Karl Rove And His Retractable Horns

In a recent speech the former "architect" Karl Rove had some of those kooky anti-war protesters heckle him and hold some sign saying he is a war criminal. Never mind the obvious fact that he was on the political strategy side of the White House, not the war planning side. Either way, he laughes it off, takes it in stride. He discusses how the "Bush Lied" line is a falsehood propogated by the likes of Obama, and then answers a question as to why he is so demonized by the Left. His answer: The horns are retractable.

Joe Lieberman On Today's Democratic Party

One of the last few respectable Democrats left in our country today. Though, as we know, he is no longer officially a Democrat. He was forced to become an Independent candidate after losing his own party's primary. He explains how he could endorse someone like John McCain who happens to be a Republican. He says that the Democratic party of today is not the party he grew up in, nor is it the party in which he ran for the VP slot in 2000. He says that fringle element of th element has completely taken over that party. Joe Lieberman as McCain's VP? Not gonna happen, but it's interesting to think about the possibility and he is very close with McCain. Either way, Go Joe!

Michelle Obama: America Is Ignorant

Michelle Obama infamously declared that she is proud of her country for the first time in her adult life only because her husband is running for president. Above you see a comment that has gotten virtually no play in the media. She continues to outdo herself with her unpatriotic rhetoric. She says, "It's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That's America." Excuse me? Feeling justified in your ignorance is not what America is all about. To be frank, this woman seems to lack any patriotism. Couple this with her husband's refusal to wear a flag on his lapel and obviously his intimate association with the radical anti-American pastor Jeremiah Wright and we have reasonable doubt as to whether this duo belongs in the White House.

Islamofascists Continue To Prove Fitna's Point

It seems the Islamic world will do anything to continue to prove the point that the Dutch parliamentarian was making with his new film "Fitna." The film showed a number of verses in the Koran interspersed with Islamic sermons, footage of terrorism, and Dutch newspaper headlines.

It started with liveleak.com, the first website to share the video, pulling the video from their website after only one day because of serious threats to their staff. As LiveLeak put it, "in the end the price was too high." So the response to a video showing an Islamic prediliction toward violence and terrorism is intimidation and violent threats.

A Jihadist website responded to the video by posting in Arabic that "if there is no check on the freedom of your words, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions." This was along with a picture of Osama bin Laden and the World Trade Towers burning in the background. These words have been attributed to Bin Laden himself, his response to the famed Danish cartoons in a more recently released tape.

The Organization of the Islamic Conference added its voice to the criticism of the film released by the Dutch lawmaker. OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemned "in the strongest terms the release of the film 'Fitna' by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders." This is their full right, to object if they so please. But, pray tell, would it not be more productive and appropriate if the OIC were condemning clearly, constantly, and loudly the throat slitters, head choppers, and suicide bombers that murder innocents, both Muslim and non-Muslim alike, in the name of Islam?

A militant believed linked to al-Qaida's deputy chief Ayman al-Zawahri, Qari Mohammed Yusuf, told The Associated Press last week that "foreigners will be attacked. The situation will change, change, change" because of the film. Whether this is true or not is yet to be seen, but that there is truth in the film that is being proven by the Jihadist response is undoubtable. Furthermore, hundreds of Islamists staged angry protests across Pakistan over the film. This may not seem like a lot, and it is a relatively small number compared to the response to the Danish cartoons, but it does not take many people to carry out Jihad operations. The Taliban has also threatened retaliation against Dutch troops in Afghanistan.

Now comes Omar Bakri, the Libyan-based Jihadist Muslim cleric who has been barred from Britain. He makes the exact point that "Fitna" itself was making in no uncertain terms. He says exactly what Wilders film itself meant to say. Bakri did not think the film was very offensive at all. He said, "On the contrary, if we leave out the first images and the sound of the page being torn, it could be a film by the Mujahideen."

The Human Rights Council has also gotten in on the action. The U.N. Human Rights Council, which is dominated by Arab and other Muslim countries, adopted a resolution Thursday in a 21-10 vote. It said the Council was concerned about the defamation of religions and urged governments to prohibit it. Interestingly, the only religion specified as being attacked is Islam, to which eight paragraphs refer. It is well known that the Human Rights Council is a joke, and this only goes to prove it. But the response of the Arab and Muslim dominated Council should not surprise anyone. And I raise the same objection I did earlier with the OIC. Condemnations of the film were also heard from the UN Secretary General who said "there is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here.” Why is the right of free expression not at stake here? Is the right of free expression not at stake when Muslims sensitivities are offended? I saw the film and I personally saw no incitment to violence either. What I did see was a film depicting how the Islamic religion and its holy book are being used by the ones who are truly violent and hateful to justify their actions.

