Nice job by AmSpec’s Philip Klein here. Keith Olberdouche and Krazy Huffy lambasted Rudy Giuliani on Olby’s Countdown, for apparently saying the Dems would invite Osama bin Laden to the White House.

That was based on a report by an AP story, quoting Giuliani as saying:

“This is the world we live in. It’s not this happy, romantic-like world where we’ll negotiate with this one, or we’ll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we’ll invite (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad to the White House, we’ll invite Osama (bin Laden) to the White House,” Giuliani said.

“Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball,” he added.

Emphasis mine. One problem with all of that. Rudy never said “Osama”. He said Assad; As in Bashar al-Assad, whom many Dems said they’d negotiate with without any preconditions. Despite actually playing the clip at least once on his own show, Olby and Huffy continued lambasting Rudy for saying something he never actually said.

Klein writes:

Now, it’s perfectly accurate for Giuliani to hit Obama for wanting to invite Ahmadinejad and Assad to Washington, as Obama said he was willing to do here. Clinton later joined him, at least on Iran, here. If you want to argue that Giuliani went overboard by joking that the Democrats “are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball,” that’s one thing. But clearly what sensationalized this entire story is the idea that Giuliani was saying that Democrats want to invite Osama bin Laden to the White House. That’s a claim that Giuliani clearly did not make, and the AP, as well as bloggers who picked up the story, and Olbermann, should correct the error.

Olberdouce? Apologize? I’m not holding my breath.

H/t Allah.

I’m kidding, right? Um, no. As part of its “Rebel With A Cause” clip, it highlights teens taking part in the BDS group “World Can’t Wait”. They’re seen protesting the war, “taking on the government”, and protesting in Gitmo-style outfits. To examine how extremist-Left this group is, Communist literature is literally sold and touted at their rallies. Mao’s red book is a popular commodity at the book store. Ernesto “Che” Guevara shirts are in plain sight. Their belief is that Bush is not only a criminal, but a terrorist. You can purchase “9/11 was an Inside Job” bumper stickers.

Allah points out:

I’m trying to think of a right-wing analog to WCW to communicate the absurdity of seeing this on kids’ TV. The Birchers? Maybe Vlaams Belang? You wouldn’t even need to go extreme to get the left in a froth about political indoctrination of kids. Try running a three-minute segment of Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about open borders and see what happens. You’d have to duck and cover from the blast.

Indeed. But for a far-Leftist (you can’t even call it just a Left group), it’s simply “fighting the man”. It’s “using your rights to express your opinion”. Let’s see a Conservative kid get on there and talk about border enforcement or S-CHIP. Yeah, right.

Contain your shock that they’re from Berkeley. More at Michelle’s.

In the latest attempt to advance into the 1980s, Russians were ordered to attend Putin rallies, according to documents acquired by the Guardian.

Hundreds of students and state railway workers were ordered to attend demonstrations in Russia calling for Vladimir Putin to stand for an illegal third term as president, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

Regional government officials demanded that schools in Tver region and railway departments in Novosibirsk provided pupils and employees to cheer for the president at Soviet-style rallies in recent weeks.

Prosecutors are examining official telegrams laying out requirements for attendance at the rallies. The papers were uncovered by opposition politicians and appear to be a blatant breach of electoral law.

I would be shocked. Shocked, I tell ya!

It’s not clear if it was ordered by the Kremlin or the smaller governments, but:

A campaign to keep him in power has peaked in recent days with a series of demonstrations across the country. Mr Putin’s supporters gathered in Novosibirsk, Magadan, Tver, Volgograd, Voronezh and the capital of Chechnya, Grozny, where they hung a large banner reading, “A third term for President V V Putin strengthens Russia’s role as a great power!” Yet while Mr Putin enjoys genuine popular support, it seems the demonstrations were not entirely an expression of free will.

A telegram from Sergey Lemikhov, a railways boss in western Siberia, to department heads, union representatives and veteran committees, gives a detailed breakdown of how many workers from each section should attend the Novosibirsk rally on October 24, which drew about 30,000 people. “Organise participation in the demonstration by workers and veterans of collectives and members of their families in the following quantities,” it orders. Hundreds of employees are told to attend.

A similar order by education bosses in Tver region demands that 55 schools provide teachers and pupils to attend a rally. There, supporters waved flags reading “Putin, we trust you!” The Union of Right Forces, a liberal opposition party, said it had lodged a complaint with the central electoral committee about the order.

I doubt their tickets will sell at Hannah Montana prices…

From the people who brought you that Jew-hating Hamas Mickey, comes the newest addition to the creepy Hamas entertainment faction: The Hamas Boy Band.

Hamas militants have launched a new weapon in their struggle with Israel: a troupe of honey-voiced singers known as Protectors of the Homeland.

Wearing crisply pressed fatigues in urban camouflage blue, the six band members gather each day to practise in an old office within the Gaza City police headquarters.

