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Ty's comment was essentially him noting that the Islamic community seemed to be proving the Pope's point with their violent reaction to him.
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And my point was exactly - "Really? no kidding? Where have you been the last 72 hours, that you just realized this?"
Perhaps when I said the other day that Ty was being as ironic as the Pakistani foreign minister, maybe no one else had a clue what the Pakistani foreign minister actually said. And I guess, therein lies the problem. I follow this stuff. Others do not, and theat seriously concerns me.
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Who named you Conscience of America?
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No one did. And I never claimed to me. But I'll say this - I'm not walking around in some oblivious PC daze about the shrinking world and the evil around us. I sincerely hope you aren't either.
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Where the fuck do you get off piling on with Hank when all I did was point out that it was pretty clear to me that his sentiments and Ty's were in accord?
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History is clear that I hardly, if ever, pile on with anyone. Let alone Hank (or Penske) on the politics board. As I recall, I immediately rose to Ty defense when Hank asked him to take a powder.
My point - indirect as it may have been because I quoted you via Hank - was my absolute shock that Ty only just seemed to catch on as to this "irony" of the Islamists, given all of the quotes and news releases over the last few days.
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Hank, in a knee-jerk reaction, assumed that Ty was being flip, or trying to make light of the situation. Now here you come, accusing me of what?
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Here, I'm not accusing you of anything. Perhaps wrongly lumping you in with Ty.
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I haven't said anything, period, about either the Pope's comment or the Muslim world's reaction to it. But apparently you don't need to bother trying to find out. God forbid you should maybe ask me what I think instead of deciding on the basis of zero information.
Your "righteous" indignation is nothing but presumptuous bullshit. I still consider us friends, Slave, but things like this seriously test that feeling.
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My righteous indignation is against these bloodthirsty zealots, the revisionists at the NYT and Reuters in the blame-US first camp, any non-Muslim that defends them, and any Muslim that does not openly reject them.
Unless you tell me - and I dont think this at all - that you fall into any of those 4 categories, then I don't think our friendship is at stake.
