{"id":4131,"date":"2010-09-09T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2010-09-09T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:03:55","slug":"actions-have-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/09\/09\/actions-have-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Actions Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at TPM,\u00c2\u00a0Josh Marshall has an excellent post on Taking Responsibility<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Speaking just now on MSNBC James Zogby made a very good point — and pressed Andrea Mitchell on it. His point was that\u00c2\u00a0sure<\/em>, this Pastor Jones fool is one guy, who’s managed to get worldwide attention for his stunt. But you cannot separate him, as I\u00c2\u00a0noted<\/a> below, from the whole climate of hate speech and anti-Muslim agitation from the Newt Gingriches and the Sarah Palins and the rest of them.<\/p>\n

At that point, Mitchell jumped in and said, wait, Palin said she disagrees with the Koran burning. To which Zogby replied, something to the effect of ‘C’mon’. ANd that’s just the right reply. This is the standard approach of race haters and demagogues. They keep stirring the pot, churning out demonizing rhetoric and hate speech. Then some marginal figure does something nuts and suddenly … oh, wait, I didn’t mean\u00c2\u00a0burn<\/em> Korans. Where’d you get that idea from?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wherever, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at TPM,\u00c2\u00a0Josh Marshall has an excellent post on Taking Responsibility: Speaking just now on MSNBC James Zogby made a very good point — and pressed Andrea Mitchell on it. His point was that\u00c2\u00a0sure, this Pastor Jones fool is one guy, who’s managed to get worldwide attention for his stunt. But you cannot separate him, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t