The Eastern World It Is Explodin'

[Hubert Flottz]

Violence flares bullets loadin'

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/11/middleeast/gallery/cairo-embassy/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

Anti American, German and British protests from Libya to Australia.

The people who cooked up that "movie," fanned to life a wave of hatred, of everything American, around half the globe, unlike anything we've seen before. When you look through those pictures on CNN and look at the countries involved in the protests so far, it might make you shiver a bit.

I think Siskel and Ebert would give that film the hook instead of a thumbs down.

[porphyrian]

1. As long as their anger is aimed at us, the protesters aren't paying attention to what...

...the instigators are doing. It's simple distraction with horrible consequences.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Thomas Edison, Marchall Mcluhan, both warned us

The media as a medium is a dangerous, ambiguous thing.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Can be used as a weapon to trigger things like we are seeing in the eastern world right now.

I can't help but wonder, if the people behind this "movie" expected the problems it would cause. We know that a can of gasoline is volatile, but that can can sit undisturbed forever, unless someone sparks the ignition. I believe the film itself was a calculated act of terrorism. I think the FBI should be looking into the source of funding and the motive for the creation of this thing.

No, I don't blame the film for the total cause of the violent reaction we have seen, but I do blame it for a source of ignition to the fuel of anti American hatred that was already there. And I put nothing past the right wing in America.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Great analysis, right on!!!!

[BOG PERSON]

3. i'm going to go out on a limb here

and surmise that the cause of the protests is something other than a random youtube trailer

[Avalux]

4. Did you happen to see video of people in Libya protesting Chris Stevens's death?

You've painted a very black and white picture of what's going on over there....and attributed it all to that video.

It's not that simple.

[cthulu2016]

5. The people who "cooked up" that movie didn't do shit

The "wave of hatred, of everything American, around half the globe, unlike anything we've seen before" is not caused by the movie.

It is caused by Muslim people in positions of influence seeking to create a wave of hatred. The use of the movie as pretext has very little to do with a legitimate cause-and-effect relationship.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. No, invading Iraq was 'the eastern world explodin'.

paraphrasing Chris Hayes on Maher this week responding to just such assertions.