Comments on: “FIRE’s Exclusive Interview with Flemming Rose, Editor Behind Censored Mohammed Cartoons”

By: Ken Arromdee

Ken Arromdee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:02:10 +0000

They should have asked about Rose’s desire to publish “satirical” cartoons about the Holocaust. I’m sure those would have been hilarious.

From Wikipedia:

Later that day the paper’s editor-in-chief said that Jyllands-posten under no circumstances would publish the Holocaust cartoons. [1] and Flemming Rose later said that “he had made a mistake”.[2]

I suppose some people would find “I made a mistake” to be hilarious, but as humor go, it ranks pretty low on the scale.

By: Angus

Angus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:31:08 +0000

They should have asked about Rose’s desire to publish “satirical” cartoons about the Holocaust. I’m sure those would have been hilarious.

FIRE, however, would not ask such a question since it would cost them the bulk of their funding, which they get from conservative foundations.

By: r gould-saltman

r gould-saltman — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:25:28 +0000

Kind of agenda-driven, soft-ball questions. I didn’t see, for instance, “A number of the cartoonists actually suggested that they regarded the “Draw The Prophet” contest as an obvious publicity stunt, rather than any serious effort at exploring a civil liberties issue; some of the cartoons said as much. What’s your response to that criticism?”

I’m disappointed.

I have that reaction to a fair amount of what FIRE does, though.
While I agree with their take on the civil liberties issues, when and if I have the sense that they’re willing to defend a few more folks whose views conflict with those of, and are offensive to, their core constituency (ala the ACLU in Skokie) I’ll give’em more respect.