Katie Couric: “Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of the Cosby Show” (Updated)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 30, 2010, 11:46 PM
What a lovely idea.
Maybe for their Christmas special they could blow up a Christmas tree, bomb a church or drag a pastor into the street and shoot him dead?
Katie Couric wants a Muslim version of the Cosby Show.
NewsBusters reported:
In her @katiecouric Web show analyzing the trends of 2010, the CBS Evening News anchor made a serious speech (in her serious, deep-thinker glasses) against the deep “seething hatred” against Muslims in America:
I also think sort of the chasm, between, or the bigotry expressed against Muslims in this country has been one of the most disturbing stories to surface this year. Of course, a lot of noise was made about the Islamic Center, mosque, down near the World Trade Center, but I think there wasn’t enough sort of careful analysis and evaluation of where this bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong — and so disappointing.
She really winced on that last word. When comedian Mo Rocca said he went to “really fancy schools” and “I cannot tell you five things about Islam,” Couric shot back “Maybe we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show.” She continued:
I know that sounds crazy, I know that sounds crazy. But The Cosby Show did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand — like you, Mo.
Of course, the left has totally fabricated the “Islamaphobia” in America.
If these radical leftists were honest about reducing hate crimes they would be denouncing anti-Semitic attacks in America. Of the 1,575 religiously biased hate crimes last year, over 70 percent of the crimes were committed against Jews in America. The second highest group, at 8.4 percent, were the victims of an anti-Muslim bias.
But why let facts get in the way when you’re attacking Americans, huh Katie?
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll reminds of the horrific ending of the last Muslim couple on TV in New York.
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 55 Comments
rbosque commented:
It’s obvious Couric isn’t thinking for herself. Or at all.
Gman commented:
If it would replace seeing her on TV, I am all for it.
Jackie commented:
Maybe we need a replacement for gummy Katie.
MrGoodWench commented:
Here are the lyrics to Couric’s new venture :
” The kasbah show ”
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002135.html
MrGoodWench commented:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/04/in-honor-of-katie-couric/
donh commented:
I agree…A black muslim version of Goodtimes set in Dearborn Michigan. The Underwear bomber can play J J Evans Kid DYNOMITE !!!!
MrGoodWench commented:
You know what will be the a good muslim version of the Cosby Show ?
A reality show , called :
Keeping up with the Obamas
BillyBob'sHasHadEnuff commented:
“bigotry toward 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, and how this seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims, which I think is so misdirected, and so wrong — and so disappointing.”
Unfortunately the degree of sympathy common among the blathering leftists that populate our old media. A useful tool that is on her way out in the broadcast media. And CBS pays her millions of dollars per year for this totally asinine commentary?
Islam is a cancer on the face of the planet. For saying that, I guess I am politically-incorrect. Too bad. Islam’s prophet I correlate to Satan. His followers, satanists that have zero regard for human life. Muslims celebrate death, death, death and more death. IMHO there is not ONE SINGLE positive attribute that can be attached to Islam.
Last time I checked, I do not recall plane loads of Americans incinerating themselves over the anti-Israeli policies in the Middle East.
Dimwits all.
Gman commented:
Heh, yeah, will they have a “very special episode” where the father commits an honor killing of his daughter who was dating a Christian.
gus commented:
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. WHO ATTACKED AMERICA ON 9/11/01 KATIE?? Simple MOTHER FOCKING QUESTION DIMWIT????
LIBTARDS POSITION THEMSELVES as HOLIER THAN THOU.
Also known as CLOWNS.
LIBTARDS TRY TO BE “HOLIER THAN YOU”. The more HEINOUS the APROBATION, the MORE the LIBTARD PRETENDS to be MORAL.
Licking the CROTCH of the MURDERER is the LIBTARDS HOLY GRAIL.
Pretending to UNDERSTAND the EVIL PRICK is the LIBTARDS PHONY ATTEMPT.
RS commented:
It’s people like Couric who give air headed blonds a bad name.
MrGoodWench commented:
Cast of the kasbah show :
Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri
his 4 wives :
Aisha, Katie, Maureen and Jihad Jane
his kids :
MooHAMmad ( =Md), Md II , Md III, Osama, Omar , Andre and Keith
his parents :
Osama Sr and his 4 wives
and his 2 African eunuch maids :
Habshi 1 and Habshi 2
Alana commented:
I always find it amusing to contemplate what Muslims would do to whoever is saying things like this.
For example, Katie Couric would not be nearly as perky (or as mouthy, or even as physically visible) as she is today, if Muslims had their way. Her little pleasures in life would become nonexistent.
I daresay, if you asked any Muslim (however moderate), he or she would agree that the world would be a better place were everyone Muslim. Which would mean a severe alteration in Couric’s lifestyle and habits.
I think she and others like her labor under the delusion that they can ultimately make Muslims more tolerant through appeasement and acquiescence (which she and her ilk view as “acceptance,” even as they view anything less than appeasement and acquiescence as “bigotry”).
