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Soul Brothers: The Arab Street and The Mainstream Media
The roots of this negligence are a willed ignorance of the realities of the Middle East. The ideas of Lee Smith's The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations are ignored in favor of a now almost comically naïve belief in some sort of Islamic democracy, a system completely at odds with the ideology of Islam itself.
But, as if to promote Dinesh D'Souza's new movie in advance, the "anti-colonialist" Barack Obama preened before the Arab world, promoting himself (and us) as a new sort of American, a friend of Islam. They saw only Smith's weak horse.
The villains in all this are our media who played the Greek chorus for Obama. But they were and are a lousy Greek chorus, because they never warned Oedipus of his hubris. They just chanted along, praising the master with hosannas.
When will they stop?
The media killed Ambassador Stevens. They are the ones responsible.
UPDATE: In a surreal addendum to my post, the White House's own press secretary, Jay Carney, is now denying the protests are against America.
CARNEY: We also need to understand that this is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to United States policy, and not to, obviously, the administration, or the American people, but it is in response to a video, a film that we have judged to be be reprehensible and disgusting. That in no way justifies any violent reaction to it, but this is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy, this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims.
Again, this is not in any way justifying violence, and we have spoken very clearly out against that and condemned it. And the president is making sure in his conversations with leaders around the region that they are committed as hosts to diplomatic facilities to protect both personnel and buildings and other facilities that are part of the U.S. representation in those countries.
Can you imagine the internal discussions that went on before that sent the hapless Carney out to spew that bilge? We are indeed in "interesting times," as they Chinese say.
103 Comments, 59 Threads
1. darnellecheri
I may be terribly naive, but where is the moral outrage of our president? One of his Ambassadors was murdered! Where is the righteous indignation? Why couldn't he cancel his fundraiser and implement a day of mourning? This is leadership. This is why this country is so rudderless. We don't have a leader that engages all of us. Is he that disengaged and disinterested? I mourned and was outraged and I am not employed by the government.
I am heart-broken about my country.
September 14, 2012 - 9:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Heart-breaking, it surely is. But, it's worse. The President did not attend his Presidential Daily Brifing (PDB), as reported, on the day after the killings of American diplomatic staff. But he made sure not to miss his Presidential Daily Campaigning.
Any other world leader would have spent the immediate aftermath of a disaster of these proportions hunkered down with his staff and his security and intelligence experts, gathering in all possible information, trying to get a handle on what happened and how to respond with power. Such a process usually takes a whole day, well into the night. Sometimes, more.
The World has watched this. Not just the Muslims. But the Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians, everybody. And they would all have reached the same conclusion. This American President is not a serious man.
September 14, 2012 - 10:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Yes, Obama is not a serious man, except when it comes to getting re-elected. Otherwise, we are nothing to him.
September 14, 2012 - 10:52 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Obama is a VERY serious man!
He is intent of finishing his course of action to bring about the widest possible chaos which is the end-point of the Cloward-Pliven strategy to destroy the American Republic and replace it with an elitist managed brave new world.As Simon says, "the media killed Ambassador Stevens" and the Republic as well.
Go Galt.September 15, 2012 - 8:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply
I may be terribly naive, but where is the moral outrage of our president?
That would require him to care about something- anything- other than himself.
News flash;
he doesn't.
clear ether
September 14, 2012 - 12:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The Root '83
One of the shortest, and yet "largest" of comments ever posted by the great EON…
Spot-on as usual!
September 14, 2012 - 1:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Larry J
Obama claims to be a Christian. Some people think he's a Muslim. I don't believe he's either. To be devoutly religious, you have to believe in something greater than yourself. I see no evidence that Obama is capable of such belief. He even defined sin as going against his beliefs. The word narcissist is inadequate to describe Obama. Megalomaniac may be closer to the truth, or perhaps sociopath.
September 14, 2012 - 2:04 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
It would be hard to dispute what you've said.
September 14, 2012 - 2:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Mike H.
This is in proffered in lieu of a like button.
September 14, 2012 - 3:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
I don't know what Obama truly thinks but he seems, going by past contradictory statements, to employ taquiya, as a Muslim would, to advance his agenda.
September 15, 2012 - 10:42 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Don O'Brien
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country lov'd,
And mercy more than life.My wife stated saying these words as we watched the returning ceremony and the band was playing America The Beautiful. "Who more than self their country loved."
Oh for leaders who might share this spirit of our brave and loyal heroes who give their lives for America.September 15, 2012 - 11:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Otto Repo
Our Dear Leader has sacrificed so much, why can't you understand? He needs to be re-elected to complete the submission of the U.S. to the Muslim Umma, why can't you understand? The Ambassador would have understood, why can't you?
September 15, 2012 - 6:32 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
i too mourn for our country!
obama and his administration, along with hillary have blood on their hands!
was all this by design or complete incompetence?
i do know this, a film could not have caused this because these middle easterners don't read or write, have no tv, cell phones, or internet, so how could they have know about a film on youtube?
these attacks were planned for 9-11, once again catching America off guard!
i pray for our country!
September 15, 2012 - 7:22 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Thomas_L......
Both the media and the light bringer occupy a mythical country that exists only in their minds. They'll be the death of those who live in the real world if they aren't stopped. Clint was right. Fire them all.
September 14, 2012 - 9:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
3. cfbleachers
The Saleftists are a hybrid mutation, two bodies with one brain and no firing synapses.
High on Quaaranludes in order to feel no pain, the drug of choice for deadened morals and escape from truth.
The Saleftists use each other's propaganda to trump up charges against common enemies. Propanoia then kicks in, sending them into a feeding frenzy of faux rage against a slight, a gaffe, a trespass that never existed.
This orchestrated dance of lies and deceit is spinning out of control. The Saleftists have paid the piper and called the tune.
While Obama taps his toe to the beat.
September 14, 2012 - 9:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
4. JustAl
You left out the fact that both groups worship rapists; remember JFK and Clinton?
September 14, 2012 - 9:42 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
5. Chris Hawkins
The media is talking about Romney's "gaffe" and this (ok ok try not to write profanities) this… this… YouTube video. Americans were murdered in a terrorist attack- a horrendous crime, but what may very well prove much worse are the black storm clouds of evil that are rolling over a huge chunk of the world. Right now we need a leader- one who says "This is who we are and this is what we believe in and we will defend our values with our overwhelming military might." We need a Reagan. He called the Soviet Union an evil empire because it was. But frankly, this Islamic extremism makes the USSR look like a bunch of reasonable moderates. Enough with the patronizing "We respect you" BS.
September 14, 2012 - 9:52 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
6. Gugliemus
Very well said, Mr. Simon. As we all know, had President George W. Bush flown to Las Vegas for a fund-raiser so soon after the assassination of his Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, our sanctimonious and profoundly superficial media would have been in full howl, questioning his fitness for office, and hounding him mercilessly until the election. This egregious double standard is disgraceful and reveals the press to be the pathetic band of little lapdogs that it is.
September 14, 2012 - 10:06 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
7. FeralCat
"Soul Brothers: The Arab Street and The Mainstream Media and Obama and Hillary and our Generals"
It's simply all a drive on the part of Muslims, with their allies Obama and Hillary and our Generals, to take away the basic constitutional rights of Americans.
As part of his entreaty for the passage of the Resolution 16/18, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Turkish Muslim head of the OIC, issued a veiled threat implying that the failure to act against religious "hate speech" would result in acts of Islamic terrorism. It appears that the overriding purpose of the resolution is to limit and criminalize criticism of Islam. The resolution also would place the blame for terrorist attacks on its victims for their non-compliance with Islamic doctrine, or sharia, which prohibits criticism of Islam under threat of death.
This is an act of war for subjugation against God, Western Civilization, the Founding Fathers and all of true Humanity. I purpose Resolution Crusader 2/1: no American military forces will be in a Muslim nation unless they level at least one mosque per day per battalion at the minimum. Marines are expected to level at least two. If any Muslims kill any non-Muslims for "Insulting Islam", not only will the "insulters" be held completely blameless, 100 Mosques will be leveled in the nation of each of the Muslim attacker's birth. If the nation of their birth can not be determined, a Muslim nation will be selected by lot. It is further resolved that the birthday's of Pope Urban II, Charles Martel and Ritter Johann von Österreich will be declared American National Holidays.
