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LGF Archives: January 2005

Monday, January 31, 2005

Soros Finds a Home

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 9:10:40 pm PST

George Soros has found a home at Lebanon’s Daily Star, in an op-ed that says there’s no right and no wrong, no truth and no falsehood, no freedom and no tyranny, only the guiding light of international law in the brave new world of “open societies”—and America is breaking that ...

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Rotterdam Film Festival Cancels "Submission"

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 5:45:40 pm PST

What a sad and telling contrast; in Iraq, ordinary citizens who lived under the dictator’s boot for decades defied radical Islamic terrorist violence to vote in Iraq’s first real election. In the Netherlands, the Rotterdam Film Festival canceled murdered director Theo Van Gogh’s film Submission, in abject fear of the Islamic ...

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Ward Churchill Resigns as Dept. Chair

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 4:55:16 pm PST

University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill, who described the victims of the 9/11 attacks as “little Eichmanns,” has resigned his post as chairman (but not his professorship), and released a lengthy statement defending his vile essay: CU’s Churchill resigns as dept. chair. (Hat tip: Enik.) Churchill has been in ...

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Moronic Convergence in Brazil

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:46:29 pm PST

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wears a Palestine keffiya given to him by a fan during a visit to a Brazilian Landless Movement settlement in Tapes, 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Porto Alegre, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. Chavez arrived in Porto Alegre for a one day visit to the World ...

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Juan Cole: Iranian Elections More Democratic

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:49:05 am PST

Can you spot the rather large “but” in this post by Arabist professor Juan Cole? I’m just appalled by the cheerleading tone of US news coverage of the so-called elections in Iraq on Sunday. I said on television last week that this event is a “political earthquake” and “a historical first ...

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Arab World Fears Democratic Iraq

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:35:24 am PST

The tyrants, emirs, and kings of the Arab world are sweating bullets: Arab states fear Iraq polls will fan reform calls, boost Iran. (Hat tip: NC.) CAIRO (AFP) - Sunni Arab states fear the emergence of a hostile Shiite government in Iraq after the first free elections there in 50 years ...

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More AFP Propaganda

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:20:11 am PST

Agence France Presse states it as a fact: Palestinian schoolgirl shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza. Not just “shot.” “Shot dead by Israeli troops.” AFP’s sources? Palestinians and UN workers. AFP wants us to assume that the IDF is firing at random into Palestinian schoolyards. But a preliminary IDF investigation ...

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Islamic Site Tracking Christians

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:24:18 am PST

Robert Spencer exposes a radical Islamic web site that has been tracking and threatening Christians who post at “paltalk,” the discussion forum frequented by Hossam Armanious, who was murdered in New Jersey along with his wife and children: Muslims at hate website spread personal info, photos of Christians who debate ...

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Holy Warriors Use Handicapped Child

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:05:15 am PST

Child Said Used in Iraq Suicide Attack. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq’s interior minister said Monday that insurgents used a handicapped child as one of the suicide bombers who launched attacks on election day. Falah al-Naqib told reporters in Baghdad that 38 attacks were carried out on polling stations in Iraq on Sunday ...

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Profound Media Bias in Germany

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 9:42:27 am PST

Davids Medienkritik notes a study from a German media watchdog that comes to a rather amazing conclusion: Arab broadcasters report more positively on Iraq’s elections than German media. The German public television news are spreading, with their news selection, a climate that the parliamentary elections in Iraq could not fulfill ...

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Help! He's Being Repressed!

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 9:35:59 am PST

LGF pal Dennis The Peasant joins the blogosphere.

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Howard Dean: Hatemonger

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 8:46:44 am PST

Howard Dean, now being groomed for the leadership of the Democratic National Committee, is quoted by the New York Daily News at a DNC forum: “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.” (Thanks to all who emailed about this.)

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Mapes to Talk to ABC?

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 8:35:36 am PST

The New York Post gossip column says ABC News has been negotiating with fired CBS Rathergate producer Mary Mapes for a tell-all interview. (Hat tip: Ethel C.) IS Mary Mapes, the only CBS News staffer fired in the wake of Memogate, about to spill her guts on ABC? Sources say that ...

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Bush Vindicated, Dems and MSM Whine

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 8:04:14 am PST

John Podhoretz on the Iraqi elections and the disgraceful behavior of mainstream media and the leading lights of the Democratic Party: Vindicated. In another jaw-dropping display, Fareed Zakaria soberly informs us in this week’s issue [of Newsweek] that Iraq’s democratic evolution is probably doomed because — get this — it isn’t ...

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UC Irvine Anti-Terror Rally Needs Support

Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 7:33:41 am PST

Bus 19, the Israeli bus that was attacked by a suicide bomber in January 2004, will be displayed at UC Irvine today—and Muslim groups are planning to protest this memorial to victims of terrorism: UC Irvine Anti-Terror Rally Needs Support. Calling all lizardoids with digital cameras! The exhibit opens at 10 ...

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Sunday, January 30, 2005

German Government Wears Pimp Hat

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 9:05:18 pm PST

As radical Islam continues to send out roots in Europe, Germany’s social welfare system plumbs the depths of absurdity: ‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’. A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible ...

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Another Crack in the Wall

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 7:22:27 pm PST

Is the anti-human communist edifice of North Korea beginning to collapse? FAR across the frozen river two figures hurried from the North Korean shore, slip-sliding on the ice as they made a break for the Chinese riverbank to escape a regime that, by many accounts, is now entering its death throes. It ...

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JihadTV: World's 5th Most Influential Brand

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 6:17:14 pm PST

Thanks to the wildly popular iPod, Apple is now the world’s most influential brand. And according to the poll of “branding professionals” (who are these people?) the world’s fifth most popular brand is ... JihadTV. LONDON (Reuters) - Arabic media channel Al Jazeera has been voted the world’s fifth most influential brand in ...

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Kerry Ran Weapons to the Khmer Rouge?

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 3:56:34 pm PST

Well, here you go, if you can stomach another heaping helping of John F. Kerry’s by-now tiresomely predictable bellyaching and posturing; the transcript of his interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press: MSNBC - Transcript for Jan. 30. The magic hat makes an encore appearance: SEN. KERRY: I still have the ...

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Ramsey Clark: The US "Demonized" Saddam

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 2:59:17 pm PST

As a founder of International ANSWER, Ramsey Clark’s America-hating credentials are in impeccable order; here, in the Los Angeles Times, he says the United States has “demonized” Saddam Hussein because President Bush “hates” him: Why I’m Willing to Defend Hussein. That Hussein and other former Iraqi officials must have lawyers of ...

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Howard Stands Up for Bush

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 2:13:10 pm PST

Here’s to Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who leapt to the defense of President George W. Bush when he was tediously attacked by international leaders at the World Economic Forum: Howard stands up for Bush. (Hat tip: Beyond Wallacia.) In Mr Bush’s absence from the annual meeting of political and business ...

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Letters from Iraq

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 9:15:50 am PST

LGF reader hankmeister forwarded two emails from his friend/comrade Mike, a major stationed in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq: Greetings from Free and DEMOCRATIC Iraq, I wanted to share with you this morning (your time) as you head to church, something that you can give thanks for. The first free elections ...

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Iraqi Elections: Open Topic Two

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 8:41:42 am PST

Here’s another open topic for discussion of the Iraqi elections, since the other one already has more than 700 comments... UPDATE at 1/30/05 8:47:24 am: At Iraq the Model: We had all kinds of feelings in our minds while we were on our way to the ballot box except one feeling that never ...

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Protesting Democracy in Spain

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 8:28:16 am PST

People shout slogans during a protest in central Madrid January 30, 2005. Marchers were protesting Iraq holding national elections under what they called U.S occupation. At least 10 suicide attacks targeted polling stations and voters on Sunday, but Iraqis still voted in large numbers. REUTERS/Susana Vera

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Al Qaeda Training in Action

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 8:06:36 am PST

Without exception, every one of the jihadis released from Guantanamo Bay due to political pressure has commenced screaming “torture!” as soon as he gets in front of the eager media: Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee mentally damaged, lawyers claim. SYDNEY (AFP) - Lawyers representing Australian Mamdouh Habib, who was freed from Guantanamo ...

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The Powerful Lure of Democracy

Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 7:52:02 am PST

Even as John Kerry goes on Meet the Press to spread more negativity, and mainstream media continues pumping out reports of violence, Iraqis have refused to be intimidated by the thuggish mujahideen criminals—or by those Western forces who want them to fail: Iraqis Brave Bombs to Vote in Their Millions. BAGHDAD ...

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Saturday, January 29, 2005

Iraqi Elections: Open Topic One

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 8:37:06 pm PST

Here’s an open thread for discussion of Iraq’s historic elections, and for posting breaking news.

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We Got Mail!

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 8:15:02 pm PST

In response to my post featuring a photo of a smiling Iraqi woman celebrating her country’s first real democratic election, an anonymous LGF admirer emailed photos of 1) a dead or wounded US soldier, and 2) the highly suspect, possibly staged “car bomb” we reported earlier today. And I received some ...

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It Is Finally Time To Exit The Oldsmobile

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 6:31:12 pm PST

I haven’t written anything about Ted Kennedy’s sad, utterly defeatist speech at the Johns’ Hopkins School of International Studies, but Iowahawk did, in a relentless parody that shreds Kennedy’s hypocrisy: It Is Finally Time To Exit The Oldsmobile. Iowahawk Guest Commentary by Senator Edward M. Kennedy Like all Americans, I had high ...

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One Source of Referrer Spam

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 5:12:46 pm PST

Here’s one of the obnoxious creeps who is spamming referrer logs all over the blogosphere, and it’s very proud of itself: Reffy.net - The Mass Referrer Marketer. Now banned from LGF’s referrers. Here’s why they’re doing it, in case you wondered: Reffy Facts Instant indexing of your site(s) into the major search engines. Instant ...

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Iraqis Vote Despite Ted Kennedy

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 4:31:17 pm PST

Here’s an excellent, moving post from Duane at Radio Blogger, with photos from the Iraqi polls in El Toro, California. Kevin McCullough also has a great collection of photos. And here’s one of my favorites from the Yahoo wire: Iraqi immigrant Marwa Sadik from Seattle celebrates before casting her vote in Iraq’s election ...

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The Palestinian Political Process

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 4:10:27 pm PST

Hamas Victory Rally Erupts Into Shootout. JERUSALEM - A political rally by the militant Palestinian group Hamas turned violent Saturday, as supporters of the rival Fatah faction opened fire, sparking a melee that left more than 25 people wounded, a Palestinian official said. ... The shooting occurred at an outdoor rally staged ...

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ElBaradei Says Don't Worry, Be Happy

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 3:24:29 pm PST

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN’s toothless, blind nuclear watchdog the IAEA, says the world should calm down, take a chill pill, exhaust all diplomatic possibilities, and just forget about doing anything rash to stop Iran from getting nukes: Watchdog urges patience over Iran. World leaders must not take rash action ...

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BBC Forced to Apologize

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 2:54:17 pm PST

In their eagerness to smear the United States, the BBC has once again been caught lying about statistics, in a report that claimed coalition forces were responsible for “most” civilian deaths in Iraq: BBC apologises for misinterpreting Iraqi death stats. LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The BBC apologised on Saturday for ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 8:49:58 am PST

The Obsidian Order may have caught AFP, AP, and al-Reuters in another blatant act of collusion with the Iraqi mujahideen; pictures of a “car bomb” (or was it?) that happened to be taken by three separate Arab photographers within seconds of each other: A Very Special Effect.

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Liberals Are Racist, Too

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 8:39:04 am PST

Here’s a great post from RD at Right Intention: Liberals Are Racist, Too. Colbert, I am also a Black man. And it’s about time we stop dancing around the issue. The evidence is piling up and the answer is obvious. Liberals are racist, too. Over the last few years, I’ve become quite ...

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Excitable Andrew, Part XVIII

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 8:15:59 am PST

Mickey Kaus has apparently been trying to follow Andrew Sullivan’s shifting opinions on the Iraq elections, proving once again that Mickey has infinitely more patience than I do: Excitable Andrew, Part XVIII - The Iraq election’s a success! Wait, it’s a flop!

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Jihad in Germany

Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 8:04:30 am PST

Bin Laden Sent Iraqi Arrested in Germany-Report. BERLIN (Reuters) - An Iraqi arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting an al Qaeda suicide attack in Iraq said he was sent on his mission by Osama bin Laden himself, a German magazine reported Saturday. German state prosecutors believe Ibrahim Mohammed K., a 29-year-old ...

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Friday, January 28, 2005

Mass Killings in Darfur; Annan "Disturbed"

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 7:34:02 pm PST

Kofi Annan is working up to another strongly-worded UN resolution, as the Arab Muslim government of Sudan murders at least 100 more black African Muslims: Sudan Bombs Darfur, Forcing Thousands to Flee. ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The Sudanese air force bombed a town in western Sudan this week killing or wounding ...

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The Powerful Lure of Democracy

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 6:37:27 pm PST

Iraqis want to vote: Joyful Iraqi Exiles Vote in Landmark Election. AMMAN (Reuters) - Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots in a “vote for freedom” on Friday and urged their compatriots in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same. In the United States, Iraqi expatriates defied frigid temperatures and long trips ...

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Adopt-a-Nazi in Oregon

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 5:44:51 pm PST

Political correctness and fear of “free speech” lawsuits reach their inevitable absurd dead end in Salem, Oregon: American Nazi Party adopts Salem road. (Hat tip: Steven S.) Marion County has allowed a Portland-area skinhead group to adopt a rural Salem road as part of a volunteer litter clean-up program. The signs ...

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An Oscar Night Thank You

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 2:55:20 pm PST

Gotta love it, unless you’re Alec Baldwin: Billboard Blitz to Blast Hollywood. (Hat tip: Wuptdo.) HUMAN EVENTS has learned that a billboard blitz “thanking” Hollywood for the reelection of President Bush will be unveiled early next week. The advertisements feature the faces of liberal Hollywood icons Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, ...

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Al Qaeda's New Front: Watch Online

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 2:11:00 pm PST

KCET’s Frontline had an excellent episode recently on the spread of radical Islam in Europe, and it will be available for online viewing starting tonight at 8 pm Eastern: Al Qaeda’s New Front.

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Eurabian Classroom Dynamics

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 1:47:15 pm PST

Dutch Report has a link to a mind-blowing amateur video clip shot in a Dutch classroom: Moroccan youth at school. (Hat tip: Paul Stinchfield.) At the schools in Holland there are many problems with Moroccan youth. Most do not finish their school education and there are many stories about violence against ...

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Anti-American Nights in Paris

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 1:34:04 pm PST

John Rosenthal has put together a disturbing photo essay on an event hosted by the mayor of Paris’s 3rd arrondissement, billed as a “contribution to understanding and Franco-American friendship,” that became a forum for astoundingly venomous America-hatred: Anti-American Nights: a Photo Essay (with Update).

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Saudi Hate Ideology Fills US Mosques

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:28:19 pm PST

Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom has completed a year-long study of documents collected from more than a dozen Saudi-funded mosques in the United States—and the study confirms what many of us had long suspected: Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques. (Hat tip: TexasSecurityMom.) Among the key findings of ...

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VDH: Strange Politics

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 8:54:34 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson turns his gaze on domestic politics, and identifies the issues where the DNC might be able to make gains with the electorate: Strange Politics. The per-capita American use of petroleum is probably unsustainable in the long run, while right now our profligacy means sending dollars to terrorist abettors ...

