What can and can’t be said
What on earth did this mean, I asked myself? Would AP have reported, for example, that McCain had attended a Christian school but hadn't "practised" Christianity? Then I got it. Obama had smoked Islam but he hadn't inhaled!
Travelling across the US this week – from Seattle to Houston to Washington and then to New York – I kept bumping into the results of America's White House-induced terror. A well-educated, upper-middle-class lady at a lunch turned to me and expressed her fear that Islam "wanted to take over America". When I suggested that this was pushing things a bit, she informed me that "the Muslims have already taken over France".
How does one reply to this? It's a bit like being informed by a perfectly sane and rational person that Martians have just landed in Tennessee. So I used the old Fisk trick when confronted by ravers of the "admit George Bush did 9/11" school. I looked at my watch, adopted a shocked expression and shouted: "Gotta go!"
Plenty to enjoy in Robert Fisk's withering assessment of both Biden and Palin in the VP debate.
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October 6th, 2008 - 07:58
We had Mrs Akela’s parents staying with us last week. They told me, and I quote, “Most Muslims are out for world domination”.
It seems that this kind of bull shit is not just restricted to the USA.
October 6th, 2008 - 13:11
My in-laws are the same. They were predicting the end of civilisation in their village because an Asian couple had taken over the local shop.
It beggars belief people think like that but they do and there are lots of them. It explains the continued existence of Littlecock.