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All this furor over the alleged flushing of the holy book of Islam, the Koran, down the toilet. If this had been the Bible some Manhattan art house owner would be on the phone to the National Endowment for the Arts requesting tax payer dollars be spent on this "brilliant" piece of performance art. Remember the portrait of Jesus covered in urine, why the ACLU practically demanded that we all be forced to view that. It is about free speech and civil rights, blah, blah, blah......I am beginning to think that when someone mentions civil rights, they are not talking about my rights at all. Unless, of course, I want to take up flushing holy scriptures down the loo, then, I'll have a friend in the ACLU. Say, I decide to paint pictures desecrating some Christian religious tradition, I'll have some Hollywood mogul on my doorstep wanting to make a cinematic masterpiece about my life and my "art".

Of course, the dim bulbs on the left fail to see the problem with the incredible lapse of journalistic integrity(stop giggling). Filled with an irrational hatred of President Bush and increasingly Republicans as a whole, judgements have become clouded and "mistakes" are thus made. Of course, these same people are in awe of their own brilliance which makes for a dangerous combination. Irrationality, apoplectic anger, and a condescending elitist world view don't offer a very pretty picture. Fit for a Manhattan art house or a LA production studio but not for the rest of us.