en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1627710 Comments by KrikaKriminal http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/06/29/same-jon-stewart-who-uses-race-card-doesnt-like-being-dealt-one-by-fox-news/#IDComment168231126 I'd be delighted if you could provide examples of Stewart playing the race card himself... But if you'd like I can provide you an example of what was The Daily Show's take on the whole Tea Party/N-Word thing (hint: it wasn't the Tea Party being mocked!) But I understand the principle... Since Jon Stewart is a leftist (which he is), he is guilty of all the sins of all the leftists ever... ok, "sins of the fathers", I guess... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:14:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/06/29/same-jon-stewart-who-uses-race-card-doesnt-like-being-dealt-one-by-fox-news/#IDComment168231126 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/06/29/did-left-wing-rhetoric-inspire-assault-of-glenn-becks-family/#IDComment167968400 I believe this post might have been sarcastic in nature... I think Salvatore's itemized comments on the tweets are explicitly twisted (specially the Bill Sammon reference!) to mimic the way the media cherry-picked and distorted right-wing commentators to link them to the Giffords case. If not then this post does not seem to make much sense... LITERAL calls for violence against Beck (and all forms of ill-wishing) are almost hard NOT to find (just google "glenn beck death") so these examples seem bizarre, to say the least... Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:10:27 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/06/29/did-left-wing-rhetoric-inspire-assault-of-glenn-becks-family/#IDComment167968400 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/25/hollywood-celebrates-new-york-same-sex-marriage-ruling/#IDComment166939189 That article doesn't mention apes at all Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:51:31 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/25/hollywood-celebrates-new-york-same-sex-marriage-ruling/#IDComment166939189 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/25/hollywood-celebrates-new-york-same-sex-marriage-ruling/#IDComment166770785 Where exactly did you read we are genetically more like mice than apes? Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:26:41 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/06/25/hollywood-celebrates-new-york-same-sex-marriage-ruling/#IDComment166770785 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2011/06/16/about-that-e-mail-from-jon-stewarts-producer-to-steven-crowder/#IDComment163237694 Rob Riggle... I think he was a regular at SNL a few years back but I don't know if he had a talk show of his own ... And he is still in active duty :)... He was really hilarious, miss him on the show.. Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:46:44 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2011/06/16/about-that-e-mail-from-jon-stewarts-producer-to-steven-crowder/#IDComment163237694 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2011/06/15/selective-outrage-l-a-times-lashes-out-at-tracy-morgan-gives-palin-h8ing-comics-pass-after-pass/#IDComment162865063 This is utterly disgusting... I love stand-up comedy, but this PC paranoia is slowly sucking the joy out of it.. Where's Lenny Bruce when you need him? Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:46:23 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/amarlow/2011/06/15/selective-outrage-l-a-times-lashes-out-at-tracy-morgan-gives-palin-h8ing-comics-pass-after-pass/#IDComment162865063 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2011/06/14/exposed-and-angry-jon-stewarts-mad-at-me/#IDComment162827166 It's unfortunate that Stewart chose to retaliate against you and you have to bear the brunt of it. More than liberal, Stewart is a celebrity, and celebrities tend to be a**holes... Look, Stewart is a liberal, holds liberal views, roots for liberal politicians and defends liberal policies and that is pretty clear from watching him, so the notion that he is personally unbiased is risible... However, I find the claim that The Daily Show never books conservatives as bizarre, given that in 2011 alone they had David Barton,Mike Huckabee,Rand Paul,Donald Rumsfeld,Michael Steele,Ed Gillespie,Tim Pawlenty,Rick Perry,Eric Cantor,Bill O'Reilly,Dick Armey,Fred Thompson,Arthur Brooks,Marc Thiessen and Newt Gingrich (as well as arguably right-leaning news anchors like Bret Baier and Chris Wallace). If you go back a few more years you'll find Ron Paul, Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Bernie Goldberg, Bill Bennett, Sean Hannity, Dennis Miller and Ann Coulter, among many other more obscure right-leaning figures such as Cliff May and John O'Hara. Now, one could argue that the lower bound for fame for a lib guest seems to be much lower than for a conservative guest. Fine, but that is altogether a different claim... Sure, Stewart generally softballs interviews with liberal guests and adopts a relentlessly confrontational attitude when the guest is a conservative so he's not really unbiased in any way. This is a valid criticism (which I share with you also), but the claim that conservatives are somehow blacklisted from the show or that conservative viewpoints are filtered is demonstrably false. In fact, if you check the TDS website, some of the most watched interviews are with conservative guests (this is natural, as these interviews tend to be more confrontational and therefore more entertaining than the snorefests with, say, Rachel Maddow). I don't know the full context of the exchange involving Crowder and the TDS producer, but judging by the email that was posted, the TDS seems to be alluding more to Crowder's lack of clout as a conservative figure (and non-attendance of Jon's cocktail parties as a comedian) than to some explicit or implicit policy to ignore conservative commentators... Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:44:49 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2011/06/14/exposed-and-angry-jon-stewarts-mad-at-me/#IDComment162827166 http://bigpeace.com/dfriedman/2011/06/07/rfk-friend-of-israel-gunned-down-by-enemy-of-the-jews/#IDComment160558591 Footnote: Sirhan Sirhan was actually a christian Wed, 8 Jun 2011 08:19:55 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/dfriedman/2011/06/07/rfk-friend-of-israel-gunned-down-by-enemy-of-the-jews/#IDComment160558591 http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2011/05/24/aipac-applause-o-meter/#IDComment155775912 Shouldn't they be Americans first? Tue, 24 May 2011 22:21:09 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2011/05/24/aipac-applause-o-meter/#IDComment155775912 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/17/nbc-has-a-problem-are-david-gregory-and-chris-matthews-racist/#IDComment153036830 It reminds me of the old Stalin joke: When comrade Molotov was leaving Stalin's office, Stalin's secretary overheard Molotov muttering "evil swine!" to himself and reported this to the boss. Stalin summons both of them and asks Molotov "Who were you thinking of when you said that?", "Why, Hitler, of course!". Stalin then turns to the secretary and asks "OK, then who were YOU thinking of?"... Sorry, slow office day...:) Tue, 17 May 2011 13:50:10 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/05/17/nbc-has-a-problem-are-david-gregory-and-chris-matthews-racist/#IDComment153036830 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/reasontv/2011/04/12/video-behind-the-scenes-of-atlas-shrugged/#IDComment142505236 Atlas Shrugged is one of my favorite books and i'm definitely curious to see how well it transfers to movie form (I really hope they don't paraphrase too much Rand's idiosyncratic prose, although I understand some of the lines verbatim would be to long for a movie). Looking at the trailer, looks kinda promising but i really have to ask "why oh why did they chose that blonde block of wood to play Dagny?!?"... She is one of my favorite characters in all of fiction and i just hope the movie doesn't ruin her too much... Anyway, kudos to John Aglialoro for bringing this epic vision to life, specially with all the troubles he went through (in true Randian fashion! ). But , and paraphrasing another comment elsewhere, I'm really really really just hoping it doesn't suck too much :) Sorry, just a rant... Not being in America, i guess i'll have to wait some more to watch it... but looking forward to it .. Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:54:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/reasontv/2011/04/12/video-behind-the-scenes-of-atlas-shrugged/#IDComment142505236 http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/04/04/those-anti-american-europeans/#IDComment140106341 Amen to that! (from the other side of the pond).. Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:18:40 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/04/04/those-anti-american-europeans/#IDComment140106341 http://bigpeace.com/cglick/2011/03/14/three-jewish-children/#IDComment135032556 And where exactly is this "state of palestine", by the way?.... And the fact that the West Bank and Gaza are not officially part of the State of Israel is actually part of the whole conundrum; If they ever were to be properly annexed, Israel would cease to exist as we know it, either by "demographic destruction" or by imposing a human catastrophe that would forever make them pariahs.. And yes, Palestinians are savages and it is emphatically not OK to kill children, in case you ask.. Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:05:35 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/cglick/2011/03/14/three-jewish-children/#IDComment135032556 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/01/maybe-sarah-palin-can-give-jon-stewart-a-history-lesson/#IDComment125236287 "I guess the Soviets grabbed those scientists. " Actually most of the German rocket scientists were grabbed by the US, including the lead V2 engineer, Wernher von Braun. See Operation Paperclip.. But you're right in that this was in large part a response to a perceived similar push by the part of the Soviets (and they were right, a sizable chunk of those scientists were also captured by the USSR, to their dismay, i imagine)... Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:47:03 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/02/01/maybe-sarah-palin-can-give-jon-stewart-a-history-lesson/#IDComment125236287 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/01/18/top-25-left-wing-films-3-dances-with-wolves-1990/#IDComment122255727 So the Spanish are not "white"? :) Jus' chekin Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:34:13 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/01/18/top-25-left-wing-films-3-dances-with-wolves-1990/#IDComment122255727 http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/08/25/caroline-glick-final-status-talks-on-a-palestinian-state/#IDComment96729541 Apart from being obnoxious, I don’t think you made any coherent point yet, let alone “rebut” anything…But anyway: Koran 3:3 (As translated by Yusuf Ali): “It is He Who sent down to thee (step by step), in truth, the Book, confirming what went before it; and He sent down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent down the criterion (of judgment between right and wrong).l”… That should settle my first point (If you didn’t _understand_ my point, that’s hardly my fault…) The Crusades were, of course, motivated by Islam (duh!) but not really a righteous “reaction to the brutal Islamic expansion”, as you claim, but more an attempt to reclaim territories lost to the muslims some 400 years before (and after that, lost since previous crusades), most of it for religious reasons (but politics took over very quickly, obviously). It did technically start out as aid to the byzantines against the turks (and we both know how that turned out for them!) but it quickly and permanently shifted focus. If you feel that this in any way “contextualizes” the sack of Constantinople or the massacres of the Rhineland then we have really nothing to discuss… As a western European, I am as utterly unconcerned with the development of asian Islam as I am with the Mongol conquests or the Chinese dynasty wars, so you are barking at the wrong tree. What I find despicable is the implication that remote bloodshed somehow expiates the atrocities committed in Europe under a “saintly” culture. If you could _demonstrate_ an Islamic first cause to _all_ those medieval atrocities of various kinds (as you keep insinuating) then you would have, instead of randomly scattering out insinuations, spurious factoids and irrelevant “context” and then trolling me for a “rebuttal”! Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:26:00 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/08/25/caroline-glick-final-status-talks-on-a-palestinian-state/#IDComment96729541 http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/08/25/caroline-glick-final-status-talks-on-a-palestinian-state/#IDComment96401398 Your post’ high ratio of vehemence of words vs. weakness of arguments, coupled with your seemingly poor reading comprehension makes me wonder whether you were in a hurry or have strained some intellectual muscle… The only factual counterpoint you made, about the Koran’ chronology, is technically valid but off target. I argued that the Koran “roughly asserts” and presupposes the same biblical history by both referring to key people and events and mentioning at length the historicity and divinely inspired (if subverted) nature of the Jewish and Christian canon. This was meant merely to argue that Mohamed (and by extension, Islamic doctrine) saw himself not as the beginning of history but as the last point in a long history roughly shared with Jews and Christians at large (in fact, usurping that history as their own). Your mention that the Koran is not itself textually arranged in the chronological order of its purported events is as irrelevant as it is pedantic. My only point was that, during the medieval period, _both_ Christians and Muslims were “guilty” of various human and cultural atrocities of varying degree (which I ascribed to the fact that medieval polities tended to act, well, medieval) and was countering the specific examples that were given, while providing some of my own that, to me, seem to invalidate the notion of a qualitative difference in contemporary human values (in favor of Christianity) between the Christian realms and the Islamic ones, especially when it is then used as a premise for implying some inherent metaphysical taint in the Ummah from which the other religious cultures are immune. Apart from the above mentioned example, your rant has not only not addressed or otherwise invalidated *any* of my individual points (I’m deliberately ignoring your puerile “…but Islam made me do it!” defense of sorts) but actually managed to miss this whole point entirely, instead settling for a half-bullying accusation of “whitewash” because I did not (and will not) articulate your own points! I’m not interested in engaging in apologism for Islam (or Christianity, for that matter) or debating who or what was the lesser evil overall. My interest is objective History, namely to fight the revisionism of it. If you find it constructive to draw some kind of atrocity flowchart, knock yourself out, but that is your point, not mine, and I’m not really interested in debating it… Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:11:20 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/08/25/caroline-glick-final-status-talks-on-a-palestinian-state/#IDComment96401398 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2010/08/30/is-america-only-for-white-people/#IDComment96189908 I know, i had to check the box out :) Like i said, i was specifically mentioning the culture, not the (largely symbolic) institutions... Sweden (together with Finland) is easily the country in western europe with the least christian influence... their holidays are still largely pagan (including Jul, backdated to match christmas).. Also the church here performs homosexual marriages, how's that for christian values? When i mentioned separation of church and state i was referring specifically to the perceived (and allowed) influence of religious institutions on both the government and the society at large... The reason they maintain the established church and the christian burials and whatnot is the same they maintain the monarchy... tradition Anyway, you are technically right so I really do not have a point here.. I was just curious about the Japan case, but the previous poster answered that (i guess) so... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:43:15 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2010/08/30/is-america-only-for-white-people/#IDComment96189908 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2010/08/30/is-america-only-for-white-people/#IDComment96142950 What's wrong with Japan or Sweden? Ok, Sweden does not technically qualify, but they came to the christianity game quite late and never took it too seriously (apart from the whole cross in the flag thingy)... But i can tell you this, they take separation of church and state quite seriously in practice, if not in symbol.. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:01:17 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jphillips/2010/08/30/is-america-only-for-white-people/#IDComment96142950 http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/08/25/caroline-glick-final-status-talks-on-a-palestinian-state/#IDComment96134648 Nonsense! For the muslims, Mohammed was the last of a series of prophets that included Moses and Jesus and the koran asserts roughly the same biblical chronology, so, for them, History started around the same time as in Genesis… Although treatment of Jewish and Christian communities and their artifacts under muslim rule was hardly benign by today' standards, they were on par (and in many places much much better) with the equivalent under Christian rule (treatment of ancient texts was an area where dark ages christians were downright barbaric...)... Just compare the progress of the Jewish intellectual community in Cordoba under Muslim rule with their fate starting in 1492 under catholic rule... The Byzantine example is curious, because it is about the worst example you could choose to support your point.. Sinai and the whole Egypt have been under muslim control (first the Arabs, then the Ottomans) since the dawn of Islam.. One of the most interestening artifacts in St. Katherine's Monastary is the Achtiname, which is a document that grants protection and freedom of worship to the monks and christian pilgrims, allegedly issued by Mohamed himself. One can debate the historicity of this document, but the important thing is that all muslim rulers of Egypt have explicitly upheld it up to at least the 18th century. So the rulers of Egypt actually made this monastery a safe haven (they did, however, build a mosque inside the walls)... You are correct that this monastery has protected a sizeable collection of byzantine art from destruction... from the Byzantines themselves! (see Byzantine Iconoclasm) Do you know also where some of the best collections of byzantine art can be found? why, in Byzantium itself! A sizable chunk of the city was damaged in warfare during the Ottoman siege of 1453, but most of its treasures where left intact by the new muslim rulers. About the worst they did was converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque and plastered over the mosaics of byzantine icons (most of these mosaics have since been uncovered, the plaster having actually preserved them). Unfortunately, a great deal of byzantine treasures had indeed already been looted and destroyed during the Middle Ages... specially during the Fourth Crusade, when the christian crusaders sacked the city. You can also read about many of the first-hand accounts of life for christians and jews in Istanbul under ottoman rule, especially when compared to life in Europe at the time... The city was a far more tolerant place (especially for jews) than the rest of the christian european capitals of the time (you do know where the word "ghetto" comes from, right?). Meanwhile, during this time, christianity was froth with internal conflicts frequently escalating into total war (first between the catholics and orthodox, then between catholics and protestants) that where the source of a significant portion of European wars up to the 19th century... At the time, each version of Christianity was every bit the political ideology Islam is today, where the religious and political goals were hopelessly intertwined. Again, historical Islam and Christianity are indistinguishable in terms of bellicosity and thirst for supremacy. In fact, I argue that the religions themselves were secondary and all this bloodshed and destruction owes much more to the secular political and moral structures of the time. The difference is that christianity was deeply affected by the Enlightenment in the 18th century (of which America' founding documents are a remarkable reminder) and largely secularized itself whereas Islam has not undergone a similar process... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:36:33 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/08/25/caroline-glick-final-status-talks-on-a-palestinian-state/#IDComment96134648