kumur2 apa menyalak ? kamu tuh Njing ? --- In proletar@yahoogroups.com, item abu <itemabu@...> wrote: > > Artikel di bawah ini nunjukin gimana Clinton dan media melakukan dobel > standard, bermunafik ria. Ga beda dgn kelakuan orang2 Islam. > > > > > September 17, 2012 > Hillary Cheered Broadway's Book of Mormon, Condemns Innocence of MuslimsBy > Jack Cashill > > Read more: > http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/hillary_cheered_broadways_book_of_mormon_condemns_innocence_of_muslims.html#ixzz26l78fNA0 > > > > On Thursday of last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the video > project Innocence of Muslims, the one that may or may not have provoked riots > worldwide, "disgusting and reprehensible." > > Although Clinton could have seen no more than a 13-minute trailer for the > video,she condemned it in no uncertain terms: "Let me state very clearly -- > and I hope it is obvious -- the United States government had nothing to do > with this video. We absolutely reject its content and message." > > One would think that Clinton might have had a similar reaction to a musical > comedy by the name of The Book of Mormon, a satirical, scandalously > potty-mouthed riff on the Mormon religion. What follows is one of the show's > printable lyrics, this from the song "All-American Prophet." > > > > >You all know the Bible > >Is made of Testaments old and new. > >You've been told it's just those two parts, > >Or only one, if you're a Jew. > >But what if I were to tell you > >There's a FRESH third part out there? > >That was found by a HIP new prophet > >Who had a little... > >Donny Osmond flair. > > Apparently, Secretary Clinton has flexible standards. The Associated Press > reported soon after The Book of Mormon's opening that "[t]he show has been > greeted not by protests but rhapsodic reviews and standing ovations from > crowds that have included > celebrities as diverse as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, > actor Jack Nicholson and composer Stephen Sondheim." Indeed, the show > has been the biggest hit on Broadway these past two seasons, winning > nine Tony Awards along the way. > > True, when the show premiered in 2011, the media were shocked. NPR > accurately called it "blasphemous." The Washington Post called it "acidic." > The New York Times called it "more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue > streak." > > But the media did not stop there -- not at all. In context, NPR called The > Book of Mormon "blasphemous, hilarious and oddly endearing." The Post called > the show "one of the most joyously acidic bundles Broadway has unwrapped in > years." And the Times called it, foul-mouthed or not, "a newborn, > old-fashioned, pleasure-giving musical." > > Although some likely found The Book of Mormon as "offensive and reprehensible > and disgusting" as White House spokesman Jay Carney found Innocence of > Muslims, the Obama administration chose not to denounce it. Nor could I find > any protest from Carney when his former employer, TIME Magazine, praised The > Book of Mormon as "bright and enjoyable, and good enough to make even a > grumpy critic's 10 Best list." > > The White House certainly did not ask the Eugene O'Neill Theater "to review" > whether The Book of Mormon "violates their terms of use," as it asked Google > to review the trailer for Innocence of Muslims. > > Nor did the White House ask the FBI to interview everyone associated with > the show, from the set designers to the producers, as it has done for > Innocence of Muslims. "We cannot and will not squelch freedom of expression > in this country," said Jay Carney. "It is a foundational principle of this > nation." > That bromide should reassure those people now being grilled by the FBI. > > The media, even more than the White House, have been almost comically > hypocritical about Innocence of Muslims. When Washington Post reviewer Ann > Hornaday called the film "vile," she stopped there. It was not "vile, but." > It was just simply vile. > > Hornaday struggled to rationalize her contempt for its producers. "The > jumble > of cheesy-looking scenes and badly dubbed dialogue on display," she > concluded, "look less like promotional scenes culled from a fully > realized motion picture than a primitive piece of cynical agitprop." > That is all true enough, but the left's openly voiced hatred for this > project has little to do its with its admittedly awful production > values. > > The Huffington Post, whose reviewer was "praying" that The Book of Mormon > would be "a huge hit and lead the way for more original shows like it," was > now leading the way to expose the culprits behind The Innocence of Muslims. > The publication has been running banner headlines that read "'Innocence Of > Muslims' Filmmaker Identified By Law Enforcement" and "'Innocence Of Muslims' > Shot On Hollywood Set, Film Permit Connected To Christian > Charity." If the FBI asked the editorsto hand out pitchforks and publish a > map to the filmmaker's house, they likely would have complied. > > The response by the media and the Obama administration would not have > surprised Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens discovered the moral emptiness of > his colleagues on the left when he labored to shelter his friend, > Salman Rushdie. Rushdie, a westernized progressive, provoked a deeply > serious death threat from the Iranian mullahs for his artful book The Satanic > Verses. > > In his memoir, Hitch-22, Hitchens relates his surprise upon finding the > "postmodern Left in > league with political Islam." He cites one prominent leftist after > another denouncing Rushdie for having disturbed the status quo. The > moral cowardice of his friends on the left depressed him almost as much > as the sight of crowds in British cities demanding not only "less > freedom," but also "the destruction of an author's work and even the > taking of an author's life." > > For the left, Hitchens came to understand, the sensitivity to Islam had > much less to do with respect for religion than it did fear of offending > its allies in post-colonial anti-Americanism. The "undercurrent of > menace and implied moral and racial blackmail" paralyzed them. Given > Rushdie's status as one of their own, more or less, leftists could not > exactly demand his head. But the producers of Innocence of Muslims enjoy no > such grace. If they can be tied to a "Christian charity," > even an Egyptian one, the folks at the Huffington Post will be leading > the lynch mob. > > By contrast, the Mormon response to the Broadway show that profanes their > faith has been exemplary. Church elders have said that "the musical > might entertain you for a night, but the Book of Mormon, the > scripture, will save your life." Individual Mormons have been lining up > across the street from the theater -- not protesting, but handing out > copies of the actual Book of Mormon. > > According to TPM, a leftist blog, Mitt Romney has been "echoing [the] White > House position" on Innocence of Muslims. "The idea of using something that > some people consider sacred and then > parading that out a negative way is simply inappropriate and wrong," > Romney said. "And I wish people wouldn't do it." But this is hardly an > echo. Wishing people would stop is not quite the same as dispatching > the FBI. > > > The real difference, though, between Romney's response and the White House's, > certainly the > difference between his and Hillary's, is that he could and would have > said the very same thing about The Book of Mormon. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
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