Well, the Muslims aren’t that stupid. She is, though.
Jaggededge commented:
What a pompous racist. A TV show helped our attitudes on a black person? Who in the hell is she spewing the holier than thou routine like we are influenced by the media. Liberals always look down at all races and they enjoy putting people in little boxes as they know better than everyone else on how to live…..typical liberal racist!!
donh commented:
You could set it in Bagdad and call it Iroq the Kasbah….The jewish Hollywood script writers can all write jokes about the arab street plotting to blow up Tel Aviv night clubs. … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Hdt_zWIPI&feature=related
MrGoodWench commented:
The kasbah show will start with ” death to America”
end each episode with allah-u-akbar .
Jim commented:
I.D.I.O.T.
Edouard commented:
Insufferable leftists like the self-righteous Couric never tire of accusing people (other than themselves of course) of “bigotry.”
How utterly typical to call for the production of a pile of televised crap such as a “Muslim Cosby Show” to push her half-baked, misbegotten conclusions on Americans who are fed up with being lectured by supercilious leftists.
Hey Katie — just shove it.
MrGoodWench commented:
I think this kind of show would have worked before 1993 ( 1st WTC bombing)
Now that Americans know what koran and islam and sharia and jihad is,
this stupid adult female puppy belonging to Se BS is kindda late ……
Jet Jaguar commented:
How about remaking “Sanford and Son”? Lamont would be played by Muhammad and Fred would be played by Allah.
AuntieMadder commented:
She’s just ate up with stupid.
jennifer commented:
A Muslim version of the “Cosby Show”? And Couric is taken seriously? Because she’s a lefty, she won’t be laughed at, instead, her message will be embraced. What an upside-down, inside-out world we live in.
Just_Saying commented:
Well said, BillyBob at 12:08pm.
Intelligent people no longer waste time with network television. What television shows do you watch, Katie? Tell us what shows you routinely watch…
I don’t believe the stats on first and second highest groups of hate crimes. I believe Christians have experienced the most hate crimes in the US in 2010. Maybe they just don’t get counted…
.
MrGoodWench commented:
Can someone in Hollywierd plz make a muslim version of Brokeback Mountain ?
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
What is it with these “journalists” that makes them think themselves to be some sort of moral pinnacle that everyone looks up to?
These people should just stick to reading the feckin’ words off the teleprompter and letting each individual come to their own conclusions about the subject matter.
bigkahuna commented:
Muslim Cosby’s eh??? Would they hump their camels for all to see on tv ? How about beat one of their 4 wives and stone her for letting a white man look at her? Season ending suicide bomber? Does he get to heaven and get 72 virgins or is it all a dream and he really ends up getting sodomized by Mohamed?
I can see the cast changing alot due to stoning to death of women, beheading of white reporters, suicide bombing 12 year old girls.
The shows pyrotechnics are real though no computer faked bombings and shootings or fake blood in the beheading scenes.
All credits for everything as they roll down the screen will be Mohamed !
Sharia will be fun to watch as well a few hands lost for stealing and a few christians beaten and shotten for offering to help feed the hungry or drawing the wrong cartoon.
bg commented:
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Brilliant!!
they already have soap opera’s, ergo, i say bring it!! but of course it would
better of it were aired in English so US infidels could understand what they
were saying.. unfortunately it wouldn’t matter much, since Muslims are well
renowned for saying one thing to English speaking westerners, and another
to Arabic speaking audiences, besides, would Islamist minders even tolerate
such an “ISLAMOPHOBIC” request?? /s/
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bg commented:
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reP: #27
better of = be better if
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bg commented:
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Dear Mr. Hall et al..
I – S – L – A – M – O – P – H – O – B – I – A
Jasser: I’ll first tell you what it is not- it’s not Islamophobia. If anyone
is to blame for the existence of the concept of Islamophobia, if it even exists, it is Muslims who have been unable to articulate a manifestation of Islam which is free of a political state which threatens the sovereignty of the states in which Muslims reside. I don’t subscribe to the existence
of the notion of Islamophobia because I believe that we are in just the beginning of a global conflict of political ideologies (Islamism vs. Americanism), and the conflation of “Islamophobia” is intentional by Islamists to deflect Americans and the free world from the necessary debate of political ideologies.
i cannot Imagine what our future generations (especially children, women
& homosexuals) are in for if Islam is, as it is now being, forced upon US to
blindly accept without reformation, are we that suicidal?? Katie?? Bueller??
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bg commented:
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oops: #29
re: Dear Mr. Hall et al..
getting my (fitb) Prog-Dem-Libs mixed up, should be..
Dear Ms Couric et al..
eh, ya hear one Prog-Dem-Libs, you heard em all..
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bg commented:
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bg commented:
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GLM In Ohio #49
my apologies for coming on so strong, since you have stated
more pertinent opinions, perhaps i was expecting too much..
okay okay, sorry..
