The Bastard Press.

Even for the press actions speak louder than words.

There is a reason that both the press and Obama are sinking.

The NYT’s stock, which as recently as last spring was trading in the low $20s, tumbled down 10.75 percent to close in single-digit territory, at $9.55. The company’s debt was downgraded to “below investment grade” — or “junk” status — by Standard & Poor’s.

We sure traded down with Obama:

I had the great opportunity to see the Dalai Lama speak at MIT this afternoon. When he opened the forum to audience Q&A, the following stunning exchange occurred (I will paraphrase):

Audience member: “Can you give us an example of a leader we should look up to as a positive influence?”

Dalai Lama (after thinking for a few seconds): “President Bush. I met him personally and liked him very much. He was honest and straightforward, and that is very important. I may not have agreed with all his policies, but I thought he was very honest and a very good leader.”

All this in Cambridge . . .

H/T Jay Nordlinger at The Corner.

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The “Patriotic” Left: Wolves in Sheeps Clothing

One reason that I find the left to be contemptible is that they so often don the costumes of sheep while ravishing their unsuspecting prey like the wolves that they truly are. They’ll curse America in their heart while assuming the veneer of patriotism in order to further their efforts to destroy her.

Given the propensity of leftists to appropriate the symbols, language and causes of the right, I have learned to investigate any group wearing the “red white and blue” on their sleeves and I find that all too frequently a quick google of their board of directors or staff will reveal another anti-American organization with a roster full of leftists.

Take for instance a site calling itself “In Their Boots”.

IN THEIR BOOTS is a compelling new magazine show about the dramatic impact the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having on us – the people here at home. The show will feature our Iraq and Afghanistan service men and women, and their families, in stories that have universal appeal.

Funded by a grant from the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact fund (IADIF) and produced by Brave New Foundation, IN THEIR BOOTS will be streamed exclusively online.

In Their Boots will be hosted by Jan Bender, a veteran of the war in Iraq who served as a rifleman/combat correspondent in Iraq with 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines from 2004 to 2005.

Every week a live episode will be built around a dramatic and emotional IN THEIR BOOTS “Real Story,” a non-fiction narrative about how our service people, their families, and their communities have been profoundly changed by the nation’s campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then, in a live forum, Jan Bender, our host, will interview the participants and lead a discussion that includes experts, service-providers and individual viewers in an interactive discussion of the issues raised.

Well, the first red flag is that a diarist at Daily Kos promotes it favorably. The rest of the clues are found on Brave New World’s “About” page.

Starting with the president of the organization, Robert Greenwald, co-founder of ‘Artists United to Win Without War’, and going on down the line-up, you find a host of left wing activists who have actively sought to undermine the very war that these Vets – whom they purport to give a damn about – sacrificed so much for.

Film director and producer Robert Greenwald is the co-founder along with actor
Mike Farrell, of Artists United to Win Without War (AUWWW),a political activist group formed by hundreds of Hollywood actors, directors, and industry personnel who oppose the Bush Administration’s war and liberation efforts in Iraq. Citing the “flawed case for war in Iraq,” this group calls for an investigation into claims that weapons of mass destruction were being manufactured in Iraq. AUWWW is associated with MoveOn.org, an online political activist group that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars for left wing political campaigns… (Source)

Regardless what this government is failing to provide our returning troops, to be embraced by a cadre of hypocrites like these is a deep insult to the men and women who fought. It is rather like a rapist deigning to offer comfort and care to the woman he raped.

Their list of partners include ACORN, Code Pink and CAIR. Moving on to their Board we find Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation and author of “Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right” . Then there is Dolores Huerta, co-founder with Cezar Chavez of the United Farm Workers of America.

Need I say more? Like vultures, the left sweeps down on any group of people that they can use in their never ending quest for victims. I find it reprehensible that they are plucking their carrion meat from the bodies of our wounded troops.

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Muslim Whore Pimps for Jihad

They want Christians charged with a hate crime for preaching the gospel, they’ll scream racist if you suggest Islam is a vile and bloody religion, but this whore pimping for jihad, well, the New York Slimes just does a feature article on her.

She calls herself a female holy warrior for Al Qaeda. She insists that she does not disseminate instructions on bomb-making and has no intention of taking up arms herself. Rather, she browbeats Muslim men to go and fight and rallies women to join the cause.

“It’s not my role to set off bombs — that’s ridiculous,” she said in a rare interview. “I have a weapon. It’s to write. It’s to speak out. That’s my jihad. You can do many things with words. Writing is also a bomb.”

She Wages Online Jihad

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Proven:The Palestinians Are Bloody Liars and the Media is Their Lap Dog

Not that it matters to the progressives and Jew haters. It’s become a Dan Rather type of world where accuracy is discounted as irrelevant as long as the news piece feeeels right, or it could be true, or any other reality bending equivocations the left is so adept at.

No, Islam is a minor enemy compared to the journalists who hate the West and do the enemy’s bidding. May they all end their days in a sea of glass.

