Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 02/08/06 5:10 pm:
Ex,

I wasn't quoting you. I was just trying to get a handle on your position while at the same time stating mine. If I was quoting you, I would have used theses >>><<< to make it clear that that is what I was doing.

But you are certainly correct on this one: Bush should be siding with the press on this one. Nothing the press has done warrants the rioting we have seen.

Still, after the way the press has treated him over the past 5 years, can you really blame him for being gun-shy about the press?

Elliot

Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 02/09/06 9:40 am:
ex,

What a coincidence, our paper today printed a column by Kathleen Parker in which she said "what is appalling is that a Western leader who still wields enormous power would sacrifice an opportunity to explain big ideas and big principles to a part of the world that clearly doesn't understand them."

It wasn't Bush though...

"Former US president Bill Clinton warned of rising anti-Islamic prejudice, comparing it to historic anti-Semitism as he condemned the publishing of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper.

“So now what are we going to do? ... Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?” he said at an economic conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.

“In Europe, most of the struggles we’ve had in the past 50 years have been to fight prejudices against Jews, to fight against anti-Semitism,” he said.

Clinton described as “appalling” the 12 cartoons published in a Danish newspaper in September depicting Prophet Mohammed and causing uproar in the Muslim world.

“None of us are totally free of stereotypes about people of different races, different ethnic groups, and different religions ... there was this appalling example in northern Europe, in Denmark ... these totally outrageous cartoons against Islam,” he said."

Wow, now talk about not getting it...

Steve