The response from the Islamic world was predictable. It is what we have come to know all too well. Empty condemnations of hate speech but hardly ever a condemnation against terrorism itself. There have also been threats and promises of violence, which we can only pray will not be fulfilled. No one has happened to be killed over this. But then again, that's why the Dutch lawmaker has a constant security detail. Al-Qaeda websites have already posted photos of Wilders with statements such as "The Dutch, enemy of Allah, has done what he threatened to do and distributed his film." Whether one fully agrees with the content of Wilder's film, or his politics, has become irrelevant. The response of the Jihadis has shown us that the free world must be willing to stand up for his right to express himself and must end the cowtowing to Islamofascist intimidation.

Spitzer Comedy

The Spitzer scandal was and continues to be huge fodder for the comedy world.

In the most recent episode of South Park they satirically portrayed the Spitzer scandal. In the clip, Mr. Brovlovsky (Kyle's father) was the key proponent of banning cats because children were sniffing their urine in order to get high. They called it cheesing because it was "Fon to Due." Anyway, here's the clip:

Spitzer Top Ten Excuses brought to you by David Letterman:

Letterman's Top Ten Spitzer Phone Messages:

Fake Spitzer taking questions on Letterman:

Leno spoof of Hillary's 3AM phone call ad:

Compilation of Late Night Comedy on the Former Governor:

Here is a clip of a three year old explaining the Spitzer scandal:

I am sure there is more than this, but this is more than enought to give you a laugh and a sense of how the jokesters have used the scandal. It is also some comic relief from the seriousness of some of the posts below.

Fitna Removed From LiveLeak Website After Serious Threats

Liveleak.com was the first internet site to allow Fitna to be viewed on their website. They have only after one day replaced the video with what you see above. They have recieved threats to their staff, and they say they stood for what they believed in but "in the end the price was too high." This only goes to prove the point that Wilders film was making in the first place. As of now, it has been posted on Google Video. If you have not seen it, go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410&q=fitna&total=1331&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5. After seeing the LiveLeak message, I feel it is even more important that this short film be seen.

Gore On Man Made Global Warming Skeptics

Al Gore's condescension is not surprising, but it is uncalled for. To compare those who question whether global warming is caused by man to those who say the earth is flat or that there was never a moon landing is arrogance at its height. A U.S. Senate report claimed that over 400 prominent scientists disputed man-made global warming claims in 2007. Are all these scientists really to be demeaned by some hack politician flying around in his private jet while he declares a planetary emergency? Here's the link:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb

Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film about Islam

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING:

Dutch Parliament Member Geert Wilders has released a controversial film about Islam which some politicians in the Netherlands tried to ban. Wilders has called the Koran, Islam's holy book, a "fascist" book that incites violence. The film is called "Fitna", a Koranic term sometimes translated as "strife". In March 2006, Mr. Wilders told the BBC that he thought that 5-15% of Dutch Muslims were sympathetic to radical Islam. "I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant," he said. Because it is a Dutch film there is a focus on Theo Van Gogh and Dutch newspaper headlines. Wilders now requires a constant security detail due to threats to his life. Watch the 15 minute film for yourself and decide whether he is an Islamophobe and bigot propagating hate speech, as his opponents claim, or whether he is a brave voice that is literally putting his safety at risk to air the truth about the religion of peace. A Dutch judge is due on Friday to hear the petition of a Muslim group seeking an independent review of the film to see whether it violates hate speech laws. The petition, seen by The Associated Press Thursday at the Hague District Court, says the Dutch Islamic Federation "believes the situation of Muslims in the Netherlands today is comparable with that of our Jewish fellow-citizens in the 1930s." The federation asked for a fine of €50,000 ($79,000) per day if Wilders airs the film, and a €5,000 ($7,900) fine for each future instance of an "injuring remark."

The following is the two part interview that Wilders did with Fox News in January 2008 to discuss his movie that was just released today and is posted above.

John McCain: "We Have Incurred A Moral Responsibility In Iraq"

Link: sevenload.com
McCain says it would be an "act of betrayal, a stain on our character as a great nation if we were to walk away from the Iraqi people and consign them to the horrendous violence, ethnic cleansing, and possibly genocide that would follow a reckless, irresponsible, and premature withdrawal." When it comes to Iraq, McCain has been more than eloquent. He may be up against Mr. Charisma Barack Obama, but I don't think he gets enough credit for speeches like these from the anti-war media, or frankly from anybody at all. All I can say is John McCain '08!

