{"id":2640,"date":"2006-02-08T18:46:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-08T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T01:46:17","slug":"re-idiocy-times-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/re-idiocy-times-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Idiocy Times Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P2632_0_1_0>this<\/a> comes to fruition, then at least Rose can&#8217;t be criticized for <a href=http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=8512>maintaining double standards on freedom of speech<\/a>. We&#8217;ll see if the same holds true for the various commentators who have hailed his decision to run the Islam cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>I hasten to note, however, that editors shouldn&#8217;t have to prove their objectivity\/fairness\/whatever by appeasing those who shriek loudest. If the point of the Muhammad cartoons was simply to challenge hate-speech laws, then taking on other, bigger taboos is a logical next step. But printing Holocaust cartoons in the name of &#8220;balance&#8221; is a non sequitur. It implies that, far beyond supporting free speech for both blasphemers and Holocaust deniers, a &#8220;fair&#8221; editor is obligated to see no difference between the two. If Rose really believes that, then yes, he is an idiot. If, however, his intention is to strike a blow against the <a href=http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/b7vz4>thought police<\/a>, then let&#8217;s hear it for <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j091100.html>those plucky Danes<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this comes to fruition, then at least Rose can&#8217;t be criticized for maintaining double standards on freedom of speech. We&#8217;ll see if the same holds true for the various commentators who have hailed his decision to run the Islam cartoons. I hasten to note, however, that editors shouldn&#8217;t have to prove their objectivity\/fairness\/whatever by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}