 

Read more at Israeli Girl…

The truth comes out – French court Rules Al Dura footage is hoax

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The Media Tentacles of Ameri-phobe George Soros

Censorship comes riding in on many a dark horse. On one horse rides anal-retentive little Napoleons like Richard Warman, commanding the imperious storm troopers manning the Canadian “Human Rights” Commission. Other horses steal in bearing very powerful men, men who have deemed themselves guardians of the media gate, deciding what the masses are permitted to see and read and think. Men intent upon shaping the world according to their suffocating utopian vision. Men apparently so frightened of American power and exceptionalism that they are willing to spill treasure, perpetrate treason, and deploy millions solely to eradicate it. Obama supporter George Soros is singing in Jeremiah Wright’s choir.

Let’s sing it one more time. “God Damn America”.

If the Warmans of the world are noisome mosquitoes sucking at the blood of freedom, gluttonous men like George Soros are the cannibals gorging wholesale on the flesh, smirking lips dripping with the blood of their gore while their leftist minions wince and whine about Rupert Murdoch and the oh-so radical right wing.

Not too many commentators seem to have noticed that George Soros is slowly but surely becoming the mainstream media that is the focus of the analysis we do at NewsBusters. The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives.

As Capital Research Center (my employer) reported in a recent paper, three years ago Soros acquired 2.6 million shares of the huge diversified media company Time Warner. In 2006 his companies, Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Capital Management, paid $900 million to buy the DreamWorks SKG film library from Viacom, a move that gave Soros the DVD and rebroadcasting rights to films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), Gladiator (2000), and American Beauty (1999). As James Hirsen noted, the transaction gives Soros “some highly desirable film rights at a time when the marketing and distribution model is changing to video on demand, video iPods and other forms of digital distribution.” But more importantly, it gives Soros “a presence in Hollywood where likeminded libs are ready, willing and able to collaborate in cinematic social engineering.” Soros is also a funder, whether directly or indirectly, of Media Matters for America, the reflexively liberal noise machine and pretended media watchdog whose modus operandi is to mau-mau the media into mouthing the politically correct platitudes that pass for profound insights on the far left.

Soros is also venturing into media overseas. Earlier this year Soros Fund Management plunked down $100 million for 3% of India’s Reliance Entertainment, a $3 billion conglomerate that aims to provide Internet-based TV programs in India. Reliance also churns out movies and owns movie houses, radio stations and social networking websites in the country with one of the fastest growing economies in the world. When in the 1980s Soros set up offices in Eastern Europe for his philanthropy, the Open Society Institute (OSI), he helped to finance publishers, independent TV and radio outlets, and political parties.

Soros has long been a player in Hollywood. As Rondi Adamson reported in “George Soros, Movie Mogul: ‘Social Justice’ Cinema and the Sundance Institute,” (Foundation Watch, March 2008), OSI has been underwriting “social justice” documentaries since 1996, and in 2001 Soros let actor-director Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute take over his Soros Documentary Fund (since rechristened the Soros/Sundance Documentary Fund).

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Taquiyya and Denial

During the many years that I did drugs, I denied the presence of the wolves at the door. I denied the immediate reality of a life out of control and ignored those who begged me to think of my future. I was in terror of “the present” and a future was something I obviously had insufficient courage to contemplate. Raw reality frightened me more than the death of friends from overdoses. I ignored the evidence of ravaged lives and families torn asunder.If I had been quite rich, perhaps I could have continued playing Russian roulette with my life, but alternate realities generally require funding. The reality I so assiduously avoided was waiting patiently to reward me with the fruits of my ill spent years when I could no longer afford to flee.

Religion and drugs can be similar in that way. Like drugs, religion has the capacity to sooth, dispel fears, to create a womb of warm content, a promise of safety, a reprieve from pain. Whatever you fear most can be sent back into the shadows with a few good drugs or promises of surety from god and government.

I ponder this after reading an exceedingly blithe description of dhimmitude and the caliphate from a “journalist” who ingests the Taquiyya offered by Islamists like a junkie hungering for a fix. There can be no other explanation for the sustained obtuseness of those who deny the reality of Islam and their caliphate dreams. It strikes me as the same type of denial that enabled me to rationalize a needle in my arm. Taquiyya is the bony hand of Islam soothing the dhimmis brow, the drug of choice for those who can’t face the reality of the Islamic wolves at the door.

Referring to Bush’s use of the word caliphate as another Republican scare tactic, Muslim tool Timothy Gatto goes on to reassure his readers of the benign nature of caliphate and one begins to see yet another reason that the left gravitates to Islam.

“The issue of the caliphate provides a valuable space in which to explore the question of contemporary globalization and religious authority. This is not only because a number of Islamic political movements (Al-Qaida among them) aim to re-establish caliphate institutions, but also because wider debates about the waning influence of the nation-state under globalization may render such models of transnational religious polity more attractive.”So what is a Caliphate now that we know who wants them? From Caliphate.eu, this is the definition; “The Caliphate is a unique political system from the ideology of Islam that bears no resemblance to any of the Muslim Governments today. It is a government built upon a concept of citizenship regardless of ethnicity, gender or creed and is totally opposed to the oppression of any religious or ethnic grouping.