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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Marsh commented:
The reason why more and more people hate islam is because the information about what islam really teaches is getting out there.
For years and years we’ve been fed the lie that islam means peace in arabic and that islam is inherently a tolerant religion of peace which has only been hijacked by a handful of extremists.
But then websites arose such as http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ which record in graphic detail the daily acts of violent jihad carried out by muslims all around the world.
And outspoken critics of fundamentalist islam such as Robert Spencer at http://www.jihadwatch.org/ have been doing an absolutely fantastic job telling the general public what the leftist mainstream media is trying to hide from them.
People hate being lied to.
And when they finally discover the truth about islam, after years of being lied to, they’re rightfully outraged.
Also, what’s causing a surge in the world of “islamophobia” is the surge in fundamentalist islam.
They keep doing horrible things to innocent human beings on a regular basis; such as trying to kill Christmas shoppers, stoning people to death, flogging people publicly, going on murderous riots over cartoons, beheading people and bragging about it, killing hundreds of children in a school in Russia, etc.
The list of their barbarism just goes on and on.
And polls come out showing a huge percentage of the world’s muslims actually support this evil crap.
And thanks to the rise of alternative media, now we hearing about these gross crimes against humanity committed by muslims in the name of islam, in all their gruesome details, for the very first time ever.
The leftist dominated media can’t hide the ugly reality about islam anymore.
Pandora’s Box has already been opened with the internet and blogs.
Now we know all about sharia, islamic theology, islamic history, islamic culture and beliefs.
And we don’t like it.
The pro-islamist left can cry “bigotry!1″ all they want.
They can’t cover up the truth about islam anymore.
bg commented:
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re: #32
dang!! have no idea how that wound up in the wrong thread..
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focked commented:
Burqas would have to be visibly numbered so you’d be able to differentiate wife #1 from wife #8.
backhoe commented:
Uhh… they already have one:
“Little Mosque on the Prairie ”
http://tinyurl.com/24be2ug
squeaky commented:
if it didn’t do well in it’s time slot who’s going to cancel the show? fatwas and death threats and such. oh my… most shows on the tube are dogs anyways.
focked commented:
How about the Polywed Game? Ahmed, Omar and Osama with each of their eight wifes try and match answers to question regarding pedophilia, ankle beating, jihad, et al. and foreign concepts like indoor plumbing, deodorant, women’s rights, etc.
MrGoodWench commented:
The best part of the kasbah show ?
ALL the stonings, lashings , beheadings and bombings will be
REAL
stonings, lashings, beheadings and bombings.
CV1 commented:
Katie thinks the Huxtables represent the typical American black family? The show changed our values? This attitude shows exactly how out of touch she is.
Cliff Huxtable was the exception in society, not the rule. While it was a nice show, it was not anywhere near reality.
She is nuts!
xiphos commented:
Katie Couric: Once again, demostratimg why its dumb to smoke a three pack of ones own underwear prior to making any kind of statement.
focked commented:
Let me preemaptively state my disgust with the stereotypical racial hatred toward our muslim brethren being displayed in the comment section of this blog. I would just refuse to read and comment on such things if I had a chance at a real relationship in meatspace. But, I choose to spend the majority of my time chastising others for their insensitive remarks, rather than ignore those that find the irresistable urge to snark anonymously.
Troof to powah!
Westie commented:
If the Fox blond, Meghan would politely ask the vacant blond Katie to an interview…I’d pay to see it.
Paul Ben commented:
The problem with this damn country is people are not honest and truthful.
Those on the right want to show that they are not racists against Blacks and those on the left want to show that they are not racists or bigots against Muslims.
But in reality, when you confront both groups with the TRUTH which is: REVERSE RACISM is a fact of life, they call YOU “racist” and “bigot.”
When the people of this damn country are ready to be HONEST with themselves, then we can talk about solving problems.
focked commented:
I want to disassociate myself from Paul Ben’s comments due to the fact that anyone with two first names is certainly a racist and bigot. If I don’t express my outrage to his remarks, I will be stained by proxy for commenting on the same blog post. My disdain is evidence of my lack of prejudice and bias, as well as, my superior tolerance of other’s race, creed and culture.
mg4us commented:
Katie is an idiot (and the bigger ones are the bosses at CBS who hire her and pay her salary) so we should help teach her a simple economics lesson. . .
BOYCOTT her show and the advertisers who support it. . . .and then she will learn falsifying or distorting facts and adding opinionated left-wing bias has a cost. . .her job!!
Time for hard-working, patriotic Americans who love this country to start voting with their wallets.. . let’s carry the momentum of the 2010 elections into 2011 by taking our business to those who support our AMERICAN values!
PS I hope Palin has a field day with Couric. . . “what a stupid remark Katie. . . maybe if you got out from behind your limo glass or your penthouse in NYC you would not need to watch the Cosby show to see and meet real African Americans and know what their life is about!!”