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UN Transferred Thousands to Hamas

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 8:37:32 am PST

Despite Israeli Alerts, U.N. Transfers Thousands to Hamas Affiliates. UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations agency transferred thousands of dollars to a Palestinian Arab charity affiliated with terrorism long after Israel warned of the terror connection, though the U.N. publicly claimed payments to the organization had stopped. The blunder points to trouble ...

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Palestinians Choose Hamas

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 8:25:40 am PST

Unsurprisingly, the Islamic fascist group Hamas has strong support among Palestinians: Hamas Sweeps Gaza Elections in Show of Strength. GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas swept seven out of 10 councils in first-ever Gaza Strip local elections seen as a test of strength between the Islamic militant group and new President Mahmoud Abbas, ...

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More Dishonesty from Mainstream Media

Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 8:09:12 am PST

The Houston Chronicle publishes a virulent anti-patriotism, anti-Bush screed by Dante Zappala, who they identify only as “a part time teacher in Los Angeles:” Ask the sideline patriots why my brother had to die. (Hat tip: Bobby R.) I am left now with a single word seared into my consciousness: accountability. ...

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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Babs Thanks Kos

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 7:26:29 pm PST

Senator Barbara Boxer posts at Daily “Screw Them” Kos: Thank you so much. (Hat tip: Jheka.) by Barbara Boxer Thu Jan 27th, 2005 at 14:11:07 PST (From the diaries — kos) I can’t thank all of you enough — the Daily Kos community, and the blogosphere as a whole — for all of ...

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Edward Said: The Palestinian Authority

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 7:19:03 pm PST

I’m very pleased to present an LGF exclusive (not otherwise available online), thanks to The Claremont Review of Books—a review of the final book by the man who did more to intellectualize and legitimize the Arab world’s hatred of the Western world than any other human being, Edward Said. In 1997, ...

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UI Will Show Palestinian Propaganda Film

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 4:35:38 pm PST

The University of Iowa’s Institute for Cinema and Culture is showing a festival of Arab and French films: UI To Offer Series Of Arab, French Films. The Arab “proseminar” concludes with a screening of the completely discredited Palestinian propaganda film “Jenin Jenin,” which makes unsupported (and unsupportable) accusations of mass murder ...

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UN Contractor Arrested for Diverting Aid

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 4:06:08 pm PST

A leading United Nations contractor in Indonesia who is also the chairman of an “anti-corruption watchdog” group has been arrested for diverting large quantities of aid supplies, with help from the Islamic Defenders Front. It should be noted, however, that last week he accused Indonesian officials of inflating refugee numbers to ...

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Sullivan Off the Rails Again

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 3:25:30 pm PST

Andrew Sullivan shows that he’s not above a cheap smear, by describing LGF as “the enthusiastically pro-torture site.” He uses the exact same smear tactic used by the loony left sites; he quotes a handful of extreme LGF visitor comments (and some not-so-extreme, out of a database of more than ...

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Bus 19 in San Francisco

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 3:03:36 pm PST

The third part of LGF operative zombie’s report on the San Francisco exhibit of Israeli Bus 19 is now online: Bus 19 in San Francisco, January 17, 2005. At this exhibit, in San Francisco’s Civic Center Park, the pro-Israel demonstrators greatly outnumbered the pro-terror gang; but the Palestinian groups did make ...

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AP Still Looking for Another Abu Ghraib

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 2:32:45 pm PST

The Associated Press got their paws on a Pentagon document classified “secret,” detailing purported interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay. And as usual when the mainstream media vampires get hold of such a story, a secret document with the potential to further damage our ability to effectively interrogate terrorists and enrage the ...

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Donate to Edd's Humvee Armor Fund

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 8:34:09 am PST

Here’s a great way to support the troops in Iraq, brought to our attention by Lone Star Times. (Hat tip: AG in Houston.)

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Remembering the Liberation of Auschwitz

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 8:09:26 am PST

This post is part of a “blogburst” coordinated by Joseph Alexander Norland at Israpundit, to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz. The full list of participants is here. *** The Holocaust, symbolized by Auschwitz, the worst of the death camps, occurred in the wake of consistent, systematic, unrelenting anti-Jewish propaganda campaigns. As a ...

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Open Antisemitism at USC's Muslim Student Union

Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 7:32:11 am PST

Omri Ceren reports that members of the University of Southern California Muslim Student Union have been posting openly antisemitic messages on the university’s listserv, denying the Holocaust: USC Muslim Student Union Slips Into Open Anti-Semitism. holocust schmolocost..... that whole thing drives me nuts. there arent that many holicost surviviers. most of ...

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Open Season

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 8:44:11 pm PST

From Cox &Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Mexican Smuggler Admits Dirty Bomb Hoax

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 8:09:53 pm PST

That dirty bomb threat in Boston? It was a hoax: Mexican People Smuggler Admits Boston Terror Hoax. MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A “dirty bomb” alert in Boston last week was caused by a Mexican hoaxer trying to take revenge on Chinese immigrants who did not pay him for smuggling them across the ...

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Start a Like, Revolution Already!

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 6:30:53 pm PST

Evan Coyne Maloney’s latest video, shot amongst the moonbats on Inauguration Day, captures the very essence of their ideological vacuity: Stop Bitching, Start a Revolution.

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The Anti-American Academy, Again

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 5:33:33 pm PST

At Colgate University (near Hamilton College) assistant professor of “peace studies” Victoria Fontan is negotiating to be “embedded” with the car-bombing, head-chopping mujahideen in Iraq: Colgate professor in Iraq to research resistance groups. (Hat tip: ctstephen.) Like many colleagues at Colgate, Victoria Fontan is spending her time between semesters hard at ...

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The Anti-American Academy

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:40:11 pm PST

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, who sat down the day after September 11, 2001 and wrote an article condemning the victims of the attacks as “little Eichmanns,” will be a headlined guest of New York’s Hamilton College: Controversy festers on Hamilton campus again. (Hat tip: Marvin.) A professor who likened ...

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Iraqi Friends of Democracy

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:50:08 am PST

Here’s a great new blog featuring more than a dozen local Iraqi correspondents, at least one in each province, filing daily reports on the historic Iraqi elections: Friends of Democracy - Iraq Election News.

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UN Human Wrongs Commission

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:28:24 am PST

The latest pathetic chapter in the United Nations’ long history of ignominy: an “elite action panel” that will influence the UN Human Rights Commission, consisting of Hungary, China, Zimbabwe, and ... Cuba. (Hat tip: Gabriel.) Human rights activists were outraged Tuesday over Cuba’s appointment to an elite “action panel” that will ...

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McCain: Dems "Bitter" Sore Losers

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 9:57:16 am PST

Condoleezza Rice is confirmed as Secretary of State, and Sen. John McCain absolutely hit the nail on the head with this comment: On the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., suggested Democrats are sore losers. Rice had enough votes to win confirmation, as even her Democratic critics acknowledge, McCain said. “So ...

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The Enemy Within

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 9:33:05 am PST

FBI: Some trained ‘jihadists’ are in Oregon. (Hat tip: Wes Roth.) PORTLAND, Ore. - The FBI knows of “jihadists” who have trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan and are now living in Oregon, the agency’s Oregon chief said in an exclusive Tuesday interview with The Associated Press. “We don’t have an imminent ...

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Sullivan's Tortured Logic

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 8:26:46 am PST

At City Journal, Heather Mac Donald responds to Andrew Sullivan’s overheated article for the New York Times Review of Books, in which he accuses the Bush administration of “torture:” Tortured Logic on Torture. Many of Sullivan’s factual claims are tenuous at best. He asserts, for example, that “we now know that ...

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Eurabian Jihadis on the Rise

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 8:20:55 am PST

Terror recruitment on the rise in Europe. In France, Tuesday, security agents detained seven people suspected of helping funnel Islamic militants into Iraq. In Mainz, Germany, this weekend, police arrested an alleged al-Qaida operative who is also accused of recruiting for Iraq. He is alleged to be a key al-Qaida recruiter ...

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Father Returns from Hajj, Murders Daughter

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 8:02:12 am PST

Immediately upon returning from the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam’s holiest ritual, a Kuwaiti man who worked for the Islamic Affairs Ministry savagely murdered his 14-year old daughter in front of her brothers and sister—because he believed she was having sex: Kuwaiti ‘slit daughter’s throat’. An autopsy showed she was still ...

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Document Expert Demands CBS Corrections

Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 7:38:45 am PST

Marcel Matley, the handwriting analyst whose work was deceptively used in the infamous CBS News story on the fraudulent National Guard memos (they claimed Matley had authenticated the documents, when he had only authenticated one signature), says the independent review panel’s report defames him and damages his reputation: ’60 Minutes’ ...

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Columbia U's Persian Gulf Allies

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 7:43:14 pm PST

Columbia University’s Israel-hating Arab professors have an ally in the Persian Gulf, at the government mouthpiece of the United Arab Emirates: Ethnic cleansing of universities is the new mantra in America. (Hat tip: Sarah D.) American neo-conservatives and followers of President George W. Bush pride themselves on taking no prisoners in ...

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Volume Discounts for CBS?

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 6:54:42 pm PST

Someone please let CBS News know about this Poynter Online Seminar: Values & Ethics in the News (E413). They may be eligible for a volume discount. Date Starts: 3/13/2005 Date Ends: 3/18/2005 Deadline: 1/31/2005 Tuition (includes hotel): $675.00 [Such a deal! —ed.] Who will benefit: Reporters, editors, producers, and newsroom managers responsible for directing content Seminar ...

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UN Insanity Watch

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 6:16:06 pm PST

Despite an objection from the US, the United Nations is going to back a report on freedom and governance in the Arab world that blames the Arab world’s very obvious problems on 1) the US, and 2) Israel: UN to back Arab report despite US objection. CAIRO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - ...

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Insulting Islam Still Legal in UK (Sort Of)

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 5:53:58 pm PST

The UK’s Director of Public Prosecutions is warning British Muslims not to get their hopes too high: New laws will keep freedom to insult Islam. MUSLIMS were warned by the Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday that new laws designed to combat religious hatred would not stop people from being rude about ...

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Muslim Pilgrims Enraged, Seething, Fingerprinted

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 4:38:58 pm PST

Muslims in US raise an outcry about the brutal repressive measures they might face when returning to the US from the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The horrendous abuse they’re protesting? Fingerprinting. That’s it. WASHINGTON — Software salesman Shadab Aziz of Houston was preparing recently to catch the first flight on his ...

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Holy Warriors Release New Hostage Video

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 4:10:34 pm PST

Rusty Shackleford has an exhaustive roundup of news about the videotape released today by the scumbag “holy warriors” in Iraq, showing hostage Roy Hallums begging for help from Arab leaders, Muammar Gaddafi in particular: Terrorists Release Video of American Hostage Roy Hallums.

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It's Sad When Jihadis Hotlink

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 3:39:12 pm PST

Aaron of Internet Haganah alerted me that a jihad bulletin board had linked directly to the photograph that accompanies this LGF post, showing some Hamas terrorzoids burning a US flag. The thread at ribaat.org (a domain registered in Pakistan) is titled, “Une mère qui éduque son enfant à l’art du Djihad,” ...

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Vote the Lizardoid Ticket

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 2:39:33 pm PST

Voting is now open at Israellycool, where Little Green Footballs is nominated for Best Israel Advocacy Blog, alongside a number of other excellent blogs that you should make a point of visiting.

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Dems Hit Bottom, Dig

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 1:58:48 pm PST

This is a perfect example of why I can no longer be part of the Democrat Party; they have purely and simply gone off the rails: Democrats Call Rice Liar, Bush Apologist. WASHINGTON - One Senate Democrat called Condoleezza Rice a liar Tuesday and others said she was an apologist for ...

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Burned Out Turner: Fox is Hitler

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:40:57 pm PST

Billionairehead Ted Turner says he’s too “burned out” to be President of the United States. But not too burned out to compare Fox News to you-know-who: Turner Compares Fox’s Popularity to Hitler. (Hat tip: NY Nana.) On Fox News: While Fox may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner’s CNN], it’s ...

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Steyn: Europe Has Taken Over the Holocaust

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 8:45:46 am PST

Mark Steyn: Europe has taken over the Holocaust. look at how my colleagues at The Spectator chose to mark the anniversary. They ran a reminiscence by Anthony Lipmann, the Anglican son of an Auschwitz survivor, which contained the following sentence: “When on 27 January I take my mother’s arm - tattoo ...

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Antisemitism Erupts in Russia

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 8:12:38 am PST

This has to be the disgusting story of the day; and it’s hard not to conclude that this foul sickness is erupting now because of the increasing legitimization of Jew-hatred across the world: Russian Lawmakers Target Jewish Groups. MOSCOW - A group of nationalist Russian lawmakers called Monday for a sweeping ...

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Fahrenheit 9/11 Shut Out of Oscars

Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 8:01:48 am PST

No Oscar for Mikey this year. (Hat tip: The Other Les.) Michael Moore’s gamble to hold his hit film “Fahrenheit 9/11” out of the documentary category - to boost its best-picture prospects - backfired. The movie was shut out across the board.

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Monday, January 24, 2005

AP: "Al Qaeda Official"

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:21:38 pm PST

An amazing headline on an Associated Press story by an Arab stringer: al-Qaida Official Admits to U.N. Assault. (Hat tip: Steven S.) UPDATE at 1/25/05 8:02:45 am: This morning the headline above has disappeared from the wires. UPDATE at 1/25/05 2:21:35 pm: ...But not before the Guardian picked it up: al-Qaida Official Admits to ...

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The Defeatist Left in Full Bloom

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 7:41:47 pm PST

At The Nation, David Enders sets the tone with his first sentence: Iraq: The Chaos Deepens. (Hat tip: jlucas.) The destruction caused by the second US invasion of Falluja in November was met with quiet outrage by Iraqis. And it gets worse. Read this whole piece and you will understand that ...

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Remember That Anthrax Attack?

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 6:27:32 pm PST

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard of progress on the investigation into the anthrax mail bombs that followed the 9/11 attacks. In fact, for a story that has such potentially cataclysmic implications, it’s amazing how thoroughly it’s vanished from the media radar. I don’t have anything new to report, ...

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Two Hours of Wind from Babs and Kleagle

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 6:17:22 pm PST

Tomorrow we’re going to get a full two hours of the dreaded B Team, Boxer and Byrd, as Democrats continue to obstruct the nomination of Condoleezza Rice: Senate Democrats Ready Anti-War Speeches. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice is no longer on a fast track to Senate confirmation as secretary ...

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Babs for Prez

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 5:42:46 pm PST

An idea whose time has come: President Boxer. (Hat tip: Cynical Nation.) Need I say more? UPDATE at 1/24/05 5:45:49 pm: Four whole minutes without a comment. I think I’ve stunned the lizardoid army.

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PEST Continues to Yield Comedy Gold

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 5:29:14 pm PST

At the Sydney Morning Herald, Mike Carlton waxes poetic in his deranged loathing of George W. Bush, proving that PEST is not just an American phenomenon: The emperor of vulgarity. George Bush’s second inaugural extravaganza was every bit as repugnant as I had expected, a vulgar orgy of triumphalism probably unmatched ...

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Taking Jihad Seriously

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 5:21:48 pm PST

In a piece for the Washington Times, Robert Spencer says it’s long past time we started taking jihad seriously. It is reasonable for any state to base its foreign policy on its overall goals and interests. In fact, I recommend that the United States do the same thing. In regard to ...

