In Brief: Conservatives Need to Be Careful How They Condemn the Paris Shooting

[David Morris]

For the record, the Rude Pundit believes that freedom of expression and,
indeed, freedom of the press trumps your right to live without being
offended. Charlie Hebdo, Bill Maher, even Ann goddamn Coulter can say
whatever the fuck they want. If you disagree, you can go fuck yourself with
a torah until you splooge on a statue of Shiva and wipe it up with an
American flag. Or maybe offer a counterargument where the point isn't made
with a gun.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> As the Pulitzer Committee final "judges" said in 1973, "Why that's
> obscene!"
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:28 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-brief-conservatives-need-to-be.html
> >
> > Before you get all smug and superior about how you, a brave Christian
> > conservative, would never be so savage as to want violence to be done to
> > satirists, not like those fuckin' Moo-Slims who are just fuckin' animals
> who
> > fuck animals or whatever the fuck you think, before you go down that
> road,
> > you need to accept what exactly the French magazine Charlie Hebdo was
> > publishing that so enraged a trio of gunmen that they shot and killed a
> > dozen people at Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris today.
> >
> > 'Cause, see, this wasn't just Mohammed's face made into a bomb, like that
> > Danish magazine published a few years ago. Oh, no, no, no. Charlie Hebdo
> > went all out in degrading Islam, like South Park on meth. Ask yourself
> how
> > you think some Christians would react if a newspaper that was available
> on
> > the streets of major cities had a cartoon of Jesus Christ - you know him,
> > right? - naked on all fours with his asshole facing the reader, his balls
> > and dripping cock dangling. Or Jesus lying nude on the ground with a
> camera
> > pointed at his butt while he says, "My ass? And you love it, my ass?"
> > Because, see, that's how Charlie Hebdo portrayed Mohammed.
> >
> > It's vicious, childish, and funny (in that "Well, they did like Jerry
> Lewis"
> > sort of French way). But if you, fine imaginary Christian reader, are
> > condemning Muslims for a violent reaction to the cartoons, then you are
> > saying, in essence, that you are totally cool with the aforementioned
> images
> > of Christ. And you are saying, "Go ahead, American cartoonists, draw
> Jesus's
> > dong and Mary's leaky titties and poor Joseph jacking off in the corner.
> > It's not a problem."
>
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