@ Ebonheart

Thanks for clearing it up for me and Nekowolf. I kinda wish GP would fix the earlier post and re-post it so I could read for myself though... All well I can dream.

@Ebonheart

"Peter acually was qouting an historical event."

Yep, Voltaire.

"In some cases I refuse to defend someone’s right to free speech when its blatantly racist and hate mongering."

Even the founders of the US constitution realized that there were limitations. Otherwise they would have put in stuff like "even if you are slandering, libeling, fraudulently representing yourself, or inciting riot". The trick is unless your speech is violating some criminal law, it's not supposed to be touched.

Nicely done. Keep up the good work in your blog.

Ah...I wondered where my comment had gone lol. Good catch.

Wow, that was quick.

Still scary that people believe that kind of thing. That you can ball up a group of people and make the claim that they are all liars. I understand it was a caller, but doesn't some sort of hidden fact checker kick in and say "you know what, I don't see how this statement could possibly be true." The only way you could defend a statement like that is to defiine a liar as someone who has lied at some point in his life. I bet even Mother Teressa lied when she was three or four. I mean, I'm an awesome guy, handsome, young, rich, bowl 300 games regularly, but even I couldn't say that I've never lied. But to say that all Musslims are liars, you would have to have a screw loose. I just worry about a person who would call a show to make that kind os statement.

@ MOgbert

It is scary. It is even scarier when it happens close to home.

A few weeks back I had a "debate" with my cousin about Obama and everything she said was pretty much summed up in that retracted article.

And this is why I love GP, a mistake happens it's admitted openly, honestly and immeditly once the mistake is caught. It's nice to see that there are still reporters there who care about truth than about the story.

sensationalism FTW, GP try and cut back on it alil its good for the diet ^_~

Mistakes happen. The fact that Dennis took the time to apologize for the mistake is what makes GP so great.

I was really getting worried about the state of things when an elected official could say "I heard all muslims are liars and their mosques should be destroyed" and not be politically hanged.

Al Roney: Do you want the Sanctuary for Independent Media to pull the plug like RPI did?

Mirch: No, I have no opinion on that.

...what a load of crap. I'm sure you shed tears, then, as you shut down the Sanctuary for 3 inches of door space, right?

@ Gameboy

Anytime, thankfully Sam has a copy saved so you can read what it said exactly.

Thanks Sam, even if with the comments re-attributed, it's a laugh. Human stupidity continues to amaze me on a daily basis...

Bob is such a liar, he claims he has no opinion on whether it should be shut down or not, but he is on the record stating that the Sanctuary should cancel the exhibit, and that he feels it's beyond the limits of what free speech should be. Sounds like he only holds an opinion when he's not being confronted directly.

No problem guys. Glad I could help :)

@Gameboy

Gotta disagree with you there. There's a difference between going asking what Muslims think about your game (however misinformed your knowledge of the game is), and starting out your question by telling a story about how an "arab-Christian friend from the Middle East" told you all Muslims are liars. He might as well have just come out and insulted Balil right then and there, instead of hiding being "well someone else said it, not me".

I'm aware of how little regard arab-Christians have for Muslims (I know an arab-Christian myself), but jeeze.

Heh, I read the original story, went to log in, came back to comment, and it was gone. Thanks for showing the kind of integrity that all gamers should have.

At any rate, no matter who said it, the reference to Bilal's piece as a "board game" makes me wonder if the people complaining about it are lumping it in with tabletop RPGs -- roll a 6, blow up the president. Talk about bonuses to initiative...

@ Simon

6? You missed big time, your shot whent wide to the left and hit a window. Also the secret service now know where you snipe nest is.

You needed to roll 6 20's in a row.

@gameboy

"Yeah, the people commenting on his game didn’t even seem to know what they were calling(?) in about."

Welcome to talk radio. ;)

@ Mrmoo

Peter acually was qouting an historical event. In some cases I refuse to defend someone's right to free speech when its blatantly racist and hate mongering.

@ Jabrwock

Ahh thank you. I've never been able to remember his name.

Unfortunetly times have changed, it's now "I support freedom of [insert freedom here] unless I disagree there for you don't have the right."

@ GP

You would think that after years o reporting on pundits and bigots going on rants after hearing partial information, you would have learned that already. ;)

I am glad to see that you are willing to correct yourself. Keep up the good work.

@ GP - better watch out! Like the New York Times and the Cho-CounterStrike story, Jack Thompson will start using your retracted story as fact!

Here's audio of the radio show. I didn't see the deleted post so I don't know if it had a link to the audio or just a transcript.
http://blip.tv/file/736718/
The audio is excerpts from the radio show so I don't know if it is representative of the callers or not but the callers in that audio clip are just sad.

oops I mean 1-6 and there's another 2 parts on the topic as well. I've not listened to the whole thing so I don't know when the main people involved are on.

[...] gamepolitics.com retraction — some of the quotes may have been from callers, and not Mirch. [...]