Comments on: The US elections and the Middle East

By: newrouter

newrouter — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:30:44 +0000

as of 9/12/12 beck’s show is on the dish sat network now

By: Paul Marks

Paul Marks — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:00:50 +0000

On radio before 9/11 one man warned (again and again) about Bin Laden attacking.

And duing the “Arab Spring” one man on national television warned (again and again) that it was not the nice thing the establishment all said it was.

That man was Glenn Beck.

“Paul you are praseing a crazy man”.

Well I am crazy also – so that is O.K. then.

By: JeremiadBullfrog

JeremiadBullfrog — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:02:40 +0000

So no difference at all then.

Touche’. But there is a great difference between having a supportive Stainist press versus a combative one.

By: James Waterton

James Waterton — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:28:58 +0000

Some isolated thoughts:

re. McCain’s suspension of his campaign to deal with the Lehmann Brothers collapse, financial crisis etc; if McCain had’ve been able to stitch together (or be seen to have been responsible for stitching together) some kind of grand ‘rescue package’ – ie. some more of the Keynesian shit that Bush dished up in the dying days of his presidency and Obama delivered thrice over when he took office – McCain would probably have won bigtime. But he couldn’t pull it off. Yes, suspending his campaign to attempt the above was a high-stakes gamble that he ultimately lost, and it cost him the presidency. But inferring the gambit was ‘wild-eyed and excitable’ is not really a fair interpretation of events.

re. the movie that’s causing all the fracas from the genuinely wild-eyed and excitable…having watched the trailer of the movie*, I have to say that it is far, far more incendiary than the motoons. Severe turbulence ahead, if the puppetmasters of the ummah wish there to be so.

*plot content aside, it’s an insult to the craft of filmmaking

By: RRS

RRS — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:08:56 +0000

It goes right along with the “reset” with Russia (read, Putin).

By: RRS

RRS — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:07:12 +0000

What I can't figure is why Romney didn't come out and just say:

"It appears we are now beginning to see the "new begining" that President Obama sought at the beginning of his term in his speech in Cairo seeking to appease reactions to what he viewed as our offenses to others."

By: Brian Micklethwait

Brian Micklethwait — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:49:55 +0000

Following on from Chuck, it seems to me that American Democrats aren’t the only ones thinking locally rather than globally. I mean, had the people who arranged these dramas cared about American policy, they’d not have humiliated Obama like this. Okay, maybe not worth many votes, but surely worth some, in what many (including many here) are saying will be a close American election. Do they want Romney to win? Maybe they do. But more likely, they haven’t given it that much thought.

I know little of the local story, but I bet those who do will tell you what is really going on with these attacks, and that it’s all about local jockeying for power, in a mere background of anti-Americanism. The foreground is those other (local) bastards, whoever they are.

But what do I know?

By: Perry de Havilland

Perry de Havilland — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:41:28 +0000

Add to the pile of differences between an Obama and a Romney presidency the unabashed Stalinism of the press under Democrat administrations

So no difference at all then.

By: JeremiadBullfrog

JeremiadBullfrog — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:01:23 +0000

Add to the pile of differences between an Obama and a Romney presidency the unabashed Stalinism of the press under Democrat administrations.

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:13:48 +0000

I doubt the events will have much impact on Democrats, they will spend their time blaming Romney for criticizing the president. Apart from the usual political calculations that distraction will allow them to ignore what is going on in the world. In their minds the war that matters is the war on Republicans. What the impact of these events will be on independents I don’t venture to guess.

By: Snorri Godhi

Snorri Godhi — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:58:12 +0000

WRT the Matt Welch quote: the First Amendment is MEANT to protect “a range of expression unthinkable even in Western Europe”.
The reality is different, though that is not the fault of the Founding Fathers.
The difference can be seen in the different responses of the continental and anglo media to the Cartoon Jihad of 2005/2006.
Now the chicken have come home to roost: no Danes died in the Cartoon Jihad, but already four Americans have died for a similar “offense”.
While I still feel resentment against the anglo media, the American people have my sympathy … as long as they do not work in the mainstream media.

By: Ken in TN

Ken in TN — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:11:55 +0000

Be careful, have a boring flight.