See, because “Salon-reading progressives” do a thing that you seem to struggle with: they collect the words together into thoughts and tie the thoughts together into meanings. This is the “reading” part, which seems to elude you, to wit,
That is from the article. Major Garrett himself admitted that he was just poking at your “Emperor”. There is no equivalence here to “tough questions = racism”, nor does anyone who is not a RW drool-machine see one. Bill Maher was simply trying to provoke the right in the same way that Garrett was ineptly trying to provoke Obama.
Poking at power is what the media is *supposed *to do. I guess since it’s been over six years since they ran anything but “Obama puts my drawing of him on the fridge and gives it an A+” stories, you’ve actually forgotten.
Not up on this whole “hostages” thing. What concessions has Iran demanded for the hostages? Should the US be willing to go to war if the hostages are not released? Should the US be willing to risk war if they are not released? And finally, should the US be willing to cancel the result of a difficult negotiation to avoid war if the hostages are not released?
And while you’re about it, howzabout a definition of hostage? Is a hostage anyone detained in a foreign country? Must there be some sort of “ransom note”, some condition to be met to secure their release or their safety? Has Iran made any such demand?
Oh, so when a reporter pokes a Republican, it’s an incoherent stump speech, but when a reporter pokes a Democrat, it’s an incisive exercise of the First Amendment?
I don’t disagree with opposition to the Iraq War, or the hijacking of the press conference to talk about the Iraq War. I can hold that position and also think that the particular content of Helen Thomas’s rambles was basically nonsense and didn’t help anything. Furthermore, the point of bringing up the incident was not to discuss who was wrong or right about Iraq, but to give an example of someone doing a similar thing to Bush to what was done to Obama yesterday and point out the disparate reactions.
I don’t read Salon. I think I should start, though, because if that lunatic Haberdash thinks it is a mockworthy read, it must be worth reading. By the way: has anyone posted a Stupid Liberal Idea lately?