Lemon: Don’t you think it’s a bit different considering what happened on 9/11? And the people have said there’s a need for it in Lower Manhattan, so that’s why it’s being built there. What about 10, 20 blocks . . . Midtown Manhattan, considering the circumstances behind this? That’s not understandable?
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.
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GFCM
And, of course, one more I forgot:
CNN calls Erickson “a perfect fit” who is “in touch with the very people” they want to reach.
That would be the very same Erick Erickson who unleashed this gem on David Souter:
The nation loses the only goat fucking child molester ever to serve on the Supreme Court.
Far from being fired for that remark, he was hired. As part of the “best political team on television.” But let’s all thank Lord Jesus that Helen Thomas is safely out of the way. The White House press room can now again serve as a refuge for the kind of deeply probing intellect exemplified in these recent gems (h/t Balloon Juice ):
Q: Can you talk about the criticism that the President isn’t making that emotional connection with people over the spill?
Q: Does the White House believe that it was a mistake for the President not to meet with fishermen or other local business people during his last visit?
Q: Did anyone in the White House yell [BP’s Tony Hayward] for making those comments?
Oilbama
Krugman makes predictions on just how it is that Obama will be blamed for the oil platform explosion and subsequent mess:
Will it be claims that liberals and/or scientific conspirators sabotaged the rig, to undermine good Americans who want to drillheredrillnow? (Michael Crichton already wrote that novel).
Will it be that oil workers, demoralized by the march of socialism, fell into despair and let the accident happen?
Will it be claims that since this didn’t happen under Bush, it obviously shows that Obamanomics is responsible?
Apparently Rush has already started in on choice #1.
I think my vote is more along the lines of
“…and I think it’s clear that this accident only happened because we aren’t drilling enough. These poor companies are over-working what they have because they can’t make a walkable ring of oil platforms that encircles Florida. This sort of lunatic under-drilling leads directly to the sort of accidents we’ve seen off the coast of Louisiana, Wolf. That, and I might just mention that Biden used the F-word.”
Which, by the way, I’m for installing. So there’s that. Thank me later, Florida.
Wolf’s answer to that statement, you ask?
“Alright, we have to leave it there.”
What the fuck else does he ever say?
Lemkin 