I think that the fumes from our burning embassy in Tunisia must be getting to Jay Carney.
Carney actually said
“This is a fairly volatile situation, and it is in response not to United States policy, obviously not to the administration, not to the American people. It is in response to a video, a film, that we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting — that in no way justifies any violent reaction to it.”
What??!?!?!
September 14, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Would the video have been made if everyone had an understanding of Islam and knew eveybody else had the same understanding?
September 14, 2012 at 11:15 pm
So all of that, "America is the Great Satan" stuff is just for show? A little joke among friends? Mom always said, "It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye." Maybe Jay didn't know that somebody has lost a life. After all, if the president sleeps through the crisis, then goes to Vegas, while missing yet another intelligence briefing, maybe Jay was busy re-watching the September 11 Kardashian tribute to the victims of 9/11.
September 15, 2012 at 1:16 am
He feels that the timing was a coincidence? He thinks it was all planned out on the spur of the moment? Fascinating.
I already just skip media reports that call the violence "protests" or in any way blame the video.
September 15, 2012 at 1:25 am
@theraineyview: In and of itself, that video probably constitutes "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater". Being, after all, likely to incite stampedes by irrational mobs.
However, given the video was out for more than a month before they did this—they timed it to coincide with 9/11—this can no longer be chalked up to irrationality. This was a rational act against the US, specifically a declaration of war. Now, given the responsible parties have no standing to declare war, we can't actually respond as such things warrant (the Egyptian government isn't directly responsible, so we can't very well go to war with them), but we can certainly apply pressure until those responsible are handed over.
Yeah, that'll be the day.
September 15, 2012 at 3:07 am
This administration has no idea of how bigoted it is. This is just disgusting. Evidently, the new watchword in American diplomacy is Battered-Wife Syndrome. 'If we dont upset them, they wont hurt us?!?'
Anyway you slice it an American ambassador has been murdered. It requires a real response, not hand-wringing apologies that we've upset the poor, confused, uncontrollable Muslims. Their bigotry and stupidity is staggering.
September 15, 2012 at 3:48 am
Never has a century so desperately needed a crusade like the 21st!
September 16, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Churchillian.
Ward Churchill, not Winston.