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Media: We Support Freedom Of Speech, But… [VIDEO]

Derek Hunter Contributor
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The failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, over a contest to draw the best cartoon of Muhammad has set off a media firestorm over freedom of speech. Not so much about the right of event organizer Pam Geller to host the event, but over whether or not an event that would offend Muslims should be held in the first place.

The New York Times, for example, strongly supported blasphemous art and speech against Christians and Mormons, but condemned the Garland event, not the thwarted attack, saying “to pretend that it was motivated by anything other than hate is simply hogwash.”

The Times was not alone in its condemnation of the event. Many cable news anchors and hosts took particular umbrage with the event for exercising freedom of speech that would offend Muslims.

The Media Research Center has complied video clips of these television personalities expressing their support for the concept of free speech followed by their conditional qualifiers when it comes to Islam. The video is entitled “The Media Love Freedom Of Speech…But” and shows each of the hosts extolling the virtues of free speech, followed by the inevitable “but.”

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