Thank God (not Allah) that we have Charles Krauthammer to lead the hearts and minds of our country. Krauthammer, you will be shocked to learn, considering that kind face of his, is against the conversion of that Manhattan Burlington Coat Factory to a mosque. (All the 9/11 families say it should be a Big Lots, by the way.) And he has led us on this issue, tirelessly, in his dumb job that pays him an actual living wage simply to write a single column every week. Today’s conclusion: Obama is a coward for coming out in favor of the freedom of religion, and his ilk do not have a refined taste in analogies, like Krauthammer does.
It takes no courage whatsoever to bask in the applause of a Muslim audience as you promise to stand stoutly for their right to build a mosque, giving the unmistakable impression that you endorse the idea. What takes courage is to then respectfully ask that audience to reflect upon the wisdom of the project and to consider whether the imam’s alleged goal of interfaith understanding might not be better achieved by accepting the New York governor’s offer to help find another site.
Real courage is thinking exactly what Charles Krauthammer thinks, you see. Accepting plurality is safe and easy, whereas it takes real courage to be a bigot.
Wow, that would have been so courageous, wouldn’t it have, to do exactly as the polls said? Somebody should have stood up at that celebration of Ramadan and told those Muslims they have no right to practice their religion unless we non-Muslims tell them they can. But apparently nobody invited Charles Krauthammer to this gathering, so he didn’t show those Muslims what courage looks like.
Where the president flagged, however, the liberal intelligentsia stepped in with gusto, penning dozens of pro-mosque articles characterized by a frenzied unanimity, little resort to argument and a singular difficulty dealing with analogies.
Poopheads! Don’t they know that democratic principles and the Constitution don’t matter? God, what a bunch of idiots! Analogies should dictate what we do and think, not American values! This is why Krauthammer gets paid the big bucks, because he understands that analogies are the only things that matter.
The Atlantic’s Michael Kinsley was typical in arguing that the only possible grounds for opposing the Ground Zero mosque are bigotry or demagoguery. Well then, what about Pope John Paul II’s ordering the closing of the Carmelite convent just outside Auschwitz?
Yes, what about that? One time a pope did a thing! That is an analogy! How can you just look at a Krauthammer analogy and not do exactly the same thing? Who cares if you are being bigoted or a demagogue? ANALOGIES!
And then we get another fun argument:
Ground Zero is the site of the most lethal attack of that worldwide movement, which consists entirely of Muslims, acts in the name of Islam and is deeply embedded within the Islamic world. These are regrettable facts, but facts they are. And that is why putting up a monument to Islam in this place is not just insensitive but provocative.
Yes, a community center is a monument to Islam. No, it is not a place for people to go and swim and play squash and pray. It is a remembrance for past Islam. ERGO, TERRORISM. And we can ergo that because Krauthammer says it’s a “monument,” so it is. You can’t differentiate yourself from the terrorists, Muslims, because Krauthammer has decided you are not allowed to, even though he agrees you are not terrorists. Haha!
Just as the people of Japan today would not think of planting their flag at Pearl Harbor, despite the fact that no Japanese under the age of 85 has any possible responsibility for that infamy, representatives of contemporary Islam — the overwhelming majority of whose adherents are equally innocent of the infamy committed on 9/11 in their name — should exercise comparable respect for what even Obama calls hallowed ground and take up the governor’s offer.
And once again, for all the fucktards like Krauthammer, this is not being built on “Ground Zero.” Another office building is being built there, to cover up that spot where that pile of bodies and steel was. The community center is being built blocks away, out of sight of the World Trade Center site.
One time a homeless man crapped on a dead pigeon two blocks away from the World Trade Center site. Because Krauthammer is arguing against a mosque at about the same distance from the World Trade Center site, based on this analogy we can say Charles Krauthammer is a piece of homeless-man shit on a dead pigeon. [WP]
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Kraphammer pens another of his inane columns that nobody but those who want to mock him read. Meh.