September 14, 2012 - 10:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
8. TedZ
And then he went to Vegas to make a speech!
September 14, 2012 - 10:08 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
9. FeralCat
Islam is a never ending 9/11.
September 14, 2012 - 10:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
See the video…
Bill Warner – Who is really responsible for the Dark Ages?
September 14, 2012 - 11:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Thanks for that link, EV. That video ought to be shown in every church and town hall in America. Europe certainly would benefit from it.
I consider myself a student of history, but I never once thought of medieval European history in that way because, as Dr. Warner says, it's not taught that way. And yet, it makes sense that jihad is the Great Evil of the last 1400 years.
September 14, 2012 - 3:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Yes, spread it far and wide. I also recommend Charlemagne and Mohammad Revisted: The History of a Controversy by Emmett Scott.
Here is a very interesting review of that work…which is an excellent companion of that video…to spread around the internet and emails together. It goes into some detail about the destruction of Roman agriculture in North Africa around the area of Carthage.
Who Really Killed Pax Romana?
Please help spread this information.
September 14, 2012 - 6:19 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Good link, startling video. One thing that really surprised me is that north africa was a prosperous agricultural area under roman christians, and it was the muslim invaders who destroyed the fields and irrigation works and turned it into a desert. The other surprise is the hundreds of battles and massacres initiated by islam over the centuries, vs the paltry number of battles and casualties pf the crusades, yet we are protrayed as the aggressors against islam.
It also confirmed what I had already thought, that the "golden age" of islamic learning came solely from the remnants of roman and persian culture that islam captured, rather than anything inherent in islam, and that islam eventually destroyed that culture and learning.September 16, 2012 - 1:30 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
darth vader
Always has been. Dig up Charles Martel and ask him who he was fighting against in Tours, France in 732AD(long before America) . Dig Up King Richard the Lion Hearted and ask who he was fighting in Jerusalem in 1199ad. Go thru history and ask why Constantinople is now called Istanbul. Dig up King Joseph Sobieski of Poland and ask him who he was fighting at the gates of Vienna in 1683. Ask why Kosovo hasnt known peace in 600 years(moslem intruders). Ask who tried to murder Pope John Paul 2nd in 1981, at the behest of the Russians(oops, a MOSLEM). iSLAM IS THE PROBLEM. FOREVER.
September 14, 2012 - 12:26 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"Dig up King Joseph Sobieski of Poland"
Minor correction: his name was Jan Sobieski (or John Sobieski, as "John" is equivalent to "Jan" in Polish, not Joseph.
September 14, 2012 - 2:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
David IV of Georgia
Or look up "David IV of Georgia".
September 14, 2012 - 3:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
10. FeralCat
Islam is hate subjugation and death.
September 14, 2012 - 10:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
The Root '83
"Beneath the Middle Easterners' rage is an obvious humiliation over the backwardness of their culture"
Yes, it is a psychotic form of self-loathing and low esteem that manifests in anti-social behavior… an outer husk of violence barely containing the inner knowledge of inadequacy…it is a quite common condition typically found in disturbed and unbalanced people.
It is a textbook disorder of the irrational, of those without sufficiently developed reasoning, impulse control and coping skills. Raped and abused children, the preyed upon, the abandoned. These are the ones susceptible to the mental damage and self worth issues that, in adulthood, will lead to anger, violence, and rationalization for an unrepentant level of revenge for all ills and insults, real or imagined
It was the disorder of The Prophet, a poorly adjusted irrational man full of hatred and rage. A deranged and volatile man, consumed by obsessive/compulsive tendencies that required regulating the tiniest minutia of all acts and activities through a convoluted series of self-contradictory edicts, each more violent and irrational than the last. A confusing mess of a "belief system" that literally NO ONE with a clear mind and balanced soul can actually comprehend.
And this disorder, this mindset, this dysfunctional and self-destructive path
was proclaimed by their Prophet as "The Way"….And they, in their ignorance, perpetuate this impossible system. Is it any wonder the condition of their culture.
Backward, self loathing, violent and utterly self-destructive.Who cannot SEE this failure? Who, that is rational, cannot grasp that *some* belief systems are simply doomed to carry their adherents into perpetual dissatisfaction, anger and misery, because they are the product of a diseased mind….while other systems are guaranteed to be successful and self-rewarding because of the enlightened and well balanced, empathetic and healthy mental psyche of their creators.
I know of no social working volunteer that will accept the notion of "saving" someone from the horrors of their psychotic lifeSTYLE, without first trying to cure, or erase, or change or somehow minimize, their PSYCHOTIC THOUGHT PROCESSES first.
They attempt to mend the heart FIRST, to create self esteem FIRST, to instill compassion and empathy as the salve for the rage and self hatred that consumes them, and sabotages the quality of their lives and hurts others around them as well.
This is Islam. A dysfunctional psychosis of mind that must be "cured" before there can ever be peace….within themselves, and among their neighbors.
Whoever does not recognize Islam for what it is, is in simply in "denial" of this "patients" condition.
And as such, they should have no say in what therapy, (or appropriate criminal punishments) must be administered to this dangerous psychotic that threatens the general community on a daily basis.
September 14, 2012 - 2:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. some of my best friends
OK, so if the best answer is often to kill Moslem fanatics, both to deliver a message and, maybe, inspire a little 'behavior modification', then what's the best approach to our own treacherous media?
Romney's most recent genuflection, groveling before the throne of little George Stephanopoulos on ABC, led him — yes, the guy who believes he ought to be president — to say this: 'Obama exudes an air of likability and friendliness, which is endearing'.
Hell, where do you start? How about a simple observation: McCain did better.
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12. TexEd
Yeah, but more important is what will be our response to both parties after Romney is elected. The muslims will still hate us and continue to do what they can to destroy us; same-old, same-old!
The captive media, on the other hand, will do a 180 and start to attack every aspect of the new government. Every word, every rumor, every motivation of Romney's government will be attacked and disproven. Transparency? Commie, muslim and homosexual government employees will leak every confidential matter causing the media to loudly criticize Romney.
No, Romney will need new strategy and tactics to deal with an aggressive and hostile media. This scum will make the Bush press corps seem compliant.September 14, 2012 - 10:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Give them something to chew on – nuke mecca.
September 14, 2012 - 11:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply
13. dave rev
Well said, Mr. Simon! It appears now that this is Obama's (and MSM's?) Katrina moment. Or, updated to the last election–Economic collapse moment. While the world burned, our President continued in campaign mode. At least Senator McCain put his '08 campaign on hold as he returned to Washington during the unfolding economic meltdown.
I recall the famous reply to Senator McCarthy during the communist investigations, "Have you no shame?"
Who, now, will pose that question to our President. Candidate Romney bravely spoke the truth 2 days ago. Yes, he backpedaled, but he was finally developing a stronger backbone!
September 14, 2012 - 10:31 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
14. John Quincy Adams
Muhammad declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion against all the rest of mankind.
September 14, 2012 - 10:31 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
15. Todd Dunning
I still couldn't find Arab Spring on the shelves yesterday. The store manager just looks at me weird.
September 14, 2012 - 10:33 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
16. Chipperoo
I strongly disagree. The persons directly responsible for the deaths of Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were the al qaeda mujihadeen who attacked the embassy and islam, in all its suppurating permutations, which provides them moral and material support and succor.
I'll concede that various actors contributed to this murderous debacle by setting the stage for jihad: multi-culti hokum, Secretary Clinton and the entire State Department apparatus, the President and his Left-Lib-Prog-Dem supporters, and the media (birm). Might as well throw in the GOP hawks like Sens. McCain & Graham and the folks around the Weekly Standard and Commentary too. However, the mujihadeen and islam were the sufficient and necessary cause of this disaster.
If you want to indict the media, then accuse them of perverting our politics beyond all recognition. Because they've clearly committed that crime, beyond a reasonable doubt. Their dishonesty, special pleading, bias and bigotry have played a destructive, indeed ruinous, role in nearly every national issue. They've made the problems faced by this nation insoluble, because our political institutions can no longer make sensible decisions. Until the media are reformed or supplanted or destroyed, we cannot succeed.
September 14, 2012 - 10:35 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Tom T
You remind me of an argument I had with a Kerry campaigner in 2004. After a heated discussion where I disagreed that Bush and the Republicans were responsible for 9/11, the woman finally asked in exasperation, "Well, who DO you blaim for 9/11?". I blurted out "The terrorists!". Absolute silence followed.
