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It couldn’t possibly be because al-Obeidi’s desperate and dramatic pleas for help were captured on video as she tried to speak to journalists in the lobby of Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel. It couldn’t be that cameras were rolling as Qaddafi loyalists working at the hotel tackled the bruised and battered woman to ensure her silence. And surely it couldn’t be that we finally have a name and a face to put to the atrocities committed by the Qaddafi regime.
Baker is typical of conspiracy theorists: facts and evidence prove the opposite of what sleepy-eyed Kool-Aid drinkers suspect to be true. Open your eyes, man! To Baker, that we in the West even know about al-Obeidi’s story indicates it’s a lie, part of a sinister psyops project designed to rally support for Obama’s war.
Russ Baker’s career in recent years has hinged (or unhinged, as the case may be) on publishing loony conspiracy theories and paranoid “evidence” of nefarious goings-on in the “Bush dynasty.” He’s not just some leftist with a Blogspot blog–his rantings have been published by The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice and Esquire.
But that shouldn’t surprise you.
As I’ve written many times, the Left doesn’t see rape victims as people; they’re political bludgeons:
From victim shaming and race baiting fabrications to politically motivated rape jokes, exaggerated statistics, and vicious smear campaigns, rape has long been an acceptable political weapon in the professional Left’s arsenal. Victims of rape, the wrongly accused, and the damaged and disturbed people who make false allegations are all completely dispensable in the service of illuminating some larger “truth” about American imperialism or social injustice.
Iman al-Obeidi is just the latest woman to be crapped on by leftists with an agenda that trumps human dignity and justice.
Many thanks to my friend @s_dog for sending me the link to an excellent Harry’s Place post about the despicable Russ Baker.