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Pollo il Kerry

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 4:53:46 pm PST

Whew. I thought I was harsh on defeated appeasement candidate John F. Kerry. Then LGF reader nonic sent me the link to a USA Today slideshow—The day in pictures—containing a photo of a parade in the beautiful Italian seaside town of Viareggio (where I spent a memorable week of cycling last ...

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Take Us to Your Leader

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 4:42:33 pm PST

Great news from Iraq with the capture of one of Zarqawi’s top henchmen, a mass murderer responsible for many car bomb attacks: Iraq Forces Arrest Top al-Qaida Lieutenant. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida lieutenant in custody in Iraq has confessed to masterminding most of the car bombings in Baghdad, including the ...

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They Want Iran to Have Nukes

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 2:26:28 pm PST

At the BBC web site we’ve spotted a flock of Common Myopic Suicidal Moonbats, as BBC readers respond to the question, “Should Iran suspend its nuclear programme?” (Hat tip: Gill.) Given a choice I would trust Iran more than the neo cons sitting in Washington. Iran has never in the past ...

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Babs Plays Victim Card

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:31:38 pm PST

I was wondering if Barbara Boxer could possibly get any more disgusting; well, she can: Sen. Boxer takes victim role after hearing for Rice. Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is the real victim of last week’s confirmation hearing for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, yet continued yesterday to question the national ...

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60 Years After Liberation

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:29:26 am PST

At JTA: 60 Years After Liberation: An Anniversary for Auschwitz. (Thanks to Ethel for the link.)

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Taqiyya Awareness Week at UCLA

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 9:33:39 am PST

Author Robert Spencer is holding a contest at Dhimmi Watch: Contest: Taqiyya Awareness Week at UCLA! The object is to answer the distortions and Islamist propaganda in this Daily Bruin article about the Muslim Students Association (a Saudi-funded radical group) and their “Islamic Awareness Week” programs. The winner of the Dhimmi ...

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The Next Islamist Revolution?

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 7:51:52 am PST

Here’s a scary piece at the New York Times on Bangladesh, where the barbarism of extremist Islam is taking hold: The Next Islamist Revolution? In Bangladesh, “Islam is becoming the legitimizing political discourse,” according to C. Christine Fair, a South Asia specialist at the United States Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan, ...

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Putin Will Not Sell Missiles to Syria

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 7:45:35 am PST

If true, here’s a positive development: Putin promises Israel not to sell missiles to Syria. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by phone that he won’t sign a contract to sell SA-18 surface-to-air missiles to Syria, the daily Haaretz reports. The reported promise, said ...

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What Cease Fire?

Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 7:42:56 am PST

Israeli settlers in Kfar Darom are accusing the Sharon government of covering up Palestinian attacks to maintain a fictional cease fire: Angry settlers ask: What cease-fire? On Saturday, Kfar Darom settlers were shocked to hear media reports about Abu Mazen’s success in achieving a hudna (cease-fire), as they were forced to ...

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Sunday, January 23, 2005

The Loony Left Loses Another Liberal

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 8:06:03 pm PST

Liberal New Republic writer Tom Frank was assigned to cover a gathering of the International Socialist Organization on the evening of the inauguration, and was so traumatized that he came out of the event as a raving right-wing nutjob. Well, not quite. But close: Ball Fake. Last night I was sitting in ...

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On Duty in Iraq

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 6:54:14 pm PST

LGF reader “American Soldier’s Mom” emailed the link to this great album of photos from soldiers in Iraq, at the Washington Post: Duty In Iraq.

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More Tales of Embarrassment

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 3:54:22 pm PST

Our earlier report on the Ridiculous Article of the Day motivated Iowahawk to send his exclusive Washington correspondent to search the dumpsters out behind the WaPo offices—and he came up with more tragic tales of embarrassment and radicalization that were edited out of the original piece: I Thought I Would ...

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RIP, Johnny Carson

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:13:11 am PST

Johnny Carson, King of Late Night, Dies. LOS ANGELES - Johnny Carson (news), the “Tonight Show” TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, has died. He was 79. “Mr. Carson passed away peacefully early Sunday morning,” his nephew, Jeff ...

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Ridiculous Article of the Day

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:35:56 am PST

Today’s most ridiculous report from Iraq is this one by the Washington Post’s Jackie Spinner: In One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe. It reads like one of Iowahawk’s dumpster dispatches, but I’m fairly sure it’s intended to be serious. The soldiers went to search his bedroom. He heard laughing, and ...

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Election Fraud Update

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:06:57 am PST

Brainpost has updates about the possible election fraud in Milwaukee.

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Peace in Our Time

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 9:51:12 am PST

Just one little hitch to the latest hudna. Israel has to first stop defending herself, and release a bunch of killers from prison: Palestine Television said that during the interview Abbas stressed Israel had “responsibilities it must carry out” for a cease-fire to work. Israel must “halt its assaults on Palestinian people, ...

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The Greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 9:33:26 am PST

At Jihad Watch, Hugh Fitzgerald makes a disturbing point about the thoroughly sanitized reading list on Islam assigned by new Iraq commander Lt. Gen. John H. Vines to his staff members: The greatest Intelligence Failure of the Iraq War was not about WMD. The Reading List of General Vines deserves further ...

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The Spectator Sport of Jew-Baiting

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 9:05:00 am PST

Here’s an incisive observation from Melanie Phillips, writing about an astoundingly foul article at The Spectator: Melanie Phillips’s Diary: The Spectator sport of Jew-baiting. At any time this would be disgusting stuff. As a piece marking the liberation of Auschwitz, it is obscene. To imply that the Jews have turned into ...

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Steyn: He's a Worldbeater

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 8:34:21 am PST

No one comments on the incoherent flailing of the Democrat Party better than Mark Steyn: He’s a worldbeater, all right. I picked up the Village Voice for the first time in years this week. Couldn’t resist the cover story: “The Eve Of Destruction: George W. Bush’s Four-Year Plan To Wreck The ...

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French: Lifeless, Resigned, Anxious, Depressed

Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 8:19:34 am PST

Long years of surrender and appeasement have taken their toll on the delicate French psyche, leaving them bereft of joie de vivre: Self-doubt leaves French feeling down in the mouth. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) IT IS official: the French are a nation of depressed pessimists, wracked with self-doubt and unable to ...

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Saturday, January 22, 2005

As Close As He'll Ever Get

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 6:39:02 pm PST

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Saturday Night Book Thread

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 5:38:16 pm PST

Several LGF lizards have suggested a thread for book recommendations, so I’ll kick this one off by recommending a book by Victor Davis Hanson that I’m sure many of you have already read, but I’m just finishing for the first time: Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of ...

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British Shari'a Watch

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 5:18:18 pm PST

Muslim activists rip, deface offensive advertising in Britain. (Hat tip: scipio americanus.) LONDON (AFP) - British Muslim activists have stepped up a campaign to deface or rip down advertising billboards featuring scantily-clad women in communities with large numbers of Muslims, the media reported. Sky television news reported from the English city of ...

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Muslims Boycott Holocaust Remembrance

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 5:10:45 pm PST

Iqbal Sacranie and the Muslim Council of Britain are getting quite fearless about exhibiting their pro-terrorist, antisemitic agenda; they’re boycotting this week’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz, because it’s not “inclusive” enough. Sacranie says it doesn’t include the “holocaust” and “genocide” inflicted on Palestinians by Israel: Muslims Boycott Holocaust Remembrance. BRITISH ...

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Cycle of Violence: Cogs of Doom

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 3:52:56 pm PST

Today’s ride: 54 miles, maintaining a medium-hard pace most of the way. Only easy climbs; concentrating more on keeping a steady tempo to build endurance. Since Inauguration Day was declared by the moonbat left to be “Not One Damn Dime Day,” a day to shut down the US economy by purchasing ...

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Germany to Deport Hundreds of Islamists

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 2:51:48 pm PST

According to weekly magazine Der Spiegel, German authorities are drawing up lists of hundreds of Islamic extremists to be deported. Der Spiegel said authorities were already using their powers under an immigration law introduced this month in conducting an operation dubbed “Aktion Kehraus” (“Action Sweep Out”). The Interior Ministry declined to comment ...

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A World Without Israel

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 9:01:28 am PST

Several LGF readers emailed about this excellent thought exercise at Foreign Policy, by Josef Joffe: A World Without Israel. Here’s a summary of the major points; reading the whole thing is highly recommended. Imagine that Israel never existed. Would the economic malaise and political repression that drive angry young men to ...

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The Palestinian Peace Process

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 8:32:49 am PST

New Palestinian “president” (or is he “chairman?”) Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen, the “moderate” Holocaust denier, prepares for peace as his death squads murder anyone suspected of collaborating with Israel, usually in public to serve as an example: Jenin gunmen murder suspected collaborator. Masked gunmen murdered a Palestinian man on Saturday afternoon near ...

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Germans Sick of Being Reminded

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 7:58:59 am PST

Sixty years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a new poll released by the University of Bielefeld shows that 62% of Germans are sick of being reminded about the Holocaust. And an even larger majority say that Israel is “waging a war of extermination” against the Palestinians. Some 62% of ...

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Italian Cemetery Desecrated by Holy Warriors

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 7:31:26 am PST

Outrage as Somali militia dig up Italian graves. (Hat tip: Shiplord Kirel.) MOGADISHU, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Somali militiamen, allied with Islamic clerics who rule by sharia law, have dug up hundreds of skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and thrown them in the trash, sparking anger in the Italian and ...

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Milblogger Awarded Silver Star

Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 7:22:54 am PST

Our congratulations and sincere gratitude to Lt. Neil Prakash, who blogs at Armor Geddon and has been awarded the Silver Star.

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Friday, January 21, 2005

The Left Will Call it Propaganda

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 6:34:18 pm PST

MEMRI has a must-see collection of Iraqi election commercials and public service announcements; a transcript is here, and a 4:33 video compilation of the clips is here.

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What Will They Do?

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 5:45:03 pm PST

A panel of Highly Educated Articulate Barking Moonbats is now holding forth on C-SPAN, in a panel discussion on a collection of essays titled “What We Do Now,” written by “progressives” in dismay over President Bush’s reelection: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE.

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NBC Prez: It Can't Happen Here

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 5:24:57 pm PST

NBC president Jeff Zucker says the CBS fraudulent memo scandal could not have happened at NBC. Speaking at the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles Friday, Zucker says it is was “shocking” to see “the degree to which responsibiltiy was abdicated on the a piece about the President of the United ...

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Newsday Goes All the Way Dhimmi

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 4:26:49 pm PST

An entire Egyptian Coptic Christian family murdered, with strong circumstantial evidence that the killers were Muslim. But what’s important to Newsday? Jersey City slaying spurs new wave of anti-Islam bias. JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The dirty looks and shouted slurs started in 1993 after Muslims living here helped plan the bombing of ...

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A Conservative Answer to Michael Moore

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 3:27:10 pm PST

At the New York Sun, here’s a good profile of Evan Coyne Maloney (whose work has been featured many times at LGF): A Conservative Answer to Michael Moore.

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Bus 19 Anti-Terrorism Rally, Part 2

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 3:00:19 pm PST

Part two of LGF operative zombie’s photo essay on the Bus 19 Anti-Terrorism rally in Berkeley is now open for viewing, featuring video of pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanting, “Don’t believe the news, it’s controlled by the Jews!”

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Animal Sacrifice in NC

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 2:44:15 pm PST

The State Agriculture Department of North Carolina will allow Islamic animal sacrifices to take place in Johnston County: Ag Officials To Allow Religious Lamb Slaughter. (Hat tip: Wuptdo.) RALEIGH, N.C. — Muslims observing a religious holiday will be allowed to sacrifice about 100 lambs at a Johnston County farm this weekend, ...

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Apologizing Moonbats Sighted in DC!

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 2:26:21 pm PST

LGF reader Tanker J.D. sent photographs from the inauguration, featuring a shot of the rare Pouty-Faced Apologizing Moonbats with their distinctive plumage:

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Holy Warriors Slaughter in Public View

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 2:04:34 pm PST

Militants Behead Iraqi Soldier in Rebel Stronghold. RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Militants loyal to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi beheaded an Iraqi soldier in a rebel stronghold in broad daylight on Friday and left a note warning other Iraqi troops to quit, witnesses said. They said nine men pulled up in ...

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Diana West on Root Causes

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:11:55 am PST

Diana West has a good piece on Western civilization’s continuing refusal to clearly identify the enemy in the “War on Terror:” Military on the Mall. We are at war in Iraq, not on Iraq, which we have liberated. We fight on to endow Iraqi Muslims, some Iraqi Christians and even a ...

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Religion of Peace Stones Bush

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 9:17:01 am PST

Many Pilgrims Stone ‘Devil’ Bush in Haj Ritual. MENA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Haj pilgrims pelted stones at symbols of the devil on Friday, with many saying they were targeting President Bush and other world leaders seen as oppressing Muslims. Last year, 250 people were crushed to death at Mena’s Jamarat Bridge, ...

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The Media's Relentless Negativity

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 9:11:47 am PST

Arthur Chrenkoff, whose reports of good news from Iraq are a welcome antidote to MSM’s relentless negativity, turns his focus around and looks at MSM’s reports: Bad news from Iraq. It’s one thing to have a gut feeling about media negativity and another to know exactly how negative the coverage is. ...

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Wonkette: Jenna Bush Drinks "Jew Baby Blood"

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 9:04:27 am PST

More humor today from mainstream media’s favorite paid “blogger” Wonkette, light-heartedly mocking a photo of Jenna Bush making a ‘W’ symbol: Coronation Continues: Jenna of Darkness. She went to University of Texas, whatever. You don’t have to be in Skull and Bones to drink Jew baby blood. . . Get it? UPDATE ...

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Idealism and Its Discontents

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 8:53:11 am PST

Today’s Victor Davis Hanson column reflects on the “neoconservative” slur: Idealism and Its Discontents. Neo- is a prefix that derives from the Greek adjective veos — “new” or “fresh” — and in theory it is used inexactly for those conservatives who once were not — or for those who have reinterpreted ...

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Saving Student Ryan

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 8:26:00 am PST

Never fear! The unelected bureaucrats of the European Union are making plans to save America from itself, by launching the EUroweenie version of the Marshall Plan—a student exchange program to instill European values (such as appeasement, antisemitism, and a predilection for totalitarianism) in American students: Saving student Ryan. (Hat tip: ...

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Carnival of the Smear Job

Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 8:19:18 am PST

A blog called the People’s Republic of Seabrook has posted something called The Carnival of the Vanities, #122. A statement on their site reads: This website is best viewed with an open mind, an appreciation for Progressive ideals, and a healthy sense of humor. Lighten up, y’all!! Then, to show what ...

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Thursday, January 20, 2005

Satan Sighted in Seattle!

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 8:11:04 pm PST

A band portraying President Bush as a marionette controlled by Satan performs at a protest against the inauguration of President Bush and the war in Iraq Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo Ted S. Warren)

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Tinfoil Hats Sighted in Oregon!

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 7:42:47 pm PST

Protesters, many carrying signs and wearing homemade aluminum hats, walk through the streets of Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, during a demonstration against the inauguration of President Bush for his second term. (AP Photo/Don Ryan )

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Peace Activists Get Violent in DC

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 5:47:57 pm PST

The peace activists must be feeling the sting of the well-deserved mockery they receive at the hands of the Protest Warriors, because today in Washington DC they actually fought back! with physical force! against an enemy! Of course, the enemy was their own fellow citizens, as usual: Protesting the Protesters. Ten minutes ...