It seems for Democrats that we must blame everyone EXCEPT the perpetrator in acts of aggression against the U.S.
September 14, 2012 - 10:45 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Mark in Texas
You are correct. The press did not pull the triggers that killed Ambassador Stephens and the others. The triggers were pulled by the former Qadaffi gunmen hired by al Qaeda mujahadeen Azuz and Qumu who had been imprisoned in Britain and Guantanimo but then released. Of course, Azuz and Qumu did not pull the triggers either, preferring to leave that to the hired help.
September 14, 2012 - 5:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
some of my best friends
16. Chipperooo — No, don't think so: none of this happens in a vacuum. Al Qaeda and other bad guys understand perfectly well how to play western MSM, American above all, and can predict the response to a near certainty — just as you can ("Movie! Prophet! Rent-a-mob camoflage! Whaaah!'). They played the MSM for the fools they are, and the blame sticks.
MSM = accessories and willing accomplices at least, possibly more, and no, it doesn't have to meet any legal standard. Many may prove useful in future target practice. Who shoots them first is the question. Maybe a jihadist.
September 15, 2012 - 3:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
But this comes down to the MSM misleading the public into voting an empty suit into office, whose foreign policy then causes the death of American diplomats and citizens.
Had there been a strong policy to start with, as Ghadaffi experienced after one of his terrorist exploits killed Americans some yearsago, there would have been no triggers pulled.September 15, 2012 - 11:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Obama is not to blame for the attacks, the jihadists are. But Obama is to blame for the appeasement and negligance that left us so unprepared for the attacks, and the cowardly response to them.
September 16, 2012 - 1:36 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
17. Libertyship46
"The villains in all this are our media who played the Greek chorus for Obama."
And they're still doing it. The media has the stones to put the focus on, of all people, Mitt Romney rather than ask any probing quetions of the Obama administration. I still have not heard any outcries on why Obama didn't take any questions after his brief (and tepid) comments on Wednesday after the ambassador and the other three Americans were killed. Could you just imagine what would have happened if Bush tried something like that?
And has the media asked ANY questions on why we received no warning about the attack in Libya? George W. Bush was almost crucified for 9/11 because the media asserted that he was warned about the attacks in a presidential brief just before 9/11 and did nothing about it. Remember that one, friends? The assertions were all insane and, given the lack of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA (a condition encouraged by the Democrats under the Clinton administration), it's a wonder we didn't suffer even more losses around the world on that day. But no, all the media saw was an opportunity to destroy a Republican president which they thought was elected illegitimately during the 2000 election.
Fast forward to 2012. Well, what did Hillary Clinton and Obama know and when did they know it? There are already reports that we had 48 hours warning that something was going to happen in Libya. And, let's not also forget that it was the anniversary of 9/11 yet no major increases was made in security at any of our embassies in the Middle East. Is the mainstream media asking questions about any of this? Not, a, peep.
It makes me sick seeing the hypocrisy and the bias in the mainstream media today. If Romney does manage to get elected, just expect to see a lot more of it.
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18. Ed, "Mr" Jones
Something keeps going through my head: If this is what FORWARD looks like . . . ARRRGGGGHHHHH!
Perhaps the Infotainment Complex is spreading some sort of Psychological Tramadol through subliminal suggestion methods.
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19. Jack in Silver Spring
Just like the Democrats who are labeled liberals (they're not, they're Leftists) and just like Islam which is labeled the religion of peace (it's not, it's the religion of hate, murder and war), the American media is labeled as mainstream, but it's not. It is the Ministry of Propaganda and Lies.
September 14, 2012 - 10:55 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
American media is Pravada of the West!!
September 14, 2012 - 12:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Eric R.
That is an insult to Pravda (at least the modern day variety). Today it can be sensationalist and a bit bizarre, but it is actually less PC than the western media.
September 14, 2012 - 3:09 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
20. Otho de Lagery
Let those who have been in service of this muslim loving tyrant against their own brothers and sisters now fight in a proper way against this muslim loving tyrant. Let those who have been wearing themselves out in both body and soul in vain attempt to appease him and muslims now labor for glorious honor against them. Behold! On the one side will be the completely destroyed tyrant and his muslims, on the other the fierce and righteous protectors of the Constitution and Christianity. On the one side will be the destroyed enemies of the Lord and the Constitution, on the other, their friends who will shout at the muslim loving tyrant as they destroy him in November, "It is for the Founding Fathers!", "It is for the Founding Fathers!, and "Deus vult! Deus vult! Deus vult!"
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21. messup
What is the single, unique, overriding thread to all this upheaval?
The New World Order (per Obama) best operates from a "top-down/command economy." Just like one he's familiar with all his life and has desperately tried, since his inauguration, to implement in the USA (900+ Executive Orders).
Every action, be it "Arab Spring," Eurozone (Merkel has to hold it together and Hollande's election), Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, Britain,
China, Sub-asian continent (India, Bangladesh) ALL have to display a form of Governance Mr. Obama wants and is familiar with… "Left-of-Center.".Trouble with Obama's "master plan" is each governments "key players" have their own MO and greed and power agenda.
These "key players" want total control over every economic means of:1)land, 2)labor and 3)capital. How they achieve it, is immaterial.
This is what Mr. Obama's "master plan" didn't add to his carefully concocted "Arab Spring," Latin American "rapproachment" and Eurozone "gentle pursuasion" equation. And the Lab experiment is blowing-up in his face.
Mr. Obama will have "egg-on-his-face" for a long time to come…just like another architect of failure…Jimmy Carter, nobel peace prize winners all.
Vote massively for massive fraud is all around us. Take 10 to 15 friends with us to vote. America is counting on us. Amen.
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22. aln in Ontario
But unfortunately I cannot see how Obama can lose. A majority of voters either follow the usual media bilge or depend on government handouts or both. It is a stunning turn of events to this outside observer that this race is not a runaway landslide for Romney. Very sad. Pax Americana is dead.
September 14, 2012 - 11:25 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
The media ignored and underestimated us in 2010, but they learned their lesson …now, their strategy appears to howl a continuous false narrative that the Commie kenyan is doing so well and cannot lose. Do not be deceived friends, they are lying about the polls just as they lie about everything else. Remember, I believe it was Gallup that reported axelfraud's intimidation through threats of federal legal action to manipulate the methods and data to prop up our American Ayatolla. This administration is a disgrace and a phony. Romney in a huge landslide this November.
September 14, 2012 - 5:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The rasmussen poll has always been pretty solid. They showed a close race before the convention, with romney slightly ahead, then a 6 pt obama surge shortly after the convention (due to anti repub spin of the repub convention and pro dem spin during the dem convention). Now that obama surge has faded and romney is slightly ahead again. Gallup has been good as well, and had shown the same pattern, except they use a moving average, and are thus about 2-3 days behind rasmussen. The other polls are mostly trash. I beleive even the good polls (gallup and rasmussen) did not fully show the intensity gap, the greater likelhood of repubs to vote, and the likelhood that undecided will break for romney (gallup and rasmussen themselves acknowledge this and state these factors are too tough to objectively quantify), which is why the MSM is trying to sow despair with attacks on romney, and the emphasis on the very temporary Obama convention surge, and the constant postings that romney is no better than obama. I still thinkwe will win, but only with complete unity and great effort.
September 16, 2012 - 1:47 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
23. Sarbo
If one casts a perfunctory eye over the few successful political revolutions since the Industrial Revolution, one cannot but be struck by some method in the madness that prevails in such periods. I still cannot get over this reason given by a Russian revolutionary. The Bolsheviks, he said, did not win Russia. They found the sceptre of the Russian Crown lying in the gutter and they simply picked it up.
Much the same can be said of the French And Nazi revolutional. Power lay prostrate and helpless at their feet and they simply picked it up.
On the other hand are the Chinese and American revolutions. China threw off Japanese rule, with not a little bit of help from the Americans. But, Mao's communists were very much the weaker party compared to the Kuomintang. Mao led his peasant army on the Long March to safe refuge and re-fortifying. When he emerged from his mountain strongholds, he won the land.
Washington and his generals had much the worst of it against Cornwallis and George III in the beginning. But then the militia got organised and sent them packing.
