Filed under: Fox, Iraq — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on April 26, 2007 @ 5:30 pm CEST
Oops. Now that’s not nice: Fox’s Gibson called Iraqis “knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century.” If it is Gibson’s goal to enforce the idea that quite some, if not most, Republicans / conservatives are bigots / racists, he could not possibly be doing a better job.
Dan Riehl argues that Gibson was not calling the Iraqi people savages, only the terrorist who do the killing. I disagree, at least partially:
But, and that’s a mistake, I agree that was a mistake, but who is doing this killing? Give me a break. These are Iraqis killing each other. So what did we do? If you’re saying it’s our fault that we unmasked them as knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century — fine! I’ll take credit. But thanks — but thanks for the observation.
One could interprete Gibson’s words like Riehl does, but the interpretation that Gibson calls all Iraqis nappy-headed ho’sknuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century is a valid interpretation as well.
Now, I call terrorists ’savages’ quite often as well. Why? Because they are. They are mentally living in the 10th or 12th century, with/ using today’s weapons. However, one must be careful to distinguish the average Iraqi, from the terrorists: the far, far majority of Iraqis are no savages by any means. They love their children, they love their parents, they love their wives / husbands, all they want is to live in peace and to provide for their families…
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1 Interested
April 26, 2007 @ 5:45 pm CESTThat’s right. The gaffe’s aren’t welcome here either.
2 mvdg
April 26, 2007 @ 5:50 pm CESTlol. Are we going to use gaffe now for the coming weeks?
3 Interested
April 26, 2007 @ 5:52 pm CESTit’s a quaint term.
It’s like a get out of jail free card.
Well, depending that is - of course.
4 C Stanley
April 26, 2007 @ 6:18 pm CESTI thought it was more of a kerfuffle, actually.
5 kritter
April 26, 2007 @ 9:11 pm CESTBill’o called the Iraqis basically the same thing as Gibson in 2004 then denied it on Irish TV. So how do Gibson and Bill’o think its possible to create a stable democracy in a country peopled by “10th century knuckle-dragging savages”?
6 mvdg
April 26, 2007 @ 9:13 pm CESTNo that’s a good question Kim. Guess the savages can be brought into the 21st century if we only teach them about democracy?
7 kritter
April 26, 2007 @ 9:25 pm CESTGuess we’ve got to drag them kicking and screaming, LOL, and force the virtues of it down their throats. mvdg
Seriously, though, there values are not the values of Locke and Rousseau. Jeanne Kirkpatrick (an original neocon) wrote that Iraq did not posess the preconditions for democracy- it was in writings released right after her death. As with Gerald Ford, I wish she had had the courage to speak up when it might have made a difference in our foreign policy.
8 mvdg
April 26, 2007 @ 9:32 pm CESTlol, I know Kim, I think you read about that because I posted it…
9 kritter
April 27, 2007 @ 2:31 am CESTCould be, MvdG, Could be. LOL She was not exactly my favorite conservative so I wouldn’t have looked it up on my own.
Ya gotta love how these Republicans are reaching out from the grave to say what they didn’t have the nerve to say when they were still alive.
Come to think of it, I probably made the same comment too- I’m getting so predictably knee-jerk, LOL.
10 mvdg
April 27, 2007 @ 5:52 am CESTWe’ll just interprete that as the gaffe it was Kim.