I guess that won’t be published until after the Naomi Wolf one …
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Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to Angus Robertson,
The only reason it has come out this week is that Obama’s foreign policy needs a distraction now. The Libyan military intervention has been so unsuccessful that the people of Benghazi spent a day dragging the corpse of the US ambassodor around the streets.
Hardly.
A series of polls are finding Americans much more strongly on the side of their President than his challenger:
Romney’s Libya comments landed with a thud: Reuters/Ipsos poll (Reuters/Ipsos)
Romney’s Libya Response May Have Done Real Damage (Pew Research)
Benghazi has been a disaster for Romney, not Obama.
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Hard News: "Because we can", in reply to 81stcolumn,
Not trolling, but this does sound awfully like the rhetoric heard before Bush got re-elected…….
On the other hand, John Kerry was never in the very strong position Obama is at this stage of the race.
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And now France prepares to temporarily close 20 embassies after some dipshit libertarians publish a bunch of cartoons whose sole purpose seems to be to offend.
I have no quarrel with the right to publish (although it’s already been pointed out that if the topic had been the Holocaust they’d have been charged with a criminal offence) but it’s a rather high-stakes environment to be doing something just because you can.
And this is pretty much just adolescent denial:
One of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, who uses the name Tignous, defended the drawings. “It’s just a drawing,” he said. “It’s not a provocation."
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Hard News: Media3: The Maori Media Man, in reply to tussock,
Is anyone surprised the Libyan people aren’t perfectly compliant to the violent restructuring of their state via overwhelming air power, including the bombing of cities and hospitals?
Well, no, not in the case of Benghazi. Benghazi was days away from slaughter at the hands of pro-Gaddafi forces . It was Nato air support that saved the city and its people.
And according to the Guardian's report, the people of Benghazi are not at all happy about the attack on the US consulate:
Loudspeakers outside the mosque broadcast a sermon in which the imam,, Suheib, condemned the attack. "The burning of buildings is not the path of the prophet Muhammad," the imam said.
It was a sentiment shared by worshippers mingling outside in the hot afternoon sun, and anger was growing towards a government unable or unwilling to take control. The fear across Benghazi is that the jihadists want to decouple Libya from western support, creating chaos in which they will hope to seize power.
So no, I don't think your characterisation of the attitude of the local populace is accurate at all.