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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (16636)1/7/2006 8:36:45 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The Kool-Aid of moral equivalence

Posted by Jerry Scharf
Common Sense and Wonder

An example of Hollywood logic: talk about living in a bubble.

<<< (NY Post)

LET George Clooney explain why the suicide bombers in his "Syriana" are sympathetically depicted as pious heroes while all the Americans in the movie are greedy or homicidal cynics. "They [the terrorists] are, in a way, the most sympathetic, but I think that's important," Clooney said in a videotaped interview shown on Fox News Channel. "Because if you are going to fight a war on terror, which is not a state that you can go and bomb, then you need to understand what it is that creates the people who would do such horrible things, rather then just saying - labeling them as evildoers." >>>

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