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Inside Info on New Jersey Killings

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 5:34:38 pm PST

Jihad Watch received some inside information from a close friend of Hossam Armanious, the Coptic Christian brutally murdered in New Jersey along with his family: Inside information on the New Jersey murders. The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were ...

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Moore Bodyguard Story Correction

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 5:15:49 pm PST

MooreWatch has a correction to the story at Fox News about “Michael Moore’s bodyguard” being arrested for possession of an unregistered weapon, courtesy of the security firm who employs him. (The story is incorrect in several ways, and it has been removed from the Fox web site.) UPDATE at 1/20/05 7:33:13 ...

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Two Weeks in the Reserves

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 4:50:20 pm PST

An outstanding photo essay from LGF operative IDF Dave, who spent two weeks on patrol in the West Bank and returned with a thought-provoking and moving selection of pictures: Two Weeks in the Reserves. Here’s a shot of the evil IDF ruthlessly (where’s Ruth?) oppressing some Arab children:

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Time For a Reality Check

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 2:56:48 pm PST

Mortimer B. Zuckerman is one of the few mainstream commentators who isn’t giddy with unrealistic hope that Abu Mazen “the moderate” will produce a peace agreement: Time for a reality check. The world is enjoying a moment of hope for Israeli-Palestinian relations—a moment of dangerous hope because expectations are being raised ...

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Bush Inauguration Open Topic Two

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 9:05:01 am PST

Since the first topic is filling up so fast, here’s a second open thread for the Inauguration of George W. Bush; you can watch over the web at C-SPAN.

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Bush Inauguration Open Topic

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 8:18:29 am PST

Here’s an open thread for the Inauguration of George W. Bush; you can watch over the web at C-SPAN.

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Abu Mazen Snow Job

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 8:07:17 am PST

Reuters Palestinian propagandist Nidal al-Mughrabi spins furiously for the Holocaust denying “President” of the PA (president? I thought he was “chairman?” did he get a promotion?): Violence Eases Before Palestinian Deployment. GAZA (Reuters) - Violence dropped sharply in the Gaza Strip on Thursday ahead of the planned deployment of Palestinian security ...

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Moonbats in Washington

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 7:50:50 am PST

The moonbats of International ANSWER are acting out on C-SPAN2; you can watch their chanting and ranting and poorly designed giant puppets here: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. They just booed and screamed “You suck!” Aren’t they cute?

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Saudi Money Well Spent

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 7:41:27 am PST

In a dispatch from that alternate universe only the New York Times seems to know about, where the world’s most repressive religious dictatorship can suddenly, for a brief shining moment, transform itself into a bastion of “free thought,” Hassan Fattah lauds Mecca and the Hajj pilgrimage for its “cosmopolitan air:” ...

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Guns for Me, Not for Thee

Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 7:32:09 am PST

Idiotarian of the Year Michael Moore seems to have an unhealthy obsession with guns: Michael Moore’s Bodyguard Arrested on Airport Gun Charge. NEW YORK—Filmmaker Michael Moore’s bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York’s JFK airport Wednesday night. Police took Patrick Burke, who says Moore employs him, into custody ...

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Religion of Peace, MA

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:06:24 pm PST

The heirs of Nazism are stretching their dark wings in France: Holocaust lessons meet Muslim rebuff in France. PARIS (Reuters) - “Filthy Jew!” schoolchildren howl at a classmate. “Jews only want money and power,” they tell their teachers. “Death to the Jews” graffiti appear on school walls outside Paris and other ...

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ABC News Ghoul Watch

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 9:19:19 pm PST

You think mainstream media has reached the bottom of the barrel. Then you realize the barrel has depths yet unplumbed. San Antonio Express-News Watch tipped off Powerline to the latest over-the-top example of media bias, in case you thought CBS was the only problem: Well, sure. ABC wants to “balance” its coverage ...

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Rushdie Still Condemned, UK Says "No Problem"

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 9:04:50 pm PST

Almost worse than the reaffirmed Islamic death sentence against author Salman Rushdie is the reaction of “senior British officials:” Ayatollah revives the death fatwa on Salman Rushdie. A FATWA against the author Salman Rushdie was reaffirmed by Iran’s spiritual leader last night in a message to Muslim pilgrims. British officials anxiously played ...

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Dissenting Votes

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 8:37:29 pm PST

From Cox &Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Inauguration Security Info Given to Radical Group

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 8:33:00 pm PST

An activist judge has ordered the government to turn over secret inauguration security information to the International Action Center (IAC), a group involved in Thursday’s protests through Ramsey Clark’s A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition: Presidential Inauguration Security Information Turned Over to Anti-American, Terrorist-linked Group; D.C. Says Judge’s Orders Threaten Public Safety. (Hat tip: ...

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Iran's Leaders Call for Martyrdom and Jihad

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 5:47:02 pm PST

Iran’s Political and Military Leadership Call for Martyrdom. Iran’s Leader Calls for Shahada and Warns Against the Enemies of the Culture of Jihad In a message to the 8th Congress on Martyred Students, Iran’s Leader Ali Khamenei said: “The enemies of Iran tried to humiliate and diminish the value of martyrdom [shahada] and ...

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Reuters: Anxiety! Mistrust! Fear! Loathing!

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 4:33:39 pm PST

It’s at the point where you just have to laugh at the Reuters wire: Four More Years of Bush Makes the World Anxious. (Note to world: try getting more exercise.) PARIS (Reuters) - The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second ...

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Those Lovable Mullahs

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 4:09:28 pm PST

The politicians who grilled Condoleezza Rice about reconciliation with Iran are the personification of Lenin’s “useful idiots.” Here’s a good look at the thinking of the mullahs, in an article from the Tehran Times; these are the people Sen. Lincoln Chafee thinks we should give a big hug: U.S. plans to ...

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Not One Damn Dime de Doo Dah Day

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 3:51:44 pm PST

The latest moronic idea from the fever swamp left, who never matured past the temper tantrum stage: Not One Damn Dime Day! Since our leaders don’t have the moral courage to speak out against the war in Iraq, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is “Not One Damn Dime Day” in ...

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Dirty Bomb Threat in Boston?

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 2:21:05 pm PST

Boston terror threat probed. Federal and state authorities are investigating a nuclear terrorist threat against Boston after a man calling from Mexico told California police that he smuggled two Iraqis and four Chinese over the border, the Boston Herald has learned. “They got a call from across the border in Mexico to ...

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Espionage By Any Other Name

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 1:21:57 pm PST

Tony Blankley is appalled at the lack of reaction to the Seymour Hersh piece on US intelligence operations in Iran: Espionage by any other name. Almost as appalling as the potentially lethal effect (if not, necessarily, the intent) of the Hersh article, is the quietude that greeted the damaging implications of ...

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Will Abbas Bring an End to Conflict?

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 9:05:54 am PST

At Victor Davis Hanson’s site, Bruce Thornton has a good piece on the endless cycle of Palestinian perfidy: Will Abbas Bring an End to Conflict? For the sake of argument, let’s give Abbas the benefit of the doubt and assume that his embrace of Arafat—like his assertion that going after the ...

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You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 8:34:27 am PST

Women’s liberation, Islamofascist style: Women’s magazine offers tips to terrorists. ROME — Al Qaeda has introduced an online women’s magazine with articles including dietary advice for suicide bombers and tips on how to “dominate the passions” before blowing yourself up, according to Italy’s SISDE secret service. SISDE analysts disclosed the existence of ...

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Islam Demands Purity

Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 7:50:08 am PST

Arab News informs us that Islam Demands Purity of Soul, Body, Mind &Dress while participating in the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. This apparently doesn’t rule out hatred of Americans and Jews. Amer Abbas, 45, came from war-ravaged Iraq to find serenity in the spiritual journey. “I beg God to make the Americans leave ...

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Kerry Still Working Against Bush

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 9:07:13 pm PST

John Kerry is undercutting Donald Rumsfeld and the President, with a petition at his website: Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign. (Hat tip: Rayra.) Here’s the message that Kerry thinks will resonate with Americans: Mr. President, I was surprised and disappointed that you told the Washington Post last week that no Bush administration official should ...

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Fatah's Mass Murder Wing: Cease Fire

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 7:53:42 pm PST

Following today’s suicide bomb attack: Palestinian Militant Group Halts Attacks. JERUSALEM - A leader of a militant group linked to the mainstream Fatah Party said Tuesday his group would stop attacks inside Israel as a gesture to new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Zachariya Zubeidi, the most prominent West Bank figure in the ...

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Anagramania

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 7:22:18 pm PST

The Rathergate story, told in anagrams of ‘Little Green Footballs’.

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Tuesday Night Open Thread

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 6:40:03 pm PST

Hey, it’s Tuesday. What more can I say?

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Ashley Faulkner Will Attend Inauguration

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 6:09:06 pm PST

USA Today takes a rather sneering tone in this story on 9/11 family member Ashley Faulkner, who was featured at LGF in May 2004 when President Bush gave her a spontaneous hug: Teen girl from effective pro-Bush ad to attend inauguration. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) But it’s still a moving story, and ...

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Biden to Europe: "Get Over the Election"

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 5:46:43 pm PST

If your head hit the desk during Joseph Biden’s hypnotic manifesto at the hearings for Dr. Rice, you’re forgiven. I wasn’t fully awake myself. But apparently Biden did have one semi-lucid moment: Biden to Europe: ‘get over’ Bush election. (Hat tip: Ethel.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) — Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., ...

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U.S. Citizen Pleads Guilty in Oil-For-Food Scam

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 5:35:03 pm PST

Here’s why we’re suddenly seeing a mass exodus of UN employees, and defensive statements from Kofi Annan; the Oil-For-Food scandal is starting to break wide open: U.S. Citizen Pleads Guilty in Oil-For-Food Scam. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iraqi-American illegally acted as an agent for Iraq under Saddam Hussein and received millions ...

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My Lizard Sense is Tingling

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 5:28:20 pm PST

They’re talking about LGF (and zombie’s photo essay) at the James Randi Educational Foundation again: JREF Forums - Palestinian Child Abuse.

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The Difference Between Grandstanding and Lying

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 4:55:30 pm PST

LGF reader Model4 points out that Barbara Boxer was simply lying through her teeth today at Condoleezza Rice’s confirmation hearing, when she said the bill passed by Congress authorizing the war in Iraq was, “WMD, period.” But of course, you won’t see this lie exposed in any mainstream media reports. Here ...

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Three CBS Execs "In Discussions"

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 4:35:44 pm PST

Keith Olbermann says the three CBS executives who were “asked to resign” over the fraudulent memos scandal ... haven’t. And there are now lawyers involved. SECAUCUS — After the Thornburgh-Boccardi report on CBS News came out a week ago yesterday, it was the big question: Why did four mid-level executives lose their ...

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Dems Show Their Irrelevance at Rice Hearing

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 4:15:08 pm PST

Barbara Boxer provided the perfect illustration today of how thickheaded the left’s position on national security has become, as she attacked Condoleezza Rice at her confirmation hearing: Rice, Boxer spar in confirmation hearing. California Sen. Barbara Boxer questioned Rice aggressively before the panel broke for lunch, suggesting her loyalty to Bush ...

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UNRWA's Peter Hansen "Retiring"

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 3:55:26 pm PST

Peter Hansen, the execrable Israel-hating head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, is stepping down as Kofi Annan shuffles his cronies around to divert attention from the massive Oil-For-Food scandal: UNRWA head to step down. Hansen has long been criticized by pro-Israel advocates as biased against the Jewish state—a ...

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The Media Really Are the Enemy

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 3:24:51 pm PST

It’s no wonder that reports from the Middle East are so laden with Arab/Palestinian propaganda. The Jerusalem Post blows the whistle on Agence France Presse, Associated Press, Reuters, and other mainstream news sources, who all employ Palestinian journalists who also work for the Palestinian Authority: Where the reporting stops. HonestReporting also comments: ...

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And Again

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 2:49:10 pm PST

Suicide Attack in Gaza Wounds 6 Israelis. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself near a major road used by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding at least six Israelis. A Palestinian bystander also was hurt, according to Palestinian rescue officials. The ...

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Death Cult in Berkeley

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 1:09:17 pm PST

The death cult has taken root in Berkeley, California, and they are using their children. LGF operative zombie’s latest photo essay makes it appallingly clear that news reports about Sunday’s pro-terror protest in Berkeley barely scratched the surface: Bus 19 in Berkeley, January 16, 2005. Before I even made it to the ...

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"We Received Money and Arms from Syria and Iran"

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 8:52:36 am PST

In a confession shown on Iraqi TV, the leader of Saddam Hussein’s “Army of Muhammad” admits that Syria and Iran are supplying the Iraqi holy warriors with money and weapons: We Received Money and Arms from Syria and Iran. ’Aid Came from the Neighboring Countries - We Got Aid Primarily from ...

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The Trib Spins for Abu Mazen

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 8:35:21 am PST

It doesn’t take much to fool the Chicago Tribune, who act as useful idiots for the Palestinian Authority once again: Abbas acts to rein in militants. Right. “Abbas Acts.” That’s if you consider issuing nebulous unspecified orders the same thing as “acting.” After Monday’s Cabinet meeting, Qadura Faris, a Palestinian minister, said ...

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Radical Islam Wishes You A Happy MLK Day

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 8:25:12 am PST

Debbie Schlussel exposes a disturbing radical Islamic tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring an essay contest open only to Arabs. And this isn’t in Yemen. While the rest of the nation celebrates King Day and King’s contributions to civil rights, a group of Islamists—who praise HAMAS homicide bombers and Hezbollah terrorists ...

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The Nutty, Antisemitic Professor

Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 7:51:18 am PST

MEMRI TV has a film clip of Yemeni Professor Ahmad Muhammad Al-’Ajal spewing lunatic hatred on official government television, in return for the Western world’s aid to tsunami victims: Al-’Ajal: As for the issue of child abduction in places hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia this is what ...

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Monday, January 17, 2005

New Sisyphus Launches Rock Uphill

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 7:49:34 pm PST

Here’s a promising new blog by a longtime LGF commenter and self-described “member of the State Department Republican Underground:” New Sisyphus.

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Palestinian Authority Funded Film Fest Fave

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 6:43:29 pm PST

The Palestinian film Jenin, Jenin is Israel’s equivalent of Fahrenheit 9/11, a deeply dishonest and deliberately misleading piece of pro-terror propaganda. It was shown at film festivals around the world. Today comes news that the producer of the film, Muhammad Bakri, admitted in a deposition that many inflammatory scenes were falsified—and that ...

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A Lynch Pin to CBS News Bias

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 6:26:00 pm PST

Bummerdietz notices another interesting detail in the CBS Report: A Lynch Pin to CBS News Bias. From the Thornburgh Report: ...Dotty Lynch, CBS News’ Senior Political Editor....recalled having discussions with Mapes over Labor Day weekend, about the September 8 Segment. Who is Dotty Lynch? She is CBS News’ “Senior Political Editor” ...

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A Message to Tehran

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 6:16:22 pm PST

Bush Won’t Rule Out Action Against Iran Over Nukes. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Monday he would not rule out military action against Iran if that country was not more forthcoming about its suspected nuclear weapons program. “I hope we can solve it diplomatically, but I will never take any ...

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NJ Murders Linked to Stewart Trial?

