Burns of NYT: Insurgents Know U.S. Politics Moving in Direction Favora
April 24th, 2007 8:05 AM
Does it give the Dem leaders of Congress pause to realize that the enemies of the United States in Iraq, the people killing our troops, are banking on their political success? Reid and Pelosi might be tempted to dismiss this as the raving of a right-wing blogger. They shouldn't. It is in fact the considered view of someone they surely see as a respected, nay, an authoritative source: no less…
Media Ignore Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Death Threats, But Focus on Al Sharpton
April 23rd, 2007 7:39 PM
UPDATE I and II AT BOTTOM OF POST:Two figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Al Sharpton, were recently targeted with a death threat, but the media treated them very differently. An article by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that when the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown booked Hirsi Ali to speak, along with other Islamic leaders, a Johnstown Imam “tried to block" her from speaking and thinks…
Saturday Night Live Introduces Dick Cheney's ‘Torboto: The Robot Tha
April 22nd, 2007 7:23 PM
Yikes, sports fans, this is truly astonishing.“Saturday Night Live” on April 21 introduced a new cartoon character named “Torboto: The Robot That Tortures People” (video available here, h/t Ian).In the animated segment, Torboto is a creation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s. In order to get around Geneva Convention regulations preventing humans from torturing humans, Cheney’s scientists created a…
Moderate Muslim: U.S. Media Enable Islamic Extremists
April 20th, 2007 2:23 PM
The American press is so encumbered by political correctness and ignorant of Islamic doctrine that it is allowing extremist Muslims in this country to mask a hard-core ideology in minority politics. So says M. Zuhdi Jasser, a moderate American Muslim leader (h/t: LGF).This pandering on the part of the American press (I would add international as well), is preventing the emergence of a pan-…
BBC Promotes Darkly-Comedic, 'Poignant' Short Story about Baghdad Came
April 16th, 2007 3:33 PM
The BBC wouldn’t run a dramatic TV movie about an Iraq war hero and also banned all message board entries linking to controversial anti-terror blog Little Green Footballs, but April 17, the network tops itself. The London Times reports that the Beeb will feature “Weddings and Beheadings,” a short story by an acclaimed Pakistani-British author, which is about an Iraqi camera man who “takes a…
Jay Leno to Dems: How Will You 'Stand Up to Terrorists When You're Afr
April 11th, 2007 10:50 AM
UPDATE with video link below jump.On the April 10 "Tonight Show," host Jay Leno joked about Democrats boycotting the Fox News Channel/Congressional Black Caucus Institute debate. Wondered Leno, "How are you going to stand up to terrorists when you're afraid of Fox News?"Maybe Jay should ask Time magazine's Joe Klein, who called the Fox News debate a "sordid event" that was a clever ploy to "…
PBS Drops Documentary Against Radical Islam for 'Political Reasons
April 11th, 2007 3:00 AM
An American tax-funded documentary, titled Islam vs. Islamists, a film on how moderate Muslims feel about the corruption of their religion by Wahhabi extremists and their experiences in facing those extremists, was axed by PBS for the very reason that it puts some Muslims in a bad light, says the film's producer in Tuesday's edition of the Arizona Republic. Rampant PCism is the charge, and it is…
Lauer Pelts Pelosi's Foreign Fling: 'A Lot of People Think She Messed
April 6th, 2007 7:48 AM
Call it a flying-pig moment, or chalk it up to his concern for Dems' long-term best interests if you will. But there's no denying that on this morning's "Today," Matt Lauer absolutely unloaded on Nancy Pelosi and her ill-conceived venture into foreign policy.The segment was entitled "Democratic Diplomacy: Has Pelosi Gone Too Far?", virtually answering the question by its very asking. In the…