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Capital Crime
National Review Online, by Mark Steyn
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Posted By:duhem, 10/15/2012 8:42:38 AM
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| Following my weekend column on the Administration’s disgraceful behavior over Benghazi, a commenter called Pilipo Underwood pops up: "Mawk Steyn’s sophistry is simply astounding! Willard Romney started the politics before we even knew the basics of the attack in Benghzi. And his essays just drip with vituperation. Such a chip on his shoulder, one thinks he would have learned after his Conviction for Hate Speech." If only Capitalization could Make It So. I’ve never been Convicted of Hate Speech.
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Comments:
This merits posting for the great lines: "contemporary liberalism depends on a kind of invincible ignorance" and if you repeat something often enough it makes it true. Why is it that liberals (many) are so stupidly blind?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JLoophole, 10/15/2012 9:08:08 AM (No. 8933954)
Love these little vignettes from The Great Mark Steyn. And yes, capitalism makes it so. =)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chicodon, 10/15/2012 9:14:20 AM (No. 8933969)
Anyone else pickup on the left's confusing the facts? It is now believed, by all who buy in to the spin, that Romney commented about the Libyan attack. He did not. He commented about the Egyptian ambassador's "out of the blue" apology before the embassy was attacked.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/15/2012 9:21:01 AM (No. 8933982)
The Great Mark Steyn.
Our Candian import and champion of free speech.
Obama is not the only one attacking free speech these days.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
elduhranch, 10/15/2012 9:27:13 AM (No. 8933997)
Obama has his first political prisoner in jail for committing a crime of free speech.
If Obama is re-elected that prison he and Dick Durban purchased in Illinois will fill up fast.
Mark Steyn was short and to the point.
Romney as a private citizen could make any statement he wanted it's Obama that juiced up a lie as the leader of our country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FenwayFrank, 10/15/2012 9:27:38 AM (No. 8933999)
Smack Down! Make Pilipo Your B**ch!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jimmyfoxhound, 10/15/2012 9:50:15 AM (No. 8934048)
Mark Steyn is my hero.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ConradNY, 10/15/2012 11:35:48 AM (No. 8934365)
Link didnt work for me:
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-374398-four-security.html
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JimS, 10/15/2012 12:41:21 PM (No. 8934567)
Romney's comments, so lambasted for the media as "inappropriate" or "political", were made with regard to the Egyptian Embassy attacks and our ambassador's apology.
Those remarks were made HOURS BEFORE the Libyan Embassy attack.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
steph_gray, 10/15/2012 2:11:56 PM (No. 8934849)
Short but sweet article and nice to learn of the actual outcome of Mark's free speech persecution - they repealed their bad law! Fantastic.
Steyn is a brave and brilliantly witty man.
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