Since I mentioned Obama it seems a quote from him has gotten very little attention which should have. He made this comment before the sermons of Jeremiah Wright were released by the media. He said, "I am looking forward to a debate with John McCain. John McCain is a good man. He's an American hero. We honor his service to this nation. But he has made some bad choices about the company he keeps." Now that we know the assocations that Barack Obama keeps, an association that he very poorly explains and that he obviously has no justifiable excuse for, his words seem almost ironic, if not laughable.

Chelsea Gets Asked About Monica Lewinsky

Chelsea's response to the question:

Student who asked the question being interviewed:

This kid says that he asked the question about Lewinsky so that everyone should know about how strong Hillary was in dealing with the scandal. The idea that Hillary showed strength is stupid because all she actually did was stand by and defend her degenerate, lying, adulterous husband. The fact is, however, that it is important to point out that Hillary thinks she can now try to co-opt her husband's legacy as her own experience, when in fact her only legacy as first lady was being the most cheated on woman in America.

Another Israel Bashing Newsletter From Obama's Church

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59884
"Sen. Barack Obama's Chicago church published an open letter from a Palestinian activist that labels Israel an 'apartheid' regime and claims the Jewish state worked on an 'ethnic bomb' that kills 'blacks and Arabs.'...The June 10, 2007, newsletter, which is still available at Obama's church's website, identifies Baghdadi as an Arab-American activist, writer and columnist who 'acted as a Middle East advisor to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam, as well as Minister Louis Farrakhan.' The piece is titled 'An open letter to Oprah,' referring to talk show giant Oprah Winfrey, who last year accepted an invitation to visit Israel offered to her by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel."

Original Letter As It Appears On The Church's "Pastor's Page": http://tucc.org/upload/tuccbulletin_june10.pdf

Israeli Defense Is Not A "Cycle" Of Violence (Flash Videos)

http://www.honestreporting.com/a/cycleOfViolence.asp/

If you have not seen it, be sure to watch an amazing MUST-SEE informative video about the Israeli-Arab conflict entitled "What Really Happened." Here's the link:

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

CBS Exposes Clinton Bosnia Lie

Clinton acknowleged that it was a “misstatement” when she said in a major prepared foreign policy speech last week that “I remember landing under sniper fire.” But was it really a "misstatment?" No. It was a bold faced lie. Not that a Clinton lying is terribly surprising, though.

Marine's Music Video

http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/031208_marine_music/

Watch Marine Cpl. David Thibodeaux's rallying cry to stay the course. The song is entitled "I'm not ready to end the fight."

U.S Soldiers Killed In Iraq Reaches 4,000

The media is reporting that a roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad on Sunday pushing the overall American death toll in the five-year war to at least 4,000. The 4,000 figure includes eight civilians who worked for the Department of Defense.

I feel a need to respond before the media runs with this story as they have every time a 1,000 mark has been met.

First and foremost, let us wish our deepest gratitude to each and every member of the U.S. military that payed the ultimate price for freedom. These are the bravest and the finest our country has to offer. They are better then I will ever be, the ones who sacrifice so that I can live in comfort. God bless every one of them. Each death is a tragedy in and of itself, not some statistic to be cynically used by the media or anti-war organizations for political purposes. The first casualty in the battle of Iraq was no more less tragic than than the ones that happened to land on a thousand mark. Every life is precious. That is what we are fighting for. The very value of life itself. It would not be appropriate to politicize this news story. It would be the ultimate wrong. Just as it is the ultimate wrong for those who will inevitably use this artificial marking as an occasion to argue for surrender. Let not those who have lost their lives die in vain.

Bill Clinton Is Not Worthy Of Being Compared To Joe McCarthy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080322/ap_on_el_pr/obama_patriotism
Excerpt From Article: "Merrill 'Tony' McPeak said he was astonished and disappointed by recent comments Bill Clinton made while speculating about a general election between Obama's Democratic rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Republican John McCain. Standing next to Obama on stage at a campaign stop in southern Oregon, the retired Air Force chief of staff repeated Bill Clinton's comments aloud to a silent audience...McPeak also had made off-the-cuff remarks to reporters Friday in comparing the former president's comments with the actions of Joseph McCarthy, the 1950s communist-hunting senator. 'I grew up, I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I've had enough of it,' McPeak said. [Howard] Wolfson [Hillary campaign spokesman] called that comparison outrageous and called for a retraction. 'I think most Democrats were shocked to learn that a two-term Democratic president was compared to Joseph McCarthy,' he said."