In between, there are revolutionary forces which do not have the raw power or the stamina to win or find power lying unpossessed in the gutter. They depend on Fifth Columns. Mainstream people, respectable, receivers and believers of the tradition of centuries. Only, they exist to fool the mainstream. They are the pathfinders and the minelayers who prepare the way for the revolutionaries to win. Today, in America, we see the latest manifestation of a fifth column, popularly called the Mainstream Media, who are performing this essential job for Obama.
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24. loveamerica
Looks like the Dems and the media will keep blaming it on some movie. Really? 9/11 and the fact that these protesters have no jobs, no wives, no children. They take out their frustrations on a country they are jealous of and the great Imans of the country pontificate hate and live high on the hog.
Here's an interesting stamp from 1947: Might just say it all
September 14, 2012 - 11:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Bozo the Clone
and the great Imans of the country pontificate hate and live high on the hog.
"Hog" and Imams in the same sentence is hate speech. You just started another riot /sarc
September 14, 2012 - 12:31 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
25. Lord of the Fleas
Can you imagine the internal discussions that went on before that sent the hapless Carney out to spew that bilge?
Speaking of "the hapless Carney", I recall in 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, seeing the Afghan Ambassador to the UN going up to the podium to swear on a stack of some sort of holy books that it was all proper and the Soviets had been invited in by the Afghan government yack yack woof woof …
And I remember a TV commenter (might have been George Will) saying that while we expect diplomats to lie on behalf of their governments, it really should be too much to expect them to make fools of themselves in the process.
Yet Carney does it every day. I refuse to feel sorry for that tool. A decent man would have walked away long ago.
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26. Old School Conservative
With all due respect to Mr. Simon, the crazy mullahs are more dangerous.
I do long for the days (pre-Vietnam) when the LSM actually thought of themselves as Americans & patriots, and acted accordingly.
September 14, 2012 - 11:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I take your point, OSC.
But think about this: Iran is a peanut compared to the US. If the US media seriously and continuously denounced the mullahs rather then picking on Netanyahu, Iran would get really scared and fold the tent. They would make the assumption US was coming to get them because to them there is no difference between the media and the state. Right now they think no such thing. The media in our country has gigantic global power.
September 14, 2012 - 11:57 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
darth vader
Mr Simon, your last comment just said WHY the media is more dangerous than the Arab Street. The media does have global influnece, and unlike in the US, there are no media outlets like PJ Media or Breitbart. Most of the rest of the world has no media freedoms whatever, moreso in Islamic coun tries where criticizing the Koran is a death sentence.
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Larry, Israel
It is Obama that is more dangerous than the media, even more dangerous than the Mullahs. Yet the brain trust of political conservatism on the web, which includes you, Barry Rubin, et al, just won't consider 'who Barack Obama might really be.'
He might be, for instance, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
So, if he might be, but anyone raising the possibility is slapped down as a variant of a Birther, where do you all stand? As a part of the problem or a part of the solution, to use the rusted rhetoric of that time..
September 14, 2012 - 9:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The media is more dangerous than Obama. With proper journalism instead of a propaganda machine Obama could have never been elected. Proper journalists would have published the facts about his ideological background and his involvement with radicals instead of e.g. hiding a hot tape in a safe to protect him. Then the American people would have never elected him. As a barely active one-term senator with minimal impact it wouldn't matter to us that much if Obama is a card carrying member of the Bros or "merely" a radical leftist (same result anyway).
And it would be wrong, IMO, to think of the media as the propaganda organ of the Democrats. Journalists have their own opinions and agenda and they choose to promote the party and candidate more likely to serve similar political goals (and with a reasonable chance of getting elected, unlike, say, the Communist Party). They aim to destroy the Repub candidate not because he's the opposition to the Democrats, but because he's the opposition to themselves and they have to prevent him from getting elected and promote the opposite political goals to their own. The right way to think of the media, IMO, is as a political force on its own, at least as powerful as any major party, probably more. They control the information, thereby molding public opinion, which is crucial in a democracy. And their only ethical standard is to push their own political goals – they're perfectly willing to slant, disinform and even lie for that higher purpose. They betray the public trust and abuse their tremendous power. They can sell to the public almost anything, which influences how people see the world, what their values are and also who they vote for. That's how dangerous the media is. It's more dangerous than Obama and more dangerous than the mullahs because today, and even more so in the past, Islam or radical Islam is relatively easier to deal with if the people had the will. The people don't have the will because the media is lying to them for decades about the gravity of the problem. Meanwhile the Islamists get stronger and stronger. By the time the problem couldn't be denied anymore the situation will be far nastier than it was earlier, when it was still relatively easier to prevent.
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The movie obama 2016 makes it clear what really motivates obama. It is not islam, it is a combination of marxism, european hating anti colonialism, and black libertion theology.
September 16, 2012 - 1:52 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
darth vader
Old school, with all due respect, the Media since the late 1940s has not been patriotic period. They ignored the Stalin mass murders-it took Khrushev of all people to first mention that. They supported Mao Tse Tung over Chiang Kai shek in China. They referred to Castro and Che Guevarra as freedom fighters. Same with Ho Chi Minh. Walter Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley supported the communists over our soldiers in Vietnam, and after Nam did there best to bring discredit onto those who served in the armed forces. The media today is no different than they were 50 years ago. The difference is they are now exposed for the anti-american, anti-freedom filth they truly are.
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Herodotus Prime
And "Uncle Walter" declared Vietnam "lost" shortly after the devstating Communist military defeat known as the Tet Offensive.
But "old school" was referring to the pre-Vietnam days, which you covered well. Don't forget that Edward R. Murrow defended colleagues (against McCarthy) who turned out to be spies according to the Venona files and Soviet archives.
September 14, 2012 - 12:37 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
27. Johann
It is very obvious that MSM radical Chris Mathews often echos the sentiments of the arab street; he often refers to their wisdom when he talks about the middle east. He also seems to be doped up on something when he rambles back and forth about his vicious hatred of white people and Christians. Some would say he foams at the mouth. Mathews is one of the leaders of the Democrat party, having worked for Jimmy Carter and Tip(the drunk)O'Neill. During their time in power it is obvious that these two men taught little Chris a thing or two.
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28. darth vader
the communist pigs in the media are FAR more dangerous. Most Americans view moslems as zealots and a crazies, and Islam does nothing to dispell that. The media, and there friends in academia, are far more dangerous because they are credible to the uninformed. The media also speak the same language we do, so there ability to lie and manipulate is greater.
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29. Paul of Alexandria
"not a case of protests directed at the United States"? Then why are they burning our embassies? Why was there a mortar attack against the (supposedly) safe-house for embassy personnel in Benghazi? Why did all of the attacks just happen to occur on 9/11? I suppose that he's right, though – these aren't "protests", they're outright attacks.
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30. Leatherneck
The one thing they share is paganism. However, the paganism of the CFR, and the WTO agenda is much more dangerous. According to DaOne, and company mouth by Hillery today, is it is a good thing for America to support.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and bet half my next pay check on more blood shed before region 4 of the WTO has it's pagan birth.
My prayers to the G-d of Noah, Abraham, Moses, and King David in Christ's name to our military persons.
Thank you for supporting my freedom of speech.
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31. Jeff Charles
It is NOT about the video. Repeat. Shampoo. Repeat.
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32. mr.simmon
Imagine if the horrific image of the slain American ambassador went viral in the same manner that the "Obama girl" did.
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33. Jaladhi
MSM is soul brother of communists, fascists, Islamist, Muslims. They have become liars or they were like this all the time – remember Duranty and his propaganda of communist Soviet Union in NYTimes!! They can never report the truth about them. And the same thing happened and is happening again with their support for Obama. Judge for yourself how much truth they tell about him and how diligent they at hiding all his background from Americans.
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34. Rob Crawford
The modern press and terrorists are mutual parasites on civilization.
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35. Andy Gump (formerly Oscar the Grump)
Parts of Los Angeles are being blocked off and people are being forced to leave their buildings because of bomb threats. The area around the Israeli Consulate and the Jewish Federation is involved in this area as well as parts of Cedar Sinai Hospital's outlying buildings. The Arab Spring has come has come to Los Angeles. Nothing is being stated on the news broadcasts; however, the police radio is humming about it. I was wondering why I saw so many fire engines moving so quickly earlier today. Now I understand.
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36. weo
The cancer that inflicts our country won't be purged until the primary agents are eliminated or quarantined.
Then we can addess the problems with radical islam.
