Text 20804, 57 rader
Skriven 2015-01-21 14:16:00 av Bill McGarrity (12933.2fidonews)
  Kommentar till text 20803 av Jeff Smith (1:282/1031)
Ärende: Re: Michael Moore Defends Tweet
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-=> On 01-21-15 08:56, Jeff Smith wrote to Lee Lofaso <=-

 >>>> [..]
 >>>> Michael Moore is an idiot...
 >> [..]
 > Since you seem to enjoy deleting Michael Moore's original
 > tweet, here it is again -
 > "I think most Americans don't think snipers are heroes.
 > Hopefully, not this weekend when we remember that man in
 > Memphis, Tennesseem who was killed by a sniper's bullet."
 > - Michael Moore, original tweet about the assassination
 > of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. by James Earl Ray, posted
 > on the weekend leading to MLK Day
 >>> I fully agree with Moore's view.  Most Americans do not
 >>> think snipers are heroes.  It is too bad not all Americans
 >>> think the same way.
 >> If you like him, then he is much worse than an idiot.
 > James Earl Ray was a despicable bastard, having assassinated
 > Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in cold blood.  To say, or even to
 > suggest, that Michael Moore is an "idiot" for writing that most
 > Americans do not think snipers (such as James Earl Ray) are
 > heroes, is sick, to say the least.  To say that others who
 > agree with Moore's view (the vast majority of Americans) makes
 > Moore "much worse than an idiot" is the product of an even
 > sicker and more deranged mind.
 > -Lee

 JS> It is important to realize that all snipers are not bad just as all
 JS> guns are not bad. It's not THE sniper that's bad. It's the person's
 JS> intent acting as a sniper that makes THAT sniper bad. Just as guns by
 JS> themselves are not bad. It take a bad person to make a gun do a bad
 JS> thing. The bottom line here is that it's a people/person issue and not
 JS> a sniper/gun issue.

You're 100% spot on but the issue was how those who are angered over his
statement perceived, or actually assumed, he was talking about Chris Kyle. The
2nd part of the tweet, where he defines the 1st part was totally lost in the
minds of *those*. We all know what assumptions do.

Enjoy..


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