Response From SteveLackner.com:

Merrill 'Tony' McPeak is a former chief of staff of the Air Force and currently a co-chair of Obama’s presidential campaign. Recently the General used a slur that is usually reserved for conservatives on none other than Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton had said, “I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country.” McPeak took this as an assault on Barack Obama’s patriotism, and perhaps justifiably so, and went on to call Bill Clinton one of the dirtiest words in politics. He said that it “sounds more like McCarthy. I grew up, I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I’ve had enough of it.”

Perhaps the reason that McPeak thinks that McCarthy was out looking for “good Americans” to accuse is precisely because he was in college. The liberal intellectual elite and the media were not fond of McCarthy, just as they are not fond of George W. Bush today. McPeak and his college professors may have been opponents of Joe McCarthy, but that is not to say that the Republican Senator had no supporters. The late William F. Buckley Jr. was a supporter of Joe McCarthy. Robert Kennedy worked for McCarthy and John F. Kennedy called him “a great American patriot.” In January 1954 he had a 50 percent approval rating, with only 29 percent disapproving. But who his friends and who his enemies were is less important than whether the McCarthy name should still be a pejorative over sixty years after his death.

Liberals have used this slur for far too long now. Without any knowledge of history they draw analogies between the 1950’s Senator and modern day political foes as if the man’s name were synonymous with fascist. But now they have turned fire against their own, and in a political tiff, Bill Clinton of all people has been compared to Joe McCarthy. The questions this raises in my mind are twofold. Is McCarthy’s name still worthy of being used as an insult by liberals against their opponents? And is there really any valid or worthy comparison between Slick Willie and Tail-Gunner Joe?

Before I attempt to humbly answer those questions allow me to point out that this label of McCarthyism is often still used today just as it was when McCarthy was alive. In the past few weeks alone, aside from McPeak, liberals have used this insult in astounding ways. On March 3rd Evan Thomas published an article for Newsweek in which he wrote that a recent Princeton University gossip website that included postings such as “Most Overrated Princeton Student” and “Sluttiest Girl” was “modern-day McCarthyism.” He spent multiple paragraphs ranting about the evil of Joseph McCarthy and the accusations against those “who were usually innocent.” Thomas probably went so far as to open up his high school textbook when writing this article. The liberal Andrew Sullivan wrote that an op-ed which stated that Obama’s association with his radical preacher “raises legitimate questions about Mr. Obama's fundamental beliefs about his country” was “guilt by association - especially uttered in the dark, McCarthyite tones” that apparently “says more about the paranoia of the writer than the patriotism of his subject.” Barack himself used the phrase “guilt by association” in reference to the Jeremiah Wright controversy. When a ridiculous college website and a legitimate op-ed are called McCarthyite it should certainly give you a hint of just exactly how little meaning that word actually has when thrown around by those on the Left.

One of my favorite recent references to McCarthy comes from Cindy Pearlman who wrote on March 23, 2008, as appeared on the Chicago Sun Times website, that “Lucille Ball faced her own red scare in 1953, when she was subpoenaed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee because she had registered to vote in the Communist party primary election in 1936.” Ms. Pearlman has very little understanding of the legislative branch of the federal government. Senator Joseph McCarthy, as a Senator, could not subpoena anyone to a House committee. This nuance is lost on most people, not just journalists.

So now let me answer the first question I posed. Is McCarthy’s name still worthy of being used as an insult by liberals against their opponents? Not at all. McCarthy was a Senator, Cindy, and he did not hunt Hollywood Reds but rather brought up the issue of communists, at the birth of the cold war, working for the United States government. Keeping communists out of government so that Chairman Stalin’s Intelligence services could not receive secret information, or so that U.S. interests would not be sabotaged, was logical. It was not an issue of undertones or overtones. It was an issue of American security. The continuous use of McCarthy’s name as some form of childish insult is ridiculous in light of all the new information about what was in actuality a large network of communists working for the government before McCarthy rose to power and fame in the Senate. Simply look up the Venona Decrypts, secret Army intelligence decryptions that were released in the 1990’s, and you’ll be amazed at the information you find about the extent of communist infiltration in our government. And you do not need to be Ann Coulter to believe this. George Mason University History Professor Arthur Herman writes that the “standard claim that McCarthy had never exposed a real Communist in the government” is “demonstrably false.” Did McCarthy sometimes use excesses in either rhetoric or tactics? Perhaps. But was their a real threat of communist subversives within the government that McCarthy was working to root out? Certainly. So enough with the nonsensical McCarthyism labels.

