Fox's Laura Ingraham To Guest: If You're A Law-Abiding Muslim, "Why Would You Be Upset About What The NYPD Is Doing?"
June 07, 2012 10:05 pm ET
From the June 7 edition of Fox's The O'Reilly Factor:
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For what she does to that adopted child each dark day.
They say you can see yourself in the reflection of Laura's dinner plates.
But for this Law Abiding Citizen on Laura Ingraham's dishes i would be ashamed to have ate.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Fox's Laura Ingraham To Guest:
"If You're A Law-Abiding Jew ", "Why Would You Be Upset About What The Nazi's are Doing?"
Timothy McVeigh: White
Laura Ingraham: check
Tim: Christian
Laura: check
Tim: Bombs away
Ingy: check
Tim: Went to the Dark Side
Ms. I: check
Profile complete. Q: Is it time for Ingraham to start humming, "Me and My Shadow"?
In short, Laura, the "reasonable suspicion" you need to target Muslims is, simply, not there.
I really need to buy another copy of "The Bride of Firesign." :)
Golly who'd have thought Faux would support a government program, and one that appears to be failing at its purpose. Theocratic intolerance, and/or racism, would be just a stab in the dark on my part, right?
"Ask the cop" was all part of a Ur Fact on what it means to be an American, from "How Can You be in Two Places at Once When Your not Anywhere at All." They can be tricky to quote correctly, as I've found to my own chagrin.
Henry Crun: Min, Min, time to put the cat out.
Minnie Bannister: Oooh why Henry?
Henry: It's on fire.
"Send me a messenger with a voice like thunder!"
"...Right mate."
But for a twist of the radio dial I could have heard The Goons on the CBC from Montana. Unfortunatly I didn't know of them at the time.
Spike Milligan died not long after the incident of the shoe bomber on American Airlines Flight 63. I assumed that once his surreal humour had become real:
life was no longer real so he gave up the ghost.
Surrealism has penetrated our societies in more ways than most of us realize. Unfortunetly this comes mostly in the form of commercials.
The gas stove was a reoccuring image, there were others, as I'm sure you know, that they used. "March that person backwards for Christmas. With a gas stove over his head!"
Across the Irish Sea
I'm walking backwards for Christmas
It's the only thing for me.
"I've tried walking sideways
And even to the front
But people just laugh and say
That it's a publicity stunt."
Whilst I would agree that post-war British surreal comedy really hits its stride with the Goons surrealism in british humour certainly existed pre-war. If you ever saw him in action with his younger brother, Desmond, you would see something that dated back to their childhood. Milligan's father was also of a similar mindset. Milligan himself often cited J.B. Morton, who wrote the By the Way column under the pseudonym "Beachcomber" from 1924 to 1975 in the London Daily Express, as the greatest influence on his and his brother's sense of humour.
During the late 1960s he fronted a BBC television program The World Of Beachcomber based on the writings of Morton.
Both Morton and Milligan served in the ranks (Morton WW1, Milligan WW2) and it is significant that both world wars left a legacy of such art - Da-Da, Surrealism, Absurdism.
Lest you think Morton was a one-off Radio and Stage comics such as Flanagan and Allen (sketch concerning digging holes in South Africa and selling them to the farmers and songs such as "What Happens To The Breakdown Man When The Breakdown Van Breaks Down" combined twisted logic and word play).
I did read the first to editions of Spikes WWll series of books. I'd like to find the rest of them.
One of the forwards quotes was about historical accuracy being important in writing, from someone. Spike added below this that he jazzed his up a little.
It never ends...
Roger Ailes gives BO a day off and has no problem whatsoever filling his spot with another member of his Band Of Bigots.
Hey Laura, do you mind if I toss your apartment while you're out? You've got nothing to hide, right?
You'd understand why that was important if you ever lived near a factory farm. Whether is was cattle of pig doesn't make a lot of difference, it's all the effluent that is produced that causes the problems.
Why are FOXPAC, the Nebraska and Kansas cattlemen upset about the EPA flyovers if they're law abiding?
Checkmate!
Once that profiling starts to include white people . . .
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*As it turns out, WSJ readers.
We have rights and protections for a reason. I love how the rightwing claims to be about freedom, then they pen the Patriot Act. Yes I know President Obama extended some provisions too and I'm not happy.
Freedom for the right only has to do with money, not citizens. They truly are corporatists.
I would also point out that, terrorist groups are well aware of the NYPD and how they operate. I'm sure they have altered their tactics in some instances. Alliances with say Narco-terrorists in South America are likely to develope and they will use them to carry out missions. The Taliban has strong ties already with heroin trafficking.
Are jihadists, salafists and islamists a problem sure, do I live in constant fear, no. This is the goal on the right: living in a state of fear.
National security is a huge cottage industry. 911 was a huge boom for wannabe spies and security groups. They sprang up everywhere. The military started using PRIVATE companies for intelligence. This is a recipe for disaster.
What does a Muslim look like Laura?
/snark
Like this . . .
You're presumably a law abiding white person in NYC, and the cops stop and frisk you. How does that make you feel?
It's called putting yourself into someone else's shoes Laura, and I'm pretty sure you'd not like it.
How would you like to face that everytime you went outside your house you dopey three-wheeler!!!
"You've nothing to fear if you're not a criminal".
The excuse of the police state.