When I was editor of The Jewish State, I praised Barack Obama’s nomination of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. I did so for two main reasons: I thought Clinton had a better understanding of the region than just about anyone else Obama would have appointed (it’s not like the leftist professor-president was going to appoint John Bolton), and because Clinton’s strong personality would keep Joe Biden away from Mideast policymaking.
Here’s what I wrote about Biden at the time:
Biden has spent 35 years in the U.S. Senate, and in that time has accumulated an almost perfect record on foreign affairs: he has, by any honest account, never been right. He opposed helping anti-communist and anti-Soviet groups during the Cold War. He called the surge in Iraq a “tragic mistake,” and advocated splitting Iraq into three states, thus offering the state on a silver platter to Iran.
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Biden also famously, three weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, offered this at his committee meeting: “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.” The New Republic’s Michael Crowley recalled the immediate reaction of the room to this idea.
“He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face,” Crowley described. Then, according to Crowley, one by one staffers begin to point out the obvious flaws in that idea: it’s a transparent publicity stunt; the Iranians would send it back, embarrassing us; that day the Iranians were in Moscow negotiating an arms deal to which the U.S. was strongly opposed. “But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He’s already moved on to something else.”
That whole up-is-down, black-is-white thing that the Left’s got going does leave a sane person wondering if they’re all off their meds. How else to explain professional blowhard Michael Moore’s appearance on Colbert this week, where he offered up several big heapin’ helpings of crazy. Bet you didn’t realize Professor Moore was a scholar and expert on all things Founding Father-related? Or that he and Thomas Jefferson had so much in common? Check it out:
On Monday, March 28, the Daily Pennsylvania printed our ad “Wall of Lies.” We removed the word “Palestinian” from the original “Palestinian Wall of Lies” as a concession to the reigning political orthodoxy on campus which forbids putting the words “Palestinian” or “Muslim” with the words “lies” or “terrorism” in the same factual sentence but has no problem with putting “Israel” and “Apartheid” in dyad thus spreading an actual lie about a militarily threatened democratic state. In response to our ad the sinister coalition of campus Hillels with groups that seek to destroy the Jewish state took another step forward. Below is the “response” to our ad in the Daily Pennsylvanian, followed by the letter I have submitted to the editor. This, in turn, is followed by my letter to one of the signers of the attack on our ad, a former Hillel education chairman. read more…
In September, I wrote about the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops‘ [USCCB] endorsement of an ‘interfaith letter‘ that was co-signed by radical Wahhabists from the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA] and various representatives of the radical Religious Left. Real Muslim reformers like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser did not sign the statement addressing ‘anti-Muslim prejudice’. Cardinal McCarrick now acknowledges public criticism of the particular Muslims that the bishops have sought to make relationships with–and he is defending that relationship.
Have the bishops been duped? Or is the leftist political agenda really more important to them than protecting America from terrorism?
We are drowning in anti-Israel propaganda, and still it never stops coming.
Simultaneously, the “Palestinian narrative” appears to us as if in a dream, over and over again, always slightly surreal and yet overly familiar. By now the “Palestinian narrative” is a brand and we have all been hypnotized. This is not surprising. read more…
There’s only so much mileage the Left can get out of vehemently denying that President Barack Obama is a socialist. For best propagandistic results, it’s ideal to highlight people on the Right who allegedly admit the same thing (and if their remarks can be used to embarrass a hated cable news channel in the process, so much the better).
Case in point: relying upon Media Matters research, Howard Kurtz’s latest on the Daily Beast highlights recent remarks made by Fox News Channel’s Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon during a 2009 cruise hosted by Hillsdale College (my alma mater): read more…
The anti-abortion group New Life is raising eyebrows with 30 controversial billboards to be placed in South Side Chicago. The most prominent billboard features the face of President Obama. Why President Obama’s face? He is the first black American to become president of the United States and “Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted” by population control group Planned Parenthood.
New Life’s mission is stopping the record number of black Americans aborted by Planned Parenthood, the legacy of Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project created to rid America of an undesirable race. New Life is determined to make sure black American women know the truth.