The small room throbbed with energy as their dusty 12-track amplifier screeched with feedback before being tamed by an engineer.

To the accompaniment of a backing track from a laptop computer, the men then started polishing their routine of songs, almost all of which have strong Islamic and militaristic content and titles like Change and Reform. Such uplifting lyrics as “By the shrouds of the dead we are inspired” are typical.

“It is our job to inspire the foot soldiers,” said Maj Hosam Abu Abdu, a 40-year-old former police officer who now fronts the band. “We want to urge the soldiers and officers to push on, to make the effort needed in the struggle to end the occupation [of Palestinian land by Israel].”

Wait, it gets better.

But Maj Abu Abdu, who also uses his fine voice to call the faithful to prayer at a mosque, outlined ambitious plans for Protectors of the Homeland — to produce their first recordings for distribution, to build a theatre in Gaza City and even to start public dancing.

Being an Islamic group, the plans do not involve women and the band leader looked slightly shocked when asked if any of the activities might be unisex. “Not possible,” he said.

In all fairness, if this what your back-up dancers would look like:

well…

Israelly Cool:

Available for weddings, parties, but probably not barmitzvahs (although they could very well play to inspire those planning on attending uninvited).

Just in time for Halloween…

If you haven’t seen it already, here’s Hillary completely skipping the question as to whether or not she supports giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens:

I’m sorry, I missed where she actually took a stand with a simple “Yes” or “No”. Oh, right, she didn’t. Why? Well, it could have something to do with the fact that Spitzer’s pissed off the general New York public by doing this. So, instead of saying “No, I don’t support it” or “Yes, I do support it”, Clinton resorts to attacking “George Bush” and saying “What’s the Governor supposed to do?”.

Well, Hillary, “George Bush”, whom I refer to as “the President”, isn’t running in ‘08. You, on the other hand, are. We all know what Bush did, and I’d point out that the President supported the same so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” that you did. It was stopped in the Democratic-controlled Senate after even some Democrats voted against it. Bush intended to sign it into law.

Why won’t you commit one way or another? Take a stand. Let’s “Have a Conversation”, shall we?

Of course not. A few days back, HuffPo commentator Dennis Perrin alleged that he received death threats from LGF commenters. Now he’s responding to CJ’s demand to prove it, and to hand over the names that allegedly threatened him. Charles pointed out that his allegation:

At Little Green Footballs, several commenters bluntly advised me to leave the site, or they would track me down via my IP address and kill me. Probably hot air, but there are plenty of crazy people in the world, and arguing at an anti-Arab racist site wasn’t worth taking the risk, however slight.

is impossible. Why? As a commenter at LGF, no one would have his IP address but Charles himself.

Well, now Perrin claims he “can’t remember” his user name and that it actually took place 5 years ago.

It’s been brought to my attention that Charles Johnson, the Mud King of the Widdle Gween Nerfball tribe, is upset with my contention that I received a death threat at his fine site many years ago. “Man up,” ChazJo growled, beating his chest as his followers grunted their approval. “Prove it, or retract it.”

I’ve also received several emails from what I suspect are Nerfballers, daring me to do the same thing. So, in the interest of full clarity, and because I want to get back to some actual work, here’s the deal.

There was never a death threat made against “Dennis Perrin.” This is because “Dennis Perrin” didn’t use his real name when commenting at ChazJo’s joint. “Dennis Perrin” used a single, anonymous tag — a rare practice online, I’ll concede, but what the hell, you only live once. What that tag was I have no idea, since I posted there maybe five years ago, two computers and three hard drives in the past.

I knew very little about that site’s politics at the time, as I was relatively new to the Web, so I thought I could argue from a different perspective in good faith. Umm, right. My biggest mistake was insisting that the Palestinians are human, which is science fiction to Chazzy’s tribe. Several commenters told me to leave, and one said that if I didn’t, he’d track my IP address and “hunt” me down, encouraged by a few others. Now, whether this was possible or not, I don’t know, but as I said in my earlier post, I figured, f*ck it, and moved on.

Amazing. He can’t remember his own tag, can’t produce evidence it happened, etc. Yet, he can make blatant allegations against LGF and its commenters on The Huffington Post, recanting the details of exactly how he claims they’d track him down.

Don’t mess with the U.S. Navy. It’s a lesson pirates need to learn. Military.com reports:

Sailors from the Norfolk-based destroyer James E. Williams boarded a North Korean merchant ship that had been hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, while two other Navy vessels tailed a pirated Japanese ship in the same region.

The Williams, which left Norfolk in July , was about 50 nautical miles from the ship Dai Hong Dan in the Arabian Sea when it received word of the pirate attack, said Lt. John Gay , a spokesman for the Navy’s Central Command in Manama, Bahrain.

The Williams dispatched a helicopter and ordered the pirates to give up their weapons via a bridge-to-bridge radio. The North Korean crew, which had retained control of the steering and engineering spaces, then confronted the pirates and gained back control of the bridge, according to a Navy news release.

