Kathy Shaidle
Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury, now entering its 11th year online. Her latest book is Acoustic Ladyland
People still talk about the time freedom fighter Ayaan Hirsi Ali crushed insufferable leftist TV host Avi Lewis on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcast. In case you’ve forgotten (or just want to relive the thrill), here’s a taste:
Then Lewis asked Hirsi Ali for her “critique against Islam.” Ali, the epitome of poised, calmly responded that “Islam means submission to the will of Allah. A doctrine that requires the individual to become a slave is, in my view, is bad.” read more…
Last week, Alexander Levkovsky wrote about an exhibition at London’s Museum of Science celebrating “1001 inventions” from “the golden age of Islam.”
Having some firsthand experience with frivolous handling of reality in the Islamic world (I have, after all, lived for eight years in Uzbekistan and five years in Israel), I immediately suspected that the exhibition was a collection of fairy tales, and I was right – it was indeed an attempt (funded, by the way, by British taxpayers) to lull gullible visitors with fairy tales of “great Islamic inventions”.
Indeed, despite all readily available evidence to the contrary, Muslim apologists have been insisting since 9/11 that their coreligionists invented everything from Arabic numerals to zero. read more…
NOT Rush Limbaugh
The title of this post comes from one of Rush Limbaugh’s classic callers, a lightly-accented South Asian immigrant to the United States, thanking the talk radio guru for spreading the truth about free enterprise and American values.
It turns out that India — a nation so riddled with class & caste warfare, poverty, bureaucracy and tribalism, it makes New Orleans look like Galt’s Gulch — doesn’t want its old liberal media any more, either.
Today, the Global Post ran a story entitled “It’s Rush Limbaugh’s India”: read more…
Oliver Stone is basically Michael Moore on Slimfast (or maybe some other white powder.)
(Then again, given today’s revelations, maybe that should read “Mel Gibson without the Tourette’s…”)
When it comes to Stone’s on-again, off-again relationship with the facts, don’t get me started on JFK (no, seriously: don’t).
Now Stone has a new film out called South of the Border, and I hesitated to even bringing it up because, well, more people will read my post about it than will ever view the actual film. read more…
In Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 comic novel Scoop, a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail finds himself covering an African civil war that inconveniently declines to provide British reporters with much in the way of juicy (or, more accurately, bloody) stories. Undeterred, said British reporters simply make them up. read more…
Newspapers are in the paper redistribution business, not the information business. And that, says Seth Godin, is their problem:
Defenders of the status quo at newspapers, book publishers and the magazine industry are in a panic. Some are even misguidedly asking for government regulation or a bailout.
All three industries are doomed (if doomed means that they will be unrecognizable in ten–probably three–years). And yet… read more…
Yesterday we told you about the JournoList member who joked about Rush Limbaugh’s recent cardiac scare, and yearned for the chance to watch him die before her eyes.
Rush Limbaugh has now responded to these revelations from the Daily Caller.
This morning, the Daily Caller rolled out additional damning details from the archives of Journolist, the “missing link” that finally proves the existence of that once mythical creature, Liberalis Medius Biasus.
I remember when everyone from “media guru” Jeff Jarvis to Glenn Beck (as he recalled on the air yesterday) assured us (often with an indulgent chuckle) that while there was some ideological self-selection going on in the makeup of the nation’s newsrooms, hey, it wasn’t like reporters and editors were, you know, calling each other up every morning, plotting about which stories they were going to bury and which conservatives they’d smear today. read more…
No, not that kind of “slave” — although I don’t claim any insider knowledge into the intimate lives of actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, who split earlier this year after 23 years (and two children) together.
Here’s Robbins talking to the UK Telegraph about his “mid-life crisis” and other matters: read more…
Is the West trying to lose the war against Islamic supremacy? As the ten year anniversary of 9/11 grows nearer, I’m less optimistic with each passing day. Time and again, we are treated to tales of appeasement and just plain stupidity on the part of those in authority to whom we’ve entrusted the task. read more…
I listen to conservative talk radio because I’m a fan, and also because I write the Talk Radio Watch column for WND. Luckily, blogger Brian Maloney (the “Radio Equalizer”) listens to the noise on the left side of the dial, so I don’t have to. read more…
Normal Canadians want “child soldier” and “Canadian citizen” Omar Khadr to rot in Gitmo for killing an American soldier. Naturally, that hasn’t stopped the country’s elite media from wringing their hands over this most famous member of the worst family in Canada.
Ezra Levant has dissected this coverage and found it wanting. For example, he criticizes “the junior high yearbook photo that most media use (it was provided to them by Khadr’s mother — seriously)” instead of readily available pix like the one above, showing Omar Khadr putting together IEDs. As well, Levant writes:
