Michael Moore: Juan Williams Is Right: Political Correctness About Terrorists Must End!

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Juan Williams Is Right: Political Correctness About Terrorists Must End!

by Michael Moore
Fri Oct 22, 2010 at 06:03:50 PM PDT

An Open Letter to Juan Williams

Dear Juan,

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For instance, what you said about Faisal Shazad, the Pakistani immigrant who wanted to bomb Times Square. When he was being sentenced this month, he claimed, according to you, that his attempted attack was just "the first drop of blood." We can't let political correctness blind us to this, you explained.

I guess Shahzad made a big impression on you, because after being fired you went back on Fox and told them, "You can’t ignore the fact what has recently been said in court with regard to 'this is the first drop of blood in a Muslim war against America.'"

Sadly for you (and this is also why you shouldn't be working for a real news organization like NPR), Shahzad never said that. If you were a real journalist, you would have quoted him accurately. What he actually said was that he was the "first droplet of the flood," not blood. But I know how easy it is to mishear things when scary Muslims are talking. And I guess it's not a huge difference anyway.

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So Juan, I'm asking you to join me on a crusade -- whoops! scratch that, let's call it a "mission" -- to publicize these statements by Faisal Shahzad as widely as possible. Because most of the media have not spent much time on what he had to say.

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Yours,

Michael Moore

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/22/912801/-Juan-Williams-Is-Right:-Political-Correctness-About-Terrorists-Must-End!

P.P.S. Here's something else that I'd sincerely love to talk about with you: what do you think when you see rich middle-aged white men talking on TV about how they get nervous around African Americans on the street? And then they explain that we can't let political correctness stop us from talking about black-on-white crime?

Does it drive you crazy that they say this without even being conscious of the history of far greater violence by white people toward blacks? And do you maybe understand now how those middle-aged white guys get it so wrong?

[ProSense]

1. Muslim and Terrorist are the same thing?

On these issues, Michael Moore's points http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9107420&mesg_id=9107872">suck.

[Zen Democrat]

2. I believe he's saying that Faisal Shazad and terrorist is the same thing.

That's what I read, anyway.

[ProSense]

3. Possible,

likely, which makes the attempt to frame the reaction to Williams' statement as the result of political correctness inappropriate.




Edited missing words.

[TheIdiot]

4. And on that, he's right...

what he's wrong about is judging JW for an insignificant mis-quote... "first drop of blood" or "the first of the flood"... looks to me like a distinction without a difference.