And it’s “Poopyhead”, not “Poophead”. Also.
Kraut = slang for “German”
Hammer = slang for “pigfucker”
Krauthammer has balls of steel for going out on a limb like this. His next act of courageousness will included defending Israel’s right to exist and the next to outlaw flag burning. Truely a profile in courage.
What can any of us add?
Charles Krauthammer: brain of purest punchmeat; body of sacks. But I see the pullet shits chummy silver bullets every night.
Of Course Krauthammer has the right to speak up, but should he? Doesn’t him speaking out stab our hearts like a giant tower made of flaming hatred?
How is it that the Washington Post, once a great and respected newspaper, publishes crap of the sort belched out by Mr. Chuck. It must be part of their plan to make themselves attractive for a takeover by News Corp. — or — a secret plot to make the Enquirer look good at at the supermarket checkout.
Popes! How the fuck do they work?
ANALOGIES!
Plus, there are probably a dozen sushi restaurants within a mile of the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Honolulu, and do Hawaiians care? I think we know the answer to that (pass the wasabi, bruddah).
Why doesn’t Craphammer get out his chair and do something about it? Oh right…
When faced with a large, crazed, screaming, ravenous mob about to break out into a riot, it takes great courage to go down and join them; only a coward would tell them what they’re doing was wrong.
And about those Japanese, from Sadly, No: http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/32896.html
[re=642885]petehammer[/re]:
so Pete = slang for ?
Hammmer = slang for “pigfucker”?
Dude!
Why didn’t Krauty have the courage to write about the last combat brigade leaving Iraq?
http://www.jorer.com
Builidng a mosque at ground zero is like building a Nazi concentration camp on the smoldering ruins of the Holocaust museum.
That’s the only analogy that Krauthammer thinks is valid.
How much property does Japan own at or near Pearl Harbor? Krauthammer seems oblivious to the idea that a country (or a religious group, for that matter) can’t just run around the globe planting its flag/emblem/burning cross wherever it wants. But then he also thought that invading a country and then having your army drive around its streets aimlessly for years would lead to democracy. It’s like whenever these neocon mongoloid pigfuckers run into facts that are incompatible with their wishes, they scream, stomp, revert to six-year-old behavior and invoke magical thinking to fix it.
George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, and Bull Connor could have taken the easy way out and allowed blacks their Civil Rights but no, they took the bold stand in favor of States Rights. Why have we allowed those heroic Americans to be denigrated by liberal historians and not be considered the rightful heroes they should be?
So we should torch all the Buddhist temples in Hawaii, right? Right. Especially the fancy tourist attractions in Oahu that imitate famous Japanese temples.
[re=642902]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Shorter Charles Krauthammer: “Let’s roll!”
[re=642892]chascates[/re]: REFUDIATE THE CACKLES!!!!
what about Pope John Paul II’s ordering the closing of the Carmelite convent just outside Auschwitz?
OT, but as a born ‘n raised n’ lapsed Catholic, I always thought the Carmelites were the most delicious-sounding religious order out there.
[re=642902]ManchuCandidate[/re]: He’s just jealous because he can’t “stand stoutly” for anything…
[re=642907]Oblios Cap[/re]: I’ve seen him at rallies. Don’t you question our passion for sus domestica.
You see Jack, a bunch of Americans have done crimes on American soil throughout the history of America, so we can’t put a flag anywhere or celebrate the July 4th, because then we would be celebrating those criminals who rape and kill Americans! I mean, come on!
Krauthammer’s WAR ON ANALOGIES will only lead him to the Hague, where he will be convicted for waterboarding/torture.
You gotta hand it to him, he’s pretty good at making totally unreasonable bigotry sound reasonable. Cabbagemallet is old guard, from the era when men where (bigoted) men and Glenn Beck was still some horrid shock jock. There’s almost something genteel in his bilious argumentation.
He’s still a pigfucker.
