Venting steam at 60 Minutes
I just saw the 60 minutes "exposé" of the Muhammed affair over at Expose the Left [HAT TIP: Michelle Malkin]. First of all I would like to make it clear that the fat little man who looks like his face was pasted on a balloon, Thøger Seidenfaden, is the editor of Politiken, the largest competitor of Jyllands-Posten. They were once the "cultural radicals’" newspaper, printing witty jabs at Christendom and exposing religious hypocrisy. Then came the… Well, I don’t know what happened, but they are now The Daily Socialist.
The choice for Anders Fogh Rasmussen was not between "the tiny muslim minority" and "the largest daily" as he put it - it was a bloody principled stand. That’s not something I would expect Politiken to understand, but I would at least expect them to be a bit more honest about their actions. Politiken has been very critical of this whole affair and is definitely not "one of their defenders". More like "one of their detractors".
I direct you to Polemiken for some good satire of the little fat goblin.
Furrfu!
The Imam Abu Laban is now a ‘persona non grata’ in Denmark due to his near-treasonous actions in engaging in a bit of deceptive diplomacy. So his view of the situatio is a bit optimistic indeed. He should be grateful if he is not dispatched to a glacier in Greenland. We own that still, you know. And he complains of us educating him in Democracy. Well, he could use it. See Gatewaypundit.
Ealier coverage of Laban here, here and here.
To be fair, ALL the Danish women are as beautiful as the report indicates. One shouldn’t piss off the best nookie in the world.
Uffe Ellemann… Well, more here. He’s and old politician who just can’t live with the lack of publicity. I am a bit disgusted and would really trash him if I didn’t respect his standing up to the Red Hordes in the 80’s so much. Think of him as… Bush the First gone bad.
Also, the reporter should be aware that "the elite troops guarding the royal palace" are not just toy soldiers. They are armed and dangerous. Especially to leftist reporters.
And isn’t it a bit too much Schadenfreude to finish the segment with "The Danes in their picture-perfect world may have thought they were immune – now they know better"?
Beware of the appeasement press as they never learn from history. They still think if we just keep feeding the alligator that (they) will be the last one eaten.
Comment by gene hall — February 21, 2006 @ 1:01 am
A leftist Danish “journalist” has been going about feeding the US media lies, such as claims that Denmark doens’t allow mosques to be built and doesn’t allow Muslim cemetaries either. This has been repeated on both 60 minutes and in the New York Times. I forget the name of the “journalist” in question, but you probably know it.
60 minutes is lazy and stupid. They came to Denmark with a pre-conceived political agenda — Danes are racist against poor brown people! — and they cut the facts to fit that agenda. (The BBC did the same thing.) And don’t forget, the 60 minutes frontman Dan Rather was forced to resign for lying about Bush’s military record using forged documents. Also, most of the people connected with that show are in their 70s and 80s. They adopted their preconceived political ideas in the 50s and 60s and never changed them. It’s actually a badge of honor to be slandered by 60 Minutes.
Comment by Susan — February 23, 2006 @ 12:43 am
That is probably true. It just really can get my knickers in a twist to see things like what the 60 Minutes journalist did. I don’t even think he was being especially dishonest. Just very, very lazy, relying people who would sell their grandmother for media coverage. If he wanted to, he could have gotten Laban to talk about why he rejects the Danish society (he can provide some rather blood-chilling answers there) - instead he asked him why he was hurt. WE ALL KNOW THAT FUCKING STORY.
Comment by Administrator — February 23, 2006 @ 1:36 am
man, I’ve got pissed off at Bob Simon
Comment by Jelsted — February 26, 2006 @ 9:47 am