Initial reports from the North Korean crew said two pirates were killed and five others captured, the release said.

Soon afterward, the North Korean crew permitted a small party from the Williams to come aboard, Gay said.

Three corpsman, accompanied by armed Sailors and a Williams crew member who spoke Korean, boarded the Dai Hong Dan from a rigid hull inflatable boat. The corpsman assisted wounded crew members and attackers.

Three Koreans were transported to the Williams for medical attention before being returned to their ship, Gay said. The pirates were being held on the Dai Hong Dan.

And it wasn’t the only one recaptured by the Navy:

Hundreds of miles away in the same region, two other Navy ships were tracking a Japanese-owned ship seized by pirates over the weekend, Gay said.

The spokesman said that two “coalition” ships from Combined Task Force 150 had responded to the hijacking of the Golden Mori , a Japanese-owned ship registered in Panama.

Combined Task Force 150, which conducts maritime security operations in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden, includes vessels from the Pakistani, British, French, German and U.S. navies.

Navy officials with knowledge of the incident confirmed that the U.S. destroyers Porter and Arleigh Burke, both based in Norfolk, responded to the Golden Mori’s distress call.

One of the responding ships fired warning shots in front of the Golden Mori.

It also aimed disabling shots at two skiffs — the boats the pirates used to approach the ship — towed behind the Golden Mori. The skiffs caught fire and sank, Gay said.

Don Surber believes this will help relations with North Korea. I’m not so sure. While we’re negotiating peacefully with them to dismantle their nuke program, they’re sending it to a bigger enemy, Syria. It’ll be kind of difficult for Kim Jong to feel closer to us after everything he’s done to make sure NKs despise the United States.

In regards to her Chinatown donations. If you don’t recall that case, it seems dishwashers and other Chinatown residents donated thousands of dollars to the Clinton campaign, despite the fact several can’t be located, others have never even voted, and then there are those who don’t even speak English. There are even some who aren’t U.S. residents, so legally can’t donate. Her campaign’s response? Passing the article off as derogatory to Chinese-Americans. B4B writes:

In response to recent stories from the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post, we are filing an FEC Complaint (posted below) against the Hillary Clinton for President Committee. These stories revealed evidence of illegal immigrants and straw donors donating to Hillary’s campaign, donors who felt pressured to give money for fear of retribution, and a significant number of poor donors who gave $1,000 or $2,300 to Hillary’s campaign — when they obviously weren’t in the financial position to do so.

Hillary’s campaign has dismissed the story as “derogatory to Chinese-Americans,” so clearly they have zero interest in ridding themselves of illegal contributions.

With the complaint filed, Hillary’s campaign has 15 days to respond.

Your move, Hillary. We can’t really be surprised, though. Norman Hsu was responsible for driving so much money to Clinton and others on the Left, that he was on of the top 20 Democratic fundraisers, as well as being a listed HillRaiser. The background check they did on him amounted to a Google search.

H/t Allah.

On October 7, The Washington Post defended its decision to place the news of fewer casualties in Iraq, saying there’s no evidence its a trend, so it’s further back. Well, now a report from the GAO (controlled by Congress), says it’s indeed a trend, and casualties are down to early 2006 levels.

So, folks, it’s a clear trend. Casualties are down significantly. Where of where will WaPo place this story? On Page A14. Where was the initial report published as of October 7? Er, A14. So, now that it’s a trend, WaPo has moved it from A14 to A14.

Bias? What bias?

Alleging they, among others, conspired to keep him off the ballot, therefore preventing him from siphoning off votes from their coalition. I’m not sure what kind of chance his case actually has, but it’s worth following.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Consumer advocate and 2004 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader sued the Democratic Party on Tuesday, contending officials conspired to keep him from taking votes away from nominee John Kerry.

Nader’s lawsuit, filed in District of Columbia Superior Court, also named as co-defendants Kerry’s campaign, the Service Employees International Union and several so-called 527 organizations such as America Coming Together, which were created to promote voter turnout on behalf of the Democratic ticket.

The lawsuit also alleges that the Democratic National Committee conspired to force Nader off the ballot in several states.

“The Democratic Party is going after anyone who presents a credible challenge to their monopoly over their perceived voters,” Nader said in a statement. “This lawsuit was filed to help advance a free and open electoral process for all candidates and voters. Candidate rights and voter rights nourish each other for more voices, choices, and a more open and competitive democracy.”

Among other things, the lawsuit alleges that the DNC tried to bankrupt Nader’s campaign by suing to keep him off the ballot in 18 states. It also suggests the DNC sent Kerry supporters to crash a Nader petition drive in Portland, Ore., in June 2004, preventing him from collecting enough signatures to get on the ballot.

He’s suing for punitive damages.

So, what about that whole possible ‘08 run? He says he’ll make his decision by the end of the year.