Ron,
I have been greatly entertained and amused by everything you have written on this blog (and elsewhere...Flying Penguin, anyone?). As much as I love your great sense of humor and quick wit, you are at your finest when you write like this.The fiercest of dragons could not spew this much fire. Bravo!
...that any enemy of Israel and the West is to be treated with respect.
I don't think it's that, so much as base cowardice. Artists don't want to pick on Muslims because Muslims will kill them. Artists don't mind picking on Christians because Christians will put up with it.
Excellent, i hope they will but doubt it.
superb! thank you as always. keep writing.
Maybe they won't, but I will. Brilliant, as always.
absolutely spot on!
What the others said! Excellent!
Va-va-voom.
Ain't it great to have a blog where you can print this stuff even when the papers don't run it?
One thing FYI--Van Gogh was cut down in Amsterdam, not Paris. But a fine letter.
Details details details... Another excellent pointed view towards the left... Keep up the work needed in the troubled world of today...
Courage...
Preach it brother!
Bravo!
Alas, if only I weren't just a hack, I'd ASCII-text "The Therapist" donning a flowing cape standing majestically over a pit of cowering editors. I, of course, would have the good taste not to have the pit as a latrine (unless NEA funding was at stake, in which case I'd break out lots of brown and off-yellow).
It'd be beautiful if they did print it...but you're right, they won't, and that's a shame - it's a great letter.
Cautiously Pessimistic has it exactly right, I think:
"I don't think it's that, so much as base cowardice. Artists don't want to pick on Muslims because Muslims will kill them. Artists don't mind picking on Christians because Christians will put up with it."
Ron. Better than anything I've read on this to date.
Ah, yes. Redding. A small town we drive through on our way to ski in Bend. Hey, hey, HEY! I kid because I love.
So, did it get printed?
Curious former Californian
Wonderful commentary! Are we to cower now (like the Europeans have) in the face of these barbarians? God (not Allah) Bless America!
DAMN, that was good, Ron.
BRAVO!!!!
Thank you sir for such an eloquent portrayal of the disgust felt by many of us with all of this....I support the artist even if I disagree with his work.....
found u on doubleplusgoodinfotainment!!!!!!!
Great! Thanx!
The good name of Mohammed!? You mean the child molesting thief and murderer whose religeon had to be fought back against or the whole world would be enslaved to a medival cult? I say piss fire and brimstone on them until they convert to anything but that NAZI cult of Satan.
Well put. And no, they won't print it because you dared put God on an equal footing with Mohammed. How gauche!
Outstanding.
Free speech and artistic freedom is a cornerstone of Western civilization.
Unless its moslems who want to burn down your house, kill your children and yodel to Allah as they cut your head off.
Then it is "disrespectful".
F%$#* ing cowards.
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