Sometimes I start Sundays off at TD Facebook with a cartoon -- and so it goes this Sunday, except you have to think of it as a word cartoon. Jon Stewart has, of course, built part of his Daily Show career on the hilarious folks at Fox News, now Juan Cole threatens to do the same. Below is part of his riff at his Informed Comment website on a Fox News response to Sen. Harry Reid terming right-wing armed militia types in a land stand-off wannabe domestic terrorists (and heres part of what Reid said: 600 people came armed, they had practiced, they had maneuvered… they set up snipers in strategic locations… they had automatic weapon,” the leading Democrat said Friday. And they boasted about the fact they put women and children… so they would get hit first.”) Tom Not since George W. Bush complained that the problem with the American economy was that too many of our imports come from abroad has such hilarious use of the English language been on display. The furor on the Right about Harry Reid terming domestic terrorists the militiamen who brought sniper rifles across state lines to confront the Bureau of Land Management produced the following interview by Fox News of Rand Paul. Eric Bolling asked Sen. Paul, Is there any reason to call Americans domestic terrorists? So, Mr. Bolling, you see, the category of domestic terrorist, when used inside the United States, cannot be used for foreigners, only for Americans. If you meant to ask whether there are any domestic terrorists, I think Timothy McVeigh might be an answer to your question. So, yes, there is sometimes a reason to call Americans domestic terrorists. When they are. If what you meant to say is that white Americans should not be called terrorists and that the term should be reserved for brown-skinned peoples, that is just Fox News editorial policy, not a feature of, like, the English language. It is a feature I have complained about all week. juancole/2014/04/americans-domestic-terrorists.html
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:30:25 +0000
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