Though it is interesting to point out that a Democrat, let alone a former Democrat President, is being compared to Joe McCarthy. Are they anything alike? I don’t think so. Bill Clinton has been accused of being a draft dodger when it came to Vietnam, and it is beyond doubt that with the help of influential friends he managed to get into the Arkansas ROTC just 11 days before his induction. Meanwhile, McCarthy commissioned into the U.S. Marines Corps even though as a sitting judge he was exempt from military service. He served as an intelligence briefing officer for a dive bomber squadron in the Solomon Islands and Bougainville and also as a base legal officer at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California. Bill Clinton is a proven liar. Joe McCarthy is being proven to be more and more right as time goes on. The Clintons have a reputations of moving with the wind, of following the polls. Joe McCarthy was known for never backing down from his convictions and always ready to fight for what he believed was a noble cause.

Howard Wolfson, a Hillary campaign spokesman, said that "most Democrats were shocked to learn that a two-term Democratic president was compared to Joseph McCarthy." Republicans should be equally shocked, because Bill Clinton will never measure up to Joe McCarthy. Republicans must rally together and proclaim that labeling Bill Clinton a McCarthyite is indeed uncalled for. The usage of that phrase at all should be dropped as an insult in political arguments. It is the refuge of a fool to rely on a one word phrase without actually knowing the context and history. At the very least, it is time that people raise their voices in objection when they hear the phrase McCarthyite being used so liberally, pun intended.

Obama Church Published Hamas Terror Manifesto

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59456
"Sen. Barack Obama's Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group's official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America's Declaration of Independence. The Hamas piece was published on the 'Pastor's Page' of the Trinity United Church of Christ newsletter reserved for Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose anti-American, anti-Israel remarks landed Obama in hot water, prompting the presidential candidate to deliver a major race speech earlier this week. Hamas, responsible for scores of shootings, suicide bombings and rocket launchings against civilian population centers, is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department."

Newt Gingrich Responds To Obama Race Speech

Link: sevenload.com
Newt Gingrich is not drinking the Obama Kool Aid either.

Barack's Irrelevant Race Speech

Barack Obama delivered a speech on March 18th, just days after the firestorm created by the release of tapes in which his Pastor Jeremiah Wright repeatedly made the most incendiary anti-American statements. So to diffuse the issue he endeavored to deliver a speech on race relations in America. The problem with this speech was that the anger that Jeremiah Wright provoked in patriotic Americans had nothing to do with race. He filled his speech with platitudes about race relations, which while they may be true, have nothing to do with why people are angry. People were not deeply offended by Jeremiah Wright because he was black. If a white candidate were closely associated with a white pastor who had made the same comments as Wright there would be an equally strong response. Yet he droned on and on telling us things we are already aware of to try to camouflage real issues. We wondered how a presidential candidate could have a spiritual mentor and friend who made downright false, ignorant, racist, anti-American statements in his sermons. How was such a man the inspiration for the title of Obama's book? How can this be the man who officiated Obama's marriage, who baptized his children, whose church he attended for two decades? We rightly questioned Obama's character, judgment, and what he professes to believe when we heard Jeremiah Wright. Yet to respond to all this, Barack felt it was appropriate to come out and fill our ears with what was mostly more rhetoric, this time about race.

Not that he did not bring up Jeremiah Wright. But when he did it was an attempt to portray it as just another episode in the story of race relations in America. He even pretended as if this speech was somehow necessary because he was the victim of racial division. He claimed that "at various stages in the campaign, some commentators have deemed me either 'too black' or 'not black enough.' We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary." Only then did he get to the issue of Jeremiah Wright saying "it has only been in the last couple of weeks that the discussion of race in this campaign has taken a particularly divisive turn." No it did not. Tapes came out of your pastor's sermons, that was the turn. He went on saying, "On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike." For Obama to be bringing up different ends of some so-called spectrum at this time was petty and foolish. It is an attempt to mask the issue of Wright as if it were on equal footing with "implications" that we've apparently heard, when in fact there is no equivalence.

He then continued stating, "Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely." Yet over the weekend when playing damage control on MSNBC's Countdown he said "I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally, either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew. He always preached a social gospel." So which is it Senator? You knew about these kinds of sermons, or you did not? Was his knee jerk reaction to dishonestly deny? When you create a web of lies, do not be surprised if you get tangled in it.

He then condemned the statements and explained why he disagrees with them. Anybody with very little brain function would realize this is pure politics. He never thought it worthy of condemnation when Wright had a formal role in his campaign. He never thought it was worthy of condemnation for the past twenty-year period. Now suddenly and only when confronted with tapes does he condemn? He can't say he represents change and hope when he is acting like any typical politician responding to trouble. He attempts to explain why he associates with the ignoramus pastor by claiming that there is some context that we are missing. Wright is apparently "a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth." It's like saying your a member of Hamas, but don't worry, they provide social services. Not that Wright is a terrorist, but he is certainly an excuser of terrorism and his anti-American rhetoric could probably match a Gaza mosque. Wright's lecturing somewhere or helping the needy does not provide an excuse for why Obama would associate with him or make him any less anti-American. Obama says that "as imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me." Senator, that only makes the problem worse, not better. It does not excuse your behavior at all, and only makes us wonder how you could adopt a man like Wright into your family. Even mentioning his real family, not his fake Uncle Wright that he chose to adopt, was merely a means to continue excusing Wright. "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." First of all, Senator, your grandma is not a hateful race baiting anti-American. She raised you, for heaven's sakes. Your Grandma was obviously not racist as she loved and sacrificed for her little boy regardless of his skin color. Yet you have the audacity, the regular kind not the hope kind, to compare her to Wright because of something she said "once" and because more than once she uttered some things that made you "cringe." This is somehow comparable to Wright, who did not raise you but who you chose as your pastor?

Believe me, says Obama, this is not "an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable." How he convinces himself or anyone else of that is bewildering when that is exactly what he is doing. He could have dismissed "Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now." Crafty, Senator. Bring in Ferraro and try to create additional equivalences, this time between a former Democrat Vice Presidential candidate (who conveniently was on your opponent's team) and your insane preacher. I happen to think Ferraro said nothing racist, but that is another matter. It was not that "some" dismissed her; it was that the Obama campaign went on the assault. Does he think we have the memory of fish?

Apparently the Wright sermons "reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through." That may or may not be, but what that has to do with Obama associating himself with Wright is absolutely nothing. He recounts the history of racism in America that we already know and gives that as an excuse for Wright. But the reason Wright is in the news is Barack Obama. What's Barack's excuse? The Senator claims that black "anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races." The condemnations were not of some general black anger, they were of specific anti-American hateful nonsense that came out of the pastor that you are so intimately connected with.

The rest of the speech was mostly rhetoric. You've relied on rhetoric for too long, Mr. Obama. The speech in its entirety was an attempt to make Jeremiah Wright's statements about some larger race issue. To try and compare it to the incomparable. To provide lame excuses. To deflect the issue away from his own judgement and character. You didn't fool me; I'm not one of your fainting fans. It was politically necessary speech, not genuine in the least. You were calling for Don Imus to be fired over three words but remained a member of Wright's church for two decades. In fact, at the time you said "there's nobody on my staff would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group." Yet Wright was your pastor and had a role on your campaign and a testimonial on your website. Barack's pastor problem has not gone away because of this speech. If anything, this speech has only made things worse. It worked on the New York Times, which called the speech a "profile in courage,” but I can't see how it had any effect on patriotic Americans.

No "Booya" For Jim Cramer After Bear Stearns Collapse

Wafa Sultan Speaking Truth To Al-Jazeera

Part 1 Wafa Sultan on Al Jazeera, March 4,2008:

Part 2:

Wafa Sultan is a courageous woman who has faced death threats for appearing on Arab telivision on a number of occasions and speaking truth in the face of the throat slitters. This just happens to be the most recent appearance. I applaud Sultan for her bravery and her commitment to letting the truth be told.

Here is her first appearance on Al-Jazeera:

Jeremiah Wright Attacking Israel

Wright attacks America for backing out of the Durban conference that declared Zionism is racism, and then goes on to blame Israel's policies for 9-11.

Abortions Can Lead To Mental Illness

From our friends across the pond, The Royal College Of Psychiatrists:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3559486.ece

"Women may be at risk of mental health breakdowns if they have abortions, a medical royal college has warned. The Royal College of Psychiatrists says women should not be allowed to have an abortion until they are counselled on the possible risk to their mental health. This overturns the consensus that has stood for decades that the risk to mental health of continuing with an unwanted pregnancy outweighs the risks of living with the possible regrets of having an abortion."

