Charlie Brooker's take on the 'Ground Zero mosque'
guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/23/char...Posted Aug 23, 2010, 12:35 AM UTC
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I love that the most spot-on of the many pieces I've read on this topic comes from a columnist in London.
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Charlie Brooker is awesome. There are loads of clips of him on Youtube, but I quite like this one where he lampoons the US TV media.
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He also wrote Dead Set. A very cool zombie movies set in the Big Brother House.
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He also boffed Konnie Huq off of Blue Peter! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!
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Keith Olbermann's rant on the subject was pretty damn good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpT2Muxoo0
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I thought he was from Reading?
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The second largest shareholder in News Corp. — the parent company of Fox News — has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, says a report from Yahoo!News.
The Imam of the now infamous “ground zero mosque” is a member of the ultra elitist Council On Foreign Relations and receives financial backing from powerful globalist sources including the Rockefellers, the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation.
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This Charlie Brooker guy is okay in my book.
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If you like his writing, you should check out some clips from his Newswipe and Screenwipe TV series' that air on BBC3 or BBC4 (I forget which). Both satirise and lampoon TV and news events. Also, if you're into videogames, he did a really great show called Gameswipe that's well worth watching. It's like a history of games with some cool interviews and spoofs thrown in.
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Thanks i'll check it out.
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You Have Been Watching is a good laugh too, and his books are pants-shittingly excellent.
I first encountered him when he was doing the TVGoHome website, and he's been consistently brilliant ever since. I would say that though, as we seem to share eerily similar views on the world. My girlfriend calls me GirlBrooker, especially when I'm ranting about spiders being terrorists.
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He paints such a graphic picture:
Cordoba House, as it's known, is a proposed Islamic cultural centre, which, in addition to a prayer room, will include a basketball court, restaurant, and swimming pool. Its aim is to improve inter-faith relations. It'll probably also have comfy chairs and people who smile at you when you walk in...
Chilling.
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I've seen more than a couple of horror movies that started out like that...
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Obama is Gargamel and he's killing all the Smurfs
I've been saying this for years now and none of my liberal acquaintances have believed me! Now, at long last, validation in print.
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Obama is Gargamel and he's killing all the Smurfs?
HOLY FUCK!
WHY AREN'T THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA COVERING THIS?!?
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Wait 5 minutes. Fox will be running a clip about how he just blue himself.
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There has to be a better way to say that.
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Love the ending
just sit there dumbly repeating whichever reality-warping meme the far right wants to go viral this week. What's that? Obama is Gargamel and he's killing all the Smurfs? Sod it. Whatever. Roll titles.
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Smurfs are socialists; if anything, he'd be papa smurf, not gargamel!
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Brooker is God.
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It'll probably also have comfy chairs and people who smile at you when you walk in, the monsters.
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Newt would tell Charlie, you haven't got a clue about NYC, don't you realize if they can make it there they can make it anywhere.
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Hey, America. Check out this distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction. Distraction.
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It wouldn't matter if it was a Mosque either. Or if it was at Ground Zero.
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Fuck off. I unsubscribed from r/politics for a reason.
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A lot of unnecessary straw man in the beginning...it might be fun to exaggerate how retarded people are for disagreeing with you, but I think it turns off people who are new to the issue.
I don't know why they chose the name Cordoba - given the context (The Great Mosque of Cordoba was seen as symbolic of the beginning of the Moorish conquest of Spain, I believe), it's kind of provocative.
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straw man you say?
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slap bang in the middle of Ground Zero.
The planned "ultra-mosque" will be a staggering 5,600ft tall – more than five times higher than the tallest building on Earth – and will be capped with an immense dome of highly-polished solid gold, carefully positioned to bounce sunlight directly toward the pavement, where it will blind pedestrians and fry small dogs. The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
I don't think anyone's actually saying that. So pointing out how ridiculous it is is a straw man.
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No, I just thought the way you said "straw man", instead of the plural 'straw men' was interesting.
But since I am here, consider the meaning of the name Cordoba house. Could it allude to the fact that two religions (islam & christian) call it or have called it a sanctuary; thus providing it with credibility as an "interfaith center"?
There is no rationale to name something after one of your largest defeats, as Cordoba may have been a sign of Moorish conquest; it fell to King Ferdinand the III. If the intent was to allude to Islamic superiority, would not the name Al Aqsa house be far more insidious?
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Pure gold:
I like the follow-up line:
Wow, I just read that same sentence in an editorial by Charlie Brooker!