Ohio Granny commented:
My son told me not to call them towel heads. He says it is culturally insensitive and shows my lack of understanding and tolerance. He says they are mostly Shiites, so they are Shiite heads. I stand corrected : ~ )
Whether or not we portrayed them correctly, some block head in some god forsaken country would go nut job on the actors. Play the daughter on TV? Get beheaded for going to the out to dinner without your head gear. It’s the Muslim way.
Can’t wait for Katie and Co. to get the opportunity to grovel when they conquer the rest of New York. Then she’ll want us fly over Christians to use our concealed carry weapons to defend her. Not so much Katie. Not so much.
RedBeard commented:
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Katie Dorfman.
vote for pedro commented:
If katie stood sideways in a stiff breeze, her head would whistle.
eaglewingz08 commented:
Maybe we could have the Harry Potter actress who was the victim of an attempted honor killing by her family members, recreate such family values on the TV show as well.
Auntie Em commented:
God please help us. I pray she is not already turned over to a reprobate mind; if not, please open her eyes.
tommy mc donnell commented:
political islam is the new face of marxism. that is why the left loves it so much. communism has found religion.
vote for pedro commented:
Anyone else find it amusing that a TV personality would suggest that television programming is the answer to racial and cultural acceptance?
Most of my exposure to people of a different race/culture was through sports and church.
Mark1957 commented:
Perhaps Micheal Moore and Joy Behar can play the wacky neighbors Fred & Ethel.
allahallahoxenfree commented:
This from the deep thinking useful idiot who would have been stoned to death for showing her colonoscopy on TV if it had been in one of the lands of this great and PEACEFUL religion. The more more aware a prgressive becomes of their own irrelevancy the more bizarre their thought pattern becomes. Its the Hitler bunker mentality.
Auntie Em commented:
This is why I have been absent from this site. The vitriol spewing from some liberal psychotic troll to a conservative poster always ruins my day. Their diatribes are not based on facts, but pure hatred. I doubt they even understand it.
So I reply to the troll, so as not to be stained by proxy *shakes head and types*:
#46 December 31, 2010 at 6:19 am
focked commented:
I want to disassociate myself from Paul Ben’s comments due to the fact that anyone with two first names is certainly a racist and bigot.
**Now, you are really showing some tolerance here. In all of your tolerance of cultures, races, and such, did you ever once think that a person with two first names would not be a racist and/or bigot? Hmmm… not to bright focked. Not too bright. While you are disassociating from stuff, why not add this website to your list.**
FOCKED:
If I don’t express my outrage to his remarks, I will be stained by proxy for commenting on the same blog post.
** …and yet, you stained your proxy by being ignornant, mean, and just plain annoying. So much for being unstained. Bright side, it goes with unwashed.**
FOCKED: My disdain is evidence of my lack of prejudice and bias, as well as, my superior tolerance of other’s race, creed and culture.
**Your disdain is unfounded, powered by ignorance, and fueled by a deep-seeded anger towards a childhood caregiver. I suggest you see a psychiatrist for that. And may I also suggest you consult a dictionary for the terms racist, bigot, prejudice, bias, superior, and tolerance. You apparently haven’t a clue what any of that means based on the sum total of your ad hominem.**
Mark1957 commented:
The story revolves around the family of Akmed Combustable, the owner of a halal butcher shop and his 3 wives and 12 children.
GrayRider commented:
Sheesh…these libtard libidiots are such morons.
Male Silverback commented:
Hmmm, all of that understanding and diversity celebration is working so well in countries such as; Sweden, U.K., and France. The moooslims are so peaceful, why they are almost as quiet as church mice.
I’ll keep my suspicions and my distance away from the towel heads, but thanks anyway katy.
Male Silverback commented:
errrr Katie. Sorry.
Hangtown Bob commented:
Hey, I know what would be riveting “Must-See TV”……………………. How about a real-life pay-per-view stoning of Katie Couric? I’m sure that she has committed enough infidel acts to justify it.
focked commented:
And once again you take the bait! It was SARCASM! How can you become so invested in responding to someone’s obviously intentional provocative comment? Cut down on the caffeine, and quit taking yourself so sersiously. It isn’t healthy. And find some real friends to converse with, the internet doesn’t seem to mesh with your personality
tommy mc donnell commented:
everyone should start senting katie the posts from sites like bare naked islam, the religion of peace, atlas shrugged, ect. so she can see what real intolerance is like.
Hotspur commented:
The Cosby Show, Katie, was all about a slice of American life by people who just happened to be black. It was a refreshing slice different from the buffoonery that Good Times turned into. However, the characters were throughly American living throughly American lives.
A Muslim Cosby show would revolve around their religion, not their lives.
focked commented:
Morality TV, what could go wrong?
