Sunday, September 16, 2012

Memes of Outrage

Yup, what happened at midnight in California looks just as bad now in the harsh light of day.  That image of  Nakoula Basseley Nakoula being hauled away should be the image that ends the career of the president who let it happen on his watch!  You call that defending the Constitution?  I mean, seriously.  The whole point of the First Amendment is protecting even the most objectionable and offensive of people.  Yes, dirtbags have rights too.  That's why America rocks.  Now, last I heard, making an idiotic low-budget Youtube video is not a crime.  Oh, but this is a video that the government happens not to like ...  WELL, IT'S STILL NOT A CRIME.

But, as the Insta-Prof has suggested that we all publicize the incident and our indignant disapproval, there is a new Internet meme that has sprung up overnight.  I give you one of my favorites as it modifies the famous phrase associated with Voltaire about disapproving of what you say, but ...


Fine print.

In the interest of fairness, a contrarian view.  The Insta-Prof (remember Reynolds 2016 with flamethrowers for embassy protection!) doesn't buy this, and I don't either.  That stupid video had been online since July 1.  It's a little too convenient to say, hey, on September 11 Embassy-Storming Week began, so a mere 4 days later when the bloody-minded mobs are howling about this video we'll haul Nakoula off in the middle of the night ... amid a blaze of media trucks for ... probation violations. 

UPDATE: People are meme-ing the hell out of this image.  Good.  Let this photo haunt the administration all the way to Election Day.


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