Look out Planned Parenthood, there goes your Aryan neighborhood! read more…
Originally posted at WorldThreats.com:
Bashar Assad is starting to seem an awful lot like Hosni Mubarak. He has sacked his government, an unmistakable sign of fear, and is promising vague, undefined reforms that will do nothing to satisfy the public. His speech to Syria, where he was expected to announce significant reforms and concessions including the lifting of the state of emergency, said a whole lot of nothing and will only enrage his population. Whenever Mubarak announced a “reform,” it fell far short of what his people demanded and only escalated the crisis. This is what will happen in Syria.
He claimed the uprising is a “big plot from outside,” a questioning of the integrity and intelligence of his opponents that they won’t look kindly upon. He did say that “We cannot say that everyone who went out is a conspirator. Let us be clear about that,” but that won’t suffice.
He said that “Deraa is in the heart of every Syrian” but made no apology for the use of force and won’t even admit that his security forces were involved (he maintains that “armed gangs” who stole government uniforms are responsible). Predictably, he said Deraa is a front line in the fight against Israel. This overused tactic will backfire, as it tells the Syrian people that Assad still doesn’t “get it.”
And here’s proof that it failed: Shortly after the speech, hundreds of protesters chanted “freedom” in Latakia and were fired upon by the army that has been sent there to stabilize the situation.
The biggest concerns about a post-Assad Syria is the strength of the Muslim Brotherhood and what the Allawite minority will do, which the regime comes from. The general estimate of the size of the Allawites is 10 to 13 percent of the population. The Washington Post puts it significantly lower at just 6 percent. Can a regime that represents only 6 to 13 percent of the population come back from the edge? I don’t think so.
Ah, leftist priorities. America is about to fall off a financial cliff yet so-called progressives now want to agitate among long-term unemployment insurance recipients known as 99ers – because they are eligible for 99 weeks of payments – from the government for not working. As if America, led by an imperial president who is now fighting three wars on two continents, doesn’t have enough problems.
Kat Aaron of the American Prospect, is outraged, outraged I tell you, that the 99ers haven’t risen up and initiated an American Reign of Terror. ”There are as many as 1.4 million Americans who have been unemployed so long they’ve exhausted their benefits, and they’re angry,” she huffs. ”So why aren’t they organizing?” (Aaron uses a more specific definition of 99ers. She describes them as “people who have exhausted all 99 weeks of available unemployment assistance.”)
The government estimates that 1.4 million Americans are in the same boat as Drescher — what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the “very long-term unemployed.” The National Employment Law Project puts the number far higher, at 3.9 million. “As long as the economy continues to be in bad shape,” says Claire McKenna, a policy analyst at NELP, “I can’t imagine the number is going to go down.” There are also almost 6 million people who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more, some of whom are on their way to 99er status. read more…
The Obama administration is reportedly actively considering arming the Libyan rebels without even knowing for certain who they really are. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who met on Tuesday in London with a senior rebel leader and made clear that Col. Qaddafi must go, admitted that:
We don’t know as much as we would like to know.
However, what we do know at this point is alarming enough to stop any Commander-in-Chief with America’s best interests in mind from even considering providing arms to these rebels. But not necessarily our current Commander-In-Chief, heralding his new Obama Doctrine of deferring to international consensus on how far we go in fulfilling internationally defined ‘humanitarian’ military missions. read more…
So predictable is MJ Rosenberg, the big-mouthed Jewish anti-Zionist, that one avoids his rants like the plague.
Rosenberg, who blogs at TPM Café and the Huffington Post, is a Foreign Policy Fellow at George Soros’s Media Matters Action Network. A former aide to Democrats and one-time AIPAC bigwig, somewhere along the path he took a sharp left turn and toppled into the noxious miasma of anti-Zionism.
The heroes of this blowhard include Judge Goldstone, Helen Thomas (“I love Helen Thomas”), Walt and Mearsheimer (“Happy Anniversary, Professors Walt and Mearsheimer!”), and all the victimized Palestinian “children”; his capacious hate list includes his former associates at AIPAC, Binyamin Netanyahu, the “settlements,” Commentary Magazine, the “Jewish Lobby,” and all “neo-cons.”