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37. cfbleachers
MSNBC and the Obama administration (but I repeat myself) have moved boldly forward to suppress and criminalize any free speech that intentionally denigrates religion as accessories to murder, mayhem, incitement to riot and holds the these people in great disrespect.
In that vein, they have begun action against:
1) George Carlin's estate
Long time advocates of putting Carlin behind bars, the Saleftists have hated Carlin, never laughing at his male-bashing, Bible-hating, rants…it is clear from ALL their heretofore efforts to silence him.
2)Bill Maher
Not only are the Saleftists going to give back the million dollar contribution, they are preparing a special criminal Act in the code just for him.
3)Matt Stone and Trey Parker
Hard to tell if the Saleftists want lethal injections or the electric chair for Stone and Parker, who don't always toe the Saleftist line.
I'm sure this is true because the Saleftists have declared that they want to hold anyone who denigrates religion to a criminal standard and take away their First Amendment rights. And…as we all know…they have NEVER been on the other side of this moral fence. You can fisk them, if you don't believe me.
The American Media can be trusted on this subject just like every other subject they advocate….er…report on. The Saleftists….the new sheriffs in town.
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38. Nomadic100
I have long noticed that Jay Carney throws around the word "obviously" in a promiscuous manner. Almost every time he employs the word, what he is referring to as "obvious" is anything but obvious and most probably untrue. For Carney, the word is a substitute for facts (which don't exist) to support his assertions. Pathetic excuse for a presidential spokesman!
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39. Whistleblower
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald named as source of leak.
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40. Andy Gump (formerly Oscar the Grump)
I just came from the corner where the Israeli Consulate and Jewish Federation are and there was absolutely nothing going on there. I did see some meter maids trying to give tickets and cabbies looking for a fare. Last time there was a bomb scare in that area, you couldn't get within two blocks of the corner. I also went by the Cedar Sinai building that was supposed to be evacuated. Again, nothing. I have to apologize for my misinformation; however, I do have a credible source and can't say anything more about it. It is the first time that my source has been incorrect.
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41. Mutnodjmet
American Journalism Has Been Officially Outsourced
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42. triplesec
Obama's second Nobel Peace Prize should be announced any day now.
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43. Walter Sobchak
High on Tramadol? I don't think so. I have a lot of personal experience with Tramadol. Indeed I have prescription for it, and a bottle of it in my medicine cabinet.
Tramadol is an opiate derivative. However, it is not nearly as strong as other common opiates such as Hydrocodone (Vicodin). I usually take 100 mg of Tramadol. 100 mg of hydrocodone would put me in the ER. That much tramadol, dulls my lumbar pain, but does not make me high or even woozy.
I seriously doubt that there are large quantities of Tramadol in circulation in the Middle East. The synthesis is not easy. A much more parsimonious guess it that heroin, which can be manufactured in primitive back country labs is being packaged as Tramadol in the ME. I sincerely doubt that there is a medical examiner in Egypt or Gaza who could assay the difference between Tramadol and other opiates. Nor do I think they try very hard to find out.
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44. steveg
Call me a fool, but I actually thought the media would make more of an effort to be objective in the 2012 election cycle. Man, was I completely wrong.
The media loves analyzing polls, but apparantly paid little attention to the Pew study after the 2008 election which revealed that 75% of the public believed that the media was in the tank for Obama. Like Mary Mapes, their work is an agenda of liberal causes.
I cannot decide which outlet is the worst. One day I think NBC is the more bias, and then ABC does something that changes that opinion for a day or two until CBS pulls another stunt like the fake documents. They are all headquartered in NYC which has been the epicenter of the corrupt media empire for a long time.
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45. carla
We need to come down on the unwashed Arab street with irresistable power. Enough of the bullshit Obama ballet. Tell Morsi he's just lost $1,000,000,000…..he is not nor would he be ever our friend or ally.
Divert the funds to Israel. We can do without their oil. Other then dates and camels, that is all they have to offer. These primitives, despite their cell phones are locked into the 8th century. Message to Islam; shape up or ship out. You have a thin skin? TS. If we cannot win their hearts and minds, well, that is why we've perfected WMD. It works both ways fellahin. The message should be that if chaos is their goal, we're are more than happy to provide it.September 14, 2012 - 2:23 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Roger,why call the liberal agitprop media complex the "mainstream media." Remember the old black and white Frankenstein movies of the 30′s and 40′s? The evil genius was always served by a shambling, slovenly, dim witted minion named "Igor." I propose that the so-called "mainstream media" be described simply as the "Igor media." This more accurately describes their servility to the Great Barak and the Democrat party. And, of course, they are sloppy and stupid. Most especially, it is a term of delicious ridicule and sublime contempt. An utmost and subversive attack upon their insufferable self-regard. All accomplished by two simple words. "Igor media." Doesn't it just roll off the tongue?
September 14, 2012 - 2:39 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Not a bad idea. Not to mention a homage to the late, great Marty Feldman.
September 14, 2012 - 2:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
47. MayberryLady
"So our media…. hoping that Romney had made a "gaffe" even when it was clear that his analysis, if not his timing, was correct."
There was nothing wrong with Romney's timing. It was perfect. For the love of God, this unbridled act of war demanded an immediate, unequivocal, and Presidential response—and Romney gave one—for all our sakes.
As he said at the outset, "It is never too early for the United States government to condemn attacks on Americans and to defend our values." And his reply to the final question, implying prematurity in his response "when all the facts weren't known," is worthy of praise, not blame: " I spoke out when the key fact that I referred to was known, which was that the embassy of the United States issued what appeared to be an apology for American principles. That was a mistake. And I believe when a mistake is made of that significance, you speak out."
Whatever other qualities he may or may not possess, Romney has more genuine love of country, competence, and simple human decency in his little finger than Obama has in his entire God-forsaken, benighted, traitorous body. And at this critical juncture, when Romney is the only thing standing between the United States as we know it and an unthinkable future, it's my belief that unequivocal support will do far more to secure that future than nipping at his heels with what are essentially trivial complaints.
September 14, 2012 - 2:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
P. S. Otherwise a terrific piece, Roger.
September 14, 2012 - 2:55 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
48. cfbleachers
Here are ten questions for PJM readers:
1)Are your First Amendment protections better off today than they were four years ago?
2)Are your borders more secure than they were four years ago?
3)Is our relationship with our allies better than it was four years ago?
4)Is our relationship with our enemies better than it was four years ago?
5)Is our national debt situation better than it was four years ago?
6)Are our large cities in better fiscal shape than they were four years ago?
7)Is our national unity less or more divided than it was four years ago?
8)Is our budgeting clearer and more concise than it was four years ago?
9)Are you getting better and deeper investigative reporting into government actions and motivations than you did four years ago?
10)Are you paying less for gasoline than you did four years ago?
It really doesn't matter how you answer the broader question about being personally "better off" than you were four years ago, if you answer the above questions truthfully…you, as a fellow countryman are simply much, much worse off than you were four years ago. As an AMERICAN, you are substantially worse off than you were four years ago.
Your information stream lies to you with impunity. Your elected officials (and czars and czarinas implanted into YOUR government) abuse and usurp power reserved to you and you alone. Your borders are a sieve. Your military is being gutted. Your money is being stolen. You are being slapped in the face repeatedly and not even shown a budget of how YOUR money is going to be further stolen. Your rights and liberties have been eroded. Your Constitution has been shredded. Your checks and balances have been evaporated. Your natural resources are being squandered. Your cities and states are being bankrupted and when they try to protect themselves, they are beings sued. Your religious beliefs are being trampled. Your credit rating as a nation is being trashed.
You are in the middle of an overthrow. This is what it feels like.
And no, you are definitely NOT better off…even if you personally won the lottery. You are being ruled. And, your media is an enemy against you.
September 14, 2012 - 3:01 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Abortion, Gay Marriage, and Amnesty!
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Sorry mr.cdbleachers:
Over 50% of voters don't care about the murders of our diplomats.
Nor the decomposition of European civilization
Nor the denouement of the American experiment
Nor the porous southern border
Nor the economic calamity that looms
Hell they don't even care about whatever Romney isNo. They care about getting their govt check. Monthly.
Got it?The tipping point has been reached; our fellow citizens will vote themselves the treasury.
