Comments on: Crappy YouTube trailer leads to death of US diplomat and others in Mideast

By: Seán Fleming

Seán Fleming — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:50:00 +0000

I just keep waiting for Zero Mostel and Dick Shawn to show up.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:30:00 +0000

It’s all fun and games until the blackface starts to rub off. (at 20 seconds) Or is that a variation of the spray-on tan that Boehner uses?

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:01:00 +0000

I recognize that village. I thought Iron Man cleaned it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o2ACEr9NmQ

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:24:00 +0000

Have you failed to read any political analysis in the last century that didn’t come from the US government or its client states? We regularly topple regimes to protect our economic interests, particularly those involving oil.

By: Bryce Anderson

Bryce Anderson — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:45:00 +0000

If you can pull that move off in Olympic figure skating, you’re guaranteed at least a 5.6 in the short program.

By: Bryce Anderson

Bryce Anderson — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Exactly what I was thinking. The producer probably walked away with a cool $4.7M.

By: Utenzil

Utenzil — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:34:00 +0000

This is an awful movie, but the movie wasn’t the point.
People who were in the the movie thought they were supporting one agenda, but it was edited to support another. Probably some of the people who promoted the movie promoted it because they were told it supported that first, edited out, agenda.The trailer sucks so bad it’s hard to even pay attention to what is being said in it, so in order to get the right targets this upset it had to be stuck right in front of them.So the intent was to send a signal with a certain voltage down a set of nerves to see which nerves would cause what reaction, and now they’ve traced the circuit they wanted to trace. If they want to disable the circuit, they know who it is comprised of. If they want to reactivate the circuit with a stronger voltage, they will do that. The people murdered were collateral damage in this experiment.Who is “they”? Dunno, but they are someone who can put together millions of dollars to make a super shitty movie that clearly had no hope of generating anywhere near that return in revenue.

By: Seriously

Seriously — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:32:00 +0000

U.S. Imperialism? We are throwing around the “isms” now? So when the U.S marched into Europe in WWII what “ism” was that? And which squeaky clean Utopian country with a parliament of angels presiding over it do you hail from or look to with longing ?

By: Doobie

Doobie — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:58:00 +0000

what’s really bizarre to me is why a mob would go on a murderous rampage over one video when there is so much other vile hateful stuff on the internets. There has to be some sort of greater context for the attack – it can’t just be the video. The way this story is being portrayed makes the mob look like a bunch of ignorant morons.

By: Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:42:00 +0000

I remember hearing plenty of that “nuke ‘em and take the oil” talk back in 2001-2003. Budweiser really seems to bring out the best in people.

By: Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:33:00 +0000

I dunno – of the Abrahamic religions, Judaism seems the least prone to metastasis. No evangelical impulse…

By: Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:26:00 +0000

I had a friend who had a theory that Patrick Swayze and Dennis Quaid were actually the same person.

He called him “Quayze.”

By: Razor

Razor — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:54:00 +0000

No one kills in the name of Karl Marx. Now, you may be referencing murderous dictators that often get lumped in when pot-stirrers try to say Hitler and Stalin killed people in the name of atheism, but that’s not quite accurate.

Usually in “godless” nations, the leader is the god. The oppressed people aren’t worshiping atheism, they’re worshiping the dictator. Just look at North Korea, Kim Jong-Il was God to them.

By: oswarez

oswarez — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:40:00 +0000

Am I the only one who thought of this when viewing this piece of shit?

By: wibbled_pig

wibbled_pig — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:24:00 +0000

Actually, once you read what he used to write, he could probably be classified as a douche himself..

http://i.imgur.com/ScThm.png

By: ADavies

ADavies — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:56:00 +0000

Practical tip: You can label any video on YouTube as inappropriate if, for example, it promotes “hatred or violence”.

By: ADavies

ADavies — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:52:00 +0000

And we should make a video of people hugging Muslims set to “America the Beautiful”. Make sure it gets more views than the crappy racist video. Proportionate response all around.

By: Marios P.

Marios P. — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:50:00 +0000

perhaps, but the solution to this problem can only come from within and not by enforcing it to anyone

By: disillusion

disillusion — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:43:00 +0000

The reason Judaism hasn’t died out in America is there are still Jewish females in America. It has one of those silly “if your mother is Jewish, you’re Jewish” things in the religion, regardless of what your actual beliefs are. That, sadly, is why Jews in general are seen as an ethnic group historically, rather than just a belief system.

By: Sean Breakey

Sean Breakey — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:34:00 +0000

Honestly, there have been mainstream, massive-budget hollywood blockbusters that have protrayed the Jews as downright demonic. Making Mohammed look a little like a dick is absolutely nothing, especially when compared to other historical conquerors.

If your first response after seeing this is to want to go and kill a US diplomat, then you might want to gravely reconsider your own theology. Does your religion make you a happier, better adjusted, socially productive member of society?, or are you just using it as an excuse to not have to think for yourself?

Honestly, Imperialism is a much better reason to be pissed off at the States, or the plutocracy, or the hypocracy, or the vapid consumerism… okay, there are a lot of reasons, but any time you murder because of your religion, more people are going to think your religion is about nothing but violence.

By: Dexceus Blasko

Dexceus Blasko — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:52:00 +0000

It is only crickets if you are not paying attention. I have seen tons of pictures today of Libyans with signs saying that thugs do not speak for them. And that is only in a day. The lie that peaceful Muslims don’t speak out is only because the xenophobic ignore that is actually said.

By: CHilke

CHilke — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:52:00 +0000

Man, that trailer made The Room look like Citizen Kane. Sam Bacile or IM bacile?

By: tsol

tsol — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:35:00 +0000

Works for me, although Karl Marx wasn’t invisible.

By: jimmoffet

jimmoffet — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:13:00 +0000

In response to Antinous, below:

I guess that’s fair enough.

It’s just that the set of people who are sympathetic to that kind of language are not an extreme minority, but a large swath of the US (entire branches of my family included) which is what gave me pause when I saw it go away.

I’m more than willing to suffer verbal slings and arrows, but if we are drawing the line at civility, I suppose that would be across it.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:12:00 +0000

So you’ve not met the TSA have you?

By: King Mob

King Mob — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:05:00 +0000

If that’s true, that just makes our foreign policy worse.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:57:00 +0000

I feel quite comfortable getting rid of a commenter who accused you of wanting Americans to be murdered because you tried to add political context instead of yelling jingoistic slogans.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:54:00 +0000

I’m sure that the Coptic Christians living in Egypt are just thrilled with this guy’s efforts on their behalf. He should really go to Cairo to meet his fans.

By: jimmoffet

jimmoffet — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:53:00 +0000

Not to be rude, but aren’t you being a little overzealous in sanitizing this board? Saying that you find something pinheaded isn’t really cause for deletion, is it? Besides, I had a good response:

Iraq used mustard gas on the Iranians (1980-81?) and we rewarded them with military aid shortly thereafter (83?). Libya had tons (literally) of gas when we normalized relations with them 2003, which were not disposed of and are now almost certainly no longer accounted for.Israel and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons.

So there are your facts. No pin-heads here.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:46:00 +0000

“On the Media” tweeted earlier that the actors didn’t know what the true message was and that much of the dialogue was later overdubbed. Seems they were somewhat deceived by these creeps.

*edit* I see another user pointed that out.