It takes no courage to stand up for a minority and the Constitution when the mob is screaming for blood? But it’s courageous to pen a crap piece of bigotry for a few bucks? Strange.
In light of the fact that the 9/11 hijackers were essentially poorly trained — though spectacularly effective! — kamikaze pilots, I demand that President Obama immediately denounce, in no uncertain terms, Sanrio’s plans to open a store in the Ground Zero Memorial Shopping Mall.
Allowing a Mosque near Ground Zero would be exactly like allowing statutes of Confederate Generals near former plantations.
In all fairness, Krauthammer can’t stand up and tell anybody anything. At least not the standing up part.
When did Ground Zero become some sort of Holy Shrine that we must treat with utmost reverence, like it’s where Christ himself (or Ronald Reagan– no diff) walked amongst us and healed the lepers? When did the vote happen? Or is this one of those things where I’m one of the few people who think it’s better to not dignify acts of terrorism with anything or that Memorials based on National Tragedies always ends with wars being fought hundreds of years later to avenge it?
How many blocks away Chuckie to meet your sensitivity calculus? If not 4, the 5, or 6, or 10, or how about 20 – that’s about a mile? Or maybe if we/they are really fucking sensitive not on Manhattan Island. What about the other Boroughs? No on that too, well how about another state. Maybe we/they should put it on the fucking shrinking Moon.
Charles, you are such a poopyhead. Also, too.
The only way to honor the families of the fallen is to build a Taco Bell drive-through at the point where WTC 1 collapsed. Oh and maybe build a school where strippers can earn an actual accredited degree at pole dancing.
Works for me!
In the picture he has a domestic shoved up his ass. A domestic. Can you believe it?
Just like the YMCA in Jerusalem is a monument to the Crusades, right Krauty? http://www.ymca3arch.co.il/
[re=642938]Mad Brahms[/re]: I resent you calling Krauthammer a pigfucker. One needs working legs to be a pig fucker.
Somebody rolled off the wrong side of the bed today.
Kauthammer is a tool but Barry gave us the Hopey-dope again on this one. His speech definitely left the impression he supported the so called ground zero Mosque. The next day, he said he would take no position on whether the Mosque should be built near ground zero or not. WTF? The guy just says whatever the audience in front of him wants to hear. I’m sure if he spoke at Liberty University, he would be endorsing mandatory bible studies in kindergarten and Friday night book burnin’.
[re=642947]Hooray For Anything[/re]: For most of the victims, so-called “ground zero” is their final resting place. That’s deserving of some respect. Although it’s more honest to say those victims — so sadly — burned up and their ashes scattered throughout lower Manhattan, and into skies around the world. As dust adds beauty to sunsets, maybe they are still with us, shining each evening.
When did our quest to bring al Queda to justice become a crusade against Islam? I have a zillion problems with Islam (and about as many with Christianity). But I don’t think for a minute that Americans Muslims are second class citizens. They came here because they like us, not because they hate us. If I can’t find religious tolerance in my heart, I don’t deserve to call myself an American.
Alt Text produced a fine but powerful spray across my monitor.
Which needed a good cleaning anyway.
[re=642933]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: I always liked the Strawberrians and the Chocotites.
[re=642984]just pixels[/re]: revise & extend my remarks: “came here” about those who immigrated; of course there are also the many American Muslims who were born here.
Sorry to be disagreeable, but Charles Krauthammer, whose is a neo-con asshole sonofabitch, is not wrong about everything. His first comment is right. Obama was using the valid ethical distinction between what people have a right to do and what would be good to do because he wanted to be on both sides of the issue of what should be done. Obama is a lawyer, and lawyers, who are descended from the ancient sophists, pull this kind of shit.
Insensitive is redneck racists flying the Confederate flag over southern statehouses. Insensitive is local Republican flag-wavers putting up a big cheap sign honoring American soldiers killed by the Japanese in WWII directly over the bronze “Never Again” marker at Manzanar. Insensitive is also a great name for a new Calvin Klein cologne.
