Comments on: Bishop Excluded by HBO Broadcast, Opening Ceremony Prayer Edited Out http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/ Just another Firedoglake weblog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:22:24 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: egregious http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-1051 egregious Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:12:52 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-1051 <p>I hope we can have this conversation without resorting to calling out another person’s sense of embarrassment or their mistakes or saying they look stupid. Let’s stick to the ideas please.</p> I hope we can have this conversation without resorting to calling out another person’s sense of embarrassment or their mistakes or saying they look stupid. Let’s stick to the ideas please.

]]> By: beichel http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-1050 beichel Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:03:03 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-1050 <p>Well Kassandra (#1) it seems you jumped to conclusions. I hope you feel rather embarrassed. Since it seems that HBO had nothing to do with the mic being off and secondly it was an honest mistake. You should know all about embarrassing mistakes. The mic was turned on near the end of the prayer. But Kassandra you are not alone. It seems a lot of people like to jump conclusions and make themselves a victim. But what they don’t realize it just makes them look foolish to the rest of us.</p> Well Kassandra (#1) it seems you jumped to conclusions. I hope you feel rather embarrassed. Since it seems that HBO had nothing to do with the mic being off and secondly it was an honest mistake. You should know all about embarrassing mistakes. The mic was turned on near the end of the prayer. But Kassandra you are not alone. It seems a lot of people like to jump conclusions and make themselves a victim. But what they don’t realize it just makes them look foolish to the rest of us.

]]> By: mui1 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-957 mui1 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:22:17 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-957 <p>Hard question.No and I guess it depends.</p> Hard question.No and I guess it depends.

]]> By: Crosstimbers http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-956 Crosstimbers Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:19:31 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-956 <p>But if he hadn’t, he should have been opposed in all of his subsequent efforts? </p> <p>LBJ is interesting with regard to this issue. Throughout his political life, prior to becoming president, his actions with regard to race were pretty much those of a southern conservative Democrat. Otherwise, he would never have been returned to Congress or the Senate, much less the Vice Presidency. It’s a problem in a democratic country, that you have to get elected to do anything. </p> <p>Okay, that’s it for me, today. Honest people can honestly disagree.</p> But if he hadn’t, he should have been opposed in all of his subsequent efforts?

LBJ is interesting with regard to this issue. Throughout his political life, prior to becoming president, his actions with regard to race were pretty much those of a southern conservative Democrat. Otherwise, he would never have been returned to Congress or the Senate, much less the Vice Presidency. It’s a problem in a democratic country, that you have to get elected to do anything.

Okay, that’s it for me, today. Honest people can honestly disagree.

]]> By: mui1 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-955 mui1 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:16:50 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-955 <p>Go with the flow. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nz6Rq1Pvh0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nz6Rq1Pvh0</a></p> Go with the flow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nz6Rq1Pvh0

]]> By: mui1 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-954 mui1 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:11:09 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-954 <p>No he eventually went with the flow (the students) and included “now is not the time to cool out” in that famous speech.</p> No he eventually went with the flow (the students) and included “now is not the time to cool out” in that famous speech.

]]> By: Crosstimbers http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-953 Crosstimbers Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:10:07 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-953 <p>Fine, but you wouldn’t conclude that Dr. King, based on that observable action, was reactionary and should be undermined. At least I wouldn’t.</p> Fine, but you wouldn’t conclude that Dr. King, based on that observable action, was reactionary and should be undermined. At least I wouldn’t.

]]> By: mui1 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-952 mui1 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:07:58 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-952 <p><a href="mailto:Crosstimbers@91." rel="nofollow">Crosstimbers@91.</a> My understanding is that students got annoyed with MLK for listening to Bobby Kennedy who was telling them to “cool out.” The students, in my view were right, to apply the heat when they did.</p> Crosstimbers@91. My understanding is that students got annoyed with MLK for listening to Bobby Kennedy who was telling them to “cool out.” The students, in my view were right, to apply the heat when they did.

]]> By: mui1 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-950 mui1 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:04:55 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-950 <p>Crap I can’t seem to link.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9Hal0gycg</p> Crap I can’t seem to link.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9Hal0gycg

]]> By: mui1 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-949 mui1 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:04:37 +0000 http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2009/01/18/bishop-censored-by-hbo-prayer-excluded-from-opening-ceremony-broadcast/#comment-949 <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9Hal0gycg" rel="nofollow"></a>I mean interesting documentary-link.</p> I mean interesting documentary-link.

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