JE Tabler
Video compilation of Iranian male bloggers wearing hijabs in support of a dissident who wore one in order to evade capture by authorities, without success.
The evidence would suggest otherwise. Al Gore responded to Sarah Palin‘s Wednesday op-ed in the Washington Post in which, in addition to calling into question the science behind anthropogenic global warming, she asks President Obama to boycott Copenhagen and put the interests of the American people before his political agenda. In a sane world, it would be the last nail in the co2mmunist coffin. MSNBC, naturally, was happy to give Al Gore a platform to obfuscate the issues raised in Palin’s article in an interview with Andrea Mitchell, complete with bonus webcast.
In her op-ed, Palin states her stance on the issue of whether or not the “debate is settled”:
But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can’t say with assurance that man’s activities cause weather changes. We can say, however, that any potential benefits of proposed emissions reduction policies are far outweighed by their economic costs. read more…
Stewart condemns the Swiss, not Sharia, for being intolerant.
“Architecture may be my favorite thing about religion,” said Jon Stewart on the Daily Show last Thursday. Stewart’s humor and feigned naïveté aside, minarets do not serve as mere architectural flair; they are political symbols of supremacy which, as Stewart admits, would change the Swiss landscape, although I believe he was speaking in literal terms rather than political ones. read more…
Two weeks and counting, and the fringe media continues to ignore the biggest story of year, if not the decade.
Since media coverage no longer gives any indication whatsoever of the impact of or interest in a story, Richard North has devised what he calls the Tiger Woods Index (TWI), which measures actual interest in a story as compared to media coverage. (Via James Delingpole’s hilarious article in the Telegraph today. Definitely read the whole thing.)
He explains the formula thusly:
Tiger Woods delivered 22,500,000 web and 46,025 news pages, giving ratio of 489. That is the “Tiger Woods Index†(TWI) against which I chose to measure a raft of other issues. read more…
We have our own data buriers at NASA.
Christopher C. Horner, global warming skeptic and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) and Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Lies, and Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, appeared on Thursday’s Hannity show to discuss the Climategate scandal.
Horner and Hannity discussed, among other things, Horner’s Intent to File Suit notices on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he is a senior fellow, prepared in response to NASA’s stonewalling for nearly three years on releasing documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
The information sought is directly relevant to the exploding “ClimateGate” scandal revealing document destruction, coordinated efforts in the U.S. and UK to avoid complying with both countries’ freedom of information laws, and apparent and widespread intent to defraud at the highest levels of international climate science bodies. read more…
On Monday’s O’Reilly Factor, Mike Huckabee made his first television appearance since serial felon Maurice Clemmons (allegedly) murdered four police officers on Sunday morning. Since the murders, the media have lambasted Fox News analyst and former Arkansas governor Huckabee for having commuted Clemmons’ life sentence back in 2000. I had been curious as to how Fox would choose to handle this story, given that Huckabee is directly involved in it and has his own show on Fox News.
On the one hand, I commend Huckabee for facing the music and confronting the matter in person. (HuckPAC released a written statement on Sunday.) He is, as O’Reilly notes, a “stand-up guy” for doing so. On the other hand, regardless of the defensibility or indefensibility of Huckabee’s decision to commute Clemmons’ sentence, Huckabee should be taken to task for lying about it and blaming the criminal justice system, which would have kept him behind bars for a very long time. That hardly constitutes “stand-up” behavior, although O’Reilly, it seems, would beg to differ. read more…
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
-Winston Smith, George Orwell’s 1984
In this clip from last Saturday’s Fox News Watch Judy Miller chides the left for their “psychobabble”-as-reporting, then immediately jabs the right for examining what motivated Nidal Malik Hasan to shoot 50+ people at Fort Hood rather than engaging in the “psychobabble” which she decries.
On the right you have another phenomenon which is this insidious slide from Major Hasan as a Muslim into criticizing and fears about Islam as a religion and I think we had to be … we saw a little of that, enough of that in the media to be very concerned this week. read more…
Heartbreak in action
Editor’s Note, for Rhonda Robinson’s commentary on a different aspect of this stunning Chris Matthews segment click here.
MSNBC has a nasty habit of giving Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR a forum to apologize for extremism and deflect attention from the issue at hand whenever jihad makes the news. Not only is CAIR’s authority as a mouthpiece for American Muslims never questioned, let alone its background and history, but MSNBC’s commentators rarely take issue with a single point made by CAIR’s representatives.
Nonetheless, MSNBC’s moral vacuity may never have been more apparent than when Chris Matthews interviewed Zuhdi Jasser, an American Muslim who works to combat the violent political ideology promoted by CAIR and its affiliates.
Jasser encourages Muslims to “stop complaining and stop beinging victims,” i.e., to stop committing acts of violence and oppressing others, then citing American foreign policy as a justification. He explains, plainly and succinctly, that jihad’s ideological underpinnings lie in political Islam. He even cites the Muslim Brotherhood, due to its status as America’s foremost promoter and incubator of Sharia, as one of the root causes of domestic violent extremism. Finally, he points out the reddest flag in Nidal Hasan’s background, the clearest indication that he might commit an act of violence: his unconcealed hatred for America. read more…