Hotspur commented:
@Auntie Em
I’ve dinged Paul Ben too since he obviously has issues. And focked thinks those personal racist views are fine to express on this board without confronting them. He thinks that, ” Hey, it might be racist, but if you can’t handle it, go on another board”, leading me to conclude he has no problem with racial slurs and comments.
CV1:
So no black middle class existed? No highly educated black families ever existed? I’m sure the real Cosbys (both he and his wife Camille have PhDs) would disagree. Physician, heal thyself.
daniel commented:
I suggest she converts and make that a show .
Badger commented:
Does this hate crime statistic also include people who were attacked because they were white or Christians?
No?
Of course not. Such statistics are ridiculous.
Daniel commented:
RedBeard (#49): It is, in her case.
carlsails commented:
I thought Katie was smarter than this. Hollywood, indeed. They think for enough idiots in this country already!
Hotspur commented:
#71
She’s “perky” and bight-eyed.
Meaning hollow and over-eager to please. I hope CBS keeps her around long enough for them to realize the mistake they made.
Marmo commented:
And this week on the Cosbullah Show, Muhammed Mohammed Muhamad’s party goat escapes and gets into his prized flower garden. Meanwhile his third wife wears the same burqa that his fourth wife has on at the Ramadan Party and he gets them confused with each other. All this while he argues with his neighbor, Mohamad al-Mohamed about the noise coming from al-Mohamed’s basement from the Jew he kidnapped and tortures every day. On top of all this, his brother’s sons are giving their sister a hard time because she refuses to cover her face. Tune in to see how they force her to submit. Hilarity ensues.
Multitude commented:
It’s ignorant, racists comments such as Couric’s that give Americans a bad name in the world. Furthermore, comments such as hers should remind all that the Left has *no* claim to educated legitimacy: her desire to see Muslims framed in the context of a Western Capitalist sitcom (reified with progressive “family values”) is to many the predominant reason the majority of the South (non-Western world) despises and distrusts our people.
This is the real battle, not the military conquests. Most every understands that war over territory, resources, etc. is a reality. Look at the conflict throughout Africa and how numerous European nations are still interfering in neo-colonial interests. China is particularly active and self-interested for their own hegemonic purposes. Yet the perspective is that this is “normal” self-interested behavior; it may be opposed, but “everybody does it.”
What makes us stand out is the “holier-than-thou” cultural over-coding that we impose as we frame the globe, and many refer to our military-entertainment complex as the primary weapon against other cultures which gives rise to violent opposition. Our media elites frame the new normal as deviant, excessively consumerist (yet “religiously” green in a faux-environmentalism, e.g. Al Gore or Michelle Obama preaching healthy food and impractical tiny cars while living the life of royalty), and full of other perverse values that find opposition globally. Worse yet, by framing the progressive deviant as normal, all others are signified as the abnormal, backwards, shifty, untrustworthy, dangerous, deviant Other. It’s not much more than a modern revision of German culture ~1930s which emphasized its own white, strong and productive male and fertile, breeding female while positioning the Jew, the intellectual, the academic, the darker skinned, etc. as Other and prepared the cultural landscape for eradication’s machinery.
Couric’s life, community and culture embraces this same progresso-fascism frame; to those within the post-colonialist and subaltern studies world (who are also unconstrained by excessive political influence), it’s her kind that incited the hatred that led to 9/11, not weak and generic complaints about the role and extent of U.S. influence.
focked commented:
Thanks for misrepresenting what I said. My point was that anonymous individuals on internet blog comment sections will write provocative things in order to get a reaction, and they’re not interested in debating an actual point. The more you respond to their nonsense, the more you empower them. I even gave an example of someone using my moniker during the 2008 campaign to make it seem like I held racist views toward President Obama. I even asked you how you would have handled the situation, but you never bothered to answer what, IMHO was a valid question. Please, tell me how I should’ve responded. Your answer might shed some light on how these provocateurs can be handled in the future, and bring an end to the tiresome back-and-forth we read in every single post.
Hotspur commented:
focked:
By asking Jim and the IT staff to do registration and have a login. Forget the trolls. I’m not talking abut the trolls. I’m talking about the respected commenters on the site. And if they are being misrepresented, then there is a larger problem. Frankly, I’ve never understood the comment system here being so open, working on the honor code rather than a healthy mistrust of the internet.
And if I misunderstood your post, then that was my error.
Chisum commented:
Hotspur,
Jim didn’t have registration while he was hosted at FirstThings. A far stricter venue. It’s obvious that he isn’t interested in instituting it.
Apparently he likes the free exchange of ideas.
Multitude commented:
hotspur:
I particularly like and prefer the open non-registration basis and presumably like a few others, not only don’t participate on closed “registration-only” sites but find their orientation repressive.
