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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (73370)	2/17/2006 11:39:04 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 81568

Nothing to say "You've seen the coverage of angry Muslims around the world demanding the beheading of newspaper cartoonists who drew images of Mohammed. "You've heard the State Department's shameful response condemning the artists. Or seen the signs held by 'moderate' Muslims in London reading 'Freedom. Go to Hell!' and 'He Who Offends the Prophet Must Die!' "What you haven't seen — except in a handful of American papers — are the actual cartoons. ... "NBC has (as of this writing) refused to show its viewers the cartoons that launched a thousand jihads. CNN has chosen to show them, but blur them to make the images unrecognizable. "And what about the big papers? The courageous New York Times? Nope. The Washington Post refuses to publish them because, according to the editor, the cartoons violate the standards of 'good taste.' This from the same paper that just ran an editorial cartoon featuring a U.S. soldier with his arms and legs blown off being mocked by Defense Secretary [Donald H.] Rumsfeld. ... "Our brave, principled journalists are ready to stand and fight against any threat ... that doesn't actually exist. But now that speaking out really matters, our 'defenders of free speech' suddenly have nothing to say." — Michael Graham, writing on "And some guts wouldn't hurt, either," Tuesday in the Philadelphia Daily News