Yes, in the world of relativism Al Qaida is merely an “Islamic political movement” and the left’s disdain for the sovereign nation state allow them to view a “transnational religious polity” without the horror that would attend such a suggestion were the religion Christianity of Judaism. That the writer then chooses to substantiate his premise by quoting a passage that dares to assert that Islam “is totally opposed to the oppression of any religious or ethnic grouping.” makes me wonder if he even bothered to read what he cut and paste.

“Non-Muslims have an honorable status in the Caliphate. They are referred to as dhimmi (people of contract), which means they are equal citizens with the Muslims and enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Unlike in Britain they are not given derogatory names like “ethnic minorities” or “immigrants”, that implies they are 2nd class citizens and not really welcome. The rights of non-Muslims are enshrined in statutory Islamic Law (shariah) and cannot be reversed by legal precedent or the whims of any government. The Prophet Muhammad (saw) said: “Whoever harms a dhimmi has harmed me.” Of course this is a ‘Pro-Caliphate site.”

Excuse me? He hasn’t heard of Somalia? The constant references to Jews and Christians as apes and pigs has escaped him? The ongoing slaughter of Christians in Muslim countries does not strike him as religious oppression. It doesn’t strike him as odd that nary one Christian church can be found in Saudi Arabia? Such willing blindness to reality is stunning.

Yes, indeed it is a Pro-Caliphate site which begs the question why the author stopped his “research” there. Because Taquiyya satisfied his addiction to a reality wherein Bush is a fear monger and Bin Laden a new type of global thinker. Some honest searching on the internet would have offered ample evidence as to the true nature of the Sharia law and the actual state of those subject to dhimmitude..

Islamic militias that seized control of much of southern Somalia have executed a man by firing squad, the first public execution since they took over in June.The man killed Friday, was sentenced to death for murdering a man in a cell phone dispute. A spokesman for the Islamic courts said the execution will send a message that Islamic sharia law will be enforced.(link)

“Somalia’s Islamic courts have increased their attacks on Mogadishu’s free press during the last week, which has seen the closure of the privately-owned ‘Radio Jowhar’ and the 48-hour detention of Osman Adan Areys, a journalist based in the central city of Beledweyn. The Islamists have started to rigidly control the cultural life, including the press, in the Mogadishu region.

The regional government of Middle Shabelle, which is backed by the Islamic courts in Mogadishu, ordered the privately-owned Jowhar-based ‘Radio Jowhar’ to stop broadcasting music and songs on 9 September. The Islamist movement is trying to ban all kind of music in Somalia, along with other cultural expressions.

The French news agency AFP quoted a commander in the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS) as saying the aim was to stop the broadcasting of “music that promotes devilish behaviour.” An Islamic court official quoted by the ‘Associated Press’ said: “It is useless to air music and love songs for the people.” (link)

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“Nawaal Mohammed has two boyfriends and used to wander the streets holding hands with the favorite of the moment. They went to the movies. She even kissed them secretly, in their houses or hers.

“Now I’m afraid to be arrested or beaten,” she said. “It’s safer than before, but we have no freedom. We are not happy with this Islamic Sharia law.”

She dreads donning a drab hijab before leaving the house.

“It’s hot. It’s too heavy. If I wear hijab, I don’t feel pretty,” she said. “I feel that I don’t have any freedom.”(link)

This lazy fool goes on to whine….

The Republicans are using this “Caliphate” supposition to back up their new ads that they have launched. I saw one today. They are using quotes from Bin Laden and others to show how much of a threat that they are to America.

The caliphate is not a “supposition” as proven by the very Bin Laden quotes this jack ass spins as Bush propaganda.
From Daniel Pipes:

“In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-evident ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and Islamic law, the Shari’a. Or, again to cite the Daily Telegraph, their “real project is the extension of the Islamic territory across the globe, and the establishment of a worldwide ‘caliphate’ founded on Shari’a law.”Terrorists openly declare this goal. The Islamists who assassinated Anwar el-Sadat in 1981 decorated their holding cages with banners proclaiming the “caliphate or death.” A biography of one of the most influential Islamist thinkers of recent times and an influence on Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam declares that his life “revolved around a single goal, namely the establishment of Allah’s Rule on earth” and restoring the caliphate.
Bin Laden himself spoke of ensuring that “the pious caliphate will start from Afghanistan.” His chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, also dreamed of re-establishing the caliphate, for then, he wrote, “history would make a new turn, God willing, in the opposite direction against the empire of the United States and the world’s Jewish government.” Another Al-Qaeda leader, Fazlur Rehman Khalil, publishes a magazine that has declared “Due to the blessings of jihad, America’s countdown has begun. It will declare defeat soon,” to be followed by the creation of a caliphate.

Or, as Mohammed Bouyeri wrote in the note he attached to the corpse of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker he had just assassinated, “Islam will be victorious through the blood of martyrs who spread its light in every dark corner of this earth.“

If our dhimmi reporter would look up from his dime bag of Taquiyah, he might find far more to induce fear than anything Bush could evoke. Taquiyah is indeed a very seductive drug for a West addicted to denial.

(all bold mine)

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