Obama's Church Accuses Media of Character Assassination

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9062.html
Obama's church, Trinity United Church Of Christ, has attempted to respond to the video clips that have emerged of their former pastor Jeremiah Wright engaging in hateful, racist, ignorant, anti-American diatribes they called sermons. Otis Moss III, the current pastor of Trinity United, said that "we have listened and watched as the wonderful work of our church has been vilified this week. This week should be special for us because I guess we know a little something about crucifixion." Give me a break! Trying to play the victim card is idiotic. Wright blamed America for 9-11, compared America to Al-Qaeda, said "God Damn America," blamed America for inventing AIDS as a means of genocide, and more. This is self-inflicted, not the result of some evil racist overlords crucifying your pastor the same way black Jesus was crucified. Yet the church released a statement that began: “Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe." It is more than disgusting that they would besmirch the good name of Martin Luther King by comparing him with the likes of Wright. How dare that church compare themselves to MLK and claim they are being assassinated! This is not a character assassination of the church, for this church has committed character suicide.

Watch Obama in a recent speech claiming the "forces of division have started to raise their ugly heads again.” I am crying rivers for all these victims. Senator, your association with Jeremiah Wright is inexcusable. For you to imply that some nefarious "forces of division," racial or otherwise, are working against you is ridiculous. With the release of the Wright tapes, not only is Obama unfit to be the President of the United States, he is unfit to be the Junior Senator from Illinois.

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"The Fatah movement – since its foundation and to this moment – has been employing this form of struggle"

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The link above leads you to a clip from an interview with Qadura Fares, a former Palestinian Authority minister and member of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah. He reveals the true nature of the "moderate" Fatah when he openly declares that "the Fatah movement does not denounce this kind of operation," in reference to the attack on 8 young students in the Jerusalem yeshiva a week ago. He further admits what most informed people already know, that "the Fatah movement – since its foundation and to this moment – has been employing this form of struggle." The form of struggle being terrorism and suicide operations against innocent Israeli civilians. The United States is putting all its hopes in Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah without realizing that what divides Hamas and Fatah are tactics, not goals. Let's remember that Fatah and the PLO was lead by terrormonger Yasser Arafat. The only difference between Arafat and Abbas is a two thousand dollar suit and a shave. Israel should not negotiate with the likes of Hamas or Abbas, with moderate killers or extremist killers.

Stephen Colbert Interviews The Gay Lobby

These interviews that Colbert does with his "Better Know A District" series and now "Better Know A Lobbyist" are the funniest segments on his program. This happens to be from February 6th but it was still worth posting. Enjoy!

Obama On Wright

CNN's Anderson Cooper Interview: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2008/03/15/cooper.obama.pastor.intv.cnn
On MSNBC's Countdown Obama says he "would not repudiate the man" but only the comments. He calls the criticism "guilt by association." Why is it that a presidential candidate is associated with a man like Wright? On CNN he says "he has no intention of leaving the church itself." Why not? He constantly makes excuses for Wright in all three interviews, repeating the same talking points. He says Wright preaches "social gospel," that he is a "biblical scholar," that he is a "well-regarded preacher," that he is "like an uncle," and so on. His idiotic talking points on the Wright matter are not only unsatisfactory, they are nauseating.

Just in case you thought the videos of Wright were over, here is another compilation with plenty of new clips of this wackjob. Watch this and then try and tell me you are not sickened to the core by Barack's feeble renunciations.

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McCain Letting Obama Off The Hook For Having A Nutjob Pastor

McCain says that just because somebody supports you does not mean "you support everything they say." Should McCain really be letting Obama off the hook? Absolutely not. But perhaps McCain is saving the real fight for the general election and hoping that Hillary's people will do the work for him. This is no small deal and McCain, the Clintons, and the media should not let Obama have a pass until he completely cuts off that deranged preacher. Obama was asked about his pastor declaring "God Damn America" and he responded saying, "Here is what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor. There are times when people say things that are just wrong." Excuse me, Senator, but don't excuse this pastor and try to claim people are cherry-picking. He is on tape giving sermons and making the most incendiary comments. I see no hope in Obama, but I certainly see audaciousness.

John McCain The POW Ad

On March 15, 1973 John McCain was finally released from the Hanoi Hilton. This ad was made by the McCain camp to commemorate and remind people of his release 35 years ago tomorrow.

