{"id":2603,"date":"2010-09-03T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2015-12-09T02:58:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T10:58:16","slug":"on-letterman-donald-trump-declares-war-on-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"On Letterman: Donald Trump Declares War On Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joining many ignorant and intolerant right-wingers, Donald Trump has taken the position that all Muslims were responsible for the World Trade Center terrorist attack. Appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman, Trump responded to a question about the non-mosque that is not at ground zero:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Letterman:<\/strong> Does this suggest that we are in fact officially at war with Muslims?<br \/>\n<strong>Trump:<\/strong> Well, somebody knocked down the World Trade Center. [&#8230;] Somebody&#8217;s blowing us up. Somebody&#8217;s blowing up buildings, and somebody&#8217;s doing lots of bad stuff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somebody knocked down the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma too. Are we therefore at war with all Christians? Somebody bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama killing four girls. Somebody shot and killed a doctor in Kansas. Somebody&#8217;s doing lots of bad stuff in the name of Christ, so no more churches should be built in America. Right, Donald?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zs9OJZI_jJ8?start=155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Fox Nation (via NewsBusters) carried this story with a headline that asserted that Trump had <em>&#8220;schooled&#8221;<\/em> Letterman. They noted twice that Trump received applause from the audience for his remarks on the mosque. What they left out was that Letterman was also applauded when he disagreed with Trump and stood up for religious freedom. Letterman received more applause later when he explicitly said that we are not at war with Muslims, but that segment was cut out of the NewsBusters video. (The video above is not from NewsBusters. It contains the full exchange).<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, the Fox Nationalist&#8217;s completely deleted the exchange where Trump said that we should never have gone into Iraq. He called the Iraq war a <em>&#8220;bad move&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;incompetent,&#8221;<\/em> for which he received additional applause.<\/p>\n<p>What this proves is that Fox News, Fox Nation, and their pals at NewsBusters, are no more credible than the notoriously dishonest Andrew Breitbart. They will deceptively edit their videos to produce whatever conclusion best fits their agenda. Anyone who continues to believe what they see there is simply ignorant by choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining many ignorant and intolerant right-wingers, Donald Trump has taken the position that all Muslims were responsible for the World Trade Center terrorist attack. Appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman, Trump responded to a question about the non-mosque that is not at ground zero: Letterman: Does this suggest that we are in fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684],"tags":[531,554,527,190],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-david-letterman","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-nation","tag-newsbusters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-FZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36731,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36731","url_meta":{"origin":2603,"position":0},"title":"Obama Tells Letterman that &#8216;If You Watch Fox News You Are Living on a Different Planet&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/12\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"David Letterman is about to launch his new interview program \"My Next Guest Needs No Introduction\" on Netflix. 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