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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 09:31 PM
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A CNN Anchor Reveals Truth - About America & The Mosque Opposition
Edited on Mon Aug-16-10 09:44 PM by kpete
A CNN anchor expresses the crux of "mosque" opposition

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Patel: In America, we don't tell people based on their race or religion or ethnicity that they are free in this place, but not in that place --

Lemon: interrupting=== I understand that, but there's always context, Mr. Patel . . . this is an extraordinary circumstance. You understand that this is very heated. Many people lost their loved ones on 9/11 --

Patel: Including Muslim Americans who lost their loved ones. . . .

Lemon: Consider the context here. That's what I'm talking about.

Patel: I have to tell you that this seems a little like telling black people 50 years ago: you can sit anywhere on the bus you like - just not in the front.

Lemon: I think that's apples and oranges - I don't think that black people were behind a Terrorist plot to kill people and drive planes into a building. That's a completely different circumstance.

Patel: And American Muslims were not behind the terrorist plot either.

video & more:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/16/cnn/index.html
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 09:38 PM
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1. i don't think the constitution cares about context mr lemon...all circumstances are 'extraordinary'
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 09:39 PM
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2. A little back story
Don Lemon is a black American.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 09:40 PM
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3. That's even uglier
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 09:46 PM
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4. Yes it is
Heres a picture of him.

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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 09:59 PM
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5. Black winger - guaranteed Big Media job for life
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:40 PM
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12. Sad but true
:(

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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:01 PM
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6. How dare this Patel person get on television and spout this crazy
truth meme! American Muslims are not terrorists? It's like telling black people that they sit anywhere on the bus except the front?
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:11 PM
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7. No, Mr. Lemon - it isn't apples and oranges...
Fifty years ago, white people were freaked out that you'd steal their job and marry their sister if you had the right to vote and go to integrated schools.
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kohodog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:20 PM
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8. Equating Muslims with the terrorists is beyond wrong.
I really don't understand what is happening in this country.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:22 PM
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9. Remember McCarthy?
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:35 PM
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11. No. But I read about it.
You're spot on, it's the politic of the bully.

-Hoot
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:23 PM
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10. Saw this when it aired
Disgusting. Shame on you, Don Lemon!
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-16-10 10:55 PM
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13. The only people who even pretend to care about this are commentators
and shit stirring talking heads. Who else would even fucking care what anybody does down there???
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 07:44 PM
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14. Surely the reichously indignant Lemon has unrelentingly sought to identify and seek punishment of
those who funded radical Islam including, just maybe, the attacks on 9-11. :)
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 08:03 PM
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15. Lemon is a perfect idiot
I can't figure out how they ever put him on air. He's seriously stupid.

But this is essentially the same "argument" that I keep hearing from idiots all over. How can they not see what they're saying?

It's like blaming every Christian for the Ku Klux Klan's violence.

Though I'm sure Lemon would find that apples and oranges, too.
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