The New York Times is leading the charge of leftist media hacks rushing to blame the organisers of the ‘draw Mohammed’ cartoon contest for inciting a terrorist attack.
Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi posted the following tweet, which has prompted a monumental backlash on Twitter:
Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a “Muhammad drawing contest”?
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) May 4, 2015
‘Free speech aside’? Let the floodgates open…
@rcallimachi Because of free speech, which can’t be set aside.
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) May 4, 2015
@Gavin_McInnes @rcallimachi Yes, let’s just push aside the 1st amendment. Idiots.
— NoiseCollector (@NoiseCollector_) May 4, 2015
@ravicristal @rcallimachi we don’t condition our lives in the US because we’re afraid of insulting some sensitive lunatics with guns
— Lex (@alextaveira) May 4, 2015
@rcallimachi Because this is America, where we can draw what we want. If you don’t like it, get out.
— Jason Willoughby (@jpwilloughby) May 4, 2015
@rcallimachi Yeah just throw out the First Amendment. Dumb fucking person you are.
— H (@Tark31) May 4, 2015
Unfortunately for Callimachi, one cannot actually put ‘free speech aside,’ especially when fundamentalist nut cases try to shoot and murder people for exercising it.
@CaptYonah @rcallimachi jihadi aside why would anyone start a gunfight over a cartoon?
— Andrew J Ash (@AndrewJAsh) May 4, 2015
Some wondered how a journalist could even consider writing the sentence.
@rcallimachi @lifebythecreek @EdAsante77 free speech aside, is just a bizarre thing for a journalist to tweet. A plumber, maybe, ok.
— Ben R Cobb (@Benrayco) May 4, 2015
@rcallimachi pretty chilling when a reporter says “free speech aside.” No wonder this administration has run all over this press crops
— Brandon (@BMS355) May 4, 2015
@rcallimachi You can’t put free speech aside.
— Jen Stroup (@JenStroup) May 4, 2015
Many have suggested that the New York Times should change its slogan to ‘Free Speech Aside’.
The #NYT should change its slogan to “Free Speech Aside.” “@rcallimachi: Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative…”
— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) May 4, 2015
@rcallimachi Free Speech aside, why would we let the NYT print anything?
— Gwilym McGrew (@GwilymMcGrew) May 4, 2015
Callimachi attempted to back pedal:
@lifebythecreek @EdAsante77 I am not questioning their right to do so. Of course they have a right. I am questioning the common sense of it
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) May 4, 2015
But it was simply too late:
@rcallimachi Because nothing is more important to civilization than free speech.
— a. puog (@ByondPolitics) May 4, 2015
@rcallimachi “Free speech aside…” anything else that follows is invalid.
— Chris Tsotsoros (@ctsotsoros) May 4, 2015
@FauxcaMarxist @Gavin_McInnes @rcallimachi @nytimes or even Charlie Hebdo? Did she ask why were they provocative?
— Nimjaramah (@Nickarama1) May 4, 2015
A Times report covering the shooting Monday repeatedly described the event organisers, the American Freedom Defense Initiative as “anti-Islam.”
A barrage of leftist blogs have run with the same theme, actually blaming the victims of the attack for bringing it on themselves, only stopping short of outwardly saying it was justified.
Back to Twitter, where the ‘debate’ still rages…
@rcallimachi Free speech aside? …uh nope. Not aside. End of discussion.
— Chris Tsotsoros (@ctsotsoros) May 4, 2015
Because America? RT@rcallimachi: Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a “Muhammad drawing contest”?
— Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) May 4, 2015
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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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