Got it
September 14, 2012 - 4:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
49. davelnaf
Kudos, Mr. Simon; the symmetry was very interesting. So, what can you say about the MSM that doesn't soon turn into a curse for promoting the incredible misfire in the WH? The plain fact is that normal only find out about what the MSM's is up to when the largely conservative alternative media points out for instructional purposes their latest outrage against the truth. The MSM's tireless promotion of O has relegated them to the underground of mainstream American life and despite their falling polls they haven't yet figured it out. One doubts, though, that anything would deter them from their mission to save Misfire. But after Election night will they also begin re-building their organizations post-O, like the dem party? Even if they do I think they'll be like the old circus that still comes to town and no one pays much attention to anymore.
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50. RebeccaH
I said it before, and I'll say it again. To the MSM: Once we, the American voters, have cleaned up this political mess, we're coming for you.
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51. Mike2
Arab street or MSM, which is more dangerous? MSM without a doubt!
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52. Corlyss
"The media killed Ambassador Stevens. They are the ones responsible."
Don't be ridiculous. That's falling for the same silly confusion of thought as the MSM does when they blame conservative rhetoric and law-abiding gun owners forlunatics' murderous rampages in schools and parking lots.
Muslim paramilitaries killed our diplomats in response to orders from Al Qaeda.
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53. Macheath
Is there something we can do to fight back against these elites in the media that think they run this country and can do everything in their power to pick who will be president of the country? They aren't even subtle about it anymore, they have decided they want Obama re-elected (just like they want him elected 4 years ago) and they are going to do everything in their power to make that happen. We have maybe a few thousand arrogant lefty "journalists" doing everything they can to pick who can be president, and they've decided the are going to re-elect Obama. We need to do something drastic, we need to take our country back from these creeps that think they can keep installing lefties into the presidency, no matter how horrible a job they are doing.
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54. carl
Please understand from an old vet, USMC/USN (Vietnam)
we had a term for what we're seeing and have seen from Clinton/Obama, et al.
Vote them out.September 14, 2012 - 6:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
55. Dave Surls
"Meanwhile, our government and its State Department have been revealed to be criminally negligent in the protection of their own people."
IOW, business as usual.
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56. Jeffrey
What is already bare naked can hardly be unmasked. If the MSM and their hero hoodlum need cover, it comes from their own minds. The next step is to cry out to the rocks to fall them on the day the smoke clears and they see the truth of their own nakedness.
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57. Pragmatist
What do you think is the headlines story in the UK's Lame Stream EneMedia with the whole Islamic world in flames . The White House WIMP's incompetence is being exposed for all to see. So whats the Headline story – Yep you got it its "Kates T*TS".
If there was ever a more perfect example of the prurience and inconsequentiality of the Lame Stream EneMedia then I dont know about it.
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58. Pragmatist
By any possible measure the you care to examine the, never ever before BUT NOW TWICE under the USURPER, FINANCIALLY DOWNGRADED USA is worse off today in EVERY way than when the USURPER, or as he has revealed himself to be the the Unqualified, Incompetent White House WIMP, took power.
So why you ask is he still neck and neck in the opinions polls with Romney ? Well there is only one possible answer to that question and that is :-
'Apart from the Blacks, who remain as they were in 2008 i.e. BLATANT RACISTS, American voters are STUPID"
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59. Patricia
"Beneath the Middle Easterners' rage is an obvious humiliation over the backwardness of their culture."
That's the key, Roger, and this problem will never be solved until it's recognized as psychopathology. It's no accident that in the '60s the main terrorist groups of the world were Italian, German and Japanese, made up of confused, angry sons and daughters of the Axis.
The same is happening now in the Middle East as the old tyrants can no longer keep information from their people. They hate us and love us, and retreat into madness.
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PTouch Labeller Idea - Photo Negatives
So my most-procrastinated project is going thru and organizing photos (16 years in the queue).
Anyway, I finally began last night. One thing that has gone the way of the dodo bird since Digital came out, is negatives. Negatives is also one reason I have procrastinated (how to file, how to do it, etc). I hate to toss - just too hard but I also didn't know how to manage them.
While I was sorting last night, it dawned on me that NOW I have a PTOUCH (Thanks, Talley Sue!) so I got it out, to put a little label with date, and contents on the negative package!
It is working out great! Just wanted to drop an idea, and also let you know that I have challenged myself to get this done and get the monkey off my back.
So here's my status.
I have organized 16 years of photos that were tossed into a box the size that would hold a television! They are now organized into photo boxes, and sit nicely on a shelf.
I have one small, shoebox sized box left! That's all!
It was just a slow steady tortoise process of getting it out on the card table, and working on it whenever I had a few minutes. It feels so liberating!
re: the negatives, there ended up being fewer than it seemed. They are in one photobox, all labeled!!!
I also labelled the spines of a couple of the albums so it's easy to tell what is in which book (I put most photos in boxes, with separator tabs, but certain photos deserved to be in an album).
Talk about spring cleaning! And what fun walking down memory lane while I did it!
Tossed all the various holders and envelopes from the photo development labs. That was about 3 bags of trash by itself! Tossed a few pics, but kept most; not sure why. Now that sorting/stowing is over, I might take it further and get rid of doubles or give to people who were also in the photos.
Wow Karen, good for you. I'm so happy that you got it done for YOU! And had fun doing it. I finished all mine 3 years ago and haven't touched them since. Been throwing everything in a filing cabinet. I'm dreading starting all over again. I can't believe I let it go this long. DS has a light table, I should put all the negatives on that and look at them and decide what to keep.
You are inspirational. This is exactly what I am working on. (see "need encouragement and advice")
You have described exactly what I envision when I am done: separately filed and labeled negatives, labeled albums for deserving photos, and filed extras.
Tonight I will work for one hour.
I'm not sure how to handle negatives, bcs I'm not sure I want to keep the photos in the blocks they were when they were taken,.
I've sort of envisioned "birthday parties" and "vacations" and "animal pictures from zoo trips"--but I suppose I could find those things flipping through a box or album done by year as well, couldn't I?
I have never, in 41 years, had to go back to find a negative for something (except for a reprint right after I got them developed).
I want to label the accordian packets of negatives and then place them in my firesafe for 2 reasons: 1)I am always worried, in this 84 year old house, about an electrical fire and 2)I try to have my things ready in case we need to evacuate for some horrible reason. Unlikely, but not totally far-fetched being within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, near I-90, and 5 miles from a major Great Lakes port.
People and pictures and personal documents. That's all I'd grab. And food.
Actually, I might start a new thread on this one.
I've decided to pitch the negatives. I haven't used them and we always get three sets of prints made, so I usually have an extra anyway.
With the reprint machines available, I'll just make extras if I need them.
I have three very large boxes of photos. Maybe this will be my project for this summer. Just getting them in some type of chronological order. I can't ever remember how old my kids were in pictures, but I always remember the clothing size. How strange is that?
Gloria, a good number of the prints I found had dates on the back, put there by the photo processing company. I still had to figure out probably a third, but I was surprised by how many had the date on them.
Also - in recent years, the photo processing folks give you a CD instead of negatives, and the CD had the date printed on it!
Hope this helps.
I got everything organized in albums a few years ago, and have been keeping up with putting everything in since then pretty well. For negatives, I got a 3 ring binder and some negative pages. Each page fits one roll of film, and then I label the page. These are mostly for pictures that are important and that I would really miss if the picture was gone. When the kids were young, we used to get doubles, which ended up in boxes. I now have those in photo boxes. At the time, we gave some doubles to relatives. But I have found that it is really useful to have doubles - for the 8th grade slide show - they had a picture of many of the kids when they were young followed by a "now" shot. That was really neat! Then, they are always looking for old pictures for the yearbook, for school projects, DD just finished a biography project. I just tell them they can use the pictures in the boxes, they can cut them up if they want, whatever. As long as they don't touch the ones in the albums. (younger DD took a bunch when she was younger, and I still have not found them. The negatives were helpful there - I found out which pics. were missing and made new copies. But I have yet to locate all the negatives, and there were some pics. other people had taken). Now that we have a digital camera, I'm not sure what we'll do with pictures. But since the DDs are taking up so much space on the computer with music & their own pictures, I think I will get a hard drive to store them all on.
OH MY - I am in LOVE w/ the PTouch - even though I tossed ALL my negatives years ago. THAT decision was based upon my having custody of all family photos - back before my birth 66 years ago - even the black/white photos are often "unknown" - so I could not see how I would ever need the negatives. Digital changes everything.