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 5:31:41 pm PST

Here’s a disturbing connection, just reported by local ABC News in New Jersey, in the case of the murdered family of Coptic Christians: Theories Emerging in NJ Family Murders. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) ABC News has learned that the slain family’s cousin has been a translator working for the prosecution in the ...

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A Terrorist Lawyer on Trial

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 5:29:09 pm PST

Brian Hecht has a good look at the trial of accused terrorist abetter Lynne Stewart: A Terrorist Lawyer on Trial. On Wednesday, January, 12, the jury for radical defense attorney Lynne Stewart began deliberating her fate. Stewart stands accused of willfully and knowingly conspiring to conceal the terrorist activities of her ...

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Ramsey Clarke: Saddam "Demonized" by US

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 5:21:43 pm PST

Former attorney general Ramsey Clarke, who cofounded the radical Stalinist group International ANSWER, is back in his element, bashing America and standing up for the worst human monsters: Former US Attorney General joins Saddam’s defence team. One of America’s most renowned human rights lawyers has astonished even close friends and supporters ...

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Catholic Archbishop Kidnapped in Iraq

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 3:27:59 pm PST

Gunmen Kidnap Catholic Archbishop in Iraq. In Mosul, Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, of the Syrian Catholic Church, was seized by gunmen while walking in front of his church, a priest said on condition of anonymity. No group claimed responsibility, but the Vatican condemned the abduction as a "terrorist act. ...

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Rathergate Fishing Expedition

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 3:22:29 pm PST

The editors of the Weekly Standard invite the blogosphere on a Fishing Expedition, to answer some important questions about the CBS Report on Rathergate. They bring up the issue of the crumple marks visible on one of the memos; see this post from LGF reader ‘jms’ with a link to an ...

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Flipper Whines About Losing

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 2:59:50 pm PST

John F. Kerry is turning into Al Gore on steroids. In a short, shining moment of graciousness he conceded the election; but the grace has been replaced with bitter, sore loser whining: Kerry Criticizes Election Outcome. The Massachusetts Democrat, Bush’s challenger in November, spoke at Boston’s annual Martin Luther King Day ...

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Vicious Hypocrite or Left's Dumbest Blogger?

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:33:44 pm PST

We have an especially scummy and dishonest post from the left’s dumbest blogger, Oliver “Smirky” Willis today: Another Nail In The WMD Coffin. (Hat tip: Hubris.) I’m sure the right will come up with another b.s. explanation. Can anyone tell me whatever happened to the “smoking gun” memos “unearthed” by Brent ...

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"We Are Martyrs, We Can't Wait"

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:55:14 am PST

Supporters of Palestinian terrorism really showed their true faces in Berkeley yesterday: Violence flares briefly at anti-terrorism event. Bus 19 was destroyed in Jerusalem last year in a suicide bombing that killed 11 people and injured 45. It is owned by Jerusalem Connection International, which argues that God gave Israel solely ...

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A Device for the Schtoopid

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 8:31:54 am PST

Remember the protest in Manhattan during the Republican Convention, when marchers were chanting “F*** Fox News! F*** Fox News!” and similar hilarious slogans, all day long? Now these people can buy a device to screen out that nefarious “right-wing propaganda” so that it never pollutes their ideological playground: FOXBlocker - Keep ...

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More Lies from the PA

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 8:25:24 am PST

The Associated Press dutifully reports, with no scare quotes, that Palestinians Try to Prevent Attacks. But of course, the Palestinians haven’t tried, and they’re not going to. RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian Cabinet on Monday asked the security forces to prevent attacks against Israel and ordered an investigation into a shooting ...

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New Death Cult Threats Against Aid Workers

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 7:55:36 am PST

Tsunami Toll Tops 175,000, New Threat Warning. GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Asia’s tsunami death toll soared past 175,000 Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands more dead, while fears re-emerged over the safety of aid workers in Indonesia’s shattered Aceh province. Denmark said it had information “imminent” terror attacks were planned against ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 7:49:45 am PST

Once again Seymour Hersh puts his career and his massive ego ahead of the national security of the United States: Report: U.S. Conducting Secret Missions Inside Iran. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The ...

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Tim Blair Hacked

Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 7:26:42 am PST

Tim Blair emailed to tell us that his site has been attacked: Apparently my site has been hacked — all posts and archives removed, etc. Not sure yet if anything can be recovered. Worse, I’m currently unable to post (password details have been corrupted) so would appreciate if any or all of ...

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Sunday, January 16, 2005

What Political Bias?

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 9:11:11 pm PST

At the Weekly Standard, John Podhoretz points out that CBS News didn’t get full value for their legal dollar: Political Bias? What Political Bias? Stockholders in Viacom, the parent company of CBS, may want to grill network president Leslie Moonves about fiduciary responsibility. Not because CBS has been forever tainted by ...

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The Palestinian Peace Process

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 8:26:10 pm PST

Palestinian militants burn Israeli flag during an anti-Israel protest at the Rafah refugee camp southern Gaza Strip January 16, 2005. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Sunday he was giving Israel’s army free rein to battle militants in Gaza and accused the new Palestinian leadership he now shuns of doing ...

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Democratic Vote Fraud in Milwaukee?

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 6:44:42 pm PST

Was there massive Democratic vote fraud in Milwaukee? Boots & Sabers has the story; for more details and commentary, see The American Mind, Brainpost, and My View of the World.

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Omar Bakri Mohammed Declares War

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 6:23:58 pm PST

While the “British Muslim journalist” in the previous post threatens web sites like LGF with “the authorities,” radical Islamist Omar Bakri Mohammed, who has been living for the past 18 years on the British dole, has declared the UK to be dar ul-harb—the realm of war: Britain’s online imam declares ...

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We Got Mail!

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 6:06:33 pm PST

A few days ago, a visitor from London, England discovered LGF by searching Google for 2005 mohammed name, and was so disturbed by what he found that he sent the following email through our contact form: I am a journalist from the UK. A MUSLIM in the UK who is absolutely ...

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Kosgate Continues

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 5:17:38 pm PST

The slow-motion train wreck continues, as Zephyr Teachout details the inside story of how the Dean campaign hired Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: The Narrative, A Proposal, and an Apology. (Hat tip: Evil Pundit.) There were a few days where I think Kos started putting up a Draft Clark effort that Joe [Trippi] ...

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The Grand Mufti Lashes Out

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:19:27 pm PST

At a conference on “inter-culture dialogue,” the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh lashed out at critics of Islam. Warning: trying to follow the “logic” of his “inter-culture dialogue” may lead to severe mind cramps. JEDDAH, 16 January 2005 — Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, the Kingdom’s grand mufti, said ...

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Threadbare Reflexive Denial

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:58:30 am PST

Islamic leaders in New Jersey and dissembling academic apologists are at it again, denying any and all possibility of Islamic involvement in the brutal murders of four members of a Coptic Christian family: Slaying of 4 may be tied to religious extremism. Islamic leaders said Saturday that the murders could not ...

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Carnival of the Commies

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:34:07 am PST

TigerHawk performs a valuable public service, compiling a list of the lefty blogosphere’s obsessions of the week into a post he calls Carnival of the Commies.

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CBS Betrays its Blood Lust for Bush

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:49:28 am PST

The Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin rips apart the CBS Report and its laughable conclusion of “no political bias:” CBS betrays its blood lust for Bush. (Hat tip: Rathergate.com.) The independent panel that investigated CBS News’ botched report on President Bush’s National Guard service spent an exhaustive four months on the job, ...

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Aiding and Abetting the Enemy

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 9:42:43 am PST

BlackFive has published an outstanding essay by Lt. Col. Tim Ryan, a Task Force Commander in Iraq, on mainstream media’s relentlessly negative, defeatist reporting: Aiding and Abetting the Enemy. Read it all; it’s devastating.

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Moonbat Blog of the Day

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 8:57:38 am PST

A lot of the lefty moonbat blogs don’t explicitly link to LGF, presumably because they don’t want to increase our traffic, or risk ideological contamination—or risk having me notice them in our referrers. It’s safer to rant about us behind our backs. But here’s one I did notice in our referrers, ...

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Sharon: "The Current Situation is Unacceptable"

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 8:31:14 am PST

The gloves are coming off in Israel: Sharon orders army to crush militants, says Abbas not lifting a finger. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave his army orders Sunday to crush militants in the Gaza Strip and accused new Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas of failing to lift a ...

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Moonbats in Blue

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 8:26:01 am PST

Well, this will certainly make it easier to recognize the moonbats among us: Anti-Bush Bracelets Say, ‘Count Me Blue’. NEW YORK - After spending 10 days in London with friends who were outspoken about their disdain for President Bush’s policies, Berns Rothchild came home wishing she had a way to show ...

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Islamic Murder of Coptic Christians in NJ?

Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 8:18:30 am PST

‘Islamic Hate’ Eyed in Slayings. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) January 16, 2005 — The father of a murdered New Jersey family was threatened for making anti-Muslim remarks online — and the gruesome quadruple slaying may have been the hateful retaliation, sources told The Post yesterday. Hossam Armanious, 47, who ...

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Saturday, January 15, 2005

Report Vindicates CBS Reporting

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 7:11:25 pm PST

Rand Simberg has Googled up a wire story from an alternate universe: Report Vindicates CBS Reporting. NEW YORK (APUPI) After several months, many thousands of legal hours billed, and several barrels of latte consumed, the independent report on CBS’ flawed reporting of the Emperor’s new clothes has been released, to the ...

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Abu Mazen's Death Squads

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 5:37:53 pm PST

The so-called “armed wing” of Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen’s Fatah party, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, murdered a young Palestinian in a public square in front of a crowd of people after Friday prayers: Brigades murder 2 ‘collaborators’. A young Palestinian man suspected of “collaboration” with Israel was executed on Friday in ...

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French TV Humiliates French Government

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 5:26:26 pm PST

America’s harshest European critic, France, is forced to admit that their tsunami relief effort has been, well, a disaster—and that the United States’ effort has made them look inept—in an exceptional interview with French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie: France 2 Humiliates French Government. (Hat tip: discarded lies.)

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Saturday Night's All Right

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 4:37:02 pm PST

Here’s an open topic for discussion of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and whether the remaining credibility of Daily Ko$ can fit inside a thimble.

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Kosgate in Slate

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 2:16:41 pm PST

At Slate, Chris Suellentrop says Daily Kos should hang. (Hat tip: Allah.) Moulitsas’ crime isn’t taking money from Howard Dean. He, too, can get away with a suspended sentence for insufficiently disclosing his role in the Dean campaign once he was off the payroll. The hanging offense is that Moulitsas took ...

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AP Offends Militants

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 8:04:10 am PST

Every once in a while, the Associated Press’s Acme Scare Quote Generator (patent pending) seems to go on the fritz; maybe it’s wearing out from overuse: Powell Demands Abbas Stop Terrorists. WASHINGTON - Faced with a sudden setback to Middle East peace prospects, Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted Friday that ...

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The Envelope Please...

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 7:48:22 am PST

And the winner of this year’s Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year, breaking the runner-up curse that has plagued him for two previous years, is none other than the largest star in the anti-American constellation of Hollywood idiots ... Michael Moore! This year’s Fiskie illustration, as always, is courtesy ...

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Palestinian Election Farce

Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 7:30:38 am PST

Abu Mazen’s Fatah goons forced last-minute changes in Palestinian election procedures: 46 Palestinian Election Officials Resign. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) RAMALLAH, West Bank - Forty-six members of the Palestinian election commission, including top managers, resigned Saturday, saying they were pressured by Mahmoud Abbas’ campaign and intelligence officials to abruptly change voting procedures ...

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Friday, January 14, 2005

Dr. Newcomer Responds

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 6:26:15 pm PST

Typography guru Joseph M. Newcomer responds to Columbia Journalism Review’s fallacies, in the latest update to his analysis of the CBS Killian memos. “On September 11, a self-proclaimed typography expert, Joseph Newcomer, copied the experiment and posted the results on his personal Web site” True. In my defense, I must say that ...

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Palestinian Overcount

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 5:58:56 pm PST

Here’s a story with potentially huge implications, as the Palestinian Authority is caught red-handed perpetrating another Big Lie: Palestinian overcount. When new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas starts a new round of talks with Israel soon, it is a sure bet that one of his strongest motivating tools to spur the creation ...

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CBS Explanation for Document Switch

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 5:28:08 pm PST

Sisyphean Musings submitted a request for information to CBS News about their replacement of the original CBS Report with a version that disallowed copy and paste, and received a reply today: CBS Explanation for Document Switch. (Hat tip: Rathergate.com.) To allow copying of text to applications such as Word would allow ...

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Fox TV Shari'a Watch

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 4:55:10 pm PST

The Council on American-Islamic Relations had another victory today, as they succeeded in extracting a partial concession from Fox TV by pitching a fit over the Kiefer Sutherland vehicle 24: CAIR presses Fox TV on Muslim terrorists. Fox television bucked current media convention by portraying terrorists as Muslims in its drama ...

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K-Lo Interviews Breitbart

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 2:38:29 pm PST

Kathryn Jean Lopez has a great interview with Andrew Breitbart of the Drudge Report: NRO: Will Ben Affleck wind up running for president? He, sadly, did beat Bob Novak in a tax debate this summer on Crossfire. Breitbart: I sure hope he runs! And at that moment we can all start looking ...

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Tennessee Shari'a Watch

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 1:57:01 pm PST

CAIR has succeeded in intimidating a Tennessee public high school into changing their dress code to allow the Muslim headscarf. (Hat tip: ted.) CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) — A public high school changed its dress code to allow religious headscarves after a national civil rights group for Muslims complained to the principal ...

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Will Rather Be Out of a Job?

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:52:44 pm PST

CBS chairman Les Moonves has cast doubt on the future of 60 Minutes Wednesday. As much as he would like to recover from the blows his reputation has suffered recently, Dan Rather may not have a chance to work very long on the program that he expected would be his ...

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The British Inquisition

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:54:43 am PST

At Melanie Phillips’s Diary, a report on a meeting of organizations supporting Britain’s proposed thoughtcrime law that would criminalize criticism of Islam: The British Inquisition. Then I asked Iqbal Sacranie, general secretary of the MCB,whether he thought that any public statements about Islamic terrorism, or any speculation about the number of ...

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Islamophobia Forces Closure of Embassies

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:59:59 am PST

British, Thai embassies in Indonesia close after new bomb alert. JAKARTA (AFP) - The British and Thai embassies in Indonesia were closed Friday after bomb threats that sparked a security alert in the world’s largest Muslim-populated country as it struggled to cope with the tsunami disaster. The British embassy shuttered its building ...

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Waiting for Abbas

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:51:03 am PST

Just when things seemed to be going so well: Sharon Cuts Ties With Abbas. JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has cut all contact with Mahmoud Abbas until the newly elected Palestinian leader reins in the militants, media reports said. Expect condemnations of violence from Abu Mazen/Mahmoud Abbas, followed by ...

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CAIR Proposes World Islamophobia Report

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:25:03 am PST

Radical Islamic front group CAIR continues to push their agenda, and if this article at Wahhabi site Islam Online is to be believed, CAIR also still has access to high levels of the US government: CAIR Proposes World Islamophobia Report. WASHINGTON, January 14 (IslamOnline.net) - The largest US Muslim civil liberties ...

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VDH: Triangulating the War

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 8:58:01 am PST

Victor Davis Hanson’s Friday column is spot-on, as usual: Triangulating the War. Indeed, from the oscillating analyses of Iraq, the following impossible picture often emerges from our intelligentsia. It was a fatal error to disband the Iraqi army. That led to lawlessness and a loss of confidence in the American ability ...