The trolls probably don’t realize it, but their posts /are/ their discourse and do much greater damage to the positions they actually intend than many direct critiques. If their ideology cannot even find a truth to grapple with alleged falsehood, then their position is conceptually bankrupt (which an increasing number of individuals are uncovering with respect to the fraud we know as progressivism aka modern state-centered, strong-hierarchy biopolitical liberalism”).
It’s also a self condemnation, as their discourse is an insight into the capabilities (or lack thereof) of their mind and character. It’s why no serious intellectual would ever find Keith Obermann worthy of meaningful interest (other than as a misinformed, unstable, low capability human misfit); his recurring profane language outbreaks, his constant attacks against others (particularly women, which coincides with his reputation as an emotional parasite and sociopath), etc. all signify the potentiality of that being. As annoying as it may be to some to see his relentless expressions of a waste of human existence, it’s vital in reminding the rest of us that his a path that is completely incapable of fulfilling any of his desires (and fortunately so, given how conceptually flawed they are).
So let the trolls in; better than some hierarchy of registration and control that skews representation of thought.
Robert commented:
More hypocrisy from the Left. When Bill Cosby spoke out to blacks
to accept responsibility for their problems, the Left jumped all over him
donh commented:
We already have a muslim sit com living in the Whitehouse. The Fresh Pimp of Bel Air. It hasn’t helped and the ratings suck.
Hotspur commented:
Multitude:
I don’t mind registration and login. I don’t think that is particularly oppressive. If you’re intentions are honorable, then a simple registration is fairly innocuous. Furthermore, it prevents hijacking anybody’s Username. Sure, you’ll still have trolls, but you can easily ban them. And any trolls will be less apt to do registration just to troll all day. I’ve seen this work on multiple sites.
It’s just so easy for the Left to cherry-pick troll comments and disseminate them. Why give them enough rope to hang US on?
USMC Thomas commented:
How about a Mooselimb Suicide Bomber Wives Reality Show, Katie could accompany the winner on her successful mission.
Hotspur commented:
Chisum:
How would registration not make it a free exchange of ideas? If someone hold a free concert that gives out tickets, isn’t the concert still free? Do the tickets somehow make it less free? The tickets keep the riff-raff out; no ticket, no entry.
bg commented:
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if one at least tries to stick to discussing &/or defining the ISSUES, and not
) posting &/or posing
those (who for all anyone knows could be TOTUS..
theirs, no one should have a problem.. if they do, they can see their shrink..
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Auntie Em commented:
I think we as respectable people should attack the issue and not the person commenting, which is the point of my (albeit situationally hypocritcal) response. There is no place in civil and intelligible discourse to only go for the jugular all of the time, especially when the victim is a virtual unknown as to true character, intellect, faith, etc.
Now, as for Couric, who expresses her opinions as fact and even shows the world her rectum (which is not the anus, mind you), is open for public scutiny of her judgment, character, and moral convictions. She understands this and I believe must be numb to critique.
Freedom is freedom is freedom, and I think we all should be free to say what we want, but there is a line and false accusations and secondhanded labeling of racism and bigotry (in this case, seemingly based on moniker alone) should be stricken down post-haste. That is a civic duty and is for the greater good; something even liberals understand
I saw nothing wrong with this particular post from Paul Ben. In fact, I totally agree that we need to start being honest and stop kid-gloving the problems, (i.e. religion of peace to describe islam). Honesty…there is never anything wrong with that.
Rock commented:
Wow a show about pedophiles, incest, sexual mutilation of young girls, wife beating, domestic violence, honor killings, bigotry, hate, bomb making, and jihad wrapped up under one title, whats not to like. Jeez Couric did you forget to pack your brain before you left the house?
daniel commented:
Live sucide bomers also if the daughter dated outside the faith we could watch the fater and brother beat her or ?
Chisum commented:
Hotspur,
Oh please. Comparing internet commenting to handing out concert tickets?
It’s very simple. People like me do not comment at sites that require registration. Trolls are not deterred by registration. They have access to numerous IP’s. Check with any site with registation, they all have the same problem…it’s nearly impossible to keep a determined troll out.
Here at GP we like to tangle with trolls. It hones our debating skills and commenters here are very knowledgeable. They crush the trolls with facts. This helps to educate everyone. I have learned many things from commenters here because of these discussions.
Obviously Jim agrees or he would institute registration.
If you are uncomfortable with the forum………
Hotspur commented:
Chisum:
Oh, please. Tangling with trolls is a waste of time and hones nothing. It’s merely an excuse to call them names. Although fun, it adds nothing to the debate and you know it. Would you rather debate someone who merely throws out little troll bombs, or someone who has a genuine and well-reasoned disagreement? That’s a debate right there. Tangling with someone who just name-calls is not a debate; it’s pre-school.
Chisum commented:
If that’s what you believe then you really are at the wrong site, Hotspur.
