Equating Revolutionaries With Terrorists
NBC's Brian Williams just can't tell the difference between our founding fathers and the terrorists we're fighting globally.
Add that to this statement made by Williams to Andrea Mitchell on air:
Let's highlight just a few of the major differences between the terrorists in Iraq and the revolutionaries who founded this country.
Despite what Brian Williams thinks, I don't believe this is an issue worth debating. The comparisons aren't even remotely apt and even engaging in the discussion lends a semblance of legitimacy to the murderous, fascist tyrants we're fighting in Iraq and around the world.
(via Ankle Biting Pundits)
The White House and most official branches of government are ducking any substantive comment on this story, and photo analysis is going on at this and other news organizations. It is a story that will be at or near the top of our broadcast and certainly made for a robust debate in our afternoon editorial meeting, when several of us raised the point (I'll leave it to others to decide germaneness) that several U.S. presidents were at minimum revolutionaries, and probably were considered terrorists of their time by the Crown in England.
Add that to this statement made by Williams to Andrea Mitchell on air:
"What would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called 'terrorists' by the British crown, after all."
Let's highlight just a few of the major differences between the terrorists in Iraq and the revolutionaries who founded this country.
- Our founding fathers organized an army of men and met the British army on the field of battle. The terrorists pose as citizens and hide behind their women and children.
- Our founding fathers never chopped the heads off captive British soldiers or civilians.
- Our founding fathers fought, in part, for the freedom to practice religion openly. The terrorists are fighting to force their brand of religious dogma down the throats of everybody else.
- Our founding fathers never targeted civilians with suicide attacks. Suicide attacks, especially those using brainwashed women and children, are the bread and butter of the terrorists.
- The terrorists are fighting against the spread of freedom. Our founding fathers fought against an oppressive British regime to spread freedom.
And, perhaps most importantly:
Despite what Brian Williams thinks, I don't believe this is an issue worth debating. The comparisons aren't even remotely apt and even engaging in the discussion lends a semblance of legitimacy to the murderous, fascist tyrants we're fighting in Iraq and around the world.
(via Ankle Biting Pundits)