Now - to the PTouch - it is the key to making the organization fun - labels on drawers, baskets, and such. Wonderful tool - because it catalyzes some activity!!!


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12th annual Richmond Kids Expo planned at Richmond Raceway Complex
February 28 2015 - , 10 a.m., $3 to $7
The 12th annual Richmond Kids Expo will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Richmond Raceway Complex. Parents can shop and learn about products and services offered at exhibitors' booths while spending the day with their children in a safe indoor environment. Admission is $7 for adults, $3 for kids 2-12 and free for children younger than two. For details, visit http://www.richmondkidsexpo.com
Henrico PAL recognizes supporters, HSHS athlete
The Henrico Police Athletic League (PAL) held its Sixth Annual Awards Banquet Feb. 5 at The Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen, celebrating accomplishments of 2014 and recognizing outstanding contributions to the organization. Henrico County Juvenile Domestic Court Judge Denis Soden served as master of ceremonies and former Harlem Globetrotter Melvin Adams served as keynote speaker.
Among the 2014 honorees were Richmond International Raceway (Significant Supporter), Richmond Strikers Soccer Club (Significant Supporter), Henrico County Schools-Pupil Transportation (Summer Camp Supporter), Bruce Richardson, Jr. (Youth of the Year), Sandra Williams (Volunteer of the Year), Thomas Williams (Employee of the Year), Mikki Pleasants (Board Member of the Year), and Michelle Sheehan (Police Officer of the Year). > Read more.
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The Fresh Start For Single Mothers and Their Children Community Outreach Project will host "Necessary Ingredients" on Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., beginning Feb. 12 and continuing through May 7, at Velocity Church, 3300 Church Road in Henrico. Dinner and childcare will be provided free of charge.
The program is designed as a fun and uplifting event for single mothers that is designed to provide support, new friendships, encouragement and motivation. Each event will include weekly prizes and giveaways. > Read more.
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Hundreds of 'tweens' and their moms will attend the Secret Keeper Girl Crazy Hair Tour at West End Assembly of God on Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m., a popular Bible-based tour geared toward building and strengthening relationships between mothers and their daughters (typically ages 8 to 12).
The event will feature a full fashion show, oversized balloon sculptures and confetti cannons – all in the name of inner beauty, Biblical modesty and vibrant purity. > Read more.
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'Don't ask, don't tell' survey shows ambivalence to gays in the military
The Pentagon's report on 'don't ask, don't tell' suggests that the ban on openly gay members can be repealed safely. But significant resistance remains in some quarters, including the Marines.
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The results of the Pentagon's highly anticipated "don't ask, don't tell" survey, released Tuesday, confirmed what many suspected based on earlier Pentagon leaks: that within most of the US military, repeal of the ban on openly gay service members serving "would not be the wrenching dramatic change that many have feared and predicted," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Mr. Gates urged Congress to pass the repeal before the US courts do it "by judicial fiat," an event that Gates called "my greatest fear."
In a briefing Tuesday afternoon, Gates also told reporters that he believes repealing the ban is the right thing to do. "One of the things that is most important to me is personal integrity," Gates said. "And a policy or a law that in effect requires people to lie gives me a problem."
More than two-thirds of troops surveyed – in what senior Pentagon officials called the largest, most comprehensive review of a policy matter that the military has ever conducted – said they would not object to gays and lesbians serving openly in uniform. Half of US troops think a repeal of the policy will have mixed or no effect, while another 15 to 20 percent said that the repeal's effect would be "positive," according to the survey.
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Lynne Irene Stewart | |
Lynne Stewart | |
Born | Brooklyn, New York, USA | October 8, 1939
Education | Rutgers School of Law–Newark |
Occupation | Defense attorney |
Spouse(s) | Ralph Poynter |
Parents | Irene and John Feltham |
Lynne Irene Stewart | |
Lynne Stewart | |
Born | Brooklyn, New York, USA | October 8, 1939
Education | Rutgers School of Law–Newark |
Occupation | Defense attorney |
Spouse(s) | Ralph Poynter |
Parents | Irene and John Feltham |
Lynne Irene Stewart (born October 8, 1939) is a former attorney who was known for representing controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants. She was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005,[1] and sentenced to 28 months in prison. Her felony conviction led to her being automatically disbarred. She was convicted of helping pass messages from her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, to his followers in al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an organization designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States Secretary of State.
She was re-sentenced on July 15, 2010, to 10 years in prison in light of her perjury at trial.[2] She served her sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.[3]
Stewart was released from prison on December 31, 2013 on a compassionate release order because of her terminal breast cancer diagnosis.[4][5][6]
Stewart was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of parents of Swedish/German and English/Irish heritage. She grew up in Bellerose, Queens and graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in 1957.[7][8] She attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan but left without a degree. Stewart graduated from Wagner College on Staten Island with a B.A. in political science in 1961.[7][9][10] She earned a Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law–Newark in Newark, New Jersey in 1975. She was admitted to practice law in New York in 1977.[11]
Stewart believes that violence is at times needed to correct for the perceived injustices of capitalism. She states that she doesn't "believe in anarchistic violence but in directed violence," with directed violence being that which is "directed at the institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism and sexism, and at the people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions, and accompanied by popular support."[12]
Stewart was admitted to the NY State Bar on January 31, 1977[13] and for much of her career as a lawyer, Stewart represented a number of economically disadvantaged clients as well as more high-profile cases. Stewart is a self-described "movement lawyer"[14] who took a wider interest in promoting the general political interests of those she represented, rather than only dealing with the specific charges against them.[15] Stewart defended Weather Underground member David Gilbert, who was found guilty for his role in the 1981 Brinks armored car robbery in which two police officers and a security guard were murdered.[16]
In 1991, Stewart was subpoenaed to explain alternative fee arrangements with a gang member whom she had been defending on a drug trafficking charge. Stewart refused the subpoena and eventually pleaded guilty to second degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor charge that would not result in her disbarment.[7][17]
Another high-profile client was Black Panther Willie Holder who hijacked Western Airlines Flight 701 on June 2, 1972, in an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate for the release of Angela Davis.[18]
Along with William Kunstler, Stewart represented Larry Davis, who had been charged with the attempted murder of nine NYPD officers during a shootout, as well as the murder of four Bronx drug dealers. Stewart and Kunstler secured Davis an acquittal on the more serious murder and attempted murder charges, but Davis was found guilty on a lesser felony weapon possession charge.[19] After the trial, Stewart ended her relationship with Kunstler, feeling marginalized by Kunstler hogging the publicity of the case and not giving her due credit. Even Davis believed that Stewart was more instrumental in his acquittal, stating that "everyone thinks Kunstler beat the case. Lynne Stewart beat the case.".[20]
Another high-profile client of Stewart's was Sammy "the Bull" Gravano whom she unsuccessfully defended on ecstasy trafficking charges.[21]
Stewart says that all her high-profile clients share the distinction of being revolutionaries against unjust systems or people whose cases expose those injustices.[16] However, unlike most movement lawyers who found communications with prosecuting attorneys to be repugnant, former assistant US Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy, found Stewart to be "eminently reasonable and practical" and commented that "when she gave her word on something, she honored it — she never acted as if she thought one was at liberty to be false when dealing with the enemy."[22]
After the first World Trade Center bombing, the FBI began to investigate Omar Abdel-Rahman. The FBI recorded Rahman issuing a fatwa that encouraged acts of violence against US civilian targets, particularly in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area. Rahman was arrested on 24 June 1993.[23] The targets were the United Nations Headquarters, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, the George Washington Bridge, and the FBI's main New York office at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building.[24] There were also plans to bomb Jewish targets in the city as well as assassinating U.S. Senator Al D'Amato and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.[25]
In November 1994, former Johnson administration attorney general Ramsey Clark met with Stewart and asked her to take Rahman on as a client after Rahman dismissed his court-appointed lawyer and his other lawyers, William Kunstler and Ron Kuby, were taken off the case for conflict of interest. Stewart was reluctant at first, but Clark convinced her to take the case, arguing that otherwise "the Arab world would feel betrayed by their friends on the American left."[15] Interviewed by the Washington Post about her embrace of Rahman's case, she said, "my own political sense tells me that the only hope for change in Egypt is the fundamentalist movement."[26] Kuby, who had represented Rahman earlier, disagreed with Stewart's characterization, stating, "I love Lynne, but no one in the world could fairly posit the sheikh as a progressive or liberal on any issue." Stewart contended that she understood fundamentalists because attorney general "John Ashcroft is one."[26]