You should find a site worthy of your “well-reasoned” arguments. One that is more worthy than little old us.
bg commented:
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frankly, those who respond to trolls “in kind” per se (including
myself at times), makes me more nauseus than the trolls do..
i believe anyone should be allowed to post in here (what they post should
be limited, ie: cursing up a storm for cursing up a storms sake).. i mean, if
so called conservatives can rise above the distractions & post info vs name
calling (like who hasn’t heard them all at least a mil times already, yawn)..
who knows, some may even learn a thing or two, heck, a “bell” may go off,
leaving their minds “enlightened” against their will..
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Multitude commented:
hotspur:
Per “It’s just so easy for the Left to cherry-pick troll comments and disseminate them. Why give them enough rope to hang US on?”… why would you care what the Left would say, particularly in this context by cherry-picking troll comments? That they do this further validates my point: this intellectually bankrupt discourse is a confessional to their ignorance, stupidity, and total absence of any valid intellectual claim.
It is remarkably validating when the only argument the Left has is troll posts and insults. We win when they resort to the “well you’re just a fat fattie! you’re a… fascist! you’re Hitler!!!” nonsense. That they are the most un-read, anti-epistemological neanderthals that signify the return of German brown shirts, practicing virtual book burning in their forum posts of trolls and insults discursively connects them through performance to that which they presume to disparage.
Chisum: I very much agree! I’d add that registration sites have other problems, including the security/integrity of the registration (I’m dealing with one site that required registration, got hacked, may have exposed extensive PII and the site owner is now denying any responsibility for reporting the extent of the breach and administering remediation since it was “free” registration) and the discursive position the site places over thought expressed. I used to enjoy Redstate until I made the mistake of speaking critically of McCain and Romney in a rather substantiated way and was immediately banned. Curious for one who caucused for Romney.
Those who attempt to silence discourse, regardless of its validity, are fascists. The way past our current societal fiasco is through the recognition that we don’t know what the hell our hierarchies are talking about, that we’ve personally made mistakes in entrusting others to represent us, and by muddling forward with all of its missteps and ugliness to find a better way. We need to be fully comfortable not only encountering the trolls and discourse assassins, but through evaluating what their statements say about the situation and moving forward.
tea party at perrysburg commented:
Mo: “I’m REALLY smart! I went to really great schools! and I don’t know 5 things about Islam!” Hm. Well, I know a lot more than 5 things about Islam, both good and bad because I READ, RESEARCH and QUESTION.
The attitudes on display in this video are despicable, condescending and elitist.
And, no, dopey, you’re not REALLY SMART.
You’re a dope, along with your friend in the big black intellectual glasses.
Chisum commented:
Multitude,
There are many ways to attempt to silence discourse. One of those ways is to follow people through numerous threads and sanctimoniously criticize their every comment and bewail to all who will listen the lack of quality of discourse. Oh and demand comment registration.
Hotspur commented:
Multitude :
But isn’t part of the mission to persuade others to rediscover the Constitution and fight the leftists? We’re fighting an entrenched media that takes every word we say and twists it. They’ve got TV shows that ridicule and mock us day and night and have the world convinced we’re the boogeyman. We are trying to counter that and persuade people that our way is right and true, which means refuting and disproving what they say about us.
But you’re saying that’s not important. Then what is our goal? Is it merely to be an echo chamber or to save the country by gaining support for our cause? Because a movement cannot survive if it has no followers. And there are plenty out there who would join us if they knew us. But then they encounter trolls, without having seen the full picture, and with the media in full swing in their minds, conclude we are nothing but a bunch of redneck racists.
I don’t care for echo chambers. We should be trying to gather numbers for our side to oust Obama in 2012 and the Dems forever. If that’s not the goal, then maybe I am iin the wrong camp.
Hotspur commented:
Chisum:
How is that silencing discourse when you are discoursing about the idea?
What we are doing is debating the merits of registration vs. non-registration. A true debate
But then you accuse me of trying to silence discourse, which is untrue. What you really mean is that you cannot take someone disagreeing with you and you call it trying to silence you. Just like the Left do.
bg commented:
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Hotspur #96
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Chisum commented:
Oh, right, Multitude. I’m a leftist just like you are a genius.
Chisum commented:
As far as the pros and cons of registration, why don’t you e-mail Jim Hoft and bore him, too.
He can ignore you just like I’m going to from now on.
Hotspur commented:
bg:
How am I a troll? I just detailed that I want Obama out of office as much as the next guy and we have a Leftist media we have to fight to do it. Somehow, those conservative beliefs make me a troll?
Chisum commented:
And, Hotspur, when writing to Jim please point out to him that I’m a leftist.
So he can take action for the benefit of the blog.
Hotspur commented:
Correction. I didn’t call you a leftist. I said you just used a leftist tactic.
You should probably read more carefully.
Gini commented:
I was looking at Becks blog – Blazes – and saw mention of Little Mosque on the Prairie. I thought this was a monumental joke until I googled it – apparently Canada has this. Good Golly – wonder when this show will come to USA. Just what Katie was talking about. MSNBC would be happy to add it to their schedule of loony lefties.
burt commented:
When is Katie going to come up with production cost for this show?