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CJR Editor: Memos Could Be Genuine

Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 8:16:17 am PST

Only dyed-in-the-wool idiots and blinkered, willfully ignorant partisan hacks would still try to insist there’s a possibility the CBS Killian memos could be genuine. I’m not sure which category Executive Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review Michael Hoyt belongs in, but in a letter to the New York Post, he’s ...

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 8:52:20 pm PST

In tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal: Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers. Howard Dean’s presidential campaign hired two Internet political “bloggers” as consultants so that they would say positive things about the former governor’s campaign in their online journals, according to a former high-profile Dean aide. Zephyr Teachout, the former head of ...

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The Year of Moore

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 7:49:51 pm PST

Robert Fisk’s entry in Wikipedia now includes a mention of LGF’s Idiotarian of the Year Award, “Fiskie” for short. And speaking of the Fiskie, this seems to be Michael Moore’s year.

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Interview with Bat Ye'or

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 7:03:34 pm PST

Here’s a fascinating and disturbing audio interview (Real and Windows Media formats) with Bat Ye’or, author of the forthcoming book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis: Crosstalk Programs.

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LGF Full Disclosure

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 6:30:39 pm PST

Instapundit has a discussion open, on full disclosure by bloggers of payments from political/commercial interests. So, here’s mine: 1) I have never accepted money from any political or commercial person, entity, or nation in return for writing positive things about them at Little Green Footballs. 2) I have never accepted money from any ...

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Kerry Kowtows to Despots and Islamists

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 4:39:25 pm PST

Fresh from his whirlwind tour of Arab dictatorships in Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, and Egypt, John Kerry wants us to know that they are very frustrated with US policies. CAIRO (Reuters) - Middle East countries are frustrated by U.S. policy in Iraq and feel too little is being done to end violence ...

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CBS Alters the Report

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 2:57:26 pm PST

Get a load of this. CBS has altered the PDF file for their report on Memogate, to prevent copying and pasting. Here’s the page at CBS News, with modified PDF file: CBS Ousts 4 For Bush Guard Story. Rather obviously (pardon the pun), this is aimed at making it harder for blogs to ...

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Yellow Journalism

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 2:39:03 pm PST

From Cox &Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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The Palestinian Peace Process

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 2:17:20 pm PST

Earlier today, Abu Mazen said he was “ready to honor security commitments.” Just not quite yet. Five Dead, 10 Wounded in Gaza Attack. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants staged an attack near an Israeli army base in the central Gaza Strip, witnesses and radios said, and Israeli rescue services said five people were ...

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Palestinian Hit Parade

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 9:29:02 am PST

Abu Mazen and the Hamas Murderers perform their latest hit song, “Would We Lie To You?” RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that he is ready to honor the security commitments in an internationally backed peace plan, and a Hamas leader said the violent Islamic group does ...

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Daily Kos: Bought and Sold by Dean

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 8:41:27 am PST

Well, here’s a shocka. Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga, the proprietor of moonbat lefty site Daily Kos, was paid—apparently well paid—by the Howard Dean campaign: Financially Interested Blogging. (Hat tip: Abu Maven.) I think the ethics question is a serious one, which I’ve brought up elsewhere and fought with Markos Zuniga, and several ...

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Hatefest at University of Toronto

Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 8:15:11 am PST

Coming soon to the University of Toronto: another pro-terror hatefest, sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, with the lovely name “Israeli Apartheid Week.” Courtesy of a lizardoid reader, here’s the schedule, featuring an all-star lineup of radical Islamic student groups and terror-enabling moonbats: *** Monday, January 31 Al-Nakba (1948) and ...

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Indonesia to US: Thanks. Now Beat It.

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 8:31:27 pm PST

Indonesia tells foreign (read: American) troops providing tsunami relief to get out by the end of March. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Indonesia announced that U.S. and other foreign troops providing tsunami disaster relief must leave the country by the end of March and ordered aid workers Wednesday to declare their travel ...

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Subtle LGF Enhancements

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 7:07:50 pm PST

I should point out a couple of small, oh-so-subtle new enhancements to the Little Green Blog application. 1) On the main weblog page, if you hold your mouse over the name of the last commenter (at the bottom right of each entry), browsers that support the ‘title’ attribute will display a ...

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Those Kooky Royals

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 6:28:09 pm PST

What the hell? Prince Harry says sorry for Nazi costume.

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RWN Interviews VDH

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 5:53:42 pm PST

John Hawkins has an excellent in-depth interview with Victor Davis Hanson: RWN’s 2nd Victor Davis Hanson Interview. You should read the whole thing, of course, and be immeasurably enlightened, but for some reason I was drawn to this passage: John Hawkins: Last two questions; Are there any blogs you’re reading regularly or ...

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WMD Search Ends

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 5:43:24 pm PST

The Iraq Survey Group has ended its search for weapons of mass destruction at Iraqi military installations, factories, and laboratories: U.S. Ends Fruitless Iraq Weapons Hunt. WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged Wednesday that its hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — a two-year search costing millions of dollars — ...

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CFIF Updates Complaint Against CBS, Kerry Campaign

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:57:18 am PST

The VP of Public Affairs for the Center for Individual Freedom, Marshall Manson, emailed the following note: *** This week, the Center for Individual Freedom will add the CBS Report to the complaint it filed with the Federal Election Commission against CBS News and the Kerry campaign in September. The complaint charges ...

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Unclear on the Hippocratic Oath

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:13:06 am PST

MEMRI translates an article from Egyptian government weekly Akhbar Al-Yawm, in which an editor criticizes the Arab Doctors’ Association for helping jihad warriors, but refusing aid to tsunami victims because the killer waves were “punishment from Allah.” (Hat tip: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus.) The Arab Doctors’ Association Urges Doctors to Participate in ...

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The War Against World War IV

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:51:20 am PST

At Commentary, Norman Podhoretz has a followup to his monumental essay World War IV, a thoughtful, illuminating examination of the “ferocious assault” on the policies of the Bush administration: The War Against World War IV. Too much to quote; just go ye and read of it (when you have a ...

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When Lefty Blogs Attack

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:16:17 am PST

Chuck Simmins, who had the temerity to point out that the Soros/Bing Hollywood Left crowd has been less than generous in donating to the tsunami relief effort, has been viciously attacked by a number of lefty blogs, with the usual devoid-of-facts sneering. By the way, Chuck now puts the total of ...

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MPAC's War on Steve Emerson

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 9:27:22 am PST

Don’t miss Robert Spencer’s thorough rebuttal to the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s obsessive attack on terrorism expert Steven Emerson: The Muslim Public Affairs Council’s War on Steve Emerson. The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has identified its chief enemy. At a conference on “Countering Religious &Political Extremism” held on December 18 ...

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The Cycle of al-Reuters

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 9:05:31 am PST

Members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed an Israeli civilian and wounded three soldiers in an ambush today, and Reuters’ Palestinian propagandist Nidal al-Mughrabi decries the “cycle of violence:” Militants Kill Gaza Settler, Challenging Abbas. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants killed a Jewish settler and wounded three soldiers in a Gaza ambush ...

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Damage Control at Black Rock

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 8:24:59 am PST

Tony Blankley says the CBS Report is better understood if you see it as an attempt by a CBS-employed law firm to limit CBS’s exposure to legal liability: Damage control at Black Rock. (Hat tip: Sarah D.) The two greatest dangers to CBS coming out of the Sept. 8 broadcast were ...

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It's Worse Than You Thought

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 8:00:05 am PST

At the Daily Standard, Jonathan Last brings up Appendix 4 of the CBS Report, an analysis by typography expert Peter Tytell that concludes the fake Killian memos were created on a computer: It’s Worse Than You Thought. Leave aside the “no political bias” finding; leave aside the kid-glove treatment of Dan ...

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Farewell, My Producer

Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 7:36:32 am PST

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Iowahawk gives us the bird’s-eye low-down on the Mapes caper, in an episode he’s calling Farewell, My Producer. “Hello Charlie,” I demurred, startling the excitable hophead. This was not my first run-in with Johnson, the Topanga Canyon jazz hepcat with ...

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

The UN Honor/Shame Dynamic

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 7:43:58 pm PST

Jan Egeland, the UN emergency relief coordinator who spearheaded the effort to smear the US in the wake of the tsunami disaster, now says that donors had better cough up their pledges—or face public shame. (Hat tip: ted.) Donor nations must speed up delivery of aid pledges for the Asian tsunami ...

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Indonesian Aid Workers Warned

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 6:13:11 pm PST

Indonesia has warned aid workers in the Aceh region that if they venture outside the two main cities, they may encounter representatives of the RoP: Indonesia Warns Tsunami Aid Workers on Safety. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia told aid workers helping tsunami victims in its worst-hit region Aceh on Tuesday ...

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Ro-Man XJ2 as Political Metaphor

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 6:04:59 pm PST

Peter Wood says the problem with the left is that they’re reading from one of the all-time bad scripts: Robot Monster. Spare a thought for Robot Monster, or Ro-Man XJ2, as he calls himself. He has been sent to Earth to destroy all of humanity but, by a slight miscalculation, has ...

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London Mayor: Dhimmi Par Excellence

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 3:54:27 pm PST

According to Islam Online (a radical Islamic agitprop site that used to hide its lunacy a little better) London Mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone is calling on British media to apologize to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi for the mean things they have said about him. LONDON, January 11 (IslamOnline.net &News Agencies) – ...

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We Hope Babs is OK

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 3:21:32 pm PST

Has anyone told Barbara Boxer yet? How’s she taking it? Lawsuit Over Ohio Voting Dropped. COLUMBUS, Ohio - Three dozen voters challenging the presidential election results in the Ohio Supreme Court asked to drop their lawsuit Tuesday, saying it is moot with last week’s certification of the electoral vote and the ...

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Dan Rather Responds, No Apologies

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 2:19:20 pm PST

Drudge has Dan Rather’s statement on the CBS report, with not a hint that he feels any responsibility for his blatant attempt to throw a presidential election. The panel report is part of a process — a necessary process to deal with a difficult issue — at the end of which ...

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Rooney: The Real Culprits Escaped

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 2:01:33 pm PST

Andy Rooney gets this one right: CBS firings should go higher up. “The people on the front lines got fired while the people most instrumental in getting the broadcast on escaped,” Rooney said. He was referring to the firing of producer Mary Mapes and the requested resignations of a senior vice ...

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Palestinian Dialog

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:15:19 am PST

Meanwhile, Hamas calls for more suicide bombings. As the Palestinian Central Election Committee was holding a press conference in Ramallah on Monday to announce the final results of the election for the chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority, hundreds of students attended a rally organized by Hamas at Bir Zeit University, where ...

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What Agenda?

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 9:57:05 am PST

From Cox &Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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An Inconclusive Greywash

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 9:41:13 am PST

Jonathan Last says the CBS Report is a Whitewash, because it failed to address the main questions about the fraudulent Killian memos. Now that I’ve read it all, I’m sticking with the term greywash—because it’s more insidious than an outright whitewash. A real whitewash would have energized the blogosphere (and possibly ...

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Back Like Me

Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 8:30:21 am PST

Well, Little Green Footballs is back, and I still have one fingernail left! Thanks to all for the concerned emails; unfortunately, since our entire site was down, including email, I didn’t see them until we came back online—at which point several hundred emails all came rushing down the pipe. LGF has ...

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Mapes Makes a Statement

Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 9:22:29 pm PST

Here is the just-released statement (PDF) from Mary Mapes about her involvement in the fraudulent Killian memo affair: I am terribly disappointed in the conclusions of the report and its effects on the four of us who will no longer work at CBS News. I am disappointed as well for the ...

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The DNC Connection

Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 9:21:42 pm PST

When last I wrote about the Memogate report at LGF, lo those many moons ago, I identified the big question: would the report deal with the connections between CBS News and the DNC? And indeed, this is the weakest section of the report, characterized by contradictory stories from the principals. Mary ...

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The Beam in the CBS Report's Eye

Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 9:20:40 pm PST

One of the most questionable assertions in the CBS Report is that there is no conclusive evidence of political bias on the part of CBS News, when a thorough reading of the report reveals that both Mary Mapes and her partner Michael Smith were full-fledged sufferers of Bush Derangement Syndrome. ...

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CBS Report: Not Quite a Whitewash

Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 9:18:59 pm PST

The long-awaited CBS Report is out — and Little Green Footballs is still offline due to the DDOS attack on the Hosting Matters network. Here’s the article on the report at CBS News; the only one to be fired is, as many suspected, Mary Mapes, although three other CBS employees were ...

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Cross-Posting

Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 9:18:15 pm PST

The next four entries were originally posted at Discarded Lies, while LGF was off line... and a big lizardoid “thank you” to evariste and zorkmidden for their hospitality!

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We're Back And We're Proud

Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 8:50:47 pm PST

Wow. What happened? I had a strange dream that LGF was knocked offline by a gang of Morlocks...

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Sunday, January 09, 2005

New Permalink Option

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 5:03:59 pm PST

Since our comment threads can get quite lengthy, I decided to implement a way to link directly to an LGF entry, while hiding the comments. The most popular LGF entries tend to also generate the most comments, so using the “hide comments” link (now renamed “link only”) will significantly decrease ...

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Religion of Peace in the Philippines

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 4:07:27 pm PST

Philippine police seize homemade bombs, weapons at Islamic center. Three homemade bombs and an array of weapons were confiscated by Philippine police in a raid Friday on an Islamic center in Manila. The Islamic center had been under surveillance for the past three months because of possible links to a ferry bombing ...

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How to Interrogate Terrorists

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 3:04:25 pm PST

At City Journal, a powerful piece by Heather Mac Donald exploring the realities of interrogating Islamic terrorists: How to Interrogate Terrorists. The need for rethinking interrogation doctrine in the war on terror will not go away, however. The Islamist enemy is unlike any the military has encountered in the past. If ...

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Rewriting the AP

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 1:06:15 pm PST

The Associated Press solemnly advises us, with not a hint of scare quotery, that Abbas Is Pragmatist Who Opposes Violence. (The headline’s funny if you imagine it said with a Russian accent.) JERUSALEM - Mahmoud Abbas, the man who exit polls said overwhelmingly won Sunday’s Palestinian presidential election, is a demonstrated ...

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Who Elected You King?

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 12:39:23 pm PST

A Palestinian carries a picture of late rock ‘n roll idol Elvis Presley as he enters a polling station in Abu Dis near Jerusalem January 9, 2005. Palestinians voted on Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat and looked likely to elect Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust denier who recently labeled ...

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Meet the New Boss

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 11:59:44 am PST

Extry! Read all about it! Holocaust denier wins by a landslide! Extry! RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas won the Palestinian presidential election by a landslide with a 46 percent lead over his nearest rival Mustafa Barghuti, according to an exit poll.

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Moore to Win People's Choice

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 11:49:22 am PST

The New York Post says Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 is going to win the ‘favorite movie’ category of tonight’s People’s Choice awards. January 9, 2005 — Lefty filmmaker Michael Moore has been tipped he’s going to win the People’s Choice Award tonight, Tom O’Neil reports at goldderby.com. This is the first ...

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Indymedia Asks: Was the Tsunami Caused by a Bomb?

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 11:00:28 am PST

It’s been a while since I posted a link to the home of internet leftist lunacy, Indymedia, but here’s a real corker of a thread discussing the highly serious issue of whether the Southeast Asian tsunami was caused by a bomb. (Hat tip: John B.) George Plays the Haarp 07.Jan.2005 19:17 Lynn Snodgrass The ...

