I'm afraid if he wins...
Created on: October 15th, 2008
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@fredzy it wasn't a good response of mine, that one and only that one i will retract. however be aware you are committing the same fallacy seriously that i was using sarcastically: you generalize because it is easy to do so and because you want a scapegoat. back in 2003 it was like heresy for an american to criticize bush no matter how many civilians were killed by US troops, then a few years later US gas prices went up and everyone hated him...solution: blame 'those bush cronies' because NOW it matters
sorry omni, i used the wrong term, 'selective interview' would have been better. al-jazeera clearly pulled a michael moore by interviewing hundreds (thousands?) of people until they got the response they wanted. they didn't exactly conduct a quantitative survey of a statistically representative cohort. i was amused when i saw it on youtube but you shouldn't draw any serious conclusions from it
I disagree: You can walk into a bar in the right neighborhood in any state and interview 10-15 people to get this same response in less than a half-hour. Doesn't take Michael Moore tactics. Americans are racist and disturbingly quite proud of it. You give al jazeera too much credit if you assume they put in overtime to get someone saying this. Where I live in Brooklyn, they're worried some psycho will kill Obama. 3 or 4 trains stops away, there's a guy trying to figure out how to get away with it.
I just don't think that this applies so generally, but all we have is anecdotal evidence on both sides. I've been nearly everywhere and the one thing I have to show for it is the realization that human nature is universal. The only differences between us are cultural, but you can't generalize Americans because they have no culture. That's not an insult, but 200 years is not enough time to develop "culture" as commonly defined. As for some psycho killing Obama, only if John Hinckley Jr. busts out. [rimshot]
Black people can run faster because of that knee-ligament thing. I know this because Jesse Owens embarrassed Hitler that one time at Adolphe's place in Berlin when they were playing "olympics." But it's all OK because Asian people can't drive and blonds aren't good at math, so that evens everything out.
How so, by playing clips of the most crazy people rather than the least? When do you see people on CNN say this? Never! It's not because it doesn't happen, it's because they choose not to air the worst of it and typically avoid "those people." Hell, even Fox News does it, if to a lesser extent. These are the crazy types, as in the ones in the clip. "Palin is filled with the holy light" came out, if memory serves.
Problem is, these are rare, crazy nutjobs and al Jazeera couches it in normality which can be misleading. I just don't get why this is a big issue now, Amurrikin-bashing was hashed out years ago and it's old news now. AJE isn't normally this overtly biased, even as a joke, but every news corp has its bad editors I guess. Then again back in Oct. 2001 there were American senators saying that no arabs should be allowed to board airplanes and CNN had no problem airing it. =\ Also, Bob Loblaw.
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