[re=643006]One Yield Regular[/re]: Insensitive is also a great name for a new Calvin Klein cologne.
Good, but I prefer “post-sensitive,” which I consider myself to be.
[re=642938]Mad Brahms[/re]: Yeah, I just think this is Krauty’s favorite type of writing assignment: Take something he has praised in conservative former presidents and make it sound bad and cowardly now that Obama’s doing it. He had the best time, back in Miss Dawson’s 10th grade debate class, when he had to switch sides and argue for the opposing viewpoint.
[re=642980]glamourdammerung[/re]: One needs working legs to be a pig fucker.
Either that or an *extremely* co-operative pig.
[re=642917]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Thank God somebody is thinkin’ straight
[re=642984]just pixels[/re]: That’s a fair point, but I always get nervous when a group of people who love nothing more than blowing up brown people decide to treat a place that’s already a symbol for starting two wars against brown people as some sort of holy place. Also when they start deciding who or what can be near there.
[re=642981]J[/re]: Now that’s just mean. Thank you.
Forget the Krauthammer. What Chuck needs is a jackhammer to his typewriter and his skull.
hmmm. “refined analogies”, … hmmm, Hows this;
“When he can walk up a flight of stairs I’ll believe everything he says.”
What is actually going up on the hallowed ground of Ground Zero? A 105 story office building for corporate tenants. You KNOW nothing shady will do down in that joint.
“Just as the people of Japan today would not think of planting their flag at Pearl Harbor”
You mean like the Shinto temple(s) there?
Fuck analogies. Krauthammer is down with the synecdoche.
SourKraut reminds me of Howdy Doody because his shirt necks are waaaay too big. And he spits out his puppetmasters talking points all the time.
“Just as the people of Japan today would not think of planting their flag at Pearl Harbor”
Krauthammer doesn’t know the difference between the people of Japan and Japanese Americans. Or, maybe they’re all the same to him. And isn’t the flag of Japanese Americans the American flag?
[re=643109]Rentboy.gov[/re]: Speaking of “joint(s)” I know of a delivery guy who perished that day, while working. Not that those are a big deal, but the same and worse (coke, escorts, GAY SEX!!! ZOMG…) will go down in the new building, for sure!!
But, I’m surprised that people are shocked that The President, ‘Hopey-dopin’ or not, won’t take an official stand +/-11 weeks before a mid-term election?? Any of the last 5 Presidents would have done the exact same.
Anyway, Krauthammer is just a gimpy-grouch. I used to work in the building where they shoot Inside Washington; and would pass him, rollin’ and wheezing into the studio. He would kinda give me that “Ew, you’re Black…” look, too. (Whoops, did I just “Out” myself?? About the Black-thing…*NOT* the Gay Sex…Not that there’s anything wrong with that…)
Why, the Cordoba House would be tantamount to putting a Shinto shrine near Pearl Harbor!!!!
Oh, wait.
http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/08/17/shinto-shrine-near-pearl-harbor/
Wake up, US-America! The yellow bastards are (very politely, with an almost obsessive respect for the elderly) PISSING ON THE WRECKAGE OF THE ARIZONA!!
What did Craptower ever do to make people take him seriously?
[re=642901]Melissa511[/re: Hawai’i is 60% Japanese. It was majority Japanese in 1941. No one interned them because nothing would get done without them. Probably there are Shinto shrines, Japanese Buddhist temples, etc., all over Honolulu. Does K. ever do any research?
Hey-hey-hey! Literally tens of thousands of confederate troops died at Gettysburg to defend their way of life. It’s HALLOWED GROUND. Do they let Federal monuments get built on the battlefield there?
What? Well, whatever then. ANALOGY – Booya!
How about the synagogue within site of Galgotha? Where is the outrage?
How about the synagogue within sight of Galgotha? Where is the outrage?
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