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Palestinian Election Charades

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 9:55:20 am PST

This is an open topic for discussion of the Palestinian election, with an invitation to our Israeli readers to post their observations and comments. New registrations are now open. UPDATE at 1/9/05 10:14:35 am: Surprise! Palestinian officials were lying about heavy voter turnout: Palestinian Turnout Low, Voting Extended. Palestinians initially said polls were ...

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Kooky Kerry Kaption Kontest

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 9:40:51 am PST

This photo is just screaming, “Caption me, please!” Former U.S. presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (D-MA), an election observer, waves as he passes a Palestinian security guard on his way to meet Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 9, 2005. Palestinians voted on Sunday ...

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MSM to Dems: How's Waterloo Going?

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 9:25:35 am PST

A great one from Mark Steyn: Election protest shows why Dems don’t count. Thought for the day, from a gloomy party member on the Democratic Underground Web site: “Reality sucks. That’s the problem. We want another reality.” Well, they’re doing a grand job of creating their alternative universe. At midday Thursday, as ...

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Zionist Enemy

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 8:44:29 am PST

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Confusion Reigns in Sham Election

Sun, Jan 9, 2005 at 8:04:47 am PST

The Associated Press says that voter turnout in the Palestinian areas is so heavy that voting has been extended. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian election officials extended voting in Sunday’s presidential election by two hours, citing heavy turnout and confusion in Jerusalem. Baha al Bakri, a spokesman for the Palestinian Central Election ...

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Saturday, January 08, 2005

UN Sex Abuse in Congo

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 9:15:53 pm PST

The UN’s catalog of infamy continues to grow: Congo sex abuse claims upheld. A United Nations inquiry has found that UN peacekeepers working in DR Congo sexually abused girls as young as 13. The report by the UN watchdog, the Office of Internal Oversight Services, investigated abuse allegations in the north-east Congolese ...

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UN Corruption Exposed

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 8:04:51 pm PST

At the New York Post, new revelations of massive bribery in the United Nations’ Oil-For-Food program: WASHINGTON — Iraqi officials have recently implicated more U.N. staffers in bribe taking during the oil-for-food program in a development that could dramatically escalate pressure on the world body, The Post has learned. Investigators from the ...

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Fraudulent LGF Emails

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 7:00:15 pm PST

The Protest Warriors will be at the President’s inauguration, doing battle against the forces of idiocy: Operation Hail to the Chief. Their operation leader Gil emailed me the following note: Dear Charles, I’m the operation leader for ProtestWarrior’s inaugural operation. As the pointman/contact, I’ve been getting some very interesting “flame” mail - ...

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CAIR: Pay No Attention to Those Pilgrims

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 3:15:06 pm PST

The Council on American Islamic Relations, recently named as a defendant in a lawsuit stemming from the terror attacks of 9/11, is pressuring the government not to apply any special vigilance when an estimated 10,000 US Muslims make the Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia: Muslims seek U.S. support for Hajj. ...

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NYT Whitewashes Fatah

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 1:25:30 pm PST

In this article, the New York Times describes the origin and goals of the Palestinian Fatah gang: Palestinian Ballot Presents Quandary for Hamas. (Hat tip: Daniel S.) Fatah was founded by Mr. Arafat. The name means “conquest,” and is a reverse acronym for the Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine. ...

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Fiskie Award 2004: The Final Round

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 1:10:54 pm PST

The final round of voting for the coveted Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year 2004 is now open! This year the finalists are Michael Moore, Kofi Annan, Dan Rather, George Soros, and Jacques Chirac, in that order—and a thoroughly deserving lot they are, each and every one. The poll ...

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John Kerry Meets with Ba'athist Dictator

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 10:20:54 am PST

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) and U.S. Senator John Kerry meet in Damascus, January 8, 2005, to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East and Iraq. REUTERS/SANA

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Battling for Europe's Soul

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 9:48:43 am PST

At the Charlotte Observer, Tom Ashcraft writes about the vanishing legacy of the great cathedrals of Europe: Battling for Europe’s soul. (Hat tip: composmentis.) For years the countries of the European Union (EU) have been working on a new constitution to replace various agreements going back to the former European Economic ...

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Ex-President Disgraces Himself Again

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 9:44:04 am PST

Jimmy Carter and Christine Todd Whitman, in Ramallah to certify another sham Palestinian election, “pay their respects” at the grave of one of the century’s most accomplished terrorist mass murderers: Former American President Jimmy Carter, right, and former Republican Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman pay their respects at the ...

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Syria and the United Nations

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 9:13:16 am PST

Dore Gold explains why Syria thinks it can get away with backing the insurgency in Iraq: This is not just a story about Syria behaving as a rogue state; it is also a glaring example of the UN system failing. For UN Security Council membership from early 2002 through 2003 did ...

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The Imam Says: Never Trust the Kuffaar

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 8:16:40 am PST

At Ask-Imam.com, Mufti Ebrahim Desai is asked a timely question by a young Muslim: Question: The west is often criticised by Muslims for many reasons, such as allowing women go to work. But shouldnt the west also recieve praise because its always them who intervenve when muslims r being tortured,they stopped Milosovic ...

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When Morlocks Attack

Sat, Jan 8, 2005 at 7:30:59 am PST

If you were unable to reach Little Green Footballs last night, it was because the Hosting Matters network was undergoing a Denial of Service (DOS) attack: DOS attack Jan 8. This morning the Morlocks have been beaten down. UPDATE at 1/8/05 7:45:58 am: Bookmark this link; if/when this happens again, you can ...

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Friday, January 07, 2005

LGF Etymological Dictionary

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 6:16:51 pm PST

LGF operative zombie gets all etymological with it, and compiles a list of LGF-oriented blog jargon: Almost certainly from LGF: anti-idiotarian [This one’s definitely from LGF; I hereby claim it. —ed.] MSM PIMF PIYF FNDT Rathergate GAZE Fiskie nazimedia bigelate / anything bigel-derived lizardoid minion (as applied to blog-followers) Bwahahaha/Muwhahaha! (as said ...

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Fiskie 2004, First Round

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 5:41:44 pm PST

This year’s Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year is a real cliffhanger, with an amazingly close race between Kofi Annan and Michael Moore in our first round of voting. Surprisingly, Dan Rather is coming in a distant third, followed at an even greater distance by Jacques Chirac and ...

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CBS Affiliates Want the Truth

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 2:59:48 pm PST

Bloggers aren’t the only ones with an intense interest in the imminent CBS Report: CBS Affiliates Await ‘60 Minutes II’ Investigation Report. CBS affiliates hope that the panel investigating what led to a controversial “60 Minutes II” story about President Bush’s National Guard service record will report its findings soon.There is ...

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Still Waiting for the Report

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 2:22:50 pm PST

Well, here we are, past 5 pm on the East Coast, and as the sun sinks over Black Rock there’s no sign of the CBS investigative report on the fraudulent National Guard memos.

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VDH: The Disenchanted American

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 1:36:44 pm PST

The latest from Victor Davis Hanson asks if America is growing world-weary: The Disenchanted American. There is a new sort of resignation rising in the country, as the United States sheds its naiveté that grew up in the aftermath of the Cold War. Clintonism may have assumed that terrorism was but ...

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NY Post Absorbed by the Blog

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 1:34:24 pm PST

I think this may be the first appearance of the term “moonbat” in mainstream media: Hillary loses her way. (Hat tip: JammieWearingFool.) January 7, 2005 — So much for the new, moderate — dare we say centrist — Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yesterday she lined up with her party’s moonbat “They-Stole-Ohio” caucus to ...

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Intifada Against Richard Gere

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 1:19:36 pm PST

Palestinians rise up against Richard Gere. One day after actor Richard Gere released a television commercial in which he ordered the Palestinian people to go out and vote, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip staged a violent uprising against the Hollywood star. Mr. Gere’s commercial, in which he said, “Hi, I’m Richard Gere ...

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Has No One Learned Anything?

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 11:50:33 am PST

Palestinian “moderate” Abu Mazen could give John F. Kerry lessons in flip-flopping; the same day he tells Israeli media he didn’t really mean to call Israel the “Zionist enemy,” he incites a Palestinian crowd with a phrase that deliberately echoes Yasser Arafat’s “millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem:” Abbas-Palestinians to ...

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Friday Prayers in Banda Aceh

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 11:17:39 am PST

The imam of the main mosque in Banda Aceh told worshippers today that the tsunami was punishment from Allah, for failing to implement shari’a law. (Hat tip: Truth Junkie.) In the first Friday prayers there since the Dec. 26 tsunami, preacher Din Syamsuddin told around 2,000 worshippers in the staunchly Islamic ...

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Abu Mazen Changes His Tune

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 10:59:22 am PST

Extry! Holocaust-denying “moderate” Palestinian front-runner issues non-apology apology to Israeli media! Read all about it! Abbas admits getting carried away over ‘Zionist enemy’ remarks. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Palestinian presidential vote frontrunner Mahmud Abbas admitted in an interview that his reference to Israel as the “Zionist enemy” in a recent speech was ...

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Bush Certified, Boxer Weeps

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 10:02:39 am PST

I think it’s admirable that Senator Barbara Boxer (Moonbat-CA) is able to express her feelings so openly. It’s the first step in healing her advanced case of Post Election Selection Trauma.

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The Torture Test

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 9:22:20 am PST

The Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum asks, Does the Right Remember Abu Ghraib? She’s bemoaning the nomination of Alberto Gonzales, of course, using Abu Ghraib as a talisman of awfulness. The mere invocation of the name is now supposed to remind us of our deep, lasting disgrace. Anyone whose record is tainted ...

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Whittle Edits Moore

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 9:09:18 am PST

This Michael Moore moment brought to you by Bill Whittle.

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Enemy Journalist in Iraq

Fri, Jan 7, 2005 at 8:41:16 am PST

Here’s a very revealing interview with an Arab “journalist”—a US citizen—who is filing reports from Iraq for Islam Online and the BBC (among others), nakedly revealing his biases and conspiracy-minded mental illness: Unembedded in Iraq. (Hat tip: Mark.) What is it like being one of the only “unembedded” journalists operating in ...

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Thursday, January 06, 2005

Europe's Identity Crisis

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 10:13:56 pm PST

US News and World Report has a piece on Europe’s identity crisis, as mainstream US media begins to understand the meaning of Eurabia. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) BERLIN—Told that she couldn’t sit in on religion classes for the Muslim students at Rixdorfer Elementary School, Marion Berning went into the classroom anyway on ...

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Thursday Open Topic

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 4:51:55 pm PST

Here’s a topic for open discussion; I’ll kick it off by mentioning that I just finished a segment on the Hugh Hewitt show about the imminent (or so we’ve been led to believe) CBS Report on the fraudulent National Guard memos. Three big questions that came up: 1. Will the report ...

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Holy Warriors Arrive in Aceh

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 3:55:58 pm PST

One of the non-governmental organizations showing up to help in Indonesia is Laskar Mujahidin: Extremist Group Raises Fears in Indonesia. JAKARTA, Indonesia—An extremist Islamic group with alleged links to Al Qaeda has set up a relief camp in the tsunami-stricken Aceh province on Sumatra island, raising concerns its fiercely anti-American members ...

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CBS Report Legal Checklist

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 2:22:44 pm PST

Scylla & Charybdis has a handy CBS Report Legal Checklist: 1. Withholding under “Privilege.” If some or all of the full report is withheld due to “privilege,” it means that CBS doesn’t want the full report to be subject to subpoena in a lawsuit. This implies some lawsuit is possible, and ...

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Jesse Bags On Flipper

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 1:20:29 pm PST

At an AFL-CIO news site, here’s a report on the group of idiot Democrats who are planning to continue challenging the Ohio election no matter how many recounts prove them wrong, with some details I haven’t seen elsewhere: Five Senators and Eight House Members to Challenge Election Nearly two hours later, ...

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Memo to CBS

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 1:01:52 pm PST

Hugh Hewitt has a very good suggestion, as CBS prepares to release their report on the fake National Guard memos: Memo to CBS: Release a draft of the Rathergate report to a half-dozen bloggers for pre-publication comment (on the condition that they not comment on the report until it is released. The ...

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AFP: A "Dovish" Holocaust Denier

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 12:45:19 pm PST

Rarely do I laugh out loud at a news headline, but this one from Agence France Presse produced a guffaw: Abbas winds up dovish campaign amid last-minute snags to Palestinian vote. The headline leads to one of the most topsy-turvy Bizarro world first paragraphs you’ll ever read: NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - ...

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Kerry Bashes Bush in Baghdad

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 8:59:41 am PST

In what universe is this considered acceptable? Kerry Trashes Bush in Baghdad. (Hat tip: Elcid.) Visiting with U.S. troops in Baghdad on Thursday, failed presidential candidate John Kerry trashed Commander-in-chief George Bush for making “horrendous judgments” and “unbelievable blunders” that have undermined the war effort. In a series of demoralizing comments first ...

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Palestinians Using More Women and Children

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 8:30:02 am PST

In 2004, Palestinian terror gangs increasingly used women and children to carry out mass murder attacks. (Hat tip: Laura.) “The terrorist organizations have increasingly used minors and women to perpetrate suicide attacks by exploiting their innocent appearance, in an attempt to fool security force personnel at the various checkpoints,” ISA said. Between ...

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Salvadoran Gang Linked to Al Qaeda

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 8:08:49 am PST

East Boston street gang linked to al-Qaeda. A burgeoning East Boston-based street gang made up of alleged rapists and machete-wielding robbers has been linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prompting Boston police to “turn up the heat” on its members, the Herald has learned. MS-13, which stands for La Mara Salvatrucha, is ...

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The Academic Fifth Column

Thu, Jan 6, 2005 at 8:01:52 am PST

When a Kuwaiti Arab student at a California college wrote an essay defending America’s founding fathers and praising the Constitution, the professor of his “Introduction to American Government and Politics” course verbally attacked him—and then required him to undergo psychotherapy: Dissident Arab Gets the Treatment. A week before thanksgiving Professor Woolcock ...

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Annan and Moore Battle it Out

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 7:54:33 pm PST

With 14,364 votes as of this writing, we have an incredibly close race for the lead in the first round of voting for the 2004 Fiskie, as Kofi Annan and Michael Moore battle it out: 1. Kofi Annan 2801 19.5% 2. Michael Moore 2795 19.5% 3. Dan Rather 1722 12% 4. SorryEverybody.com 729 5.1% 5. George Soros 690 4.8%

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Richard Gere's Palestinian Bedfellows

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 7:02:37 pm PST

Debbie Schlussel has more information about Richard Gere’s Palestinian Bedfellows.

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Echoes of Nazism

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 5:48:10 pm PST

In a supreme irony, the supporters of a Holocaust denier—unfailingly identified by mainstream media as a “moderate” Palestinian leader—use the same salute as the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Members of the Fatah youth movement chant slogans during a rally for Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas at a hotel in the Jerusalem ...

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Marine Cpl. Hassoun Declared Deserter

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 5:26:21 pm PST

Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who was first thought to have been kidnapped in Iraq but who apparently deserted his unit and went to Lebanon, has (surprise!) deserted and gone to Lebanon again: U.S. Marine in Mysterious Case Declared Deserter. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, charged with ...

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We're Back And We're Proud

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 5:19:44 pm PST

Hosting Matters went offline for a little while, while the crew performed a major upgrade that should improve service. Hope no one broke any New Year’s resolutions as a result.