Ted commented:
We already have a Government Produced show here in Canada called “Little Mosque on the Prairie”
It’s basically crap.
Ted commented:
Here’s a link to the online prop for it.
http://www.cbc.ca/littlemosque/
bg commented:
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Chisum #25
okay, where’d that come from, or did someone usurp your id??
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bg commented:
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Hotspur #101
what does Obama have to do with it??
btw, if you run into TW, say hi for me..
toodles noodles.. please take your beef to it’s proper
destination, lest you also be a ramblin’ troll, oh wait..
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Chisum commented:
BG,
Oops. I meant Hotspur.
Sorry Multitude.
Thanks for pointing it out, BG.
bg commented:
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duh, re: #109
#25 = #99
don’t ask, haven’t a clue..
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bg commented:
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Chisum #111
“whew” that had my jaw droppin’..
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Multitude commented:
chisum #111: no problem; actually, increasingly all i know is more about what i don’t!
hotspur #96: you make some solid points (imo) but i’d suggest a third perspective; this war requires the multiplicity of different strategies. i think what you bring and others in the illustration of the Constitution as the defining social contract (to which the legitimate response should it be negated by the left is to dissolve the union; it is primarily unethical and unacceptable to force persons into a new contract they have not opted into). i think your approach is an overt and meaningful one that will likely resonate with a good sized group, but this war will take much more engagement and more victories over different terrain. i do suggest you forget about defending our position before those who we would never value their judgment, nor worrying about our reputation being judged by dishonest, deviant societal-sociopaths. in fact, if barack obama, valorie jarret or any of their progresso-fascist ilk were to praise what any of us were doing, i’d be alarmed. they offer nothing of meaning, political, social, economic or intellectual.
>Then what is our goal?
i’d suggest we separate process from goal and recognize there are differing strategies necessary for the coalition to oppose the totalitarianists. i’d also encourage us to be less defensive and engage more counter-offense. those who post here should be aware that groups such as this one are building profiles on vocal conservative bloggers and commentators and using them for exceptionally unethical purposes: http://bit.ly/hLULQh
the best way to frame what we’re in is a cold revolution (analog to cold war was as hot or hotter in some respects than a “real” war). the progressives have executive and bureaucratic control and believe they’re in the home stretch, already active in their post-seizure steps of identifying, isolating and eradicating domestic opposition, combined with increasing visible, oppressive shows of force to intimidate and silence the masses.
bg commented:
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Multitude #115
re: [those who post here should be aware that groups such as this one are
building profiles on vocal conservative bloggers and commentators and using
them for exceptionally unethical purposes]
that has always been, even moreso under Obama et al, a given..
re: [(analog to cold war was as hot or
hotter in some respects than a “real” war)]
aka: Boiling The [Infidel] Frog Syndrome
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Edouard commented:
I have an idea for an innovative TV show also. It would be called “The CBS Evening News,” but the unique twist would be an anchor who actually possesses brains, wit, discernment, and common sense.
Wouldn’t that just be a kick in the pants?
Lentenlands commented:
Clueless Katie, do we need a NAZI version too?
http://smashabanana.blogspot.com/
oldguy commented:
She’s standing under a golden shower and convinced it’s rain.
Linda R commented:
Katie, Katie,Katie What planet are you on? If my memories serve me correctly, it was Muslims who hijacked 4 planes on9/11 and killed thousands of people. They hate the world and you want a Bill Cosby like sit com to help us to put aside our distrust much less our hatred. What are you thinking? Get real.
tsg2001 commented:
SPOILER ALERT! It is too easy to criticize Miss Couric, and simply pass it as total foolishness from an anchor of one of the major networks in America.
Clearly, she sees, the race issue in America, the same way she sees the religious issues, as most liberals do. It is understanding which we lack, naivete and we must break down the stereotypes. So rather than, mock her which, one does have reason to do, given her position and place in the journalist hierarchy.
The right move is to call her on it, and support it. The liberals will have to do the research inside their self regulated laboratories, what comes in and what goes out. Given the problem to turn Islam into a sitcom. Liberals will only then begin to understand, what they are dealing with.
To capture Islam, as a sit com will be their challenge, and lets see how far Miss Couric can get, before she is attacked by Muslims for debasing Islam. As we know, they do not take criticism of their religion, very well.
Then Miss Couric will finally come to an insight, which she has heretofore deemed, unacceptable and impossible. Have her do the leg work, and support her, she has clout at CBS, she can develop it.
Because for any one to even suggest it and is over 15 years of age, then has a major problem with reality and most likely still firmly believes in a real Santa Claus and authentic flying reindeer who live in the North Pole.
Mary commented:
Courtesy of a caller in to Rush’s show, how ’bout calling the program, “Allah in the Family?”