Ed Morrissey
HotAir.com
9/15/2012
…Take a look at just the first minute or so of this report. Look at all of the media trucks in this sleepy little neighborhood, and not just KTLA’s. If anyone interested in taking revenge on Nakoula Besseley Nakoula wanted to know where to find him, it wouldn’t take long in this small city, especially with some media reports noting Nakoula’s distinctive front door. And while some people wouldn’t care about Nakoula’s fate, the kind of people looking to take revenge on him aren’t really known for their precision attacks and avoidance of collateral damage. This media swarm puts that entire neighborhood at risk, now and probably for a very long time.
And for what? Is Nakoula a serial killer? A child molester? No, he’s a man with poor taste who made a video that insulted some people who can’t deal with criticism, even the laughably inane and inept criticism of this 14-minute cheesefest that makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Citizen Kane. However, in the US, making really bad movies and engaging in even inept theological and historical commentary isn’t a crime at all. The media are undermining the same guarantees of free speech that allow them to operate without government interference, and they’re putting people’s lives at risk while doing so. They’re not going to be happy until there’s another crater in Cerritos…
… I don’t think a six-month old video “caused” the riots…
The entire post, with video, is at HotAir.com
On Friday, White House spokesman Jay Carney would not budge from the Obama administration’s insistence that the ongoing unrest in the Middle East was caused entirely by the anti-Muhammad video reportedly made by filmmaker Sam Bacile.
But not even chronic Obama cheerleader and Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, who earlier this month trotted out graphs and charts to tell to the American people they are indeed better off now than they were four years ago, is buying Carney’s argument.
As a fill-in host for MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Friday, Klein pointed to the administration’s frequent use of aerial drone strikes as a key source of anger in the Muslim world…
Update 2: I am Nakoula Basseley Nakoula
“I am Nakoula Basseley Nakoula” doesn’t quite have the ring of “I am Spartacus,” or even of “I am Sam Bacile.” In the face of the Obama administration’s apologetics and intimidation, Roger Simon stands up in a manner reminiscent of the Hollywood depiction of the Roman slave rebellion. Simon proclaims:
Hillary Clinton, I insist that you have me arrested. I am thinking of making a movie about Mohammed…
Think censorship is a necessary evil? So do these people: Pakistan Interior Minister pushing Interpol to ban anti-Islam material online
If one well-known Pakistani politician gets his way, international law will forbid “anti-Islam” material from the Internet.
Friday afternoon, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik wrote in a series of tweets that he has spoken with and written to the Secretary General of Interpol about enacting an international law to stop all anti-Islam propaganda online…
I don’t know about you, but BS like this makes me want to run out and “draw Mohammad” or do something equally “offensive.”
Islamists step up pressure for U.S. media curbs, Obama equivocates
Arab governments are stepping up their demands for regulation of American media to ensure Islam gets more favorable coverage in the United States, while President Barack Obama used his weekend message to again condemn criticism of Islam and to reassure Americans worried war in the Arab region…
Now I know why Molly Norris is in hiding under an assumed name.
“Insult Islam in Obama’s America and this could be you.”
Update 3: Was Nakoula Basseley Nakoula an FBI Informant and the “Innocence” Film a Honeypot Trap?
…Justin Raimondo of AntiWar takes a look at the various pieces of the puzzle and concludes that there is a real possibility that this entire thing was created by someone other than “Bacile”. He makes some good points, the best of them is the writing of the film itself and how it specifically deals with things designed to anger Muslims not to convert them as Klein claims.
Steve Klein continues the hate-mongering while propping up the story that ‘Bacile” approached him out of the blue with money and an idea to rope all the “dangerous Muslims” into the honey trap…
Go to the link and read this entire article. Did someone think a man with Mr. Nakoula’s “resume” was expendable?