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Mohammed Enters Top Boys' Names

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 3:16:27 pm PST

One of the most popular names for baby boys in England and Wales is now Mohammed. It entered the top 20 most commonly chosen names for 2004 baby boys for the first time ever, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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More CBS News Distortions

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 2:43:31 pm PST

From DiveNewswire, Ocean Rover Cruises is furious at CBS News for exaggerating the amount of coral reef damage caused by the tsunami. (Hat tip: James Hudnall.) CBS NEWS DISTORTION To those of you who saw Ocean Rover in the CBS News report about coral damage: do not believe what they are telling ...

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Election Flotsam and Jetsam

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 12:56:54 pm PST

Driving through Hollywood today, I was amazed at how many automobiles are still displaying Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers. Two months after the election, wouldn’t you want to remove such a constant, annoying reminder that you lost, and get on with things? Are these people enjoying some sort of wistful instant nostalgia ...

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Corey Pein: Fake, But Accurate

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 12:37:40 pm PST

CJR editor Corey Pein (voted “most likely to bring down a presidential administration” by his Columbia classmates) has a pathetically weak defense of his attempt to resuscitate the “fake but accurate” canard, at Poynter Online. (Hat tip: Ozyman.) He doesn’t deign to answer any of the points in my response to ...

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Feds Searching for Middle Eastern Man

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 12:18:13 pm PST

Authorities are searching for a man with bogus construction credentials and a Middle Eastern name who tried to buy large amounts of ammonium nitrate—the same explosive Timothy McVeigh used. “We’re still running down leads. But we thought it would be prudent putting out an advisory to the fertilizer industry,” said Tom ...

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The Intifada Comes to Duke

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 9:26:43 am PST

Here’s an excellent piece on the pro-terror Palestine Solidarity Movement conference, featuring open advocates of genocide and suicide bombing, which was allowed to take place at Duke University last October: The Intifada Comes to Duke. Having welcomed known anti-Semitic agitators onto its campus, how did the Duke administration react when the ...

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Memogate Report Due Friday?

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 9:09:44 am PST

Jim Geraghty gets two links today because he also reports a tip that the long-awaited CBS investigation into Memogate, originally promised in “weeks, not months,” may finally be released Friday. Bummerdietz questions the timing of the report, which oddly coincides with a major mainstream media uproar over the nomination of ...

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Vote the Lizardoid Ticket

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 9:01:04 am PST

Israellycool has a best of the year poll going on, and LGF is nominated for “Best Israel Advocacy.”

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Nick Coleman's Mad

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 8:52:45 am PST

Nick Coleman, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist who launched an amazingly unprofessional attack on the Power Line blog, is now angry at Jim Geraghty.

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We Stingy Americans

Wed, Jan 5, 2005 at 8:12:41 am PST

Private U.S. Aid for Tsunami Tops $200M. UPDATE at 1/5/05 8:26:15 am: An email from Naomi Ragen points out that last year, Saudi Arabia raised more than $150 million for the families of suicide bombers. To help their Muslim brothers and their devastated families in Southeast Asia, the oil-rich country is contributing $10 ...

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Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Egypt's Secret Nuclear Program

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 4:44:18 pm PST

Yesterday we noted a report in the Jerusalem Post that Abdul Qadeer Khan’s nuclear black market had given “a major boost” to the nuclear weapons program of an unnamed Arab state; today comes news that evidence of secret nuclear experiments has been discovered in Egypt. VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. atomic ...

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Journalists Shouldn't Be Cheerleaders

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 4:23:07 pm PST

A virulent Bush-hating speech from Norman Mailer got him a standing ovation—at a conference for journalists and students sponsored by Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism: Journalists shouldn’t be cheerleaders. It’s hardly a shocker that Norman Mailer could show up at a place like Cambridge, Mass., and win big applause with a ...

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Tin Soldier

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 12:55:22 pm PST

Yesterday, at the conclusion of my reply to Corey Pein’s ludicrous piece for the Columbia Journalism Review, I wrote: If this is the best journalism Columbia can produce, there’s no mystery why mainstream media is in such deep trouble in this country. I’m pleased to report that Columbia can produce better ...

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Iran Reports US Overflights

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 12:11:34 pm PST

It comes from Iranian government sources, so skepticism is in order: U.S. spy planes spotted over nuke sites. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Iran has reported flights by U.S. military aircraft over nuclear facilities near the borders with Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran’s state-controlled media said the overflights by U.S. aircraft ...

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Patriarch of Terror

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 12:05:01 pm PST

Joseph D’Hippolito has a good background piece on Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem: Patriarch of Terror.

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What Would We Do Without "Authorities?"

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 10:48:46 am PST

Tribe shoots arrows at aid flight. An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows. There were fears that the endangered tribal groups had been wiped out when massive waves struck their islands. But the authorities say the attack ...

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British Poll Reveals Anti-Israel Sentiment

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 9:56:33 am PST

A poll commissioned by the Telegraph shows that Britons think Israel is one of the world’s “least democratic” countries, and the country least deserving of “international respect:” The countries that we love and hate. The violence and Israel’s continuing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza appear to have done immense ...

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UN: An Assessment Team to Coordinate Assessment Teams

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 9:20:56 am PST

The Diplomad reports on the arrival of UN functionary Ms. Margareeta Wahlstrom, whose title is “United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Secretary-General’s Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-affected countries.” She has spoken! At a large meeting this afternoon, she and the local UN rep, Mr. Bo “Please Wear ...

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Iraqi Child Reveals Weapons Cache

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 8:50:56 am PST

Yesterday in Mosul, an Iraqi child led coalition soldiers to a large cache of weapons, including a partly-assembled truck bomb. (Hat tip: Geepers.) MOSUL, Iraq — Multi-National Forces from 1st Brigade (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), 25th Infantry Division (Light), discovered a large cache of weapons and munitions based on a child’s ...

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Zarqawi Capture Reports Untrue

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 8:35:04 am PST

According to Drudge, the reports that Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured are not true. U.S. military and intelligence sources are denying print and broadcast reports that terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Iraq, MSNBC reported Tuesday. MSNBC said senior U.S. military and intelligence sources told it the reports are not true. ...

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Abu Mazen: "The Zionist Enemy"

Tue, Jan 4, 2005 at 8:00:01 am PST

Extry! Read all about it! Holocaust-denying Palestinian front-runner (only-runner, actually) Abu Mazen uses antisemitic language! Reuters says it’s “the first time!” Extry! Abbas Assails ‘Zionist Enemy’ After Tank Kills 7. BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called Israel “the Zionist enemy” for the first time Tuesday ...

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Monday, January 03, 2005

The Arab Bomb

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 9:53:59 pm PST

Nuke trader Khan gave major boost to Arab state. Days after former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy expressed fears that Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia might have acquired some kind of nuclear capability via an illicit weapons trafficking network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the chief architect of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, Israeli ...

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AP Promotes "Right of Return"

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 9:44:05 pm PST

Holocaust denier Abu Mazen has promised the Palestinian “refugees” that they will return to their “homes” in Israel, and the tone of sarcastic animosity toward Israel in this AP article by Arab stringer Ibrahim Barzak is unmistakable: Abbas: Refugees Will Return to Israel. Addressing a rally in Gaza City, Abbas said ...

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Fiskie 2004, First Round

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 8:26:30 pm PST

The first round of polling for the 2004 Idiotarian of the Year award is now open.

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Richard Gere and His Co-Stars

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 7:20:10 pm PST

Peace activist/actor Richard Gere has appointed himself spokesman for the entire world, and in that capacity he’s urging Palestinians to get out the vote: Actor Richard Gere, ‘speaking for the entire world,’ urges Palestinians to vote. A pro-peace group is hoping that a potent mix of Hollywood glamour and religion will ...

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Tsunami Aid Resources

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 6:43:09 pm PST

A fantastic blog resource for information on how you can help the victims of the Southeast Asian tsunami: SEA-EAT: The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog.

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Anchorman Dan to the Rescue

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 4:31:09 pm PST

050103-N-1229B-073 Indian Ocean (Jan. 3, 2005) - CBS Anchorman Dan Rather and his news crew return to the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) after touring the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently operating in the Indian Ocean off the waters of Indonesia and Thailand. ...

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An Inept Smear at Columbia Journalism Review

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 1:11:44 pm PST

At Columbia Journalism Review, Corey Pein has published an incredibly slipshod, stunningly incorrect article about the Memogate affair: Blog-Gate. Here’s the section dealing with my document experiments, and Dr. Joseph Newcomer’s technical analysis: Haste explains the rapid spread of thinly supported theories and flawed critiques, which moved from partisan blogs to the ...

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Mr. Heyward Goes to Washington

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 10:31:29 am PST

Anticipating the long-awaited report on Memogate, the president of CBS News went to Washington to try to convince the White House that CBS will start being “fair and balanced:” Mr. Heyward Goes to Washington. (Hat tip: Scylla & Charybdis.) Let the fence-mending begin. According to a Broadcasting & Cable source ...

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Iraqis Will Vote Despite Violence

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 9:50:55 am PST

Reader Haider Ajina emailed us the results of a poll published in the Iraqi Arabic newspaper Alsabaah, showing that the mujahideen have failed to dissuade Iraqis from voting: The poll was of 4974 Iraqis living in and around Baghdad. The following is the translation of the poll and the results: “Will ...

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Switzerland Finds the "Extremists"

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 9:09:12 am PST

A Swiss government report warns of the danger of “extremism.” Al Qaeda? Hizballah? No. They’re worried about Jewish extremism. Jews in Switzerland are reportedly “infuriated” at a passage in the government’s new extremist report that refers to Jewish extremism in the country. A delegation of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities is calling for ...

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Newsday: RIP, Yasser

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 8:40:23 am PST

Newsday wishes “Rest in Peace” to one of the most disgusting murderous creatures ever to walk the earth. (Hat tip: Joel.) Rest in peace Ronald Reagan, Yasser Arafat, Alan King, Rodney Dangerfield, Jerry Orbach, Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Janet Leigh, Fay Wray, Susan Sontag, Francis Crick, Bob Keeshan, Ray Charles, Pat Tillman, ...

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NYT Reads Democratic Underground

Mon, Jan 3, 2005 at 7:55:32 am PST

To illustrate blogs’ coverage of the Asian tsunami, the New York Times goes to none other than the home of extreme leftist lunacy, Democratic Underground: Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate. As the horror of the South Asian tsunami spread and people gathered online to discuss the disaster on sites ...

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Sunday, January 02, 2005

VDH: Predictions for 2005

Sun, Jan 2, 2005 at 6:09:58 pm PST

Victor Davis Hanson’s predictions for the new year: 1. Michael Moore will go to the Sunni Triangle to join his beloved “Minutemen Men,” and “document” the scandal of how the fedayeen “founding fathers” are being shortchanged in their pay due to Baathist conspiracies in Syria. 2. Jimmy Carter this time will declare ...

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Eurabian Dhimmitude Watch

Sun, Jan 2, 2005 at 5:57:14 pm PST

Franck Frégosi is a researcher for the European Society, Law and Religion research center at Strasbourg’s Robert Schuman University, and although he acknowledges that France is “unsettled” and the Netherlands was “rocked” (no mention of Spain), he advises Europeans to knuckle under and adapt their societies to Islam. (Hat tip: ...

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Abu Mazen: No Time for Missiles

Sun, Jan 2, 2005 at 5:40:02 pm PST

Extry! Read all about it! Palestinian front-running Holocaust denier says, “Wrong time for missiles!” Extry! Palestinian frontrunner urges militants to end rocket attacks. JABALIYA, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Palestinian presidential election frontrunner Mahmud Abbas urged militants to stop firing rockets at Israel as he addressed supporters close to the site of ...

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JihadTV In League with Saddam

Sun, Jan 2, 2005 at 1:30:45 pm PST

It’s not a surprise, but proof has finally been uncovered that Al Jazeera is a tool of the enemies of civilization: Tape shows Al-Jazeera, Saddam link. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) A videotape found in a pile of documents in Baghdad following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime shows a former manager of ...

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Kerry: What Went Wrong

Sun, Jan 2, 2005 at 9:02:35 am PST

John Kerry looks back at what went wrong in his campaign, and comes up with vague platitudes about “not connecting to voters.” Kerry has not given any formal interviews since his defeat. But on Nov. 11, he summoned a Newsweek reporter to his house on Boston’s fashionable Louisberg Square. He wanted ...

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Unclear on the Concept of "Peace"

Sun, Jan 2, 2005 at 8:30:11 am PST

Palestinian “prime minister” Ahmed Qureia says to Israel, “Give us peace, or we’ll kill you:” Palestinian PM Links Calm to Statehood Talks. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie said Saturday Palestinians should halt armed violence only if there was a credible peace process with Israel leading toward a ...

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CAIR is Defendant in 9/11 Lawsuit

Sun, Jan 2, 2005 at 8:04:18 am PST

It’s taken years, but more people are finally beginning to see through CAIR’s moderate facade; Daniel Pipes reports that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been named as a defendant in a class action lawsuit stemming from the terror attacks of 9/11: CAIR Named as a Defendant in ...

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Saturday, January 01, 2005

The Islamization of Europe

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 7:22:22 pm PST

Andrew G. Bostom has a review of Islam critic Bat Ye’or’s new book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, titled The Islamization of Europe.

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Abu Mazen: No Crackdown on Terror

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 6:36:28 pm PST

The headline and first paragraph of this Associated Press release are devastating: Palestinian Leader to Shield Militants. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that he wants to shield Palestinian militants from Israel and indicated he has no plans to crack down on gunmen after upcoming presidential ...

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NEU Professor Slimes LGF, Jihad Watch

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 6:02:08 pm PST

Northeastern University economics professor M. Shahid Alam, who wrote an execrable article comparing the September 11 hijackers (favorably) to the American Minutemen, has reacted to his critics with an article for the radical left journal Counterpunch: Testing Free Speech in America. Of course, Professor Alam sees himself as a hero, standing ...

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Language Weenies Diss "Blog"

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 4:49:02 pm PST

A committee of English language purists at Lake Superior State University has decided that the word “blog” belongs on their List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness. Among the 22 expressions on the “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use ...

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Overkill, Saudi Style

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 3:56:58 pm PST

Here’s a twist on the usual Saudi execution style: Saudi executed and crucified. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 31 (UPI) — Saudi Arabian authorities Friday beheaded and crucified a Saudi national convicted of killing and robbing his mother. The Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement that said the convict was executed ...

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The Saudi Syndrome

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 3:51:19 pm PST

For the first time in quite a few months, the New York Times has published an editorial with which I can find no point of disagreement: The Saudi Syndrome. I couldn’t detect even a hint of a slam at President Bush. Highly unusual for the Old Grey Lady. The next time you ...

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Columbia Unbecoming

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 8:19:51 am PST

The light is finally beginning to shine on the terror-enabling Middle Eastern professors of Columbia University, thanks to a film produced by the David Project showing the academics bullying and intimidating pro-Israel students: Politics of Middle East play out in class fracas. “In the classroom, students as well as faculty share ...

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Fraud in King County?

Sat, Jan 1, 2005 at 7:53:17 am PST

Stefan Sharkansky has uncovered possible evidence of significant Democratic voter fraud in Washington’s King County: FLASH: King County Numbers Don’t Add Up. Here’s a story on the controversy at the Seattle Times: Doubts linger as Gregoire win certified. Conservative blogger Stefan Sharkansky pointed out the discrepancy Wednesday, and by yesterday it was ...

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