The Fox & Friends hosts played a clip of Piers Morgan on CNN in an interview with the Dalai Lama that will air on Wednesday.
“Which people that you’ve ever met have really impressed you?” Morgan asked the Dalai Lama. He quickly responded that President Nelson Mandela was among the more impressive. “But then – then of course as an individual person, I love President Bush,” said the Dalai Lama.
“Which one?” Morgan asked. “The younger one,” The Dalai Lama replied.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade says that Morgan reacted incredulously to the revelation and, in a follow up question, asked the Dalai Lama, “aren’t you a man of peace? Bush started wars.”
“Maybe he likes George W. Bush because he was never hustled out the back door of the George W. Bush White House, which was the treatment he got from this President,” said Doocy.
“This interview will be tonight, over on that channel nobody watches,” Doocy concluded, referring to CNN.
I never understood why anyone cares what the dalai lama thought.
(04-25-2012 12:37 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote: [ -> ]I never understood why anyone cares what the dalai lama thought.
(04-25-2012 12:37 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote: [ -> ]I never understood why anyone cares what the dalai lama thought.
+1
But, for whatever reason, his comments are received -- by many secular and New Age-ish type people I have known -- with the same sense of reverence and hushed-awe that the pope's comments are received by many Christians. I think, at some level, most people just have a deep-rooted need to believe in the greatness of
somebody. And for some Americans who have rejected traditional Western concepts of religion and morality, the Dalai Lama seems to be that somebody.
At least he has been up til now. If these comments about Bush/43 get widely circulated, some of the DL's fans (I am referring to non-Buddhists who live in the US) will turn against him. Such people typically hate not just Bush/43 himself, but also hate anyone who expresses fondness or approval of him.
He holds as much sway with me as any other religious mumbo jumbo leader.
Just more proof that IMATY has no idea what a liberal is or what they care about.
Really? I thought he was CELIBATE. who knew?
(04-25-2012 12:37 PM)AtlanticLeague Wrote: [ -> ]I never understood why anyone cares what the dalai lama thought.
I think it's because Buddhism is the religion on the Hollyweird kool kats.
Oh and "Something Something, Free Tibet Something Something" bumper stickers.
i must have missed the part where this is anyway relevant to anything
I love thread bashing...makes me feel loved. I just got a kick out of the Fox hosts comments and thought the resident Libs on here would be quick to state how this is irrelevant...and I was right. In all fairness it is irrelevant but worth pointing out.
bull**** IMATY. You thought liberals would get all upset that this nobody might like Bush. Not that we would call the thread out for its pointlessness.
But the most telling thing is that you would devote more than a minute of your television viewing time to the most ridiculous partisan horseshit on the telly in F&F.
(04-25-2012 04:10 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]bull**** IMATY. You thought liberals would get all upset that this nobody might like Bush. Not that we would call the thread out for its pointlessness.
But the most telling thing is that you would devote more than a minute of your television viewing time to the most ridiculous partisan horseshit on the telly in F&F.
I heard it on the radio...and I hardly think the Dalai Lama is a nobody.
Oh...and one more thing IMATY. You got played yet again by F&F along with their hatchet site Newsbusters. They didn't provide for you the rest of the quote from the revered Dolly...
After he clarified that he was talking about the last president, Morgan said "really." The Lama responded: "As a human being, not as a president of America. Some of his policies may not be very successful. But as a person, as a human being, very nice person. I love him." Morgan asked him to opine, as a man of peace, on Bush's willingness to wage war. The Dalai Lama replied: "After he sort of start the Iraq sort of crisis then my other occasion meeting with him, then I expressed to him, ‘I love you, but your policies concerned, I have some reservations’ I told him."
(04-27-2012 08:32 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]Oh...and one more thing IMATY. You got played yet again by F&F along with their hatchet site Newsbusters. They didn't provide for you the rest of the quote from the revered Dolly...
After he clarified that he was talking about the last president, Morgan said "really." The Lama responded: "As a human being, not as a president of America. Some of his policies may not be very successful. But as a person, as a human being, very nice person. I love him." Morgan asked him to opine, as a man of peace, on Bush's willingness to wage war. The Dalai Lama replied: "After he sort of start the Iraq sort of crisis then my other occasion meeting with him, then I expressed to him, ‘I love you, but your policies concerned, I have some reservations’ I told him."
If you can separate the man from the office then go for it...I didn't get played. You're reading too much into this thread. I just thought it was funny...get over it.
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Fox & Friends?
Again, since when has the Dalai Lama been at all relevant in anything?
(04-27-2012 11:37 AM)UCF08 Wrote: [ -> ]Again, since when has the Dalai Lama been at all relevant in anything?
Ask Buddhists...I'm sure they could explain it.
And how are they relevant on this board?
(04-27-2012 11:46 AM)UCF08 Wrote: [ -> ]And how are they relevant on this board?
How is anything we discuss relevant to this board...? Let it go.
As soon as you stop posting anything that came from F&F