Head of the Department of Islamic Studies of King Saud University Advocating Another Holocaust

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Saudi Scholar Dr. Walid Al-Rashudi appeared on Al-Aqsa (Hamas) Television on February 29. He has no qualms about declaring that 50-60 Jews were killed in the alleged Holocaust. He then proclaims that the killing of all the Jews will not be a satisfactory compensation for the "real Holocaust" in Gaza. Just another example of Islamoterrorist scum showing how they are truly the modern day incarnation of yesteryear's Nazi. The only difference is this anti-semite does not have the capability to bring about a final solution to the Jews, while Hitler almost did. This head of Islamic studies in King Saud University calls for a Jewish genocide on Palestinian telivision. He denies the Holocaust while calling for another one. He is not the first, and he won't be the last. It is important that we remember that even after the Nazis there are still calls for annihalation of the Jews, only now they come from the Islamofascist world.

Obama's Nutjob Pastor Jeremiah Wright

Here is a clip from Fox News:

Bill Oreilly's compilation that includes additional clips of Wright in addition to the above:

Wall Street Journal Op-ed on Obama and his Minister:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120545277093135111.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Do you think a Republican who had this kind of radical preacher would get a free ride like Obama? Absolutely not. There would be a tidal wave of criticism. This so called reverend blames America for the 9-11 attacks, calls America the USofKKKA, calls America a terrorist state, blames America for supporting "terrorism" against Palestinians, and proclaims "God Damn America." This church has honored Louis Farakhan, a well established anti-semite. Yet Obama's inspiration for the title of his book is this nutjob. Obama admits to having gone to this church for decades and was married by this lunatic. Why is this man running for president when he is associated with an insanely anti-American church?

David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer A "Brain-Dead Liberal"

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html/full"

David Mamet is a somewhat famous American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director who has been nominated for Tonys and Oscars for various plays and scripts. In an election season essay Mamet describes his recent journey to discovering that the underlying assumptions that made him liberal for so much of his life were in fact wrong. Interestingly, it was his rabbi and others who convinced him to have an open-mind that brought Mamet to his new conclusions. The man is a great writer, and hence the piece is eloquent. It is somewhat lengthy, but still worth a read. Will this effect his career in left-leaning Hollywood and Broadway? I hope not. And seeing that he has been in the business for so long you would think it would not. Though I can imagine the piece might ruffle a few feathers among his colleagues in entertainment.

The Daily Show On Berkeley Bezerkely

Olmert: "Restraint and Strength"

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Just days after the massacre of 8 young students in a Jerusalem yeshiva, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has the audacity to tell Ashkelon's city council members that "this is the reality of the past 60 years and we must show restraint and strength." Ashkelon, Israel's largest southern town, has been repeatedly hit by rockets since the withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. Does Olmert's statement not perfectly express the problem of the Israeli government? Restraint and strength are opposites. How have the policies of restraint worked for Israel so far? Rockets will continue to fall, Israeli civilians will continue to be slaughtered, and they will be forced to live under the dark shadow of terrorism until this asinine policy of restraint comes to an end.

Jim Cramer Chokes Up Over Spitzer

Jim Cramer choking up over the Eliot Spitzer scandal and saying Spitzer "screwed up." One thing is for certain, that he did screw. Though I do not know whether it was up, down, or sideways or anywhere inbetween. Probably all of the above knowing he has been visiting whores for a decade. I found it interesting that the Jim "BOOYAA" Cramer is actually getting emotional over Spitzer. I have seen Cramer get angry, just tune into his show on any random given day, but never sad. In truth, however, there is nothing to be sad about other than perhaps the humiliation that Spitzer has put his wife and three daughters through. His loss from politics will not be sorely missed, and all should be happy that this disgraceful politician is no longer leading the Empire State.

Hypocritical Eliot Spitzer Ad

Watch as the soon to be former Governor Eliot Spitzer journies from trustworthy turnpike to honesty road to integrity lane to responsibility road. The ad fails to mention the rest of the journey. From hypocrite highway to degenerate drive to busted blvd to resignation road. See ya later, Spitz.

Obama Said He Wouldn't Run For President

To quote Senator Obama, “I am a believer in knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job. And I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the Senate. Now, there are some people who might be comfortable doing that, but I’m not one of those people.”

If he himself admits he lacks the experience to be President why should we believe anything he says now? This is old news, but let's not forget his own statements.

Governor Eliot Spitzer Apology For Prostitution Ring

Eliot Spitzer prosecuted prostitution rings in New York when he was attorney