During Rahman's trial, she argued to the jury that Rahman had been framed for his political and religious teachings and not, as the prosecution alleged, for conspiring in any violent acts against the United States.[12] Rahman was convicted of seditious conspiracy on October 1, 1995, and in 1996 he was sentenced to life in prison.[27] Stewart reportedly wept when the jury announced its decision.[15]
As part of Stewart's defense of Rahman, and her serving for several years on post-conviction issues, she was subject to modified "special administrative measures" which govern communications between suspects and their legal counsel. Stewart had accepted the condition that, in order to be allowed to meet with Abdel Rahman in prison, she would not "use [their] meetings, correspondence, or phone calls with Abdel Rahman to pass messages between third parties (including, but not limited to, the media) and Abdel Rahman".[28] The special administrative measures, or SAMs, were modified in the wake of the September 11th attacks and were designed to prevent communications that could endanger US national security or lead to acts of violence and terrorism.[29]
According to a federal grand jury indictment, Stewart along with interpreter Mohamed Yousry, an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at York College CUNY, and postal clerk Ahmed Sattar passed messages between Rahman and his supporters in violation of the SAM,[30] thereby conspiring to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. The indictment also charged Stewart with violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A and 18 U.S.C. § 2, and making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001), and Ahmed Sattar with being an active Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya leader who served as a vital link between Rahman and the group's members. Stewart was accused in the indictment of passing Rahman's blessing for a resumption of terrorist operations to al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya members in Egypt after they inquired whether they should continue to honor a ceasefire agreement with the Egyptian government.[30] According to video surveillance of Rahman's cell Stewart, Yousry and Rahman had been tricking the guards into believing that Stewart and Rahman were having a routine conversation relating to his case, when Rahman was dictating statements to Yousry with Stewart joking that she should get an award for acting.[15][31]
Stewart said that the dispute was over one communication on behalf of her client to his supporters via a Reuters article, followed by a clarification after it appeared to have been misinterpreted. The clarification said: "I [Omar Abdel-Rahman] am not withdrawing my support of the cease-fire, I am merely questioning it and I am urging you, who are on the ground there to discuss it and to include everyone in your discussions as we always have done."[32][33]
The material-support charges were dismissed in the summer of 2003, but in November 2003, Stewart was re-indicted[34] on charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism. She was convicted on these charges.
According to Judge John G. Koeltl, in denying Stewart's motion to reject the verdict as unfounded,
A rational jury could have inferred that, by relaying a statement withdrawing support for a cessation of violence by an influential, pro-violence leader of a terrorist group, Stewart knew that she was providing support to those within the IG (Islamic Group) who sought to return to violence—who the jury could have found were participants in the Count Two conspiracy, particularly Taha.[33]
Michael Tigar, her attorney, stated that "this case really is a threat to all the lawyers who are out there attempting to represent people that face these terrible consequences."[32] Supporters of Stewart alleged that the government charged her for her speech in defending the rights of her client. They believed that Stewart's efforts to release communications from her client were part of an appropriate defense method to gain public awareness and support. They also expressed alarm that wiretaps and hidden cameras authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were used by the government to gather evidence against her, which they called a violation of attorney–client privilege. George Soros' Open Society Institute also donated $20,000 to Stewart's legal defense fund in 2002.[35] Commenting on her case, human rights organization Front Line states that it "has had a chilling effect on human rights defenders who stand between government agencies and potential victims of abuses."[36]
On February 10, 2005, following a nine-month trial and 13 days of jury deliberations, Stewart was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government (18 U.S.C. § 371), providing material support to terrorists (18 U.S.C. § 2339A and 18 U.S.C. § 2) and conspiring to conceal it (18 U.S.C. § 371), and making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001). Co-defendants Mohamed Yousry and Ahmed Sattar were found guilty as charged.[37][38] Her conviction meant automatic disbarment, and on October 16, 2006, Judge Koeltl sentenced Stewart to 28 months in prison. Yousry and Sattar were sentenced to 20 months and 28 years, respectively.[39] Yousry was released in 2011. Sattar is serving his sentence at the Federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.[40]
Stewart remained free on bail pending the results of her appeal.[41]
In a letter to the court dated September 26, 2006, Stewart stated that her actions were consistent with how she had always represented her clients but that she had failed to recognize the difference in a post-2001 America and, in hindsight, should have been more careful to avoid misinterpretation. Claiming that persons with 'other agendas' had misinterpreted her actions, she said: "I inadvertently allowed those with other agendas to corrupt the most precious and inviolate basis of our profession – the attorney-client relationship.".[42] According to The New York Times, Stewart "acknowledged ... that she knowingly violated prison rules and was careless, overemotional and politically naïve in her representation of a terrorist client."[43] Stewart requested that the Court exercise the sentencing discretion given judges by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Booker, and impose a non-custodial sentence. The original sentencing was to be in July 2005, but Stewart's defense team had repeatedly asked for and received numerous adjournments because she was receiving treatment for breast cancer. The defense team also argued that Stewart's age, problematic general health and cancer history could well mean that she would be in prison for the rest of her life if she were sentenced to serve several years.
The prosecution requested that the Court impose the maximum statutory penalty, saying, "We hope that this sentence of 30 years will not only punish Stewart for her actions, but serve as a deterrent for other lawyers who believe that they are above the rules and regulations of penal institutions or otherwise try to skirt the laws of this country."[44]
Judge Koeltl refused both to impose the 30-year sentence proposed by the prosecution or to waive jail time entirely as Stewart had requested. He stated that while over her long career of representing unpopular clients, Stewart had "performed a public service, not only to her clients, but to the nation," her conduct was "extraordinarily severe" and "criminal" in this case.[45]
In response to Stewart's appeal, a Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed the convictions on November 17, 2009. Further, it ordered the district court to revoke Stewart's bail immediately and remanded the case for resentencing in light of her possible perjury at her trial and other factors not properly considered against her by the sentencing judge.[46]
On November 19, 2009, Stewart surrendered to U.S. Marshals in New York City to begin serving a 28-month sentence as prisoner #53504-054. In January 2010, the full Second Circuit bench, in a split decision, declined to reconsider its panel's affirmance and resentencing directive. On July 15, 2010, Stewart was re-sentenced by Judge Koeltl to 10 years in prison, taking into consideration what he concluded were false statements she made under oath at her trial and other factors as directed by the appellate court.[47]
Renowned veteran First Amendment lawyer Herald Price Fahringer contested the new sentence, bringing the case back to the Court of Appeals. On February 29, 2012, Fahringer presented oral argument based on freedom of speech, arguing that out-of-court comments on a public issue cannot be punished with enhanced imprisonment, suggesting that otherwise "no one will be able to comment after a sentence for fear that the same thing could happen to them."[48] The appeal later failed before a panel of judges, after finding no violations of free speech.[49] She filed a certiorari petition to the US Supreme Court in February 2013.[50]
Stewart's breast cancer returned after she was imprisoned. Scheduled for surgery for other problems the week she was sentenced, Stewart instead had to wait eighteen months for that surgery. In the meantime the cancer metastasized to the point that her attending physician called it the worst case he had ever seen.[51] She has received chemotherapy in custody but her condition is feared to be terminal.[50] Human rights activists Dick Gregory and Desmond Tutu publicly endorsed a petition to grant her compassionate release, while conservative commentator Michelle Malkin has advocated that she should die in prison.[52]
On June 25, 2013, Stewart announced that she had received a letter stating that Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels had denied her request for compassionate release.[53]
In December 2013, prosecutors wrote a letter to the judge stating that Stewart had 18 months to live. They said she had been diagnosed with anemia, high blood pressure, asthma and Type 2 diabetes.[54]
On December 31, 2013, the denial of Stewart's request for compassionate release was reversed after Stewart's doctor said she had only 18 months to live. The Federal Bureau of Prisons and the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York filed a motion asking the judge in Stewart's case for a compassionate release.[55]
Stewart has a son, Geoffrey S. Stewart, also a lawyer, who lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.[56][55][57]
Stewart is married to Ralph Poynter.[58][59]


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